The 9 Hours is a capsule hotel: a Japanese hotel concept with sleeping pods instead of rooms, and shared bathrooms. They target hard-working business people and travelers.
Usually, these capsule hotels are far from well-designed. The 9 Hours is nothing like that. Instead, it’s an amazing example of applied minimalism.
The 9 Hours is managed by Tokyo-based Cubic Inc., and designed in a collaboration with designer Fumie Shibata of Design Studio S.
Monocle recently did an excellent report on the hotel, which we have embedded here. (Thx, Peter!)
Beautiful. I’d love to sleep in one of those capsules just once.
I love the iconography :-)
I’d love to sit in that building alone; I’d hope to listen to some sort of peaceful, constant electric hum. It’s simply beautiful.
Yes, beautiful, but I cannot stop thinking about morgues.
The doors to the pods have a 70′ ci-fi movie style.
beautiful but too claustrophobic for me :-)
Seen in many movies.
Great looking place but looks very much like some extreme sterile hospital or a morgue even… Really enjoy the visual though :-)