Book and Bed is a Japanese hotel that’s taking a very novel approach to hospitality
Book and Bed, a new Tokyo hotel, has created the sort of space that is impossible to leave. It is a cheap and cheerful dorm with a difference: guests’ bunk beds are hidden behind library shelves filled with 1,700 books in Japanese and English.
Sandwiched between teppanyaki and Chinese hot pot restaurants in Tokyo’s north-western Ikebukuro area, Book and Bed was once a Japanese-style izakaya pub. Now, thanks to the Hiroshima-based architects Suppose Design Office, it is an “accommodation bookshop”.
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