François Prost captures the colorful, unmissable design of love hotels in Japan, ranging from ships and castles to flowers ...

By 1961, there were 2,700 in the centre of Tokyo, many of which were infamous for their gaudy exteriors. But love hotels increasingly weren’t just a space used by the sex industry or by people ...

A teal-coloured castle, a lifelike whale and a giant blue ship are just some of the unique buildings dotted along stretches ...

Japan's creepiest abandoned love hotel has a few surprises... Hidden into a small village of abandoned Japanese hotels near ...