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

Where to sleep? “The Haneda Airport departure terminal’s good,” a 45-year-old Osaka executive tells Spa (Dec 3-10). For sleep ...

François Prost photographed the facades of over 100 hotels. The resulting series is a love letter to the cute and kitsch ...

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 ...

While guests can rent rooms by the night, Japan’s love hotels also offer short-stay rates ... before returning to the capital, Tokyo. “And nowadays, they’re not only for sex.