We may earn a commission from links on this page. The first capsule hotel in the world opened in Osaka, Japan in 1979. Since then, capsule hotels have not only spread to across the country but around ...

Maybe you are going to Japan. Maybe you’re not, but one day, you hope to. There is an array of options—from fancy hotels and traditional inns to more budget-priced lodging. Or, perhaps, you just ...

In this Monday, Oct. 29, 2012 photo, manager Akiyoshi Kaneko stands by the rooms at the Capsule & Sauna Century Shibuya in Tokyo. The capsule concept has been around for at least 30 years, starting ...

The capsule hotel is typically representative of the image that many people have of Japan, combining dense use of space, technical ingenuity, and a futuristic vibe. Capsule hotels, also known as pod ...

I'm an expat living in Japan, and I paid $26 for a one-night stay at a capsule hotel. As a freelance journalist and travel writer living in Japan, I move around a lot for work. When I want to save a ...

We've looked at some radical ideas for hotels in the past, including Russia's Ark Hotel, Mexico's Tubohotel and Sweden's Treehotel. Perhaps it is the Japanese "capsule hotels," however, that most ...

A space capsule that may contain the first-ever samplesfrom an asteroid in deep space has begun one last trek from itsAustralia landing site to Japan ? its final destination after abillion-mile voyage ...