Abandoned love hotels have become a Christmas tradition on Abandoned Kansai, but by now I have explored so many of them that I have to throw in one or two off-season or I’ll never get to publish them all – the best ones though will still be reserved for December…
Most love hotels outside of the big city centers are in rather remote locations between towns or the outskirts of smaller cities. Usually there are a handful of them near a highway or a rather busy rural road, but often enough there is nothing else around… which makes closed / abandoned love hotels an easy victim for vandals – they can go to town (…) and make as much noise as they want (!) without causing anybody to call the police.
The Naughtics Love Hotel (no, it’s not a spelling mistake, it’s a portmanteau of naughty and nautics…) was an original find off the beaten tracks and rather hard to find, which is probably the reason why most of the cabins were still locked, but the ones that were accessible were in decent condition overall. Moldy and musky, but more because of natural decay than vandalism. Some of the cabins had the shape of little huts, other were super original and looked like boats; both inside and out. Which was hilarious, because it all tied the naughty / nautics / cabin / hut / ship theme together – you know, like a rug…
The main rooms of the ships looked a bit like a boat cabin, but the baths were just small tubs and not very original. The garden plot type huts on the other hand were a little bit bigger inside and featured more spacious baths with original tubs, like the large plastic bowls… which raises the question whether or not some salad tossing was going on there!
Unfortunately not all cabins were accessible, but the ones that were made for a great little original find out of sight and out of mind. Judging by the overall good condition and the fact that I found an online review written 5 years prior to my visit I assume that the Naughtics Love Hotel had been abandoned for about three years at the time of me taking photos there on a lovely sunny early afternoon.
(*Like Abandoned Kansai on Facebook* or *follow us on Twitter* if you don’t want to miss the latest articles and exclusive content – and subscribe to the *video channel on Youtube* to receive a message right after a new video is online…)
Abandoned Kansai 
welcome back :D. thats one weird theme for a love hotel tho hahaha
Thanks a lot! Unfortunately a blog seems to be an outdated concept nowadays. 30 photos at once? And it requires reading? That’s so exhausting – and 2013…
yeah…i, among others ran a blog regarding my mods for gta for over 10 years and it died off as a whole, pretty much noone reads it, majority of the other blogs are dead and such…its kinda sad really. i moved to instagram as im not as active in that field as i used to be so i just post it toghether with other stuff, but im keeping the blog up, rather for a nostalgic sake than what else, especially in the gta modding field its probably not even worth it restarting it, but idk.
but im kinda suprised its similar for urbex related blog, especially nowdays where i feel like theres more ppls into urbex than ever…wich im still not sure if is a good or bad thing lol
There’s more interest, but there is also more “competition”. In addition to that, people don’t have the attention span for a blog article anymore. They want individual pictures, maybe two or three – and only the best with as few words as possible, because reading hurts the eyes. I don’t have a smartphone myself, but when I see on the train how people rush through / consume content that took people ages to create I am borderline disgusted – and it kinda makes me wanna stick to the blog format even more. All in it takes me about 10 to 15 hours in average to create an article (finding places, going there, taking photos, selecting photos, doing research on the location and putting everything together). Do I really ask for too much when I use a format that requires 3 minutes of attention instead of the usual 3 seconds on Twitter or Instagram? I don’t think so! And if people stop reading Abandoned Kansai it’s their loss, not mine. I’ve been to those places, I know the pictures and the history. But I strongly advice against not supporting and recommending AK… For years I published articles weekly. The decline in interest resulted in me prioritizing other things in life and only publishing articles when I feel like and have the time for it. An increased readership would most likely revitalize my interest in going back to a weekly publishing schedule as I still have enough material for about 170 articles even if I would stop exploring today. But if the downward trend continues I might stop completely writing the blog. It would be kinda sad after all those years, but AK takes a lot of time, effort, and money to keep running – and at some point I have to decide how much I’m willing to spend to entertain how many people…
yeah i get you. actually in the time since my previous reply, i decided to restart the blog after all, im still sort of active in the modding field and after posting about it on the blog for like 13 years or so, its just feels kinda weird to not to now lol. sometimes when im in a discussion about that matter, i sometimes use the material from the blog as a refference, as its just way easyer to type whatever i look for in the search bar at the blog rather than going trough hundrets of rar files, so basically at this point i figured i might aswell go on with it for my own sake, to have it all on one place than what else hahaha
while i liked the weekly thing from a reader perspective, honestly i tryed doing something like that years ago too and i got sick of it so fast its not even funny and sticked to posting whenever i feel like, atleast for me it just works better as then i just basically need to force myself to it, and that leads to getting annoyed by whole thing, wich also showed on the articles and stuff…
i get the “money to entertaining strangers” ratio, but i hope the AK will go on in some form or another haha
I haven’t commented in ages but I always read and enjoy your articles (especially since I have been living in the Kansai area for a while and abandoned places fascinate me but I’m too much of a wuss to visit them myself. So this blog allows me to do that vicariously.).
I feel your pain though. I also have a blog (on 60s and 70s film) but I rarely get comments so sometimes I feel less motivated to write stuff (it takes time to create an article, like you said).
I had the theme song for The Love Boat in my head the entire time I was looking at the photos lol.
Those were definitely love making boats… 🙂