YouTuber Luke Bradburn, 29, was exploring abandoned Japanese urban landscapes when he blew the dust off some sex toys left in a spaceship-themed ‘love hotel’ for two decades
A ‘love hotel’ with dusty sex toys and spaceship-style beds left untouched for decades has been uncovered by an urban explorer. Luke Bradburn, 29, uncovered the boutique bonking hostelry near Nagoya in southern Japan.
Love hotels are short-stay accommodations offering private rooms for hourly or overnight use, designed primarily for couples seeking a discreet and intimate space. While love hotels still exist in Japan today, their popularity has declined since their peak in the 1980s-1990s.
Luke travelled to Japan in early 2024 to document the Fukushima exclusion zone and ended his trip in Aichi Prefecture to explore the abandoned hotel. The four-story building has remained untouched since its closure in the early 2000s, due to declining business in the area.
Inside the building, each room had its own distinctive theme, offering wildly different experiences – from spaceship-style beds to clam-shaped baths to a full boxing ring. Luke, from Bury, Greater Manchester, said: “It was definitely a really unique experience.
“It’s such a big building. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were up to 30 rooms across the whole thing. Walking in was so strange, seeing it completely preserved.
“They even still had all the menus up for when people would arrive and choose and then their themed room.” Luke first learned about the hotel after seeing pictures of the interior posted on social media.
However, due to its rural location, it was difficult to find. After scanning the surrounding area on Google Maps, Luke eventually located the hotel and mapped a course.
He said: “It’s so rural and went out of business over two decades ago, so it’s just faded into the background after a while. I also discovered that it closed in the early 2000s because the local population had aged, so there weren’t as many young people around.
“This meant fewer guests and the hotel shut down due to lack of business.” Inside the building, each room had its own distinctive theme from spaceship-style beds to clam-shaped baths to a full boxing ring.
Footage from inside also showed sex toys left untouched for decades, with all rooms still equipped with beds and baths or jacuzzis. Luke said: “I wasn’t even expecting there to be that much left of everything.
“It was interesting to see some of the set ups left behind. These included clam-shaped baths, beds made to look like a UFO or a carousel and bondage apparatus with a big red star on it.
“Definitely the room with the star that felt very Soviet Union to me was the strangest.”
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