Japanese Internet Cafe, Once and Only Once.

There are many different typed of places to stay here in Japan. It goes like this in order of best to worst, hotel, hostel, capsule hotel, and finally internet cafe or manga ( comic book) cafe. The term internet cafe was apparently lost in translation. Here you rent  a ,by the hour, a very small room or even cubicle. They have as a computer or TV and you sleep on the floor. I'm in Akihabara it's getting late I see some of these and, what the hell I have my sleeping bag, I'll give it a go. I go in and the guy doesn't speak a word of English so it takes so time to tell him how long I want to stay and pick the room with the bed thing. It gets weird after I finally figure out what the overnight price timeframe is and he brings out a basket and asks if I want to rent a DVD.

Now after this point writing more is really embarrassing, but here we go. Now mind you this place is a franchise there are more of these.

In the basket is a shower towel, package s of hand wipes, a condom, and a cylinder with a naked cartoon girl on the side. What is the cylinder you ask? It's a fake vagina thing. What the hell? OK, first off thinking back, what happens if god forbid a woman comes in here. Do they hand her a dildo? Now the DVD thing maks sense and they are behind me and I can guess what kind some of them are. Seeing these things I know I have made a huge mistake, but I have all ready paid, and this is pretty funny. Maybe if I was in a different part of Tokyo it would have been different, but I'm in the part of town that is filled with cartoon porn so why am I surprised? The room was actually kind of descent with showers and reading rooms with comics, but if this was the US this place would be totally sketchy. The place is clean, but thank god I had my sleeping bag I don't trust anything. I went to bed and left as soon as a got enough sleep, it felt wrong just being there.