Looking for something special for your first visit to Japan? Book a room at one of these cozy-but-cool hotels in Tokyo.

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 ...

TOKYO — Tokyo is known for being densely populated and crowded. Living space is at a premium; hotel rooms are small or expensive or both. Enter the capsule hotel, where a tube-like pod barely bigger ...

Insider's author spent a night at the Nine Hours Capsule Hotel at the Narita Airport in Japan.Monica Humphries/Insider I ended a trip to Tokyo with an experience on my Japan bucket list — a night in a ...

Capsule hotels are commonplace in Tokyo, but the recently renovated ºC (Do-C) Ebisu hopes to stand out from the pack with its contemporary Finnish-inspired design. Conceived by Tokyo-based Schemata ...

TOKYO — Tokyo is known for being densely populated and crowded. Living space is at a premium; hotel rooms are small or expensive or both. Enter the capsule hotel, where a tubelike pod barely bigger ...

Would you sleep in a sleek, spotless hotel room that's no bigger than a tent? At the 9 Hours capsule hotel in Tokyo, travelers get Japanese service and precision without paying for all the wasted ...

TOKYO » Tokyo is known for being densely populated and crowded. Living space is at a premium; hotel rooms are small or expensive or both. Enter the capsule hotel, where a tubelike pod barely bigger ...

Capsule hotels that offer tiny accommodations for frugal travelers are popping up across Europe and other parts of Asia. The micro-hotels have been popular in Japan for decades, and now they can be ...

TOKYO – Tokyo is known for being densely populated and crowded. Living space is at a premium; hotel rooms are small or expensive or both. Enter the capsule hotel, where a tube-like pod barely bigger ...

I ended a trip to Tokyo with an experience on my Japan bucket list — a night in a capsule hotel. For $50, I slept at the Nine Hours Narita Airport, a pod hotel inside the airport. The sleep wasn't ...