Osaka Sex Hotel

As Osaka is considered the loudest, brashest, gaudiest city in Japan, its only natural that the city's love hotels compete with the neon overload of the Dotonbori district and the deranged fantasy world of nearby Universal Studios Japan. For a business whose bread and butter is discretion, love hotels are hard to miss around here. Spread liberally throughout the city, love hotels are convenient landmarks, beacons of light on drunken stumbles home, and fodder for untold numbers of WTF tourist photos.

Venerable as they are, Osaka's love hotels are not immune to change. Even much loved institutions as the Gang Snowman have been redesigned in takeovers and questionable marketing moves. In the photo above, the former Belles des Belles seems to be ripping off Robert Indiana in rebranding itself a little more generically --that is, if a massive white building sporting Greek columns, angel sculptures, a massive neon lit silver orb on the roof and the new name Hotel Love can be called generic.

Paris Hotel Guide: Hotels for Lovers

Our special Paris Hotel Guide correspondent Monica Guy has covered the city's popular hotels as well as its design hotel scene. So what's next? The best hotels for lovers of course. Here are her recommendations but this is strictly a hotel guide. She can't really tell you how to get a lover.

"How many people are making love around Paris right now?", wonders Amélie in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's film of the same name. Immediately there's a disconcertingly erotic but mostly grotesque flash-series of love-making scenes around the city. It's a classic, and it's probably true. People make love a lot here. Well, that's my experience anyway.

A lot of the people who make love in Paris are what the French call flâneurs: men who 'stray the city at random in pursuit of sexual or alcoholic pleasure.' The species isn't unique to Paris, but he's a common animal here. Who said it's all fair in love and war? They've never made love to a French flâneur.

Osaka's Most Creative Sex Hotel

Jaunted has been putting together a series on UFO travel, so we figured we would add to the fray.

Almost every alien abduction story we hear is complete with some sort of odd, kinky body exams in confined spaces. Thus, alien addicts should feel right at home inside Hotel Loire's UFO room. Space fetishists can play with fake knobs, lie on slab like beds, watch Star Wars and check out the breast padding on the ships platform.

Alien loving not your bag? Room 306, is a naughty playground made up of three areas: a doctor's office complete with an examining chair and floor-to-ceiling mirrors, a replica subway car, and the main room where a blacklight aquarium scene appears on the walls when you turn out the lights.

The rooms at Loire a widely recognized as the most creative love hotel rooms in Japan.

Hotel Loire (SEX HOTEL) is on the outskirts of Osaka, but if you take the Tanimachi subway line to Kire-Uriwari station and walking 15 minutes.