Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I stayed in a Japanese capsule hotel for $26. My tiny sleeping pod was fine, but I wouldn't stay for more than a night. I stayed ...

Originating in Japan, the capsule concept has evolved and spread to countries across the globe. Many or all of the products on this page are from partners who compensate us when you click to or take ...

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 ...

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 ...

Do you ever walk into a hotel room and notice something immediately wrong? Maybe the sheets are still dirty. Or there are double beds instead of a king. Or the room is too big. Maybe you just long for ...

More people are electing to vacation in pod hotels. You read that right. Pod hotels. These unusual hotels are pretty much what they sound like: Lodging made up of small pod rooms that fit only the ...

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 ...

The time of champagne and oysters in hotels, for many, has long past. Now, when you travel, it's about trying to find the best deal. Corporations expect a decent-sized room with breakfast, couples and ...

Japan may have pioneered the "capsule hotel," where guests stay in no-frills micro-hotel rooms and sometimes pay by the hour, but Italy is making moves to perfect it. The country's first capsule hotel ...

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 ...