Ajito Hotel located in Gotemba Town, Shizuoka Prefecture is a special type of "love hotel" in Japan. This is a newly emerging overnight or hourly accommodation for young Japanese people looking for new feelings.
Ajito Hotel is located in Shizuoka.
The hotel entrance looks like a prison entrance.
Outside the police interrogation room.
Hotel key area.
Some love hotel rooms look like regular hotel rooms (albeit with unusually large beds and bathtubs), but many are themed, for couples who like a little something different. So when you hear that Ajito has added a suite themed in ninkyo, which translates as “chivalry,” you might think the rooms are decorated like a medieval knight’s castle or samurai lord’s.
Ninkyo, however, is also used to describe the yakuza film genre and storytelling, and the Ninkyo Hotel, as Ajito is calling the recently renovated suites, is all about surrounding you with the atmosphere of Japan's organized crime network.
A yakuza gang room.
The room was decorated like a yakuza boss's meeting room.
The room is fully furnished.
Ninkyo rooms are inspired by real life.
There are a total of eight ninkyo rooms, all located on the second floor of the Ajito Hotel. The most impressive is the prison-style room, which the hotel describes as having “a wall of authentic iron bars so you can experience what it's like to be a prisoner."
On the other hand, if visitors want to experience the feeling of a famous gangster, Ajito Hotel also owns many rooms designed like the offices of notorious yakuza clans. Besides, Ninkyo has many types of rooms such as interrogation rooms, police rooms, detention rooms,...
The detention room is solemnly decorated.
Police investigation room type.
The idea for the Ninkyo rooms belongs to Choeki Taro, a YouTuber with a past in the Japanese yakuza. He designed the layout for Ajito based on his own experiences in and out of prison. In addition to providing a private space for couples, Ajito Hotel also caters to a variety of group activities. The unique architecture, large space and affordable prices make it suitable for intimate parties, tense private meetings or video viewing parties for fans of the same idol singer or anime character.
The Yakuza is a general term for organized crime groups in Japan. They are a traditional alliance of gamblers and street merchants. The Yakuza have a history of hundreds of years, and the earliest mafia group to form was probably the Aizukotetsu-kai in Kyoto. The group was founded in the 1870s. Many yakuza gangs started out as gambling syndicates and really came into their own in the chaotic post-World War II society.
The Yakuza is Japan's oldest criminal organization.
They then moved into construction, real estate, and criminal activities such as extortion and fraud. Of course, politics is a part of the yakuza's business. According to the Japanese National Police Agency, the country's 21 largest gangs have a total of more than 53,000 members. The three largest groups are the Yamaguchi-gumi (23,400), the Inagawa-kai (6,600), and the Sumiyoshi-kai (8,500).
Many of the Yakuza’s activities are illegal, but some operate legally compliant businesses. “Our members have a real job,” said Kazuo Taoka, the third-generation leader of the Yamaguchi-gumi. The Yamaguchi-gumi bills itself as a humanitarian group that maintains order in Japan. That’s why they have offices, business cards, and magazines and comics about the gang.
