The Ideal Capsule

After a ~4ish hour shinkansen, I was in Hiroshima. I snagged some excellent Okonomiyaki and chatted with the cook and another patron about learning japanese, colorado, and found out Ogasaka skis apparently rule. They were very kind, and were encouraging on my efforts to speak broken Japanese. Throughout my time in Hiroshima, I've found they are warm, considerate, and more inviting than Tokyoites. I think it's a combo of lack of tourist volume here and just being a smaller town that moved slow enough that my constant "ummmmm"s while I tried to think of the next word wasn't so time critical.
The capsule itself was, in my opinion, the best combo of hostel/capsule I've seen. There were still shared facilities, but my capsule had a small space to the side of it with a slider curtain that gave some privacy and the ability to stand and change. There was a little TV with built in headphones in the capsule too; I dozed off to an anime or two, and a super cringe inducing show about American abandoned mine explorers.Read more