The New Hotel Lastel Yokohama City
The new Hotel Lastel Yokohama City, has a common aspect to most of the hotels and no external signs indicating their peculiar form, happens to be very special designed for guests whose category does not include you because … is a hotel for dead. Yes, as you read.
It is well known that Japan is a country of old and has one of the highest mortality rates in the world, according to data provided by the Japanese government only in 2010, died in the country about 1.2 million people, 55,000 more than the average of the previous decade. Most worrisome is that seem to be just the beginning and that by the year 2040, the funeral is expected to receive 1.66 million deaths a year.
The numbers are growing so fast that portend a future concern, which is why it has decided to seek alternative measures. It happens that relatives of the deceased, must wait an average of 4 days to get an appointment at the crematorium and prefer to hire a hotel service, instead of having the body in his house while they wait.
So then, for a price of 12,000 yen per day (about 100 euros), the family can accommodate the remains of their loved ones in any of the 18 rooms of this hotel properly refrigerated it ‘has become the rage in the market, “according Teramura words of its owner, 71, who also founded the development company for 45 years Nichiryoku cemeteries.
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