Buildings kept in use
The buildings gathered here differ in age, in material and in what they were first made for. Some began as baths, as printing works or as postal halls. Others were raised for lodging from the start, and one kind stands only while the winter holds. What they share is plain enough: each still takes guests tonight.
Everything written here comes from open material: the operator’s own pages, published mapping, and reporting about the building itself. Where a detail could not be confirmed, it was left out rather than guessed. There are no stars, no reviews and no way to reserve a room through this site.
- Capsule Hotels Sleeping berths and small uniform rooms, some of them Japanese capsules and some simply compact, said so plainly.
- Art Hotels City buildings that carried another working life before the beds arrived, and still show it in their fabric.
- Ice Hotels Northern structures cut from snow and ice, standing through one winter and raised again the following year.
- Casino Hotels Canadian resorts written up here as buildings: their halls, restaurants and grounds, and nothing beyond that.
Notes on sources
Each entry rests on material anyone can consult: the hotel’s own site, published mapping of the street, and writing about the building in the press or in local history. Where two accounts disagree, the entry keeps to what both support. Nothing here is invented, and nothing is filled in by assumption.
The line marked Type names the kind of structure in the words used by the source, which sometimes means the work the building was put up for rather than the work it does now. Dates of the last check appear with every entry. The full method is set down on the sources page.