'Lastel' a hotel for dead people in Japan.
A staff member at the Lastel hotel in Yokohama, south of Tokyo, attends to one of the guests
We’ve seen hotels for dogs, new divorcees, and now in Japan — in response to the problem of over-crowding in crematoriums — there’s Lastel, a hotel for dead bodies.
The death rate in Japan is on the rise, with an average of 23,000 more people dying each year over the past decade. The result is an average waiting time of four days for a crematorium. Lastel — located in the suburbs of Japan’s second largest city, Yokohama — offers families an alternative to keeping bodies in their home, with refrigerated coffins.
The death rate in Japan is on the rise, with an average of 23,000 more people dying each year over the past decade. The result is an average waiting time of four days for a crematorium. Lastel — located in the suburbs of Japan’s second largest city, Yokohama — offers families an alternative to keeping bodies in their home, with refrigerated coffins.
The hotel currently accommodates 18 “guests”. An automated storage system delivers coffins through hatches and into a viewing room, so friends and families can pay their respects to the deceased until there is space in the crematorium.
Two of the rooms where chilled corpses in coffins are delivered through hatches through an automated storage system
Buddhist rosaries on sale are displayed at the hotel
Coffins lined up at the Lastel corpse hotel
Morticians prepare a body for an overnight stay
A monk walks past the corpse hotel in Yokohama
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