Book and Bed: Tokyo's coffin hotel/bookstore
by Cory Doctorow from on (#SCNV)
If you're in Ikebukuro and need a cozy, bookish bed for the night, try Book and Bed, a "designed hostel" that hides coffin-hotel-style bunks among bookshelves lined with handsome volumes and rolling ladders. The books aren't for sale, but you're welcome to read them in your bunk. (more")