To spend the night on-japonski.
To spend the night on-japonski.
Cap-hotel for futurists. From height of the eighth floor and in
Moonlight a being slowly ploughing blue waters of pool,
Resembled on thick begemotika, continually opening wide a mouth.
The little tables placed by accurate circles, armchairs and chaise lounges were
Are already empty.
Lodgers of four-stars hotel Holiday Inn, fans
Sunburn and water pleasures, now had a good time in the night
Restaurants and bars of ancient Japanese capital - Kyoto.
Numerous obsluga hotel after just day works slept
Sound sleep. Only small water vacuum cleaner, to which puffed
It was necessary to clear pool before sunrise and to prepare it to
To new day of work...
Holiday Inn - hotel respectable and not cheap. As
Japanese speak, it is constructed taking into account that comfort, to
To which the American tourists and businessmen - they have got used
The basic guest contingent of hotel. Certainly, stop
Here and visitors from the old woman-evropy, and even Russian citizens,
Before financial crisis more and more actively and variously
Declaring the right to live "is not worse than others". But a palm tree
Superiority, undoubtedly, at Americans. After the long-term
Presence on the Japanese earth as citizens of the country -
Winners, they and today, after some decades,
Feel in Rising sun edge excellently. Probably,
Therefore in a usual double room of hotel each of two
Beds - in size with double, the huge telescreen and where
Only it is possible - robots, robots, robots. I think, it is excessive to recollect
About tooth-brushes daily replaced in a bathroom with a tooth-paste,
Introduced in a bristle, about elektronno operated toilet bowls with
In ten-other not clear purpose of buttons, about the speaking
Lifts, about the diversified systems of a virtual reality.
Generally the life in Japan completely corresponds to ours
To modern representations about the science fiction world. Here, on
The Japanese islands, job of the science fiction writer, apparently, can
To be reduced to, simply to recreate the daily
The validity. One my acquaintance, having arrived on affairs and is a lot of
Having seen enough of the futuristic Japanese environment, thoughtfully
Has noticed: "I Am afraid, all it can lead to the decadent
To hedonism... "... In the lift of hotel sheathed by mirrors has swum in large and
Already friable, despite rather not old age, the lady,
Has inspected us and has joyfully begun to chirp in English:
"At last to see what happiness normal persons! If you
Only knew, how I was bothered with all narrow-eyed! "Already almost in time
To fall in love with Japan, I there and then okrysilas: "What for you here
Have arrived?! "" I travel, - the lady quite peacefully has responded, -
But I did not assume, that here so it is a lot of Japanese!. About, so you
From Russia! - she continued to admire. - and I from Australia. But
By origin - the Ukrainian. Russian, the truth, I do not know, but
Parents have learnt me to an Ukrainian language ", - it has finished the
English monologue. Also has continued it... In broken Russian,
Which, on its firm belief, also was an Ukrainian language. To dissuade
It I, of course, did not become, besides it would be obvious uselessly. But
Has recollected other lady, already Moscow acquaintance, which
Before most my departure asked, that I have helped it to correct
Admitted - well it is exclusive out of ignorance! - an error. "You understand,
- She spoke, is sincere gorjuja, - one month ago I was in Tokyo, but
Has not guessed to take away from hotel, where a vein, a dressing gown. Such beautiful,
With wide sleeves. JUkata is called. Them every day in hotel
Change, as well as towels, on the new. And old, speak,
Throw out. My colleagues that kindly in vain did not vanish, dressing gowns
Those with themselves have taken away, and I here have not guessed. You bring to me,
Please, at least one! "Japanese prefer to stop in
Hotels so-called "the Japanese style". Predilection of Europeans
To beds, sofas and tables on high legs for them it is strange and
It is inexplicable.
Incomparably it is more convenient - tatami and futony, short-legged lunch
Little tables, bochkoobraznye baths and the toilet bowls drowned in a floor. It not
Always it is possible to cope with a knife and a plug, not having pierced itself at
It a cheek or an eyebrow: much more aesthetically, they believe, to boss
During a meal wooden sticks. And still they go for
Purchases in superdepartment stores "п п я я я я п п п п я ", where, as for example in
Nagoje, the building is divided on two parts: one - many-storeyed puff
Pie of shops, in another - from a floor of the ground floor to a ceiling
The seventh the body which has been specially written out from Canada reigns. Sitting in
The cafes, hanging over "organnym a hall", buyers have a rest and
Listen to Bach.
But if again to recollect futurism, perhaps, most
The exotic invention of the Japanese mind - caps-hotels.
Imagine walls in the house, reminding put on
The priest beer honeycombs. The size of each cell-capsule - 2я 1 square
Metre. On four floors of hotel of such capsules 660. At
Registration the lodger receives a charm with a key from number and
House slippers. On a floor of each "room" are laid tatami, over
Bed - a bulb for reading, an alarm clock, the red button of a call
Attendants, in feet - the TV.
The cap-hotel is a place where while away night many business
The Japanese, for any of several reasons not had time to reach in time
Home, the sent provincials and simply gone on a spree townspeople.
To spend the night here is much cheaper, than, say, to go
Home by a taxi, having missed last train. For one night it is necessary
To pay about 40 US dollars, while for a taxi you
Should lay out 200 dollars.
Having decided to save there are some money, we have tried was to reserve
Number in such hotel by phone. From other end of a wire to us
Have very seriously explained, that in similar doss houses of number not
Reserve, simply come late at night and take a place.
Then, having rumpled, have added: "However to the foreigners who are not knowing
The Japanese language, in our hotel, we are afraid, will be not so
Comfortably. Besides it is hotel only for men ".
Alas, to spend night in Japanese futuristic paradise - a cap -
Hotel - and on itself to experience all its delights and not
It was possible. And now hardly it will be possible. There are no at us in Russia such
Hotels. And in Europe is not present. And in the United States of America too is not present.
And here to be once again in hotel Holiday Inn, perhaps, chance
Is available. Already in Moscow, which, judging by statistics, in
Precritical year have visited two million foreign visitors -
Record of decade. Now this figure, naturally, is less.
Speak, at us this hotel responds all international
To standards of hotels of a similar class: there is also a fitness centre with
Pool, both two saunas, and a winter garden, and so on also to that
The similar. And any lady will by all means be found from
Australia, England or Switzerland, which, having met in the lift of the
The brother-tourist, the well-cared European, proshchebechet: "What happiness,
At last I see the normal person!. ".
Irina TOSUNJAN, OKAZAKI.
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//* an information Source: the Literary newspaper, 24.01.01
//* Reg. Nom. - 1110100004.28-------------------------------------------
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