{"id":613376,"date":"2009-12-23T18:12:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T23:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"1621 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2009-12-23T18:12:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T23:12:36","slug":"the-pearl-love-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/613376","title":{"rendered":"The Pearl Love Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/asia\/japan\">Japan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/asia\">Asia<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/architectural-oddities\/incredible-ruins\">Incredible Ruins<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pearl Love Hotel Haikyo in Tochigi is a wreck in camouflage, deeply nested underneath a blanket of scraggy brown vines. <\/p>\n<p>Rooms lie in embers, grown through with ferns; once-bohemian beds, chaise lounges and chandeliers lie scrapped, dropped, and despoiled with the nests of birds, spiders, and the homeless. The grand two-story executive suite still maintains some of its sordid gravitas, its sultry red round-bedded apex room as faux-regal as ever, now overlooking a graveyard of spent passion inveigled by nature\u2019s rapacious tendrils.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Japanese Haikyo expert and explorer Michael John Grist. More about this place and other Haikyo can be found on his site here.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/pearl%20hotel2.jpg?resize=280%2C186\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"280\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan, Asia | Incredible Ruins The Pearl Love Hotel Haikyo in Tochigi is a wreck in camouflage, deeply nested underneath a blanket of scraggy brown vines. Rooms lie in embers, grown through with ferns; once-bohemian beds, chaise lounges and chandeliers lie scrapped, dropped, and despoiled with the nests of birds, spiders, and the homeless. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2zza","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}