- Welcome to the program your home is my home.

Our guest tonight is Brad Philips from

California. Brad tells us a little bit about yourself. What do you do?

-Well, at the moment, I’m working as an English teacher in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo is an exciting
city, but is also very spread-out, it sometimes takes hours to go from one part of the city to
another. When I don’t feel like going all the way home, I sometimes stay at a capsule hotel.

- A capsule hotel? Can you explain what that is?

- Yeah, it’s a hotel with lots of small rooms. Actually, they aren’t really rooms. There are spaces
there are 2 meters by one meter and only one meter high. Another words they are very
cramped. But the hotel is cheap and very convenient.

-And what’s inside each little room? Or should I say each space?

- Well, inside every capsule there is a bed, a TV, a reading light, a radio and an alarm clock, the
hotel also has lockers when you can keep your personal belongings.

-That’s great! And what kind of people stay in a capsule hotel?

-Well probably people like me, people who miss the last train home or don’t want to go all the
way home only to turn around to come back to work again, so it gets pretty busy as you can
imagine.

-Finally, would you recommend a capsule hotel to other people?

-Sure! The rooms are small, but you get use to sleep in a small space, I just wouldn’t
recommend the capsule hotel to people who can’t relax in small cramped spaces.