Hidden Camera in Love Hotels

This was just posted to an e-newsletter I subscribe to by a guy in Nara Prefecture (also close to Osaka). I thought it was worth passing on:

Hey Ryan here. As if my last weeks in Japan could get worse.

We were in Tenoji a couple days ago. We have been staying in love hotels because the air conditioning at my house does not work and since there are no more JETs coming it can't be fixed, also it was from 1994 and can't be fixed anyway. (also there is no hot water, no TV, and I just got Internet back).

Well we went to a hotel close to the station, it had some Chinese stuff out front I forgot the name sorry but I plan on going back and checking. It was cheap, just 4500 for the night. I think it was castle something but I don't know if that was it or if that was the one right next to it.

Anyway in the lobby the old woman running the place had opened her door for whatever reason and was talking to my wife. I looked through the small opening and counted about 11 TV screens. These were not all security. Because I saw the couple who was in front of us in a room but I thought oh maybe it's just the hallway upstairs. I also clearly saw a screen with a bed in it with no one there. Again I thought hey was that a bed or maybe just a rug? She shut the door.

We go up to the only room left and I see a the same bed. I recognized it by the odd cover on it and because I just saw it. Above the bed are a ring of white lights and two are "broken". So I check. One of them is a real burnt out light. The other light is green tinted with a glass cover over it. We try the controls by the bed to turn it on because sometimes you can do that and have different color lights on in your room. Nothing worked. So I examine it. There is no way to change the bulb, it is built up into the ceiling which was hallow i checked by knocking. It doesn't unscrew, pop out, or anything. I took some pictures of it with my camera and caught the IR in my shots same as you would the iris of a person's eye. AKA another camera was on the other side and it was on.

We called in to get our money back. they were not going to give it to us then we told them we found the camera. Another person got on the phone (frantic) and said there was no camera but we could have our money back.

Got my money and left. I also checked for one way mirrors before I went but didn't find any.

I later got online and using my photos found the exact same "security" hidden cameras on a Japanese website. Always scan any strange lights, vents, mirrors, and those slot machines you sometimes find in the room esp if they face the bed. Spy video is sold for black mail for porn and whatever.

Ill be going back with my scanners before I leave Japan. So be careful where you do your thing. Love Hotels in general are great but don't stay at a sketchy one. Trust your gut. And its always good to check just in case.