One of the interesting things about being in a different place is that different social norms and customs generate a commercial requirement for different types of services.
Many single people in Tokyo live in small studio apartments, not much bigger than a student dorm room. They choose to do this to have personal privacy rather than to live in shared accommodation like many inner city dwellers in Australian cities.
You can hear your neighbors! You need a love hotel.
So you are single in your 20s. You pick up at a bar. You live in a dog box with clothes hanging from the ceiling and not enough room to swing a cat.
You aren't going to impress your new friend at home, and with some enthusiastic intimacy, you will break a whole bunch of rules with your neighbors.
What do you do? Go get a room. And thankfully, a whole industry called love hotels will rent you a really nice room for a perfectly decent price for either 3 hours ($40-50) or overnight.
Where are these love hotels? Right around the corner from the nightlife districts. It's a great example of the market delivering supply to satisfy a need.
Let the market do its job - there is so much we can learn from other countries
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