A rainy day suits a hotel built around shelves, where the lounge is where everyone reads.
When the weather turns
Book and Bed keeps several addresses in Japan, and this is the Ikebukuro one, on the upper floors of a tenanted building by the station; whether it is taking guests on your dates is the first thing to confirm with the operator, before any other part of a day is planned.
Where everyone goes
A rainy day suits the place, which is built around shelves: bunks sit behind and inside them, and the lounge with its couches is where everyone reads. In the afternoon that room has been opened to visitors as well as to guests, so it fills up and stays full.
What stops working
Little here depends on the sky except the walk to the station and the choice to make it. Lounge hours are set by the house rather than by the weather, and that timetable can change; the roof of the building is not part of the hotel.
What the building does
The building answers by being ordinary: a lift from a covered street entrance, floors of a block above the shops, and no distance at all between the door and the bed. Shelves stand in for walls, and one window looks over the district.
