Have you been bottling up all of your feels? Do you feel like a ticking time bomb, apt to explode into tears at any moment?
Rather than let anyone you know actually witness you emote (the horror!), you can now cry in luxurious solace, thanks to the Mitsui Garden Yotsuya hotel in Tokyo.
As a big cryer, I kinda like this idea >> Tokyo: Japan hotel launches 'crying rooms' for women http://t.co/NeafB4zTLw
— Lola Augustine Brown (@lolaaugustine) May 7, 2015
The hotel has sectioned off 8 rooms of its hotel as designated “crying rooms,” available only to female clientele for a mere $83 per night. A press release from Mitsui Garden Hotels explains that they hope they allow women to destress and overcome emotional problems by crying “heartily” in private.
Yohei Ezato, the PR representative for Mitsui Garden Hotel Yotsuya, tells The Post that with more Japanese women succeeding in the workforce than ever before, it’s also caused a rise in female stress and anxiety. “I want the women who exert themselves every day to cry, to relieve their stress in rooms as much as they like,” Ezato says.
But the hotel’s compassion doesn’t end there. If you find yourself with inexplicably dry eyes upon check-in, the rooms come supplied with a number of tear-jerking aides, including films such as “Forrest Gump” and “A Tale of Mari and Three Puppies” — a 2007 Japanese film about the true story of a dog and her puppies who survived the Chuetsu earthquake, which as far as we can tell is the Japanese equivalent of 1993’s “Homeward Bound.” (And if that movie doesn’t make you cry, then you’re a heartless monster.)
I assume The Notebook is stocked as standard > Book a Night in One of Tokyo’s ‘Crying Rooms’ http://t.co/wBRaLBbkRX via @TheCUTCH22
— Julia (@ConfusedJulia) May 7, 2015
Sad manga comics are also available.
Comfort during your cry-fest is of utmost importance to Mitsui Garden Hotels, which also equips its rooms with warm sheets, eye masks, tissues and, the best toiletry of all, makeup remover — no tell-tale mascara smudges upon checkout!
Other amenities not essential to sobbing include hairbrushes, hair elastics, razors and shaving cream, shampoo and conditioner, soap, green tea, slippers and pajamas.
Sixteen people have already booked reservations for the designated “crying rooms.”
Ezato says that there are no plans to open the sob section of the hotel to male clientele. “We need women guests more and more at Mitsui Garden Hotel Yotsuya,” Ezato explains. “[The hotel] was popular for women long before [the crying rooms], and has rooms exclusively for women.”
Of course, if you’re especially frugal, you can just go cry it out on the subway. No one will try to comfort you there, either.