Japan’s new luxury prison hotel is open but keeps guests behind bars

Japan’s new luxury prison hotel is open but keeps guests behind bars

Japan’s HOSHINOYA Nara Prison Hotel has opened its doors and rooms to guests, who are free to come and go as they please as long as they pay the bill, lest they end up spending the night in a rather less luxurious detention centre. The architects behind the redesign made a deliberate choice to keep as much of the original prison intact as possible. From the small barred windows and austere lines to the museum on the grounds, it is genuinely hard…