Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVhfmeYmPSc

Found via TVinJapan

Thought I'd share with y'all this video I found today. I actually stayed at this hotel a number of times after my old pal Hugh turned me on to an area in Tokyo with amazingly cheap $25/night hotel rooms. The Juyoh and the New Koyo are probably two of the dumpiest hotels in all of Japan. They are located in a rather seedy part of Tokyo called "Minami-Senju", which loosely translates to "Bum Town". The video seems to refer to the homeless people in the area as "daywalkers". Unless I misheard "day worker" you might want to keep some garlic on you just to be safe.

Few Japanese people with the means to support themselves would ever set foot in any hotel is this area. Foreigners on the other hand (accustomed to the shabby state of hotels in their homelands and lacking Japanese-style shame) flock to these dumps in droves. While 25 bucks a night is pretty cheap by Tokyo standards, the really budget-minded traveller can alternatively stay at one of the many flop houses nearby for only $10-15 a night (provided they allow foreigners to stay). Those with a little more cash and/or pride might prefer staying at the Andon Ryokan also nearby, which is much newer, cleaner and more foreigner friendly. My strongest recommendation however would be to by-pass Minami-senju altogether and try spending a night or two at one of Tokyo's many fabulous love hotels. Love hotels can get pretty expensive on weekends though, so if you're gonna be in Tokyo for a while then you might want to think about spending at least Friday and Saturday in good old stinky Minami-Senju.