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Love hotel

Sex hotels; often associated with those in Japan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

A love hotel is a type of short-stay hotel found around the world operated primarily for the purpose of allowing guests privacy for sex. The name originates from "Hotel Love" in Osaka, Japan. Although love hotels exist all over the world, the term "love hotel" is often used to refer specifically to those located within Japan.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Love hotel” as sex hotels; often associated with those in Japan. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Love, hotel and hotels.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 56-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Love, hotel and hotels providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Love hotel”, the useful work is to connect “sex hotels; often associated with those in Japan” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Love hotel primary sources, Love hotel archive and Love research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Love hotel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.