MC HOTEL Tokyo (with envelop)

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MC HOTEL Tokyo (with envelop)

Photographs: Olivier van Breugel & Simone Mudde

Publisher: NotAnother Publisher

18 pages

Year: 2013

Price: 15 €

Comments: Illustrated softcover, 22 x 15 cm, color photographs. Book in very good condition. The wrapping bags show traces of use. Wrapped in a hamburger wrapper, in a brown bag with a paper receipt stapled on to the bag.

At three o’clock in the morning after singing in the karaoke bar, the subways in Tokyo are finished running. You are resigned to take a taxi, but as this is ridiculously expensive many Japanese have come up with an alternative. They go to the nearby Mc Donald’s. Instead of a meal, cups of soda or cheap coffee are being ordered. Everyone is seeking a comfortable place to take a nap until the first Metro starts up. For a week we got up at half past three in the morning to witness this phenomenon. The cities of the world are starting to look more and more alike – you can find the exact same stores and chains everywhere. What took us by surprise about this place is that a universal format such as McDonald’s can be temporarily transformed into a hotel.