Hotel Mystays same-gender friendly?

Does anyone here have experience with this? My friend and I (we are both male) booked a semi-double room for mystays in ochanomizu, and i am wondering will this be allowed? thank you to anyone who can help!

Sure, this is not Dubai.

It's usually only love hotels that have same-sex gender restrictions.

Toyoko Inn is also well known for their restrictive policies on same-sex room sharing.

Toyoko Inn is also well known for their restrictive policies on same-sex room sharing.

Do you have a source for this? It's not on their website it seems...

Is that Toyoko Inn's latest policy update?

I was staying with a same sex friend two months ago in Toyoko Inn - 3 nights in Hiroshima and 2 nights in Kagoshima.

Also during that period we had another two friends staying a couple nights at their property in Nagasaki.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/japan/766647-toyoko-inn-opinions-altern...

Fortunately Toyoko seems to be the exception rather than the rule . (And they seem to have a lot of other problems too, in terms of safety violations.)

it is very common that the married couple of Japanese (a male and a female) reserve a twin room. everything comes from different custom.

ok! thank you all for the response! i ended up emailing the hotel and they indeed say it was ok! so it seems i worried for nothing! either way, thanks for the help!

Personally, I don't think you'll have many problems in Japan travelling as a gay couple.

While it's true that you won't see gay people kissing in the streets - this is also true for heterosexual couples as well.

You might get a slight raised eyebrow if you hug or hold hands - but this would probably happen to everyone else as well.

So all in all - I don't think Japan is any more of less homophobic than any other western country you may live in or visit.

I've stayed in Toyoko Inn many times and I think their policy comes mainly from the religious ownership of the company itself (I think).

This is a link from their website to the group I mentioned above...

http://www.e-naikan.com/engl_index.html

Enjoy your time in Japan!

The OP never said they were gay...