A Japanese hotel has found a strange use for its unpopular room 8, which guests can book for about a dollar — if they agree to be filmed the whole time.
The hotel, which is dubbed the One Dollar Hotel, has a YouTube channel set up specifically to broadcast the goings-on in the room.
Owner Tetsuya Inoue, 27, said he had been looking for a “new business model” to reinvigorate the “very old” hotel, which he inherited from his grandmother.
“Our hotel is on the cheaper side, so we need some added value, something special that everyone will talk about,” , Mr. Tetsuya said.