Compact, engineered sleeping berths built around transit, efficiency and a short night.
9 Hours Chitose Airport
Hokkaido, Japan
This branch of the 9 Hours chain sits inside the terminal building at New Chitose Airport, the main gateway to Hokkaido. The format is the chain's usual one: a moulded sleeping pod, a shower block, a locker, and a clear division of the stay into shower, sleep and dress. Everything is white, signed in pictograms, and stripped of decoration. Because it is airside-adjacent rather than a taxi ride away, it is most often used for early departures and weather delays, and it sells short daytime rest blocks as well as overnight stays.
Setting · New Chitose Airport terminal
Format · Moulded sleeping pods
Facilities · Shared shower and locker rooms
Stays · Overnight and short rest blocks
citizenM San Francisco
San Francisco, United States
citizenM's San Francisco house works to the brand's fixed template: one room size, a wall-to-wall bed, and a tablet that controls lights, blinds, temperature and television. Check-in is at a self-service kiosk with staff nearby rather than behind a desk. The compact rooms are traded against a large ground-floor living room stocked with design furniture, long tables and a bar that stays open late, which is where most guests spend their non-sleeping hours.
Format · Single standardised room type
Controls · In-room tablet
Check-in · Self-service kiosks
Ground floor · Large shared living room
YOTEL Manchester
Manchester, United Kingdom
YOTEL Manchester adapts the cabin format the brand developed for airports into a city-centre building near Deansgate. Cabins are small and tightly planned, with adjustable beds and a shower room folded into the footprint; the logic is the same one that governs a ship's berth. Shared space carries the rest of the programme — a lounge and bar, laundry, and a twenty-four-hour desk — so the room stays a place to sleep rather than a place to spend the day.