Capsule Index is a directory of capsule and pod hotels — currently 219 properties across 40 cities, from Tokyo and Osaka to Singapore, Seoul and beyond. Every listing is analyzed from real Booking.com guest reviews: 6,136 of them so far.
Capsule hotels are nearly impossible to judge from a booking page. The photos all show the same glowing pods; whether you will sleep depends on things the listing never says — how the property handles snoring, whether the "capsule" is a pod or a curtain, whether the female floor is a floor or a corner, whether your suitcase fits the locker. Guests answer all of this in reviews. We read those reviews systematically and publish what they say.
Every hotel is scored across eleven dimensions — noise, pod comfort, privacy, cleanliness, bathrooms, luggage, staff, location, wifi, atmosphere, value — with every score backed by verbatim quotes from real reviews. Hotels land in tier A, B or C; properties that fall below the line are rejected and never published. The full system is on our methodology page.
There are no invented reviewers here and no resident personas — the bylines say "Capsule Index editors" because the work is editorial and the evidence is the guests’. Where we state a number, it is computed live from the directory.
We earn a commission when a reader books through a Booking.com link on a hotel page; the price you pay is unchanged. Hotels cannot pay to be included, ranked, or described kindly.
Stayed somewhere we list and found the analysis wrong — louder, dirtier, or better than we said? Tell us. We update continuously, and we’d rather have a smaller directory that’s honest than a larger one that isn’t.