‘Corpse hotels’ in Japan

A rising death rate and lack of crematoria has spurred Japan's booming funeral industry, including hotels for the deceased. The so-called corpse hotels, is a camouflaged morgue used to store some of Japan's mounting pile of bodies waiting for a spot in one of the nation's overworked crematoriums.
"Crematories need to be built, but there isn't any space to do so and that is creating funeral refugees," said Hisao Takegishi, who opened the business in 2014. Ninety-nine percent of people are cremated in Japan - the highest rate of cremation in the world. And with more and more people dying each year, some families have to wait up to four days for their deceased loved ones to be cremated.

One of such is Sousou’s corpse hotel. At a daily rate of 9,000 yen ($82) family members can keep their deceased relative in one of Sousou's 10 rooms for up to four days until a crematorium can be found. Unlike other such morgues-in-disguise, which try to blend in by