--- title: Japanese Hotel Offers Crying Rooms description: Rooms at the Mitsui Garden Hotel Yotsuya in Tokyo are stocked with tissues warm eye masks and movies like Forrest Gump and The Notebook canonical: https://time.com/3850283/japan-hotel-crying-rooms/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-08T14:46:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:19:32.636Z og:title: This Hotel's 'Crying Rooms' Are Perfect for When You Need a Good Sob og:description: Rooms at the Mitsui Garden Hotel Yotsuya in Tokyo are stocked with tissues warm eye masks and movies like Forrest Gump and The Notebook og:url: https://time.com/3850283/japan-hotel-crying-rooms/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Hotel's 'Crying Rooms' Are Perfect for When You Need a Good Sob twitter:description: Rooms at the Mitsui Garden Hotel Yotsuya in Tokyo are stocked with tissues warm eye masks and movies like Forrest Gump and The Notebook twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Hotel's 'Crying Rooms' Are Perfect for When You Need a Good Sob  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer May 8, 2015 2:46 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer May 8, 2015 2:46 PM UTC A Japanese hotel is making headlines for offering “crying rooms” where women can “de-stress” by bawling their eyes out, a spokesperson tells TIME. For 10,000 Japanese Yen (or about $85 U.S. dollars) per person, these special rooms at the Mitsui Garden Hotel Yotsuya in Tokyo are stocked with tissues, “warm eye masks” and about a dozen sentimental movies, six of which are available in English and include _Forrest Gump, The Intouchables, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, The Notebook, One Day_ and _What’s Eating Gilbert Grape._ A spokesperson tells TIME that the hotel started the promotion “because Japanese ladies in their 20s-40s are often said to live a life of stress.” The whole experience—which is available until August 31—sounds like a classier version of that scene from _Bridget Jones’s Diary_ in which Renée Zellweger lip-syncs Céline Dion’s “All by Myself” in her pajamas: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3850283/japan-hotel-crying-rooms/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3850283/japan-hotel-crying-rooms/"},"headline":"This Hotel's 'Crying Rooms' Are Perfect for When You Need a Good Sob","datePublished":"2015-05-08T14:46:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:19:32.636Z","description":"Specifically for stressed-out young women","url":"https://time.com/3850283/japan-hotel-crying-rooms/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3850283/japan-hotel-crying-rooms/","name":"This Hotel's 'Crying Rooms' Are Perfect for When You Need a Good Sob"}}]}] ```