More than 1,500 male fans of the Japanese dating-simulation game LovePlus+ have flocked to Atami [a resort town an hour out of Tokyo] for a romantic date with their videogame character girlfriends.
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At the Hotel Ohnoya…the staff is trained to check in Love Plus+ customers as couples even if there is only one actual guest. Says Atsurou Ohno, the hotel's managing director, "We try not to ask too many questions because we want them to be able to remain immersed in that game world."
Some devoted fans will go so far as to pay twice the rate—most hotels in Japan charge per guest not per room—to indulge the fantasy that they are not there alone.
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One thing not mentioned in the story of single men in their 20s and 30s going to a hotel for the weekend with virtual girlfriends: Their virtual girlfriends are high school teens.
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