Dwellings in Japan are typically personal spaces. Dense, perhaps small, they're
not for sitting around with friends. There are restaurants for entertaining and
being social, baths for cleaning up and unwinding, coin lockers for storing
things temporarily away from home. Tokyo in particular is built to support people
working away from home. A number of "Capsule Hotels" around the city, near
train stations, absorb men who miss the last train home or just aren't sober
enough to stumble home.