Yukiguni no Yado Takahan
The Yukiguni no Yado Takahan ( Japanese 雪 国 の 宿 高 半 ) is an inn / hotel ( ryokan ) in Yuzawa , Niigata Prefecture , Japan , which has been in existence for more than 800 years .
The hostel ( yado ) is located in the north-west of Japan in the "snow country" ( yukiguni ) and is characterized by a traditional onsen , a bath that is fed by a thermal spring with light sulfur water. Hence the Japanese name of the onsen, Tamago no yu ( 卵 の 湯 , in German: "Egg water"). The name of the inn, Takahan, refers to its founder Hanroku Takahashi, who is said to have discovered the hot springs 800 years ago. It has been owned by the Takahashi family ever since.
In the 1930s, the hotel was visited by the later Japanese Nobel Prize laureate in literature, Yasunari Kawabata , who recorded the time in several short stories that were published in 1948 as a whole with the title Yukiguni ( 雪 国 , in English: "Snow Land"). In 1972 the wooden structure of the ryokan was rebuilt as a concrete structure for fire protection reasons. The room used by Kawabata, Kasumi no ma , is still there today and some of the poet's personal belongings are displayed there.
Today, the ryokan attracts tens of thousands of Japanese tourists every year. The snow land around Yuzawa is visited by many visitors from Southeast Asia who want to experience snow.
See also
Web links
- Hotel website (English, French, Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Perrin Lindelauf: Finding the fabled Snow Country . In: The Japan Times Online . January 18, 2009, ISSN 0447-5763 ( japantimes.co.jp [accessed October 21, 2018]).
- ↑ a b Japanese Ryokan / Takahan. Retrieved October 21, 2018 .
- ^ German from Oscar Benl : Yasunari Kawabata: Schneeland . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1957.
- ↑ Björn Rosen: Hot spring, cold mountainous country in FAZ from February 25, 2016, page R2
Coordinates: 36 ° 56 '49.7 " N , 138 ° 47' 59.2" E