‘I tried to book our ryokan today, and the woman couldn't understand a word I said, and was a tad rude, and I had to hand the phone over to Tamura.’
‘Upstairs is reminiscent of a Japanese ryokan, or guesthouse, and the former banquet room still contains the stage where Japanese officers were once entertained.’
‘Mr. Kawabata wrote the novel while staying in a small ryokan in Yuzawa Town, Niigata Prefecture (which now proudly refers to itself as ‘snow country’), in 1947.’
‘The spring was duly found and the priest asked a disciple, a member of the Hoshi family, to open a ryokan.’
‘We're staying at a ryokan run by one of the covert ops.’
‘Because every hotel and inn and ryokan and minshuku within a very large radius was fully booked for the two nights of the festival, Echo and I had booked a room in Nagatoro, about a half-dozen stops away on the old country line railroad.’
‘‘We have had problems with foreign guests,’ said the manager of another ryokan, who said she would take overseas visitors only with a recommendation from a local company.’
‘One of the city's oldest ryokan, it has only 19 rooms, each one perfection in understated style.’
Origin
Japanese.
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