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...RYOKAN RESERVATIONS To experience traditional Japan, consider staying in a ryokan, an old-style Japanese inn. You can book online or you can read about features that make these personable guesthouses unique?like grilled fish dinners, wooden clogs and yukata robes to wear inside...
...surprising that the Japanese should be branded environmental outlaws. Although the nation embraced Western materialism in this century, one of the strongest threads in its more than 2,000 years of cultural traditions has always been a deep love of nature. Typical is the story of the monk Ryokan who slept under mosquito netting in the summer not to prevent being bitten by an insect but to avoid squashing one inadvertently while he slept. The Japanese, though, have never been passive conservationists. Consider the bonsai, the tiny trees that are shaped over generations into living pieces of sculpture. The bonsai...
...Version. What worries officials most of all, though, is the prospect of horrendous traffic jams and an acute shortage of hotel rooms. The Osaka area is heavily booked and even the tiny ryokan, or country inns, are doing good business. Tokyo, 250 miles north, is jammed as well...
...them, to add to the facilities of the huge new Okura and Tokyo Hilton hotels. In addition, eight ships will anchor in Tokyo Harbor to provide floating accommodations. Other tourists will be housed at Kakone, the coolly beautiful mountain resort 58 miles west of the city. Improvements to the ryokan, Japan's traditional inns, have added 4,000 more rooms to the total...
...stayed at a village inn; next day at Lake Annoro, where they spent another night in the plane and where the inhabitants lit fires on the lake shore to frighten away bears. Next day the Lindberghs flew the last 50 miles to Nemuro. From the balcony of the Nibiki Ryokan, where their beds had awaited them for four nights, Col. Lindbergh addressed the cheering populace. "We are glad to be in Nemuro," said...