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Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan 西山温泉 慶雲館
The world's oldest hotel
A hot spring inn in the mountains of Yamanashi Prefecture, opened in 705. Guinness World Records lists it as the oldest hotel in the world, and it has been run by the same family for more than 50 generations.
- Founded
- 705
- Founder
- Fujiwara Mahito
- Started in
- Yamanashi
- Status
- Still trading
- Age 1,321 years
Timeline
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705
Opens beside a hot spring discovered in the Hayakawa valley.
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2011 (Heisei 23)
Guinness World Records recognises it as the oldest hotel in the world.
Years in brackets are the Japanese era year. Japanese era converter →
Did you know?
Its baths use water straight from the spring without adding or heating anything, a style called kakenagashi.
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