Forum - View topicINTEREST: Real-Life Inspiration for HanaIro Inn Will Close Its Doors
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Kadmos1
 Posts: 13558 Location: In Phoenix but has an 85308 ZIP |
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There are quite a few Japanese inns that have been around for over a millennia. This is sad that a business running for nearly 13 centuries is going out of business. If a big company wants to know how to last a long time, you look at businesses like this inn.
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njprogfan
 Collector Extraordinaire Posts: 1162 Location: A River Named Toms |
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WOW! 1,300 YEARS!? I can't wrap my head around some place or thing is that old. I would love to see how it evolved over the years. (a great anime, btw) No reason given why it's closing?
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belvadeer
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Right? Usually I'm impressed with businesses that have been around since the late 1800s, but a millennium and three centuries? That is the very definition of long lasting legacy. :0 |
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Admiral Pizzaman
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Wow! Just wow! Who would have thought the inn will last for centuries? I hope they will at least continue pilgrimage so that I can visit there one day.
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Furuzaki
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Why
 *erases number 26 from my bucket list*
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Kougeru
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This is extremely depressing. Partially because Hanasaku is one of my favorite anime ever but just knowing something that survived so long is going to die is really sad. Maybe they can sell it to someone who wants to respect its history.
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Alan45
Village Elder Posts: 9844 Location: Virginia |
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That building certainly doesn't look 1300 years old. I wonder what, if anything, is left of the original inn.
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nargun
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Nothing, Japanese architecture doesn't last that long Onsens are long-lasting businesses because: + If you've got a business built around a hugely-durable fixed capital asset like an onsen, or a cave system filled with cheeses, or a kitchen built into a castle wall, it's easiest to transfer the asset by bundling it with the ancilliary facilities and transferring it as a going concern + Japan's actually kind of not had an awful lot of warfare, and what it has has largely been elites fighting elites for elite power; no barbarian invaders or much in the way of religious wars. |
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Compelled to Reply
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Nonsense, the oldest wooden buildings in the world are Japanese. But yeah, the article clearly states the inn was modernized, meaning rebuilt in a Western-style like the other was in the 1920s. |
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