The ryokan, traditional accommodation in Japan

All those that queráis to feel the real Japan, even from the accommodation, you have to stay at a ryokan. It is a question of a few species of Japanese traditional inns, which differ from other hotels of western style in many things. Really, there are few ryokan in the big Japanese cities, since there the hotels are usually westernized.

Most of these ryokan are in the most remote and scenic areas of Japan, although the city of Kioto, for example, is provided with many of these accommodations.

After coming to the ryokan, we will be got by the owners of the accommodation and his family, and the fact is that most of the ryokan are usually family enterprises. It is necessary to take the shoes from him on having entered. And do not worry, since in the ryokan they will give us sneakers to use inside the accommodation. Sometimes they give us what is known like geta, a few Japanese sandals to walk on the outside of the ryokan.

The earnings of the ryokan are usually a wide entrance hall of entry, equipped with chairs, where the guests can sit down to chat animatedly. A more modern ryokan also might have a television in this area. After registering, the well-known servants will accompany us up to our rooms as nakai-san, that are dressed in the traditional kimono.

The ryokan are constructed to the Japanese traditional way, with sliding doors in all the rooms. The soil of the rooms is a tatami, and they are decorated by Japanese works of art. On having entered for the first time a ryokan, it will attract attention of you of that there are no beds. This is due to the fact that the mattresses double and are placed in a closet during the day. The personnel will unroll the mattresses in the night.

In all the ryokan a Japanese, well-known garment is offered to the guests like yukata, as well as a towels game. Depending on how modern the ryokan is, you can have television, phone and mini bar in the room. Nevertheless, the truth is that most of them usually do not have it.

In most of the Japanese hotels, the Japanese traditional bath has been replaced with a western version, but in the ryokan there are no toilets to the western style. In the ryokan they are longer, and more shallows. Otherwise, everything is just as any bath that we are used to seeing. In some ryokan they will give you a few sneakers of bath special, different from the sneakers to be used in the rest of the accommodation. Also public, well-known baths exist as ofuro. They are usually separated by sex.

The ryokan are proud of preparing succulent dinners and breakfasts. In general, the cost of the meals is included in the price of the room. The meals consist of small plates of the Japanese kitchen, known like kaiseki. Plates of broiler or smoked fish, miso soup, sashimi or tempura.

So, if you want to experience truly the Japanese culture, I who you was lodging me in a ryokan. It is sure that you will like to make use of these possibility.

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