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- Tatami — the Japanese floor where an entire household actually lives
The Japanese floor where the whole household actually lives — built to last fifty years of being lived on.
- Ryokan — the Japanese inn where the staff quietly take care of you for one night
Not a hotel. A one-night Japanese-style residence where the staff quietly take care of you. Here's what a ryokan actually is.
- Onsen — the Japanese hot spring that the country has treated as half-sacred for over a thousand years
Over 27,000 natural hot springs in Japan, often outdoors with snow on the railings, treated as half-sacred. Here's why one winter soak changes everything.