Vintage View: The Japanese ryokan experience

Kya deLongchamps introduces us to the Japanese ryokan experience, and to the oldest hotel in the world, Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan.

It's not unusual for the owners of worthy old businesses to emblazon their proud legend right over the front door: ‘This tenacious gem of a firm has been serving the wider area of Bally-hoo-sit for nigh on a century or even more’.