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Gotemba, Japan
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"Unlike America, where you can find a motel
along the highway every once and awhile, Japan had them spread far and few
between. The few we did find gave us a strange impression they did not want
us. Every time I would approach an inn keeper of a traditional Japanese
hotel, know as a ryokan, he would take one look at me and immediately swing
both arms in front of his body and face, making a giant X symbol, as if in a
protection maneuver to keep a vampire away, and saying in the best English
he could muster ‘no beds’ and then point towards the nearest city ‘tourist
hotel’. It was so strange and happened every time. Could every ryokan be
full? I thought, after awhile, they might be prejudiced!?
At the end of the
trip, when we finally stayed at one, it finally dawned on me they literally
meant ‘no beds’, as you sleep on ‘floor cushions’, and they figured we would
want a ‘real bed’, a 'Western style bed', which they did not have. There was
obviously a misconception, that we would only want to sleep on that kind,
which for us and probably a lot of other Westerners, simply was not true! Oh
well. "
M.S.
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