The is a historic hotel in Miyanoshita in

Hakone, Kanagawa is a town in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. , the town had a population of 11,293 and a population density of 122 persons per km². The total area of the town is . The town is a popular tourist destination due to its many hot springs and views of ...

, Japan.

History

The hotel was constructed in 1891 and consists of different sections constructed in a mixture of traditional Japanese and western architecture that was popular during the

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. Many famous guests have stayed there, including

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on his tour of Japan in 1893, and

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and

Yoko Ono Yoko Ono ( ; ja, 小野洋子, Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking. Ono grew up i ...

with their son

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in 1978. The group hotel "Fuji View Hotel" in Kawaguchi-ko was a refuge for German Embassy after 1945 in

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, including German Ambassador

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. On September 6, 1945, agents of the US

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arrested

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Colonel

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there.

Publications

Starting in 1934, the hotel in collaboration with Yamagata Corporation published a series of three books on Japanese customs, with the final volume published in 1949. The three volumes were subsequently bound into one, under the title ''We Japanese: Being Descriptions of Many of the Customs, Manners, Ceremonies, Festivals, Arts and Crafts of the Japanese, Besides Numerous Other Subjects''. Editions were released at least until 1950. The Fujiya Hotel (both in the 1950s and the present day) is the location for the best selling novel ''An Exquisite Sense of What is Beautiful'' by J. David Simons.https://saraband.net/sb-title/an-exquisite-sense-of-what-is-beautiful/ The author stayed at the hotel several times during the seven years he spent in Japan in the 1990s.

Gallery

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visiting the hotel in 1893 Allan Mossop and Atholl MacGregor in Japan 1935.jpg, Atholl MacGregor, Chief Justice of Hong Kong and

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, Judge of the

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, at the Fujiya Hotel in 1935 Fujiya Hotel - Aug 28 2020 - various 12 49 16 677000.jpeg, Inside the current hotel, 2020 Fujiya Hotel - Aug 28 2020 - various 12 51 58 108000.jpeg, In front of the hotel, 2020

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