Sakan Ryokan Sakan Ryokan Sakan Ryokan or "Hotel Sakan" (ホテル佐勘) is an historic ryokan (Japanese inn) located in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The inn is over 1,000 years old, and is located within the spa resort named "Akiu Spa," which has four communal onsen (baths) that are supplied by natural hot springs. The hot springs are one of the three oldest ones in Japan, and are located near the Natori River. The inn was originally started by a man named Kanzaburo Satoh, whom the inn is named after. Ownership of the inn has been handed down to Satoh's descendants for 34 generations.
A Country Parish follows the new rector as he tries to win them over. (The Wiltshire parish was Seend, Bulkington and Poulshot, bordering Salisbury Plain.) A Country Parish A Country Parish is a British television documentary made by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC2 which was first broadcast in 2003. Produced and directed by Nigel Farrell the programme concerns the life of Jamie Allen who at the beginning of the series is a young, proactive curate from a working-class background in a none too prosperous Midlands town (Nuneaton). However much to his surprise, he is suddenly made rector of a wealthy, long standing and