Takahan Ryokan some of the author's personal effects. Takahan Ryokan Takahan Ryokan is an historic ryokan (Japanese inn) located in Yuzawa, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. The inn is over 800 years old. The inn has an onsen (bath) called "Tamago no Yu" (English: egg-water) that is supplied by natural hot springs with a slight amount of sulfur. The inn has approximately 20,000 annual visitors, many of whom visit to soak in Tamago no Yu. The setting for the book "Snow Country" authored by Yasunari Kawabata is based upon Takahan Ryokan's location. The inn has preserved the room that Kawabata stayed and wrote in
Bird In The Hand Inn The Pitt Town Village shopping complex is located adjacent: this is a Georgian styled two storey commercial development which is in keeping with the original inn. The Bird in Hand Inn is of high historical significance as the earliest inn in Pitt Town. The inn is important for its association with Daniel Smallwood, a prominent pioneer of the town, who built the inn in 1825 and operated it until 1840. It is an important surviving example of a Georgian Colonial inn. While there are similar buildings surviving such as 265 George Street and the former Bell Inn, this style of