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
Crosskeys Inn building was seriously damaged by fire. Shortly thereafter fundraising projects were instigated, including the recording and production of a CD, "Live in the Kitchen", featuring 20 tracks from 30 local musicians. The Inn has since reopened. Crosskeys Inn Crosskeys Inn is a pub situated in a rural location between Portglenone and Toome in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is the oldest thatched pub in Northern Ireland and is also one of Ireland's most famous Irish traditional music pubs. It is a stone-built cottage with whitewashed walls and is owned by Vincent Hurl. It was once a coaching stop on the