Fujiya Hotel

Fujiya Hotel

Main building
General information
Location Hakone, Kanagawa, Japan
Coordinates Coordinates: 35°14′39″N 139°03′33″E / 35.244235°N 139.059123°E / 35.244235; 139.059123
Opening 1891
Website
www.fujiyahotel.jp
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria visiting the hotel in 1893

The Fujiya Hotel (富士屋ホテル) is a historic hotel in Miyanoshita in Hakone, Kanagawa, 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 Meiji period. Many famous guests have stayed there, including Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria on his tour of Japan in 1893, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono with their son Sean in 1978.

The group hotel "Fuji View Hotel" in Kawaguchi-ko was a refuge for German Embassy after 1945 in World War II, including German Ambassador Heinrich Georg Stahmer.[1] On September 6, 1945, agents of the US Counter-Intelligence Corps arrested Gestapo Colonel Josef Albert Meisinger there.[2]

Publications

Atholl MacGregor, Chief Justice of Hong Kong and Allan Mossop, Judge of the British Supreme Court for China, at the Fujiya Hotel in 1935

Starting in 1934, the hotel 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.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Kluckhohn, Frank "TOKYO TIES WEAK, REICH ENVOY SAYS: HEADQUARTERS OF SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER IN JAPAN," New York Times, Sep 5, 1945.
  2. ↑ "Swiss Neutral Claims Nazis are Still on the Loose in Japan," Spartanburg Herald-Journal, May 12, 1946, p. A5.
  3. ↑ We Japanese (combined edition), Fujiya Hotel, Ltd., Miyanoshita, Hakone, Japan, 1950. printed by Yamagata Press, Yokohama

External links

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