AN INN IN JAPAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 168, 13 July 1878, Page 4

AN INN IN JAPAN.

..The certainty, qf having a pleasant resting place after the toil^and trouble ofthe day is one of the charms of peciestrianisra ib Japan, The "Pied Bill!?' and "Red Lions" of onr English highways make no pretence whatever' to anything beyond the mere satisfying of the animal wants. How very difierjenfc it is in Japan ! From the moment ithe threshold is crossed to the moment of departure, the visitor is the "object of unceasing solicitude on the part of everyone connected with the establishment irom highest to lowest. If it is midday, and he has arrived hot, dusty, and a little tired, after a long morning's tramp' the whole force of the establishment ushers the visitor into a pretty, light apartment, looking on to one of those marvellous miniature gardens, in which, covering a space of a few feet, the mountains, woods, rivers, and floods of an entire province are represented. By one neatly dressed, pleasant-looking damsel bis boots are taken off and his feet bathed in hot water, a second fans him and keeps up a voluble patter of conversation, a third on her knees offers him tea and sweetmeats, whilst the host himself, wifch another detachment of waitresses, is helping the coolies to unpack tHe box containing fcho European food. Everything that meets the eye is contrived to please it. There are pleasant rustic paintings \ on the screens. There are vases with, flowers doited about ; from the wobdfrbrk outside -are suspendeji eaily colored lanterns, or !festtfdns of glss, throagh wliich tbe wind