There are two kinds of Japanese inn, ryokan and the smaller minshuku.

Numerous guests houses, ryokan (traditional Japanese inns), and hotels have developed in the area.

While living in Omaezaki she worked at a ryokan (Japanese inn).

It's a traditional Japanese inn on the outskirts of Kyoto.

They stayed together in a Japanese inn, and while the atmosphere was "charged," they said, "nothing really happened."

Her parents own a Japanese inn and hot-springs resort that she will inherit when she is older.

No, there is nothing like a Japanese inn.

But we made it, and after 14 years I decided to move and model us after a Japanese inn.

For a start, it is not a spa inn, which is what probably springs to mind when most people hear "Japanese inn."

There are also some fine traditional Japanese inns in the area; the tourist office can help with bookings.