Fujiya Hotel, Historic resort hotel in Hakone, Japan
Fujiya Hotel is a hotel complex in Miyanoshita, Hakone, whose sections were built over decades: the Main Building (1891) with its karahafu gable and mixed Japanese-Western wooden style, the Western Building (1906), the Flower Palace (1936) with its azekura-style exterior, and the Forest Wing (1960) on higher ground. The white stucco facade with dark brown wooden trim, carved panels under a curved gabled roof, and a crane-shaped entrance canopy faces National Route 1.
Sennosuke Yamaguchi bought and converted the Fujiya inn in 1878; a fire destroyed it in 1883, and it reopened in 1884 as a twelve-room single-storey building called Ailey. The Main Building was completed in 1891, and from 1893 to 1912 an agreement with the Nara-ya hotel made Fujiya exclusive to foreign guests. Archduke Franz Ferdinand stayed in 1893, and the Western Building was finished in 1906.
The hotel's name comes from the Fujiya inn that Sennosuke Yamaguchi bought in 1878. From 1934 it published, with Yamagata Corporation, a three-volume series on Japanese customs, later bound as We Japanese, given to guests. The lobby displays a framed calligraphy panel, and the entrance canopy is carved as a crane with spread wings.
The hotel faces National Route 1 in Miyanoshita, with the Main Building, Western Building, Flower Palace and Forest Wing set at different levels of the slope. The Forest Wing stands on higher ground within the grounds, and the property has 112 parking spaces. A bakery and sweets shop, Picot, and a garden with a summer-only outdoor pool are on site.
The hotel published a three-volume series on Japanese customs with Yamagata Corporation from 1934, the last volume appearing in 1949; the volumes were later bound as one book, We Japanese, reprinted at least until 1950. The annex, Kikka-so, was the former Miyanoshita imperial villa, acquired by the hotel in 1946.
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