The oldest hotel in the world according to Guinness World Records is Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan in Hayakawa, Japan, which was founded in 705. It has been in the same family for fifty-two generations and even in its modern incarnation has only thirty-seven rooms. Its main attraction seems to be its hot springs. The world’s oldest company was purported to be Kongo Gumi, founded in Osaka, Japan, in 578. It was also a family business going back many generations, but after almost 1,500 years of continuously being in business it went into liquidation in 2006 and was purchased by the Takamatsu
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