Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan opens
A hotel that has been taking guests for over 1,300 years
The hot-spring inn in the Yamanashi mountains was founded in 705, and by family tradition 52 generations of one lineage have run it. Guinness World Records lists it as the oldest hotel still in operation.
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A Japanese inn is older than Rus. Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan has been taking guests since 705 — 157 years before the Varangians were invited to rule — and Guinness lists it as the world's oldest hotel. Share →
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 711–718 Umayyad conquest of Hispania — 6 years later
Middle East
- 680 Battle of Karbala — 25 years earlier
Africa
- 698 Fall of Carthage and the Arab conquest of the Maghreb — 7 years earlier
- c. 700 The rise of the Kanem Empire — 5 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Wu Zetian (aged 81)
- Li Bai (aged 4)
- Lady Six Sky (aged 23)