Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan in Japan holds the Guinness World Record as the oldest hotel in the world, having been continuously operated by the exact same family since the year 705 AD.

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Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan in Japan holds the Guinness World Record as the oldest hotel in the world, having been continuously operated by the exact same family since the year 705 AD. Fifty-two generations of one family have dedicated their entire bloodline to folding towels, apologizing to guests, and maintaining hot springs for over thirteen centuries. Just think about the sheer intergenerational trauma of knowing your great-great-great-great-grandfather was a front desk manager, and you are destined to be a front desk manager, trapped in an endless loop of customer service that outlasted the samurai, multiple empires, and the invention of the internet!