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How Takumi Yamamoto Saved a 400-Year-Old Kyoto Ryokan
Episode 44 of The CEO Diary with Fexingo. Lucas and Luna drill into a single turnaround story: Takumi Yamamoto, a third-generation innkeeper who took over a crumbling 400-year-old ryokan in Kyoto in 2019. With only six rooms, declining guests, and a leaky roof, Yamamoto didn't chase luxury or cut prices. Instead, he studied what made the oldest surviving inn in Japan special—its tea ceremony, its 18th-century garden, and its handwritten guest logs reaching back to the Meiji era. He raised prices by 40 percent, halved capacity to three rooms, and turned the experience into a seven-hour…
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