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FRIDAY, JULY THE TWENTY-THIRD
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The floating island docked at the port of Kobe in Japan. We unloaded our luggage and travelled into the mountains of the Kyoto area, where a glorious restored bath-house was waiting for tourists such as ourselves. In fact, it was considered one of the most haunted places in the world, called Akuma Sentō. The original building burnt down nearly one hundred years ago. After some length of time the bath house went through a strenuous reconstruction, with a careful mind to preserving the original layout, but spicing it up with exciting new décor, only the finest-quality woods, silks, and spring waters, and featuring a wonderful luxury hotel addition( called a Ryokan) as well as an elaborate tea house.
The guests are not allowed to bring their weapons onto the premises of the hotel, which led the Mayor and Mister to object. However, they reluctantly yielded their weapons. Sir Hammerhorn was stopped at the door with a strange, clock-like instrument. He claimed it was not a weapon, but rather a ghost detector! They let him pass.
The beds are on the floor, which seems to my English sensibilities most workmanlike, but it is my understanding that Easterners are accustomed to this, and I should not like to object to the customs of a hemisphere. The rooms are separated by