<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div><font size="4" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><font face="times new roman,serif">I've learned on good authority that a Shinto shrine on Namsan Mountain was used as a hotel for Japanese transients in Korea who were scheduled to return to Japan. </font></font><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: large;">The larger shine (Chosen) is at the top of the mountain (see attached). The smaller (and older) shrine was located further down the mountain and is not seen in the photo, or so I have been told.</span><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div><font size="4"><font face="times new roman,serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font size="4"><font face="times new roman,serif">Is anyone aware of
shrines used as transient hotels, and is anyone willing to guess which of the two shrines was used in this way?</font></font></div><div><font size="4"><font face="times new roman,serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font size="4"><font face="times new roman,serif">Bill Streifer<br clear="all"></font></font><div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', serif; font-size: large;">-- </span></div><div><font size="4" face="times new roman, serif">______________________</font></div><div><font face="times new roman,serif" size="4"><strong>Bill Streifer & Irek Sabitov</strong></font></div><div><em><font face="times new roman,serif" size="4">The Flight of the Hog Wild</font></em></div><div><a href="http://www.my-jia.com/The_Flight_of_the_Hog_Wild" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><font size="4" face="times new roman, serif">http://www.my-jia.com/The_<wbr>Flight_of_the_Hog_Wild</font></a></div></div></div></div><div><font
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