FEATURE: Landmark Hotel Tateyama in Japan's Northern Alps closes after 54 years

A landmark hotel high in Japan's Northern Alps has closed after more than half a century, ending a 54-year run in which it welcomed nearly 1.7 million guests and became a familiar sight for visitors to one of the country's best-known mountain routes.Hotel Tateyama, located at Murodo, the highest point on the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route at an altitude of 2,450 meters, closed at the end of August.Murodo is also home to one of the Alpine Route's best-known attractions, the "Yuki no Otani" snow corridor. Each spring, clearing the road through the area's deep snow creates towering walls that ca…READ FULL ARTICLE