You find shelter at a lantern lit inn in old Japan as warm rain falls all night | 3 Hour Sleep Story, No Mid Roll Ads

You find shelter at a lantern lit inn in old Japan as warm rain falls all night | 3 Hour Sleep Story, No Mid Roll Ads

Fall asleep inside history. Tonight you are safe and dry at a small roadside inn in old Japan, more than three hundred years ago, on the great Tokaido road on a night of warm early summer rain. Your straw sandals are retired at the door, your feet are washed at the step, a corridor of paper lanterns leads you to a quiet tatami room, and supper comes to you on a lacquered tray while rain sings on the tiled roof and drips softly from the deep eaves. The kitchen fire is banked under ash, the futon is laid out, and the great road outside goes quiet for the night.

You will hear steady warm rain on the tiles, drops falling from the eaves, the small sounds of a wooden inn settling, and the kitchen fire whispering under its ash.

This is a three hour sleep story. The narration ends softly around the 39 minute mark, and then the rain carries on in the dark until morning. Black screen friendly.

Chapters:
0:00 Welcome
3:22 The Road in the Rain
7:55 The Doorway
12:17 The Lantern Corridor
15:08 The Room
18:29 The Bath
20:35 The Supper Tray
24:00 The Kitchen Fire
28:39 The Futon and the Buckwheat Pillow
32:30 The Inn Settles
35:39 Drifting
39:02 Rain until morning

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New episodes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6pm Eastern. Nights carry you inside an ordinary evening from the past. Tales, every Friday, tell one true story from history, calm enough to sleep to and interesting enough to stay up for.

🕯 Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com
📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com
🌙 Norse myth sleep stories, The Sleeping Almanac: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac
🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel
🎙 David's interview podcast, Conversations That Count: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsThatCount-CTC
🎧 Also on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3J6lZ10GvK07qCv3aQxnkR and Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/conversations-that-count-a31f16a6-3131-4c8f-982f-19d52407e8eb/id1890348796

Sources: Constantine Nomikos Vaporis, Breaking Barriers; Jilly Traganou, The Tokaido Road; Susan B. Hanley, Everyday Things in Premodern Japan.

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