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The Yanggakdo International Hotel is the largest working hotel and the second tallest building in North Korea, after the Ryugyong Hotel. The hotel is located on Yanggak Island in the river Taedong, two kilometres to the south-east of the centre of Pyongyang, the nation's capital. It rises to an overall height of and has a slowly revolving restaurant on the 47th floor.〔http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/09/getting-drunk-in-north-korea/279310/〕 The hotel is said to contain 1,000 rooms and a total floor space of . The structure was built between 1986 and 1992 by France's Campenon Bernard Construction Company and opened in 1995. ==Background== Besides housing the reception, the ground floor offers the purchase of North Korean currency sets, postcards and letters, and basic commodities at Western prices. There is a bar, and a bookshop which stocks North Korean reading material including back-issues of the local English-language newspaper, the ''Pyongyang Times'', treatises and photos of Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il and Kim Jong-un, children's books and material which describes the North Korean understanding of the history of the region. In addition to the revolving restaurant, the hotel guide issued to guests indicates that the hotel contains four further restaurants on the second floor — these include the numbers one and two dining-room, the main banquet hall and the Japanese, Chinese and Korean food dining-rooms. The fifth floor is off limits to hotel guests,〔 it also does not have a button on the elevator panel. The basement contains a bowling alley, a pool room, a swimming pool, a barber shop, a casino and a massage club run by a Chinese company with an exclusively female staff. The hotel's grounds originally included a 9,000-square-metre nine-hole golf course. In 2011 the golf course was demolished to make space for a Chinese-funded health complex to be built. Also located on Yanggak Island, next to the hotel's grounds, is the Pyongyang International Cinema Hall. The opening and closing ceremonies of the ''Pyongyang International Film Festival'' take place here. The Yanggakdo International Hotel is a standard stop on tours of North Korea, and was featured in the graphic novel ''Pyongyang''. File:Dprk-hotel-yanggakdo.jpg|The hotel's façade seen from the ground level File:Yanggakdo-Hotel-Lobby-2014.jpg|Hotel lobby area, March 2014 File:The Taedong River in Pyongyang.jpg|The hotel seen from the top of the Juche Tower File:Yanggakdo International Hotel front side by night.jpg|Front side of the hotel File:Yanggakdo International Hotel room 1.jpg|Standard-sized twin room 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yanggakdo International Hotel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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