Ikuyori

Ikuyori [格肩 いくより) were cheap, often very small lodgings for travellers at koman (rest-stop towns) along the national highways and throughout other parts of Kanton. In addition to a place to rest, ikuyori also offered cheap meals and provisions to visitors, and sometimes sold useful travel equipment. 
== Etymology ==
Ikuyori means 'cheap sleeping'. The phrase came from a slang term referring to particularly cheap yoto, and was then adopted by the managers of ikuyori. Other names can include ōgasuki ('travelling basket'), benshado ('travellers' house') and kenshiyoto ('yoto for the penniless'). 
== History ==
Ikuyori began in the mid-1600s as an answer to the increasingly expensive rates offered by yoto. Poorer travellers were finding it difficult to afford to stay even one night at a middling yoto and were forced to look for other, often much worse accommodation. Therefore, ikuyori were developed to provide a cheap, no-frills experience for those who would otherwise likely have been forced to sleep on the street.