noun
lodging while traveling; inn; hotel
A somewhat literary or old-fashioned word for a place to stay during a journey. In modern Japanese, 宿, 旅館, or ホテル are much more common.
彼は旅次で一夜を過ごした。
He spent a night at a lodging on his journey.
古い紀行文には「旅次」という表現がよく出てくる。
In old travel writings, the expression 旅次 often appears.
Compound of 旅 (travel) and 次 (next, stop). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; it is a classical Chinese-style compound used in literary Japanese.