Best Hotels Near Iwakuni Station | The Five-Arch Bridge’s City Side
Five wooden arches over a jade river, a ropeway castle, sacred white snakes — and the city side's…
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Best Hotels Near Shimonoseki Station | Fugu Capital of the Straits
Blowfish at the market pier, an emperor-child's shrine above the strait, and the tunnel where you walk to…
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Best Hotels Near Shin-Shimonoseki Station | Fugu & the Kanmon Strait
Sanyo Shinkansen Guide · Shin-Shimonoseki Station Best Hotels Near Shin-Shimonoseki Station: Fugu, the Kanmon Strait &the Tip of…
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Asa Station Guide | The Sanyo Line’s Quietest Stop
Sanyo Shinkansen Guide · Asa Station Asa Station Guide: The Sanyo Line’s Quietest Stop —What’s Nearby & Where…
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Best Hotels Near Shin-Yamaguchi Station | Caves, Pagodas & Onsen
Sanyo Shinkansen Guide · Shin-Yamaguchi Station Best Hotels Near Shin-Yamaguchi Station: Caves, Pagodas &the Gateway to the “Kyoto…
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Tokuyama Station Guide | An Inland Sea Port & Factory Night View
Sanyo Shinkansen Guide · Tokuyama Station Tokuyama Station Guide: An Inland Sea Port &the Glow of the Factory…
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Best Hotels Near Shin-Iwakuni Station | The Kintaikyo Bridge
Sanyo Shinkansen Guide · Shin-Iwakuni Station Best Hotels Near Shin-Iwakuni Station: The Five-Arched Kintaikyo Bridge& a Hilltop Castle…
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Sanyo Shinkansen Guide: Osaka to Hiroshima, Fukuoka & Hakata
Shinkansen Line Guide · Sanyo Shinkansen Sanyo Shinkansen Guide: Osaka to Fukuoka Along the Inland Sea —Kobe, Himeji,…
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Shimonoseki: Fugu at Karato Market, the Boy Emperor’s Shrine & Walking Under the Sea to Kyushu
Shimonoseki sits at Honshu’s southwestern tip, where the Kanmon Strait narrows to 700 meters against Kyushu — a…
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Akiyoshidai & Akiyoshido: Japan’s Greatest Karst Plateau, Lamp-Lit Caves & a Cobalt Spring
Akiyoshidai is Japan’s largest karst plateau — a rolling green upland studded with white limestone pinnacles, the fossilized…
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Hagi: The Samurai Town That Built Modern Japan — Castle Lanes, Shoin’s School & Hagi-yaki
Hagi is a small castle town on the Japan Sea where the map itself is an artifact: the…
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Motonosumi Shrine & the Ryugu Blowhole: Yamaguchi’s 123 Torii Above the Sea
On a headland of the Nagato coast, 123 vermilion torii gates pour a hundred meters downhill toward the…
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