Best Hotels Near Kami-Kumamoto Station | Soseki’s Neighbourhood Junction
Kami-Kumamoto is the three-railway junction where novelist Natsume Soseki once lodged — a local northwest base with JR,…
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Best Hotels Near Torichosuji Station | Kumamoto’s Castle-Arcade Crossing
Torichosuji is Kumamoto's centre — the tram crossing where the castle boulevard meets the great arcades. The city's…
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Best Hotels Near Shin-Suizenji Station | Kumamoto’s Midtown Interchange
Shin-Suizenji is Kumamoto's midtown interchange — JR trains upstairs, trams at the door, Suizenji garden a stroll away…
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Best Hotels Near Suizenji Station | The Garden Quarter
Suizenji is the quiet JR stop serving Kumamoto's great strolling garden and the Ezuko lakeside — a green,…
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Shin-Minamata Station Guide | Environmental Recovery & Amakusa
Kyushu Shinkansen Guide · Shin-Minamata Station Shin-Minamata Station Guide: A City of Environmental Recovery& the Gateway to Amakusa…
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Best Hotels Near Shin-Yatsushiro Station | The Kuma River Valley
Kyushu Shinkansen Guide · Shin-Yatsushiro Station Best Hotels Near Shin-Yatsushiro Station: The Gateway to the Kuma River& the…
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Best Hotels Near Kumamoto Station | Castle City & Mt. Aso
Kyushu Shinkansen Guide · Kumamoto Station Best Hotels Near Kumamoto Station: Castle City &the Gateway to Mt. Aso…
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Shin-Tamana Station Guide | Gateway to Tamana Onsen
Kyushu Shinkansen Guide · Shin-Tamana Station Shin-Tamana Station Guide: The Gateway to Tamana Onsen —Quiet Hot Springs North…
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Kyushu Shinkansen Guide: Hakata to Kumamoto & Kagoshima
Shinkansen Line Guide · Kyushu Shinkansen Kyushu Shinkansen Guide: Hakata to Kagoshima —Kumamoto, Volcanoes & the Deep South…
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Mt. Aso: Hiking Inside an Active Volcano in Kumamoto
There are a handful of places in Japan that deliver an experience that is not available anywhere else…
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Japan’s Wellness Retreats: Onsen, Yoga & Silence in the Mountains
The Western wellness industry has spent the last decade discovering what Japan has known for centuries: that the…
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Japanese Castle Guide: Matsumoto, Himeji, Osaka & More
Japan's castles are the most visible and most directly experiential connection to the feudal political history that shaped…
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