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Best Hotels Near Kurayoshi Station | White Walls & Radium Baths
White-walled storehouses along a carp stream — and the world-famous radium baths of Misasa up the valley.
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Best Hotels Near Yonago Station | Daisen’s Port City & the Ghost Platform
Mt. Daisen above, seaside onsen beside, and a ghost-numbered platform where yokai trains depart for Kitaro's town.
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Best Hotels Near Tottori Station | The Dune City by the Sea of Japan
Japan's Sahara-by-the-sea — climbing dunes at dawn, sand sculptures by masters, and snow crab all winter long.
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Best Hotels Near Musota Station | The Riverside Commuter Stop
Levee sunsets on the Kinokawa and orchard lanes behind — the honest riverside stop eight minutes from the…
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Best Hotels Near Kii Station | The Negoro-ji Gateway
The quiet stop nearest Negoro-ji's great pagoda — warrior-monk history and honest advice on a commuter base.
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Best Hotels Near Wakayama-Daigakumae Station | The Mall-Gate Newcomer
The 2012 newcomer with a mega-mall at its gates — the practical express stop between Osaka and the…
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Best Hotels Near Wakayamashi Station | The Nankai Terminus & the Sea-Bream Line
The terminus where sea-bream trains sail to a doll-filled shrine — and the ferry slips away to Shikoku…
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Best Hotels Near Wakayama Station | Castle, Ramen & the Cat-Train Line
Soy-dark ramen, a Tokugawa castle, early cherries at Kimiidera — and a railway whose stationmaster is a cat.
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Best Hotels Near Oji Station (Nara) | Horyuji’s Junction & the Prince’s Dog
Two stops from the world's oldest wooden temple — the friendly junction town whose mascot is a prince's…
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