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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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Best Hotels Near Ikoma Station | The Cable-Car Mountain Between Cities
Japan's oldest cable car climbs to a cliff temple and a toy funfair in the sky — twenty…
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Best Hotels Near Gakuenmae Station | The Museum Suburb
Nara's garden suburb with an art-museum secret — honest advice on the quiet stop between Osaka and the…
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Best Hotels Near Yamato-Saidaiji Station | The Junction by the Palace Field
Kintetsu's great crossing beside the ancient palace field — Suzaku Gate sunsets and every line of the old…
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Best Hotels Near Kintetsu-Nara Station | The Deer Park’s Front Door
Five minutes from bowing deer and the Great Buddha — and the town empties gloriously when the day-trippers…
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