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Best Hotels Near Miyazaki Station | Palm Trees, Chicken Nanban & the Surf Coast
Miyazaki is Japan's laid-back tropical capital — palm boulevards, chicken nanban, mango shaved ice and Aoshima's surf-ringed island…
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Best Hotels Near Tsurusaki Station | East Oita’s Working Waterfront
Tsurusaki was a river-port town before Oita absorbed it — an eastern district with a 460-year-old summer dance…
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Best Hotels Near Ozai Station | Oita’s Bayside Commuter East
Ozai is east Oita's bayside commuter stop — a working shore of port cranes and family suburbs, ten…
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Best Hotels Near Nakatsu Station | Karaage Capital & Fukuzawa’s Castle Town
Nakatsu is Japan's karaage capital — a castle town on the Fukuoka border with Fukuzawa Yukichi's old home…
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Best Hotels Near Beppu Station | The Steaming Capital of Onsen Japan
Beppu produces more hot-spring water than anywhere in Japan — hells to tour, sand to be buried in,…
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Best Hotels Near Oita Station | Toriten Town & the Onsen Crossroads
Oita is the working capital next door to Japan's onsen heartland — a rebuilt station-city with rooftop gardens,…
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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 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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