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Best Hotels Near Hyuga-Sumiyoshi Station | The Beach-Plain Local Stop
Hyuga-Sumiyoshi serves Miyazaki's pine-backed northern beach plain — an origin-legend shrine, black-sand shore walks and the Seagaia resort…
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Best Hotels Near Sadowara Station | The Samurai Suburb
Sadowara keeps the lanes and temples of a 30,000-koku samurai domain — now a Miyazaki commuter stop near…
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Best Hotels Near Hyugashi Station | Surf Cliffs & the Cape of Crosses
Hyuga is Miyazaki's surf town — Okuragahama's long beach break, Umagase's columnar cliffs and the "cross of the…
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Best Hotels Near Minami-Miyazaki Station | The Southern Junction
Minami-Miyazaki is where the Nichinan line splits for Aoshima and the surf coast — a mall-anchored junction one…
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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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