Best Hotels Near Shimonoseki Station | Fugu Capital of the Straits
Blowfish at the market pier, an emperor-child's shrine above the strait, and the tunnel where you walk to…
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Best Hotels Near Kurashiki Station | The Canal Quarter of White Walls
Willows over a merchant canal, El Greco in a Greek temple, denim in the lanes — and the…
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Best Hotels Near Yasugi Station | Japan’s Greatest Garden Next Door
The free shuttle from this little station leads to Japan's top-ranked garden — plus a loach dance and…
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Best Hotels Near Izumoshi Station | The Grand Shrine’s Rail Gateway
The gateway to matchmaking's grand shrine — three-tier soba, a sunset beach of the gods, and the little…
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Best Hotels Near Matsue Station | The Castle on the Water
A National Treasure castle ringed by boat-plied moats, lake sunsets rated among Japan's best, and ghost stories at…
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Best Hotels Near Chizu Station | The Cedar Post Town on the Express Line
A cedar-rich post town where expresses pause — a 40-room timber mansion, forest-bathing valleys, and a bubblegum-pink station…
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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 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 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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