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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 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 Tosa-Yamada Station | Caves, Anpanman & the Mountain Line
Tosa-Yamada is the jump-off for Ryugado — one of Japan's great limestone caves — and the joyful Anpanman…
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Best Hotels Near Imabari Station | Shimanami Kaido’s Cycling Gateway
Imabari is where the Shimanami Kaido cycle route meets Shikoku — a towel-making, yakitori-grilling port town with a…
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Best Hotels Near Ishii Station | Pilgrim Plains of the Yoshino River
Ishii sits on the Yoshino river plain where the Shikoku pilgrimage strings temples through the rice fields —…
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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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Mindful Travel in Japan: How to Slow Down, Notice & Actually Experience It
There is a version of Japan travel that is extremely common and leaves visitors feeling simultaneously that they…
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Japan’s Wellness Retreats: Onsen, Yoga & Silence in the Mountains
The Western wellness industry has spent the last decade discovering what Japan has known for centuries: that the…
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Japanese Horse Racing: How to Spend a Day at Tokyo Racecourse
Tokyo Racecourse (東京競馬場) — the largest and most prestigious of Japan Racing Association's (JRA) 10 facilities, located in…
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Harajuku Fashion Tribes Explained: Lolita, Decora, Gyaru & What’s Left in 2026
Harajuku (原宿) — specifically the area around Takeshita-dori (竹下通り) and its surroundings — became internationally famous through "Fruits"…
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Hard-Off & Book-Off: A Guide to Japan’s Second-Hand Store Chains
Hard-Off (ハードオフ) — and its family of related chains operating under the Off Corporation (オフコーポレイション) brand — is…
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Forest Bathing (森林浴, Shinrin-yoku) in Japan: The Science & the Best Forests
Shinrin-yoku (森林浴) — literally "forest bathing" — was coined as a term by the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture,…
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