Standing tall, proud, and alone, The Park Hyatt Tokyo is the first port of call of many a well-known international traveller visiting the city. Be they film legends, rock stars, writers, captains of industry or simply those famous for being famous types with small dogs and oversized handbags, there is simply no better address in this high-rise mega city of fashion, light and efficiency.
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Japan is a beautiful place, but in the process of becoming an industrial powerhouse much of its natural beauty was sacrificed on the altar of concrete and steel. Hoshinoya Kyoto challenges this reality by offering an experience of what life, and indeed Japan, would look like were it to have kept in harmony with its surroundings.
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Once the original home of the Japan’s Emperors, Kyoto was the capital of Japan for most of its 1,200 years of existence. It was the centre of Japanese culture and civilization and is still home to the lion’s share of the country’s most famous and beautiful temples. Thomas Jones visits and experiences impeccable hospitality at the Seikoro ryokan.
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Lining a gently flowing river in a steep and narrow river valley, Kibune village’s traditional restaurants and inns stand alongside temples and private homes as they wind their way up the road through the forest
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With millennia-old forests, animism, temples and a simple way of life, Japan’s Yakushima Island is a deeply spiritual place full of awe and wonder.
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2010 has indeed been a good year for The Ritz-Carlton Osaka. The hotel was awarded a five-pavilion ranking by Michelin for excellence, and two of its restaurants, signature French La Baie..
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Big cities by their very nature lack decent amounts of open green space. Sure, New York has its Central Park, Paris its Bois de Boulogne, and London its Hyde Park, but on a warm spring day they are as likely to be as full to overflowing as a Monday morning commuter train, and just as stifling.
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In their quest to provide high paying customers with the finer things in life the world’s best hotels have always been major patrons of the arts, and the Bohemian crystal chandeliers that hang in the Shangri-la Hotel in Tokyo are more than worthy of any of the world’s finer galleries.
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