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6 results for Tottori

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Do not disturb

27 July 2017

Fiona Wilson reporting from Tottori, Japan: To run a great hotel, sometimes all you need to do is leave well alone. Fortunately the owners of Toukouen have let their 1960s architectural hot property mellow with age.

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Japanese architecture: Toukouen hotel

11 September 2017

We travel to Japan’s least-populous prefecture, Tottori, where we explore one of its most-famous hotels.

Monocle Minute

Bad timing

28 January 2017

The world’s largest hourglass seemed a fitting piece of public art for Japan's Tottori: the western prefecture’s seaside sand dunes are its biggest tourist attraction. But the Tottori Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s…

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Expo 58: Don’t stop moving

17 October 2012

In Japan, if you’re not doing ‘rajio taiso’ you’re either dead or you’ve slept in. Millions of Japanese rise early every morning to get together and do radio exercises – the rest do them at work.

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The opener

19 April 2018

We fork out for a fantastically big bento and then walk it off with the help of Karl Marx. Jane Goodall, meanwhile, gets down to (monkey) business and shares a few cheeky anecdotes.

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Transport design: full steam ahead

22 June 2016

Japan’s long-distance trains are entering a new era of luxury and innovation. Monocle visits the industrial and interior designers who are redefining train travel.