looking out over Ritsurin’s central pond with Mount Shiun serving as borrowed scenery in the distance. Following the coast southeast from Takamatsu, it’s an hour by train to Tokushima ...

The garden features six ponds and 13 landscaped hills with Mount Shiun as its dramatic backdrop. Azumi Setoda: Japan has plenty of traditional ryokan inns, but very few are like this renovated 14 ...

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