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HAKONE, JAPAN: The Most Charming Luxury Hot Spring Ryokan in Japan's Hakone Mountains: #HakoneSuishoen 🍂🍂🍂 #champ_travel #champ_japan Full Feature now on Champ Travel • Link In Bio (at 箱根・翠松園 Hakone SUISHOEN) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoQh4yTnOmg/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7xu59nk0ngym

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TOKYO, JAPAN: The International House of Japan or “I-House” built in 1955, from a collaborative effort of 3 of Japan’s biggest architects at the time: Kunio Maezawa, Junzō Sakakura and Junzō Yoshimura. With a pre-cast concrete column structure and rectangular white balcony rails, complimented by Ōya stone (ōya-ishi) lobby walls - a material that architect Frank Lloyd Wright was also fond of in Japan. There are no windows here, just full-length wood and glass sliding doors. Sakakura and Maekawa were actually students of Corbusier in Paris, however, the design of the cantilevered restaurant over the water pond (seen here with cherry blossom petals floating in the wind) was in fact inspired by scroll paintings from the Heian period. @champ_travel #champ_japan (at International House of Japan - 国際文化会館)

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ODAWARA, JAPAN: Renowned Japanese artist HiroshiSugimoto unveils a permanent location for his Odawara Art Foundation. The art facility includes the #EnouraObservatory, a spectacular site designed with ongoing collaborator architect Tomoyuki Sakakida of New Material Research Laboratory. Focussing on natural materials and championing the natural movement of the sun, be prepared for an experiential visit. 🗾🔝 Read the full feature on #champ_travel #champ_japan ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• champ-magazine.com/travel (at Odawara, Kanagawa)

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TESHIMA, JAPAN: Championing Local at ‘Restaurant By The Sea’ on Teshima Island in Japan’s Shikoku region. Designed by Fukuoka-based architects #CASEREAL, the restaurant also holds a community kitchen with stellar seafront views. 🗾🍴 Find our full feature on #RestaurantbyTheSea #UmiNoRestaurant #Champ_Teshima #champ_Japan on #champ_travel 🌊🌊🌊 (Photos: Hiroshi Mizusaki) •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• champ-magazine.com/travel (at Teshima Island)

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TOKYO: #SukibayashiSabo is a one of a kind contemporary and [very yet excellent] casual dining area designed by Studio Sawara, with a fascinating dining menu created by acclaimed Tokyo chef #YoshihisaAkiyama of #GeeseSix. Located on the 6th Floor Of Ginza’s Tokyu Plaza Department Store in the Kiriko Public Lounge area, it really is not to be underestimated. Take a pit stop with a coffee by Obscura Coffee Roasters, green tea by Ocharaka tea store, or their seasonal cocktail list. The menu is snack-sized, with the must-try 'New Form Of Beef Bowl' with red wine rice, radish sprouts and egg - a new take on the classic Japanese beef bowl. Here, a perfect example of umami. Photo: Transit General Office Inc. Full feature on #champ_travel online with our friends at @meltingbutterdotcom : www.champ-magazine.com/travel #champ_tokyo #champ_japan (at Tokyu Plaza Ginza)

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BEPPU, JAPAN: The extraordinary overnight artwork stay: #HamawakiNoNagaya by artist #SatoshiHirose in Japan's west of Kyushu in Beppu. A renovated traditional Japanese house, created for arts initiative Beppu Project, aimed to regenerate the depopulating area, spectacularly located amongst the beautiful landscape of Beppu's Hamawaki Area and abundant natural hot springs 'hells'. Perhaps the first of its kind and an absolutely compelling once in a lifetime experience. (Photo: Takashi Kubo) #champ_travel #champ_beppu #champ_kyushu #champ_japan (at Beppu, Oita)

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TOKYO, JAPAN: The extraordinary @takeopaper showroom, gallery and store in Jimbocho, Tokyo. Japan's most revered and leading paper distributors and suppliers. Their strikingly minimalistic logo and store design by #KenyaHara of #NipponDesignCentre. The Power of Print. Closest station: Jimbocho. Address: 3-18-3 Kanda-nishikicho, Chiyoda-ku. #takeopaper #champ_tokyo #champ_japan #champ_travel (at Jinbōchō, Tokyo)

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TOKYO, JAPAN: The new #HommePlissé #IsseyMiyake store found in the retail backstreets in Daikanyama, Tokyo. A two-story concrete-dominant and light-filled space, with an interior designed by renowned industrial designer #NaotoFukasawa. Simplicity is key here, with the beams and fixtures presenting the pleats garments as if they are "floating in space". [Photo: Masaya Yoshimura] #champ_travel #champ_tokyo #champ_japan #miyakeissey #三宅一生 #daikanyama (at Daikanyama, Shibuya)