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Is this former prison Japan’s most unusual luxury stay?

September 11
Is this former prison Japan’s most unusual luxury stay?

Completed in 1908, Nara Prison was the last of Japan’s ‘Five Great Meiji Prisons,’ a clutch of Western-inspired penitentiaries built to showcase the country’s modernisation and openness to the foreign world. Architect Ke

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