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STAY: At Japan’s Newest Glamping Site
As camping comes to the fore as our socially-distanced holiday of choice, Danish studio Third Nature have revealed plans for a fantastical, design-lead campground just outside Japan’s city of Inabe, Mie Prefecture.
Hidden amidst the trees, Third Nature plan to construct a dream-like cluster of sustainably-built cabins, with wooden walls and wonky pitched roofs lifted straight from the pages of a fairy tale. Playfully coined ‘Hygge Circles’, Japanese engineers and sustainability consultants worked with the Scandinavian design studio to conceive a low-impact development that marks a shift towards regenerative tourism.
Set to open in the spring of 2021, Hygge Circles will join a crop of luxury campsites springing up across Japan, tapping into the nation’s inherent love of nature, without sacrificing everyday comforts.
Images via Design Boom
Related read:STAY: In a Rural Conservation Project
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GO: From the tropical south to the frozen north
Part Eight: Daisetsuzan to Tokyo
Our journey home began high in the mountains of Daisetsuzan National Park and ended back where we started, at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. Read on to follow the final leg of our journey, that in just seven days took us from tropical Okinawa to icy Hokkaido.
Wild Hokkaido: expansive landscapes define Japan’s northern isle, where the lowest population density of all 47 prefectures puts nature at the fore.
Leaving Mount Kuradake just as the light began to fade, our drive from Daisetsuzan National Park to Asahikawa Airport took us through Hokkaido’s characteristic rural landscape. Towering rock faces and forested peaks soon give way to broad horizons, where remote towns and snow-covered farmland fill expansive valleys. In Hokkaido, nature takes centre-stage and any road-trip through the prefecture’s breath-taking scenery is endlessly rewarding.
Hokkaido soft serve: No trip to Japan’s chilly northern tip is complete without sampling the country’s finest, and freshest, ice-cream.
Our journey through Japan had been made possible only by ANA’s extensive domestic flight network, making travel between the country’s far-flung prefectures staggeringly easy. Much like catching a train, each leg of our journey had proved speedy and hitch-free, with our final flight transporting us from remote Ashaikawa in central Hokkaido, back to bustling Tokyo in under two hours.
But whilst the journey was swift, we found time before boarding for one final taste of the region – a tub of creamy Hokkaido soft-serve – made using local milk, and arguably Japan’s tastiest ice-cream.
With our flight home to London departing the following morning, our last night in Japan was spent at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, watching planes come and go from Excel Hotel Tokyu’s perfectly positioned bedroom windows. Heaven for plane-spotters, Excel Tokyu’s rooms overlooking Haneda airport’s domestic runway put guests nose-to-nose with the action, where watching Terminal Two’s busy comings and goings proves surprisingly mesmeric.
Last November, We Are Japan took a seven-day trip – exploring the country’s most remote corners to discover sand and soba, skiing and snow crab all in one week. Follow our trip over the coming weeks as we track our journey from the tropical south to the frozen north.
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Mr. Pilates showing off his physique at different ages, in his undies, in the great outdoors. ✔️✔️✔️ What I’d like to know is, how’d he get so tan in the snow? #pilates #contrology #undies #glasseye #greatoutdoors #pilateseveryday #oldfitdude
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Enjoying the back garden. #lewisriver #luciafalls #yacolt #washington #waterfallhike #forest #pacificnorthwest #pnw #greatoutdoors #scenicphotography #scenery #view #greatview #milliondollarview #newhome #newhomeowner #happyhome #secretgarden #secretgetaway (at Lucia Falls Regional Park)
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Sunrise, Khao Sok National Park, Thailand
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#nature #beautifulthailand #greatoutdoors #Sections #beautifuldestinations #lensbible
#travelstagram #fff #travelphotography #instaphoto #love #instagood #pictureoftheday #instadaily #photooftheday #travelalone #travelling #travelphotography #budgettravel #travelgrams #instavoyage #asiatravel #planetearth #thailand #visitthailand #thailandtourism #sunrise #sunset #skylovers #skyporn #skyphotography (at Khao Sok National Park)
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Basecamp is ready while exploring Utah with a Breezeway setup from @23zerousa
How are you adventuring this Labor Day weekend? by @desertrush
#outdoorx4 #landcruiser #letsgoplaces #basecamp #camp #camping #campinglife #greatoutdoors #overlandlife #overlandkitted #overlandbound #adventurerig #adventurerigs #landcruiser200 #tentsandtread
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