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Illuminated historic building at dusk with an arched entrance, surrounded by gardens and distant hills under a twilight sky.

Hotel of the Week: This Landmark Prison Is Now Japan’s Most Original Place to Stay

One of the country’s “Five Great Prisons of Meiji” has been painstakingly restored as a 48-suite hotel, where hand-laid brick, vaulted ceilings, and century-old rituals define its unlikely second life