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Japan’s newest luxury hotel is housed in a former prison—and we were the first to stay

Hoshinoya Nara Prison is a captivating stay in the little-known first capital of Japan.

Nara Prison now a luxury hotel highlighting the structure’s past

NARA—The historic Nara Prison from the Meiji Era (1868-1912) has at last reopened as a luxury hotel whose proceeds will go ...

A former prison now welcomes guests as luxury hotel

While luxury hotels have been built inside everything from a Boeing 727 plane to four meters below the surface of the Indian Ocean, a former prison site hardly feels like the place to kick back and ...

Locked up in luxury: Historic Nara Prison set to reopen as high-end hotel

NARA -- A luxury hotel created by renovating the Former Nara Prison, a nationally designated important cultural property, was ...