SEKAI HOTEL opens new site to experience Japan´s true ordinary culture

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 31 (Bernama) -- SEKAI HOTEL Inc opened SEKAI HOTEL FUSE -- a redeveloped entire shopping street district that fronts Fuse Station in a local community that is roughly ten minutes by train from the center of Osaka, Japan’s second largest city.

The hotel believes that there is value in experiencing culture through tourism, particularly in terms of a deeper cultural experience that can be truly found within the ordinary lives of Japanese people, a statement said.

It working to create new tourism values that could be termed ordinary and trying to entice values from locations that are either further away from Japan’s urban centers or otherwise not known to tourists.

Our method has been to reject the amassing of regular hotel features, such as a front desk, guest rooms, gift shops, and activities, into a single gigantic building, and to instead redevelop entire communities as a hotel, reviving the now empty homes that you find, here and there, in those communities, a statement said.

Normal features placed within the walls of a hotel, like spas, restaurants and activities are provided in conjunction with local businesses, developing a community-based hotel where guests can enjoy wandering about the community.

The new hotel site was opened in a shopping district that has been a part of the community for more than fifty years. It shows the ordinary lives of Japanese people that were centered around the district. Tourists are able to experience the ordinary of Japan by visiting all shops in the district..

The location is also superlative in terms of transportation access with direct bus service from Kansai International Airport and direct train lines to famous tourist destinations including Universal Studios Japan, Dotonbori and Nara.

Sharing the SEKAI HOTEL concept of experiencing the ordinary to the whole world highlights its involvement in the significant issues that impact Japan’s non-urban communities, including an aging population, the flight of young people to urban centers, and the increasing number of abandoned homes, the statement added. 

-- BERNAMA