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By KEN BELSONWHY GO NOW Osaka, like Chicago and Marseille, suffers from second-city syndrome. The sprawling city of about nine million has long lived in the shadow of Tokyo, where so much of Japanese culture, power and money is centered.Yet Osaka has its own vivid swagger and proud history. For centuries, the city was Japan's commercial hub, and it is still a major manufacturing center. It also

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By The Cultured TravelerIN the early part of the last century, Frank Lloyd Wright traveled to Japan, where he designed a series of signature buildings: a regal Tokyo hotel as grand as an emperor’s palace; a remote hilltop villa in Kansai; and a girls’ school in a Tokyo suburb that seems monastic in its austere beauty.Wright was perhaps the first superstar architect of the West to build in Japan,

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The Conrad TokyoBy ANDREW YANGTHE BASICS Opened this past summer, the Conrad Tokyo is the latest addition to the high-end hotel brand operated by the Hilton Hotel chain. Located on floors 28 through 37 in a high-rise building in the Shiodome area of Tokyo, the Conrad is a 290-room, premium-service hotel that caters to business travelers who want to be near downtown. An elevator from the

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By : Frugal TravelerMENTION to any traveler that you're headed to Tokyo and be prepared to hear a litany of warnings: hotel rooms in Shinjuku equal to the cost of a month's rent in New York, breakfasts that can cost more than dinners at Per Se. Even the most in-the-know travelers persist in believing that Tokyo is a destination fit only for the superrich.But given today's strong euro, Tokyo can

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By NORIMITSU ONISHITHE SEA OF JAPAN, an angry body year round, achieves full power in winter, when it drives the inhabitants along its coast indoors, makes them fortify bamboo sea walls around their villages, and blankets the area in gray desolation. But in summer, the sea tempers its anger, even allowing bathers a dip in the few sandy stretches along the coastline. On the Noto Peninsula, about

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A Quick & Easy Oahu, Hawaii Vacation Travel Guideby Robert Patterson Oahu, Hawaii welcomes you to discover its warm, inviting people, astonishing natural beauty and wonderfully unique culture. From the cool Pacific waters to the highest mountain peaks, Oahu is a vacation destination full of excitement, adventure and relaxation.Oahu attractions will give you plenty of opportunities to explore the

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A Quick & Easy Las Vegas, Nevada Vacation Travel Guideby Joan AveryWorld-renowned for its lavish casinos, stunning hotels and wild nightlife, Las Vegas, Nevada is one of the most popular and most frequented vacation destinations year-round.Whether you are living it up with your friends on a Vegas bachelor party getaway, setting up a surprise romantic rendezvous with that special someone, or

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