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A full Western hotel designed and built entirely by Japanese hands, once called the Rokumeikan of Karuizawa.
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The former Mikasa Hotel is a historic building in Karuizawa, Kitasaku District, Nagano Prefecture. It is an Important Cultural Property of Japan. The businessman Yamamoto Naoyoshi opened it as the "Mikasa Hotel" in May 1906 (Meiji 39). The building was completed in 1905 (Meiji 38) as a purely Western-style wooden building (pseudo-Western style) designed by a Japanese; the designer was Okada Tokitaro, the supervisor Sato Manpei and the master carpenter Kobayashi Daizo.
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Source ja.wikipedia.org ↗Key facts
Founded / opened：1906 Architect / artist：Tokitaro Okada Highlights / collection：Purely Western-style wooden hotel, Half-timbered-style exterior Genre：Architecture
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