Fukuyama Hotels - Japan

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <h2 align="center">Fukuyama Hotels</h2> <p>Find a hotel in Fukuyama, Japan. Get the best discounts on <a href="http://www.hotels-travelnow.com/asia/japan/">Fukuyama hotels</a> - up to 70% off the regular rate. Make reservations online. Japan travel information.</p> <p>Sleep Inn Fukuyama</p> <p>One of Japan's less interesting castles, Fukuyama-jo , immediately north of the train station, can be safely ignored in favour of the more memorable Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of History , just west of the station (Tues-Sun 9am-5pm; Ľ290). Designed around the excavation of the ruins of Kusado Sengen, a medieval town buried in the nearby riverbed of the Ashida-gawa, the museum has some imaginatively displayed artefacts, and haunting background music, as well as a reconstructed village street from Kusado Sengen, lit to recreate twilight in May. Next door is the Fukuyama Museum of Art (Tues-Sun 9.30am-5pm; Ľ300), with a permanent collection of mainly Japanese art, focusing on contemporary works by local artists. The most striking pieces of sculpture are in the surrounding gardens. The gallery also hosts visiting exhibitions, for which there is an extra charge.</p> <p>Fifteen minutes' walk north of Fukuyama Station is the odd Fukuyama Automobile and Clock Museum (daily 9am-6pm; Ľ900, or Ľ700 with a discount coupon from the tourist information desk), combining vintage vehicles, including a motorbike taxi, with clocks and music machines. To liven things up there are also waxwork models of celebrities such as Elvis Presley and James Dean. If you don't fancy walking there, take a bus to Kitayoshizu-Jutaku from platform 3 outside the east exit of Fukuyama Station.</p> <p>Keeping up the quirky museum theme are the Japan Footwear Museum and the Japan Folk Toy and Doll Museum (daily 9am--5pm; Ľ1000 joint ticket), five minutes' walk east of Matsunaga Station, two stops west of Fukuyama. It's only natural that the town of Matsunaga, which has produced geta (traditional wooden sandals) for over a century, hosts Japan's only museum dedicated to shoes. It's a large and surprisingly intriguing collection - from straw sandals to a pair of lunar boots used on one of the Apollo missions - that would make Imelda Marcos drool with envy. The toy museum next door is less unique, but just as extensive, with over 50,000 colourful exhibits. Most of the toys are linked to festivals and religious beliefs and there's also a fascinating display of Kachina dolls made by the Hopi people in Arizona.</p> </body>