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Japan's ultra-luxurious train hits the tracks for its maiden journey
2 May 2017

Japan's Shiki-shima luxury train has hit the rails and we just know you'd love to go for a ride!

The Train Suite Shiki-shima is designed to give you the ultimate luxury experience - but you'll need some loose change to afford it: tickets range from $2,860 (£2,220) to around $10,000 and you can choose between a two- or four-day trip.

More pics and story at http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-39776889

Giant Lion Carved from Single Tree Trunk Took 20 People 3 Years to Complete
By Jessica Stewart on May 10, 2017



Taking 20 people more than 3 years, a single tree trunk has been carved into a giant lion titled Oriental Lion. Sculptor Dengding Rui Yao led the team in carving out the enormous redwood trunk, which is now located in Fortune Plaza Times Square in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei Province.

The artists worked on the mammoth sculpture in Myanmar before it traveled a little over 3,000 miles in December 2015 to China. Measuring in at 47.5 feet long, 16.5 feet high, and 13 feet wide, the giant lion is the world's largest redwood sculpture according to Guinness World Records.

Oriental Lion‘s head, paws, and tail have been sculpted into a smooth finish, with the torso maintaining the trunk's rough texture. It's unknown if the wood was sourced from China, but we certainly hope it was a tree that was sick or dying rather than being chopped down for the project. If it did come from China, it's most likely a Metasequoia, a fast growing tree found in the Hubei Province.



More pics at: http://mymodernmet.com/giant-lion-worlds-largest-sculpture/

Japan bathhouse offers 'naked school' to lure bathers
Reuters
By Hyun Oh
May 29, 2017

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Tokyo bathhouse is offering classes on topics ranging from comedy to gaming in hopes of luring younger bathers and reversing Japan's dying tradition of communal baths.

During one recent session of the "Naked School" at the Hinodeyu bath house, nine men sat around the bath, listening to an expert on the ancient board game Go.

"I think young people would be interested and come back to communal baths if they knew these kind of classes are offered here," Tadashi Manayama, a 37-year-old architect, said after class.

Yuichi Tamura, manager of the Hinodeyu, operated by his family since 1939, said many young people had never been to a communal bath because most homes have modern bathrooms.

"I wanted to give them a reason to visit us by offering an odd event like this naked school," Tamura told Reuters Television.

In its heyday, more than 500 people bathed daily at Hinodeyu near Tokyo's Asakusa district. Today that number is around 100, he said.

Traditional bathhouses, known as sento, once numbered more than 2,600 in Tokyo alone in the late 1960s, but since then have seen a gradual decline and prompted some bathhouses to come up with novel ideas to lure customers.

At Hinodeyu, the admission price of 460 yen ($4) allows anyone to attend a class on the topic of the month. Bathers learned about traditional comedy in April, while the topic for March was the public bath industry.

Looking ahead to June, bathers will learn how to deal with the local problem of stray cats.

"It can be anything as long as you have something to teach people," Hinodeyu's website said.

Japanese train seats are awesome.


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