Stickers in Japanese hotel rooms show direction of Mecca

Stickers in Japanese hotel rooms show direction of Mecca

KANSAI AIRPORT, Japan - A cleric from Indonesia places a sticker showing the direction of Mecca on the ceiling of a suite room at Hotel Nikko Kansai Airport in Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, on Sept. 19, 2013. The hotel began attaching the stickers the same day in all of its 576 guest rooms, a process that it expects to take around 10 days, to cater to Muslim guests.

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