Celeb-drawing Kyoto hotel closes

Celeb-drawing Kyoto hotel closes

KYOTO, Japan - Michio Fukui (L), manager of Hotel Fujita Kyoto, sees off its last guests on Jan. 29, 2011. The hotel closed the same day after hosting many celebrities including Japanese movie stars Yujiro Ishihara and Ken Takakura during its 41-year history in Kyoto, one of Japan's premier tourist destinations.

Celeb-drawing Kyoto hotel closes

Celeb-drawing Kyoto hotel closes

KYOTO, Japan - Photo taken on Jan. 28, 2011, shows Hotel Fujita Kyoto, which closed Jan. 29 after hosting many celebrities including Japanese movie stars Yujiro Ishihara and Ken Takakura during its 41-year history in Kyoto, one of Japan's premier tourist destinations.

CHINA-GUANGZHOU-TIME-HONORED DRAGON BOAT-RECREATION(CN)

CHINA-GUANGZHOU-TIME-HONORED DRAGON BOAT-RECREATION(CN)

(220603) -- GUANGZHOU, June 3, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A worker makes hull component of the new dragon boat "Dongpo" at Longchuanshijia, a shipyard in Panyu District of Guangzhou City, south China's Guangdong Province, March 18, 2022. During every year's Dragon Boat Festival, various of competing dragon boats are scattered along the Zhujiang River. As a traditional folk custom, Dragon boat race is very popular among locals in south China's densely river-covered Lingnan area where almost every village boasts of its own dragon boat. The dragon boat "Dongpo" made in 1868 and belonged to Chepo Village is one of the oldest dragon boats in Guangzhou. As years passed, this old dragon boat has to inevitably face aging and damage. In order to protect this time-honored treasure, Chepo Village entrusted an inheritor of intangible cultural heritage and a shipyard in Guangzhou to recreate the dragon boat's dragon-head & tail-shaped wood carving and hull. Before the Dragon Boat Festival, with the sound of drums and celeb

Celeb-drawing Kyoto hotel closes

Celeb-drawing Kyoto hotel closes

KYOTO, Japan - Photo taken on Jan. 28, 2011, shows Hotel Fujita Kyoto, which closed Jan. 29 after hosting many celebrities including Japanese movie stars Yujiro Ishihara and Ken Takakura during its 41-year history in Kyoto, one of Japan's premier tourist destinations. (Kyodo)

Celeb-drawing Kyoto hotel closes

Celeb-drawing Kyoto hotel closes

KYOTO, Japan - Michio Fukui (L), manager of Hotel Fujita Kyoto, sees off its last guests on Jan. 29, 2011. The hotel closed the same day after hosting many celebrities including Japanese movie stars Yujiro Ishihara and Ken Takakura during its 41-year history in Kyoto, one of Japan's premier tourist destinations. (Kyodo)