News Snapshot:
This registered tangible cultural asset is now closed to the public, which is an absolute shame. In the town of Ome on the very northwestern fringe of Tokyo is an absolutely gorgeous place called Kajikaen. It’s an old ryokan, or Japanese inn, registered as a tangible cultural asset, that has been operating as an art museum for the last six years. Unfortunately, it closed its doors forever on April 16. Our Japanese-language reporter Mariko Ohanabatake managed to visit it just before it closed and she can’t help feeling sad that it’s not available to the public anymore. She was so...
