The Yomiuri ShimbunThe main venue for the Group of Seven Ise-Shima summit, the Shima Kanko Hotel in Shima, Mie Prefecture, sits atop a small hill a short walk from Kintetsu Railway’s Kashikojima Station. Since opening in April 1951 as the country’s first post-World War II Western-style resort hotel, it has welcomed numerous distinguished guests from around the world. Nicknamed “Shimakan,” the hotel overlooks Ago Bay, dotted with pearl cultivation rafts. The impetus to start construction of a resort hotel on the picturesque Shima Peninsula, which features a seemingly endless, deeply indented coastline, came in November 1946 when the...
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