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Part retail store, part television screen, the glass facade of the Chanel store in Tokyo’s swanky Ginza district lights up the night sky with 700,000 embedded LEDs. The massive display can project footage of fashion show runway scenes or an electronic version of Chanel’s iconic black-and-white tweeds on a larger-than-life scale. The electronic mille-feuille can also transform from see-through to opaque, thanks to a combination of 3,675 square feet of canvas scrim and electronically controlled privacy glass.

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It has become customary for people who put premium in traveling to different places in the world to at least schedule some time to have the family stop over at Disneyland in Anaheim California. This world-renowned amusement and theme park has become one of the necessary trips for kids to at least experience what this much ballyhooed place has to offer. Disneyland is topical an amusement Park, made by the animator Walt Disney and discovered, of 17 juli,1955 in Anaheim, California, USA. The park was built in one year at a cost of $17m. The opening ceremonies were televised, with Art Linkletter, Bob Cumming, and Ronald Reagan, acting as emcees.

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The luxury hotel is located on Chuo Dori, the “5th Avenue” of the rich historical district off Nihonbashi. The area includes the original Mitsukoshi Department Store, Bank of Japan and Tokyo Stock Exchange. The renowned Ginza entertainment and shopping district is within walking distance and in less than twenty minutes you can stroll to the Imperial Palace. Guests arriving at Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Tokyo are ushered from a private entrance, whisked directly to the 38th floor Sky Lobby and presented with a breathtaking view of the dramatic cityscape. Above, the sky is revealed through the vast glass windows.

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Two of the UK’s major ski operators, Crystal and Inghams, are featuring Japanese ski resorts in their brochures for the first time this year. Both companies are offering holidays to Niseko and Rusutsu in the northern island of Hokkaido. A package with Inghams, including flights and seven nights’ half-board accommodation in a four-star hotel, starts at £995.

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1. The Ice Hotel, Sweden
Consistently getting top scores in readers’ surveys, the Ice Hotel is the coolest hotel around (literally). Built afresh every December with ice from the River Thorne in northern Sweden, and featuring specially commissioned artwork each year, this fairytale hotel is a very romantic retreat (you sleep on ice blocks covered in reindeers skins), if you can face the sub-zero temperatures in the rooms. There is an ice bar, a wedding chapel and more traditional cabins for those who don’t like to be quite so chilled. Go now: with the impact of global warming, the option of staying at this amazing hotel might not be with us for long. (website: www.icehotel.com)

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If you haven’t landed at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport recently you will be hundred percent amazed by the look of its new terminal building. I can say it is one lovely architectural masterpice, concepting new style with really precisely done construction work.

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