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Summer has arrived

Michael Kalus

03 Jun 2015

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The last sign that summer has arrived: The waterslide gets anchored in English Bay.

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A Day at the Kyoto Railway Museum: From Meiji Steam to the 500 Series Shinkansen

Just south-west of Kyoto Station, tucked into the old Umekoji rail yards, sits one of the nicest railway museums I've ever set foot in. The Kyoto Railway Museum (京都鉄道博物館) opened in its current, expanded form on 29 April 2016, built around the bones of the much older Umekoji

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Riding Through a Century: A Visit to Taiwan's National Railway Museum

Some museums try to freeze history behind glass. Taiwan's National Railway Museum (國家鐵道博物館) does something more ambitious — it keeps the grease, the rails, and the sheer scale of an industrial-era workshop intact, and then invites you to walk right through it. Tucked behind Songshan Cultural and Creative Park

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A (half) Day at the National Palace Museum, Taipei

Someone told me before I went that you don’t really see the National Palace Museum—you just pick a section and accept that the rest will have to wait. After a few hours, that feels about right. The collection that survived everything The short version: this collection wasn’t

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