Shaw Memorial House, Karuizawa Japan

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Channel: Shiran De Silva · 2018 · Travel & Events

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Karuizawa is best known as a summer resort, where wealthy and distinguished Japanese citizens keep summer homes which allow them to escape the heat of Tokyo. 

However, it may come as a surprise that it was effectively founded as a summer resort not by a Japanese visitor, but by one from overseas.

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