The Japanese certainly do like to dream big and build even bigger, and some of the projects they’ve come up with over the years are really amazing. Like Ssaws, a giant indoor ski resort built to allow busy Tokyo residents to enjoy skiing all year round without driving for hours to get to the mountains. Or the Seagaia Ocean Dome, a giant indoor beach constructed in Miyazaki Prefecture so vacationers could experience the summer sun even in the heart of winter, since everything was enclosed. (They even had a volcano that erupted every hour.) Last week J-List’s Yasu, who keeps our site well stocked with manga, artbooks and Japanese study supplies, took his wife and three daughters to northern Japan to visit Spa Resort Hawaiians, an interesting complex of hotels and pools designed to recreate exotic Hawaii without leaving Japan.
Spa Resort Hawaiians is just like being in Hawaii, er, maybe.
