Unzen is declared to be the most popular resort place of the season rhum far. It is impossible to get accommodation in the hotels for join time to come there, though the ame statement cannot be made of other places in Japan which are showing signs of coming in for share of this popularity. Reduced mates are being given by steamship companies to Japan, including beides the regular Japanese lines, reduced fares on the P. & O. line which offers an added inducement of Having @ boat schedule permitting a return trip after one week spent by the tourist in the vicinity of Yoko~ Hama where the steamer waits for week before coming back to!
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connexion with the summer cruive idea two attractive ones are offered by the Blue Funnel and by the Norddeutscher Lloyd, the former being approximately a three week's tour of northern ports and the Tntter a two weeks' one. Weibaiwei, Tsingtao, Dairen, and Tientsin are' ports of call for these cruises and sufficient time is given to! acquire "1 hasty view at all ports. One day both going and coming: Back is allowed at the ports with a longer time in Tientain which will permit a looking-in on Peking. The economical aspects of these tours are another decided advantage for those who enjoy life at sea.
Peitaiho is not as popular wi Shanghai folk this year as ith Seen in other seasons, in part ensue of its somewhat isolated situation and rumours of war at the. present time, It is about hours from Tientsin and, as there are no foreign troops there, axcording to a local tourist ' agency, prospective resorters to that spot find their ardour cooling off.
Mountain Resorts Not Attractive Resorts which are this year put entirely outside the pale are Mokanshan, Kuling and Chikungshan. well' liked mountain places much frequented by people who took bungalows there for the main part of the summer. It is li Impossible lo make the famous trip of about three weeks' duration through the Gorges of the Yangtze! which was in other years a favoured Journey from April to November.
Northern resorts are springing, into popularity, the agencies say, with a curtailment of some of those nearer at hand. Among the former: must be counted Seoul, Korea, with This trip is not so difficult to make nor as expe sive as one might at first imagi From Shanghai the route leads to Nagasaki thence to Fusan end on up to Seoul. Returning by way of other northern ports, notably Dairen Hashiguara Beach at Dairen is Jdeseribed as another popular resort for the coming summer, boats to Dairen already being well booked uuntii Joly. There are 22 bungalows Jon the beach which is a-fine one and these can be rented for the entire summer. Chalantun, a point beyond Hurbi is also coming into Hfavour and it is expected that, if Janythiog, daving the coming season a few more places will be tried than jin the past.
While steamship companies and tourist agencies refuse to commit] themselves as to whether "or not) everything is being delayed at the} current season through a feeling of insecurity, they do point out the fact that many of the families which Jwould ordinarily be booking passage for a summer resort have already booked passage and sailed home by way of a compromise. And for the Jeonsolation of those who will be [doomed to a summer in Shanghai it shotld'be remembered that Shanghai itself attained a certain popularity a summer resort—amply supplied with roof-gardens over which frolicsome breezes played—last year.
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