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SF Japantown Hotel Anime / Pop Makeover

Posted on October 12th, 2006

SFGate reports that the San Francisco Japantown Best Western’s Miyako Inn is going to be getting an exciting makeover. They could do so much more to capitalize on the popularity of all things Japanese - this is a step in the right direction. You can even enter a contest to name the hotel. Here’s what the word is:

The inn’s low-profile, generic Japanese theme will be revamped into an “an energetic, optimistic expression” of contemporary Japanese culture, particularly anime, manga comic books, J-Pop music and street fashion, Harvey said. The hotel aspires also to be a base for shopping in nearby commercial districts.

Its new image can be seen … as a meeting of two magazines — Giant Robot, which is about Asian pop culture, and Lucky, which is about shopping.

[via ikimashou]

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