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Worst Anti-View: Chunky Iron in Kagoshima

Where: Tenmonkan, Kagoshima, Japan

Worst Anti-View: The New Nishino

Rooftop views (like this one and this one and even this one) seemed to be the biggest Anti-View trend in 2007 but this hotel view takes trumps all, even the Penis Man.

The New Nishino Hotel in Kagoshima, south-west Japan had this ghastly view of corroded iron from one of its rooms. It's "views" like these that make us wish some hotels wouldn't even offer windows.

However, don't let this view deter you from visiting Kagoshima one day. The city boasts the reputation of "the Naples of the Eastern World," has an exotic aquarium and an active volcano, Mount Sakurajima. If you do have to shack up here and take this view, we say consume a lot of local-made sweet potato alcohol to make it "go away."

[Photo: Minamitane]

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Room with an Anti-View: Beautiful Chunky Iron in Kagoshima

Where: Tenmonkan, Kagoshima, Japan

You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.

We've been told that the Japanese culture specializes in finding the beauty in any situation, no matter how small that beauty might be. We're interested in knowing exactly where the beauty is in this view from the New Nishino Hotel in Kagoshima, south-west Japan.

The city of Kagoshima isn't on every tourist's list, but it should be since some call it "the Naples of the Eastern World". Apparently the New Nishino is actually not a bad place to base yourself while exploring Kagoshima's aquarium, drinking its sweet potato alcohol and ferrying out to the active volcano (we love a steaming volcano). The photographer himself admits that this hotel "lacks a view" but promises that "its location makes up for it".

[Photo: Minamitane]

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