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Where the Chinese Garden is designed to be visually exciting, the Japanese Gardens are designed with a calmness to evoke inner peace and a meditative state. The styles and methods used for designing the garden are taken from Japan's Muromachi period of 1392 to 1568 and the Azuchi–Momoyama period of 1568 to 1615. [3]
The brand name "Pan Pacific Hotels" was born when Japanese conglomerate Tokyu Group established its new marketing identity and sales network for its hotels in 1975, under Tokyu Hotels International. The first Pan Pacific hotel established was Sari Pan Pacific (now Sari Pacific Jakarta, Autograph Collection ) in Jakarta , which was opened in 1976.
[11] [17] Hoshinoya Bali, the chain's first property outside Japan, opened in the Indonesian island of Bali in 2017, [18] followed two years later by Hoshinoya Guguan in Taiwan's Guguan hot springs. [19] Hoshinoya Okinawa, the chain's second location in Okinawa Prefecture, opened in Okinawa Island in 2022. [20]
The novel's film adaptation was shot on location. The hotel was featured as a Japanese stronghold in the 2003 video game Medal of Honor: Rising Sun. In the 2018 film Crazy Rich Asians, the main characters stay in Raffles Hotel when they arrive in Singapore. [24] Raffles Hotel was the subject of the Carlton Television series Paul O'Grady's Orient.
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Singapore Botanic Gardens is a UNESCO World Heritage Site – one of three gardens in the world, and the only tropical garden, to be recognised as such. Singapore's urbanisation means that it has lost 95% of its historical forests, [304] and now over half of the naturally occurring fauna and flora in Singapore is present in nature reserves ...
Holland Road and Holland Village were named after an early resident in Singapore, Hugh Holland, who was an architect. The roads Holland Avenue, Holland Close and Holland Drive were named as such in 1972. Holland Road is known as hue hng au in Hokkien, meaning "behind the flower garden". The "flower garden" refers to the Botanic Gardens. [2]
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