{"id":72831,"date":"2025-08-16T00:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/72831\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T00:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:18:07","slug":"a-seaside-hotel-built-on-competitive-japanese-cycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/72831\/","title":{"rendered":"A seaside hotel built on competitive Japanese cycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    Tamano, Okayama Pref. \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>Despite a persistent rain off the Seto Inland Sea in early June, nine keirin bikers in brightly colored Lycra are lining up on a track in the coastal town of Tamano, their rear wheels held in a starting block so they\u2019re ready to take off as soon as the pistol fires. With the course banked to 30 degrees in places to accommodate speeds approaching 70 kilometers per hour, a wet track seems like a risky prospect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing short of a major typhoon will make them cancel a race,\u201d says Eiji Kosaka, reception manager of <a href=\"https:\/\/keirin.by-onko-chishin.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keirin Hotel 10<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Opened in 2022, the hotel was the first in Japan to be integrated into a sports stadium \u2014 in this case, the Tamano Keirin velodrome. Most of its rooms look directly over the track, allowing guests to watch races from the comfort of a private balcony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tamano, Okayama Pref. \u2013 Despite a persistent rain off the Seto Inland Sea in early June, nine keirin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,17646,45040,45039,82],"class_list":["post-72831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-hotels","tag-naoshima","tag-seto-inland-sea","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}