The concierge specializes in Kyoto’s cultural events, and can help access exclusive ochaya with an interpreter, score tickets to the theater, book dinner reservations, a huge help in Kyoto, or help arrange meetings with monks and priests at the city’s Shinto shrines and temples.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
3 Apr. 2026
Many of the cities targeted in the war today are home to these types of shrines, including Qom, Isfahan and Mashhad.
The decision to inaugurate the first urban Six Senses property in Rome was partially driven by the owner’s love of all things Italian and is part of a new drive to bring sanctuaries to bigger cities.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Mar. 2026
That brightening would affect the entire planet, including remote locations that are now considered dark sky sanctuaries, where astronomers build their sky-observing machines.
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