The Old City of Jerusalem has become accessible to visitors with movement disabilities, following a 10-year project involving seven government organisations.
The work on the city’s historic narrow streets includes making four kilometres in the Muslim, Armenian and Christian quarters accessible, as well as installing approximately two kilometres of handrails alongside staircases.
The most visited place in the state of Israel, the Unesco World Heritage Site, attracts around 10 million visitors each year.
And Jerusalem is also set to welcome a new 90-room boutique hotel in the Mahane Yehuda Market.
Alliance House will be the latest in the city from the Fattal Hotel chain, alongside the Leonardo, Leonardo Plaza and Leonardo Boutique, and is scheduled to open in 2022.
Venice's new art district
Famous for its canals, its gondolas and its crowds of tourists, another side to Venice will be under the spotlight from next month.
The island of Giudecca, which runs parallel to the Grand Canal opposite St Marks, was an old, working-class, residential district of the city. But, from May, the Giudecca Art District will turn the island into the city’s first permanent art quarter, home to 11 different art spaces.
As well as art galleries hosting contemporary talents such as Marina Abramovic, Ai Weiwei and Damien Hirst, the area’s former Dreher Brewery is now an art village with artist ateliers alongside exhibition spaces.
Tokyo's most unusual new restaurant
Japan is renowned for its futuristic side, as well as some of the world’s most unusual places to eat — but a restaurant serving 3D printed and personalised sushi cubes has to be the quirkiest yet.
Diners at Sushi Singularity, due to open in Tokyo next year, will need to return a test kit before their meal (including saliva, urine and stool samples) before having food designed to meet their own specific nutritional requirements.
And instead of skilled sushi chefs slicing fish and vegetables, the sushi cubes will be created by robotic arms squirting vitamin-rich edible gels into layers.
Until then, you’ll have to make do with Den, which took 3rd place in the coveted list of Asia’s 50 best restaurants, one of 12 listed in Japan.
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