World leaders have it pretty good when it comes to travel, we reckon. And next July they'll no doubt enjoy the location for the 2008 G8 Summit: the Lake Toya spa resort in Hokkaido, northern Japan.
Apart from the excitement of being near an active volcano -- Mount Usu erupted as recently as 2000 -- Lake Toya is as picturesque as volcanic lakes come. Almost perfectly round, it's surrounded by sculptures and you can cruise across it to various lookout points. The really flash bit is dipping into the natural hot spring back at the resort after a long day of, well, whatever the pollies really do when they're at a G8 Summit. Almost makes it tempting to become a world leader, doesn't it.
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