Guest User
April 1, 2024
As it claims to be a Japanese restaurant where you can stay, everything is as you would expect, from the parking lot to the entry, garden, furnishings, bath, and dinner. The open-air bath, which you can enjoy while looking out at the garden from your room, allows you to feel the seasons, and it was nice to be able to stretch my legs out in the private stone bath (I'm about 170cm tall). I was able to relax on a deck chair on the veranda and enjoy a beer after my bath. There was also a cypress bath inside the room, and although it was through a window I could look out at the pond and enjoy the scent of cypress. From the large public bath outside the room I was able to enjoy the song of the nightingales while looking out at the distant mountain ranges. It was also great that I could enter at any time during my stay. Dinner was a Japanese-style banquet, but the combination of ingredients was very new, and I could feel the concept shared by Japanese tradition and ★★★ restaurants in the Basque country. While making the most of the flavors of the ingredients, I enjoyed the ingenuity of the combinations, and enjoyed the different intervals that rose in my mouth one after another. The intervals between serving the dishes were also perfect, with no gaps, and the next dish never came before I had finished my meal. The "tea" served was also excellent. Matcha when filling out the guest register after arrival, sencha when being given a tour of the hotel after arriving, and roasted green tea after dinner - the temperature and strength of the water was all controlled for each type, and the waitresses' skill was excellent. Up to this point, I think you could get an experience on par or better at a star-rated restaurant or hotel, but the breakfast was excellent. It was served on a tray in about nine small bowls, made with carefully selected ingredients that were flawless in every respect. The rice was also excellent, cooked in a rice cooker. A hotel employee had previously told me that "the quality of the breakfast served determines the class of a hotel," and I thought that this was certainly true. Being able to experience all of this in my room made for a happy holiday.
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