This long-established store sells traditional household items like brooms, sieves, and zinc products. The place is brimming with well-made goods, such as baskets and various wood pieces, all at reasonable prices. Matsunoya purchases these items from small factories and farmers in Asian countries, including Japan. Traditional Japanese kitchen gadgets like copper or wooden graters are perennially popular among overseas visitors. We also recommend their...
This is a unique contemporary art gallery, which renovated and opened in an esteemed public bathhouse founded 200 years ago. When you enter this venue after seeing its quaint appearance, you will find a neutral space with white walls and a mortar floor. This contrast is one of its highlights. Scai The Bathhouse mainly introduces cutting-edge Japanese artists and remarkable yet little-known foreign artists...
This is not your usual hotel. The reception area is on the second floor of the smallest cultural complex, Hagiso, created from the renovation of a traditional Japanese house. The guest rooms comprise separate renovated living units. Guests use the public baths and restaurants around their rooms. Hanare’s unique concept of an entire town as a big hotel has been drawing visitors, and the...
