Arima Onsen Kinzan Higashi-kan Guest Room

Hyogo (city), Japan

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Photo © Akito Goto

Interior Designers: Field Four Design Office

Location: Hyogo (city), Japan
Year: 2022

Arima Onsen, whose name appears in the Manyoshu, the oldest anthology of Japanese poetry, Kinzan" is nestled in the tranquility of a deep forest.
The ryokan has long been a favorite of repeat guests. The ryokan, which has long been a favorite of repeat guests, has been renovated with high functionality to meet the needs of the next generation. and has been reborn as a space where guests can spend a relaxing and luxurious time.

The 20 rooms in the sukiya-style building – The four spaces of "food, rest, sleep, and hot spring" are organically connected to each other. The silver spring half-open-air bath is located on the forest side of the building. The new value was proposed in the form of 12 special rooms of five types, each with a silver spring half-open-air bath on the forest side.

The rooms are unified by a glaze color that is reminiscent of the color of cedar,
The matiere of the material changes with the changing natural light, and slowly envelops the time spent by the guests.