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🍁Nine detached cottages scattered through a century-old garden

Okayama · Kurashiki Teien Ryokan Bingoya

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Founded 1914, with a ryotei's poise

• 🏮Founded in 1914 and still run as a 'ryotei ryokan' today
• 📜Beloved as the 'Tamashima retreat' of figures like Inukai Tsuyoshi and the poet Yoshii Isamu
• 🌿An inn that has kept the old ways under the motto 'a landscape of the heart, unchanged a century on'

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Cottages scattered on a hillside garden

• ⛩️The whole slope is the garden, with sukiya-style cottages dotted through it - a true hanare-no-yado
• 🪨Linked by handsome stone steps, each building has its own mood, like a private hideaway
• 🌸Cherry blossom in spring, deep green in summer, maples in autumn - the seasons pass by your window

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Nine cottages, no two alike

• 🏡Nine detached rooms in all, from 'Tadaan' to 'Seifuso' to 'Fujinoma', each with its own character
• 🛏️Sizes range from a plain 4.5-mat cottage to the 10-mat 'Kaikitei Kiri' with its own bath
• 🚻All rooms have washlet toilets, air conditioning, a washbasin, Wi-Fi, yukata and bath sets

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Seasonal kaiseki from the Seto Inland Sea

• 🍤Full kaiseki built on the Seto Inland Sea's freshest seasonal fish, in the ryotei tradition the house began with
• 🍑Seasonal courses featuring peaches, muscat grapes and other fruit native to Tamashima
• 🍽️Both dinner and breakfast are served in your room or a private room, on tableware worth looking at

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Looking down over Tamashima harbor

• 🌊A scenic hillside above Tamashima harbor, the view opening wider the higher you climb
• 🐦Bush warblers from spring through late summer; bell crickets and crickets in autumn
• 🍵'Seifuso', with the feel of a teahouse, sits highest of all and has the finest view

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Services for an easy stay

• 💆Aroma bodywork is available - 60 minutes full-body soft treatment for 7,000 yen, among others
• 🚗Parking for 14 cars (no shuttle service); English spoken
• 🐾Pets are welcome for 2,200 yen per animal

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Getting here

• 🅿️About 7-12 minutes by car from Shin-Kurashiki Station, in Tamashima, Kurashiki, Okayama
• 🌉In the harbor town of Tamashima, near scenic Mt. Washu and the Great Seto Bridge
• 🪜Narrow passages and 20-plus steps lead from the entrance to the rooms - please ask ahead if walking is difficult

Nine cottages stand scattered across a hillside garden that dates to the Taisho era, at a ryokan that began as a ryotei. Between Seto Inland Sea kaiseki and views that turn with the seasons, it offers exactly what the city cannot: quiet, unhurried time.

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