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🏮One night inside three centuries of ryotei

Yamaguchi · Kogushiya

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A ryotei three centuries deep

• 🏯A long-established ryotei and inn in the castle town of Chofu
• 🖌A house frequented by Takasugi Shinsaku and Nogi Maresuke
• 🍽A night built around 300 years of classical Japanese cooking

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The main house, built sukiya style

• 🏛Winner of the first Shimonoseki Landscape Award for architecture
• 🪵Ranma transoms and high windows give every room its own design and materials
• ✨Rebuilt in 1949, a rare survival of true carpenter's craft

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A garden of four seasons

• 🌸Meticulously kept, and wearing a different face each season
• 🍵Seats arranged so you can watch the garden while you eat
• 🪨Stone lanterns and stillness, a Japanese garden at its quietest

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A house known for fugu

• 🐡Shimonoseki's celebrated fugu is the kitchen's pride
• 🍶Set courses built around kaiseki, sea urchin or fugu
• 🍱Classical kaiseki carrying three centuries of the house's hand

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Rooms, Matsu and Asahi

• 🖼Matsu no Ma gathers scrolls by noted hands and the best of Showa building
• 🌿Asahi no Ma looks down on the garden from the main house's upper floor
• 🪟Elegant hours spent with a beautiful garden in view

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Staying over in private Chidori no Ma

• 🚪Chidori no Ma, a fully private space set aside for overnight guests
• 👪A separate wing for unhurried time with family or someone close
• 🛁Yukata, towels, tea set and the rest provided

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The Ohiroma banquet hall

• 🎎Used for receptions, betrothals, banquets and formal dinners
• 👥Wide tatami space that seats a large party comfortably
• 🍽The hospitality an old house brings to a formal occasion

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Access and Chofu castle town

• 🚗About 20 minutes by car from Shimonoseki Station on the Sanyo Main Line
• 🛣About 15 minutes from Shimonoseki IC on the Chugoku Expressway
• 🏯Well placed for a wander through the Chofu castle district

Three hundred years of history live in Kogushiya, the venerable ryotei of Chofu castle town. Sukiya architecture, a garden that turns with the seasons and Shimonoseki's famous fugu make for a night you won't file away.

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