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🏯A night in a cultural property, steeped in Taisho romance

Akita · Shuhoen

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A Historic House Listed as Cultural Property

• 🏯Completed in 1917, the former shoya manor of the Oyamada family, still in use as the inn
• 📜Registered as a national tangible cultural property in 1999, a bold timber structure that took three years to build
• 🌲Five fir trees over 380 years old stand as the garden's emblem and the source of the name Shuhoen

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A Rare, Highly Concentrated Iodine Spring

• ♨️An iodine-bearing sodium chloride strong-salt spring, with a source temperature around 49.8°C
• 🧂Dissolved minerals reach 22.24g per kilogram, unusually dense
• 🌊Water glowing brown, said to help poor circulation, muscle pain and fatigue

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Hinoki Grand Bath and Private Open-Air Bath

• 🛁A hinoki grand bath fed 100% Kakenagashi by a source yielding over 240 liters a minute
• 🌿Private open-air baths for guests, 'Taiju no Yu' and 'Komorebi no Yu,' with the firs in view
• 🏅A source-water bathing tradition recognized as a 'Japan Onsen Heritage' site in 2003

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Rooms as They Were in the Taisho Era

• 🪟Just seven rooms, purely Japanese spaces exactly as built in 1917
• 🛏️A single special room (10 plus 10 mats), with a broad veranda facing garden and firs
• 🚭Rooms have no TV, fridge, toilet or bath; guests must be middle-school age or older, and payment is cash

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Local Flavor, Mokuzugani Crab

• 🦀Mokuzugani crab from the Omonogawa that wraps around the inn, grilled in the shell, in dumpling soup and fried
• 🐟The standing dish of sweet-simmered carp, alongside the local specialty of grilled otsuna shellfish
• 🍚Limited-production Akitakomachi rice from contracted local farms, with house-made tofu at breakfast

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Craftsmanship Throughout the House

• 🪵The finest materials, including a corridor floored with a single 16.3m plank of natural Akita cedar
• 🪜Stairwell designs in Rokumeikan and Renaissance styles, executed by miyadaiku temple carpenters
• 🏛️An Oyamada family archive in a Genroku-era rice storehouse, holding some 2,000 old documents

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The Fir Garden and Convenient Access

• 🌲Firs of 380 years, designated natural monuments of Daisen City, keeping the garden through the seasons
• 🚗About 16 minutes by car from Akita Airport, or 6 minutes from Mineyoshikawa Station on the JR Ou Main Line
• 🚌Free pickup available, with Lake Tazawa, Japan's deepest, close at hand

A rare night in a registered tangible cultural property redolent of Taisho romance, with dense iodine-rich waters and regional cooking. In a quiet, long-established inn of just seven rooms, Akita feels like a place where time has stopped.

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* This introduction was compiled from information published by each property (official website and similar sources), so some details may differ from what you find on the day. It is AI-assisted and can contain errors — please check the official website and the details shown at booking before you reserve.

From onsen etiquette to check-in — the things worth knowing first.

Check In/Check Out Policy · Check In: 15:00 · Check Out: 10:00 · Last Check In: 20:00

* These policies are the property's own text, in English; the cancellation policy shown at booking takes precedence.