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About this ryokan
🏡A beloved composer's villa, booked whole
Fukushima · Zo-Zoan
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A Villa a Composer Loved
- 🎼The former villa of Minoru Endo, People's Honour Award composer, restored as a kominka inn
- 🏡A red-roofed single-story main house with a two-story annex
- 🗓️A restored farmhouse inn in Naraha, Fukushima, opened in 2024
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Tatami in the Main House
- 🛏️The main house has three tatami rooms used as bedrooms
- 🪟Past the engawa veranda, rice fields and mountains stretch out
- 👥Comfortable for six in the main house, up to ten in all
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Western Bedrooms in the Annex
- 🛌The two-story annex has two Western-style rooms with two beds each
- 🚪Downstairs, a wide earthen-floor space opens onto the garden
- 🌿Set apart from the main house — the quiet corner of the property
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Private Sauna and Cold Plunge
- 🧖A sauna attached to the main house's semi-open-air bath
- ❄️A cold-water bath for cooling down after the sauna
- 🔒Because the house is booked whole, sauna and bath belong to your party only
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A Goemon Bath Facing Bamboo
- ♨️A traditional Goemon-style tub with the bamboo grove in view
- 🎋A half open-air soak framed by the bamboo outside the window (note: not a hot spring)
- 🪵A snug bathing space with all the character of the old method
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Irori Dining and Kitchen
- 🔥A nostalgic irori hearth anchors the dining room (lighting it requires advance arrangement)
- 🍽️A long table in a wide hall, room for everyone to eat together
- 🍳The kitchen is fully equipped, so you can cook for yourselves
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The Whole Property for a Day
- 🏘️Book the main house and annex together and the whole property is yours
- 👨👩👧👦Space enough for three generations, a reunion, a workshop or a retreat
- 🛁Sauna, bath and kitchen used privately, with no other guests in the house
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Setting, Nature and Booking
- 📍A quiet rural corner of Naraha, Futaba District, Fukushima Prefecture
- 🎋Bamboo groves and rice paddies ring the grounds
- 🛎️Operated by Winds Travel, a travel company based in Naraha
Under a red tile roof, the old villa of one of Japan's most beloved composers has been reborn as an inn. The sauna, the Goemon bath and the irori dining room are yours and no one else's. Spend a day among tatami and bamboo in the quiet countryside of Naraha, Fukushima.
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- What are the check-in and check-out times at Zo-Zoan?
- Check-in starts at 15:00 and check-out is by 11:00.
- Where is Zo-Zoan located?
- It is in Fukushima Futaba-gun. Address: 130 Torikamishimo, Kamishigeoka, Narahamachi.
- What is the cancellation and refund policy?
- Free-cancellation deadlines vary by rate plan and are shown with each room. Cancelling before the deadline gives a full refund.