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🌿A Hidden Hot Spring from 1898, Held by the Forest

Nagano · Shimazaki Toson Yukari no Yado Nakadanaso

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Founded in 1898, Toson's Hideaway

• 🏯A secluded hot-spring inn set in the forest that runs from Komoro Castle (now Kaikoen Park) down to the Chikuma River
• ✍️The inn where poet Shimazaki Toson wrote his 'Poems of the Chikuma River Journey'
• 🌿Hospitality themed on Toson's own words — 'fresher, and simpler' — offered at a human scale

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The Grand Bath by the Source: Bijin-no-yu

• ♨️An alkaline simple-spring 'beauty bath,' flowing kakenagashi right beside the source at the top of the grounds
• 🪵A wooden 'daimyo bath' style indoor bath and open-air bath, framed by hand-adzed timber pillars and beams
• 🌙Open 2:00 PM-midnight and 6:00-10:00 AM on weekdays, and all night on Fridays, Saturdays, and holidays

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Private Baths and Drinking Spring

• 🛁A small wooden private bath at the end of a garden path, kakenagashi water dappled with sunlight through the leaves (40 minutes, 1,100 yen)
• 🚰Drink the spring water right at the source, and even the tap water in every room is onsen water
• 💧Clear and colorless, drawn at 38.2°C, said to help with neuralgia, muscle pain, and fatigue

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Seasonal 'Hatsukoi' Apple Bath

• 🍎The seasonal 'Hatsukoi Ringo-buro' (First Love Apple Bath), named for Toson's poem 'Hatsukoi'
• 🍏Red apples float in a bath with a sweet-tart scent, running roughly from October through spring
• ♨️A seasonal sight unique to Nakadanaso, warming body and mind through the cold months

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Wooden Rooms in the Heisei and Taisho Wings

• 🪟All 18 rooms in the Heisei Wing are wooden and face a copse garden — simple spaces where you can sit at the window and listen to birdsong
• 🛏️Heisei Wing's Japanese-Western rooms combine an 8-mat tatami area with a bedroom, plus their own small indoor onsen bath
• 🏮The Taisho Wing's 9 rooms occupy the old Taisho-era wooden building, including a restored retro room named 'Toson' after the poet who wrote there

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Creative Kaiseki from the Mountains and Fields

• 🍶Seasonal, creative kaiseki that opens with an aperitif of 'Toson's Nigori-zake'
• 🐟Salt-grilled sweetfish from the Chikuma River, seared Shinshu beef sushi, Shinano Yukimasu trout, and other carefully chosen local ingredients
• 🍚Breakfast brings wholesome local fare like grated mountain yam over rice and goat's milk, served in the Taisho Wing's private or communal dining rooms

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Buildings Scattered Through the Forest

• 🎹A salon with a grand piano and table tennis, also used for workshops and events
• 🔥The Komorebi Terrace, for coffee or a post-bath beer by the wood stove while taking in the garden
• 🐐A pottery gallery, the registered Tangible Cultural Property 'Suimeiro,' and goats roaming the copse garden

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Access and Experiences

• 🚉20 minutes on foot or 5 minutes by car from JR Komoro Station; 20 minutes by car from Sakudaira Station on the Hokuriku Shinkansen
• 🅿️15 minutes by car from Komoro IC, with free on-site parking for 20 cars
• 🍜Soba-making classes, eco-tours, and soba kaiseki at the registered cultural property 'Harikoshitei' round out the experience program

Beneath the walls of an old castle, wrapped in dense trees, Nakadanaso has been a hidden hot spring retreat in Shinshu Komoro since 1898. A source-fed 'beauty bath,' a seasonal apple bath inspired by Toson's poetry, and kaiseki drawn from the mountains and fields together give you a day that is, in the poet's words, 'fresh and simple.'

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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.

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Check In/Check Out Policy · Check In: 14:00 · Check Out: 11:00 · Last Check In: 19:00

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