고쿠민 슈쿠샤 후루이와야소

♨️A pilgrim's rest amid dramatic rock formations on the 88-Temple route

Ehime · Kokumin Shukusha Furuiwayaso

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Koiwaya's Natural Rock Bath

• ♨️Koiwaya Onsen, said to have flowed since the Yoshino era — a hot spring steeped in history
• 🪨A "beauty bath" enjoyed in a natural rock-hewn tub left just as nature made it
• 🧴A hypotonic alkaline cold spring, known to be good for the skin, rheumatism, and fatigue recovery

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Main and Annex Building Rooms

• 🏠The main and annex buildings offer everything from 6- and 10-mat tatami rooms to a 35-mat grand hall
• 🍵Every room comes with yukata, tanzen robes, tea, and a safe for a relaxed tatami stay
• 🛗No elevator — stairs only — with hair dryers provided in the bath's changing room

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Signature Game Dishes

• 🍲The signature dish is kiji-nabe, a pheasant hot pot simmered with pheasant-bone broth
• 🐗Winter-only wild boar shishi-nabe and other mountain game dishes
• 🌿A carefully prepared spread built from seasonal ingredients of the mountains and rivers

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Kaiseki Courses & Breakfast

• 🥢Choose from Premium (pheasant hot pot), Deluxe, or Standard for the kaiseki dinner course
• 🍚Rice grown with clear mountain water from Kumakogen, and handmade konjac sashimi from Omogo
• 🍳Breakfast is a Japanese set meal with Ehime's signature jakoten fish cakes, plus complimentary morning coffee

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On-Site Restaurant

• 🍜An on-site restaurant serving à la carte game dishes like pheasant udon and wild boar curry
• 🎫Order with a ticket machine, with water and tea available self-service
• 📅Lunch runs 11 AM-2 PM on weekends and holidays; dinner is served daily from 4-7 PM

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Facilities & Services

• 🏓A little extra fun with the free table tennis set in the annex lobby
• 🛍️The gift shop sells Kumakogen specialties and pilgrimage (o-henro) goods
• 📶Free Wi-Fi in the lobby and restaurant, plus a 47-mat conference room and coin laundry

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Scenery & Pilgrimage Access

• ⛩️Located right in the middle of the 88 sacred temples of Shikoku — just 3 km from Temple 45, Iwayaji
• 🪨A stunning view of the towering conglomerate rock formations of Koiwaya, a nationally designated Place of Scenic Beauty
• 🚗50 minutes by car from Matsuyama IC, and an hour from Matsuyama Airport

Dramatic rock formations, a bath famed for softening skin, and game dishes of pheasant and wild boar found nowhere else — Kokumin Shukusha Koiwayaso is where body and mind rest together, right in the heart of the Shikoku pilgrimage.

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