あきば何求庵（なんぐうあん）

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A villa-style stay for only two groups

• 🏡A villa-style inn on a hill above the port town of Susami, at the southern tip of the Kii Peninsula, taking two groups a day
• 🏯Redesigned by an architect, where Japanese tradition and wa-modern design meet
• 🌸Conceived as a secluded 'detached palace' away from the city, at one with its surroundings

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Inazumi Island, floating just offshore

• 🏝️Round Inazumi Island, long a site of Benten worship, sits on the water directly ahead
• ⛰️Behind rise Mt. Akiba and the great Akiba Kannon, venerated for centuries
• 🍶A sacred stop on the Ohechi route of the Kumano pilgrimage trail, its name drawn from a Du Fu poem

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Special room 'Mayu'

• 🛏️60 sqm for 2-4 guests, with washi-wrapped walls and a bedroom looking out to Inazumi Island in the bay
• 🍵A Japanese-Western layout combining a Rikyu-tatami room with a counter table
• 🔥Details drawn from local materials, from Kishu binchotan charcoal to persimmon-dyed cushions

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Special room 'Tsuru'

• 🎋60 sqm for 2-5 guests, a lofty beamed space in sukiya-modern style with white bamboo walls and floors
• 🌄Sky and mountain views from the tatami room, with an unhurried layout including a desk and sofa
• 🍱Kishu lacquer boxes and an in-room tea set complete the quiet hospitality

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Two private baths

• 🛁'Seionryo' evokes an ink painting, with a full glass wall to the garden for a semi-open-air feel
• 🌊'Myoonryo' evokes the sea in white, reached through a dark corridor into a bright bathroom
• ♨️The baths are filled with water infused with mineral-rich Kishu binchotan

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Dining at the water's edge

• 🍽️'Ryukin' is a dining space evoking the golden ripples of a sunset sea and the sound of the waves
• 🎐'Hosho' takes its lattice walls from the sho reed pipe and its ceiling from a yakatabune pleasure boat
• 🌼Cooking built on ingredients grown nearby, with seasonal flowers at the table

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Access

• 🚄About 2 hours 40 minutes from Shin-Osaka to Susami Station on the Kuroshio limited express, then a 5-minute walk
• ✈️About 1 hour from Haneda to Nanki-Shirahama Airport, then about 5 minutes by car
• 🚗5 minutes by car from Susami IC on the Kisei Expressway; about 2 to 2.5 hours from Osaka

On a hillside at the southern tip of the Kii Peninsula, facing Inazumi Island out on the water, a quiet villa hosts just two groups a night. In spaces where an architect has brought tradition and wa-modern design back to life, time opens up for you and the person beside you.