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Concept · A Refuge in Yase

• 🌲A wellness retreat at the foot of Mount Hiei in Yase, long called Kyoto's inner parlor
• 🧘moksa means liberation in Sanskrit — a place to wash the everyday off
• 💨A five-sense experience — steam, smoke, water, greenery, art — inspired by Yase's kamaburo steam-bath tradition

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Private Saunas · Three Kinds of Steam

• 🔥Tanjo, a fully reservation-based private sauna of charcoal and mineral groundwater steam
• 🪵Hijo, a hinoki sauna balanced precisely between heat and humidity
• ✨Bijo, a low-temperature mist sauna under pink light, focused on the skin

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Rooms · Mountain and River

• 🛏️Thirty-one rooms, all Hollywood twins, in warm wood tones
• 🌊River-view rooms above the Takano and garden-view suites facing the greenery
• 🛋️Grades from Superior, with sofa and kitchenette, up to the moksa Suite

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Dining MALA · Cooked Over Wood Fire

• 🔥Dinner courses finished over a wood fire that draws the ingredients out
• 🐟Wakasa Bay seafood, Omi beef, Ohara vegetables — the seasonal larder of the Saba Kaido
• 🍚Breakfast in three versions: Japanese, Western or wellness

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All-Inclusive · Room to Breathe

• 🍷An all-inclusive stay covering drinks and a late-night snack
• 🍵Small pleasures throughout, from tea ceremonies to more
• 🎨An ethnic-modern aesthetic of moss gardens and art installations

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Setting · Yase Through the Year

• 🏔️Four seasons unfolding at the base of Mount Hiei
• 🍃A quiet retreat surrounded by greenery and the sound of water
• 📖Hours well suited to reading and thinking

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Access · Kyoto's Quieter Side

• 🗾Yase in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, at the foot of the mountains but within reach of the city
• 🚌A base for northern Kyoto: Mount Hiei, Kurama and Ohara all lead on from here
• 🅿️The feel of the inner parlor, well away from the crowds downtown

In the stillness of Yase below Mount Hiei, moksa clears body and mind with three private saunas and cooking finished over wood fire. True to its Sanskrit name — liberation — it is a rebirth hotel built for setting the everyday down.