静かな森と明治・大正離れの宿　環翠楼

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Seven centuries of radium water

• ♨️A radium spring — rare anywhere in Japan — reported in 1915 as having the country's highest radon content
• 🌬️The main bath is designed so you breathe in the radon as gas, and it's open 24 hours
• 💗Long called "the bath for every ailment" and "the bath for children," and used for convalescence for centuries

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A free hinoki private bath

• 🛁A hinoki-scented private bath wide enough for a family, free to all guests with no reservation needed
• 👶A changing table and baby bath make it easy to bring small children
• ♿Barrier-free throughout, with a wheelchair-accessible toilet

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Cottages with a history

• 🏯Just nine rooms — wooden cottages scattered through the quiet, carrying Meiji, Taisho and Showa between them
• 🛠️Every room has been carefully renovated for comfort without losing the character of the old buildings
• 🌿Cottages with their own bath look onto a private garden while you soak in undiluted radium water

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A nationally registered heritage room

• 🎎The Taisho-era poet Chiba Taneaki gave this inn its name, Kansuiro
• 📜The Taisho room is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in its own right
• 🏛️Rinsenkaku and other cottages, rentable whole, preserve the architecture of their era intact

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Niigata's table, in your room

• 🍶Kaiseki served in the room morning and evening, from ingredients the head chef selects himself
• 🐟Special courses feature Niigata Wagyu, nodoguro and abalone
• 🍚Koshihikari rice and Murasugi's own koi-jiru carp soup to finish

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Tatami from end to end

• 🌾Tatami in the rooms and in the corridors, with solid timber and earthen walls throughout
• 📚In the sitting room, jazz plays while you take coffee and a book over the garden
• 🚬The buildings are entirely non-smoking, with a separate smoking room

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Six thousand tsubo of forest garden

• 🌲The only surviving stand of the centuries-old cedars that gave Murasugi Onsen its name, across 6,000 tsubo
• ✨Fireflies rise in early June, and light filters through the leaves onto the moss
• 🍁Wildflowers, new green, autumn color and snow — the garden changes face with every season

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Finding the forest

• 🚗About 15 minutes by car from Suibara Station, at the foot of Mt. Gozu in Agano
• 🏞️Roughly 19,800 m² of grounds, with only nine cottages on them
• 🔑Everything from check-in to check-out happens in your room, with no one else in sight

In six thousand tsubo of forest layered with the Meiji, Taisho and Showa eras, just nine detached cottages wait quietly, each with radium hot springs and Niigata's finest cooking. Between a 700-year-old spring and registered heritage architecture, no one will disturb you here.