Issue No. 1 · Hida-Takayama

This month's issue is ready.

Before you arrive, read the five sections numbered 01 to 05.

PLATE 01Hida-Takayama
01To begin

The scroll is changed. That part is done.

We change the hanging scroll on the first of each month. That completes one part of the month's editing. No two issues carry the same contents.

So we count the inn in issues — April, October, and so on. Readers stay in the edition for their month.

PLATE 02
02Rooms

Meet the seven rooms.

The inn is a two-storey wooden house. Its creaking stairs deserve a mention on the rooms page.

Room One
01

Room One

10 tatami · street side · 3 guests

The front room, over the street. In the morning you hear the market.

from ¥38,000 · dinner & breakfast

Room Two
02

Room Two

8 tatami · rear · 2 guests

A quiet room at the back. Outside the window, only the neighbour's persimmon tree.

from ¥34,000 · dinner & breakfast

The Annexe
03

The Annexe

12 tatami · detached · 2 guests

Reached by a covered walkway from the main house. For time alone.

from ¥45,000 · dinner & breakfast

03Food

We revise the menu on the first.

The menu draws on what the Hida mountains give and what the river gives. We listed the ingredients and counted over a hundred for one month. They took up a good deal of space.

Take the menu card home; some readers cook from it. If it reaches a kitchen, the editing has earned its keep.

PLATE 03
PLATE 04
PLATE 05
04Seasons

We change the cover twelve times a year.

Snow covers January, blossom April, maple October. The furnishings change on the first too, entrance included.

One photograph is added each month. Laid out together, they became a year at the inn.

06Access

Here is the way to Takayama.

5-2 Shimosannomachi, Takayama, Gifu 506-0844

+81 577-00-0000
Train
12 min walk from JR Takayama Station
Bus
About 5.5 hours by express bus from Shinjuku
Car
10 min from Takayama IC
Parking
5 spaces, free, by reservation

Next, choose when to stay.

Book online or by phone. That closes the editor's note.