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"The clean-lined new hotel, drafted by the Japanese architects Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP, offers a modern take on a hot spring inn, with design elements that evince Ainu culture: natural materials like birch trunks, traditional textile motifs, and cone-shaped bathhouses inspired by Ainu huts, from which steam rises into the open skies."
Lake view rooms, geothermal baths, Ainu design, fine dining
1 Chome-1018-94 Wakakusacho, Shiraoi, Shiraoi District, Hokkaido 059-0902, Japan Get directions