Azumi Setoda

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"A hushed sliding-door arrival opens onto an Adrian Zecha–devised reinvention of the ryokan on an island famed for lemons, where a 140-year-old residence was pared back by architect Shiro Miura. An intimate lobby of exposed timber and sea-blue plaster leads to a communal restaurant (citrus piled high) serving modern Japanese with Silk Road inflections—octopus sashimi to coriander-and-tofu. An inner garden, wrapped by towering cedar kakine fences, frames cherry and curved pines; Azumaya, a glass-walled meditation space, sits nearby. Serene rooms use light cypress, paper screens, low white beds, and hinoki bathtubs, while community roots run deep—from lemon picking and Zen temple meditations to Yubune, the sleek sento bathhouse opposite where guests and locals soak together, lemons bobbing in the steam." - Danielle Demetriou, Adam H. Graham