garden provides a quiet area for guests.
This rock garden doubles as a footpath.
An open courtyard located in the compound.
Private rotenburo.
Room used for—shogi a traditional Japanese game.
Alcove area in a guest room.
The mineral waters of Atami attract, but there is also the Atami Castle and the Mokichi Okada Association (MOA) Art Museum to visit. The museum overlooks Atami Bay and houses the rich collection of Mokichi Okada, founder of the World Church of Messianity. In a dramatic modern complex, there are ceramics, lacquerware, a cherished tea jar by Edo artist Ninsei, a screen of “Red and White Plum Trees” by Korin Ogata, woodblock prints by Hiroshige and Hokusai among a collection of 3,500 pieces, only 200 of which are on view at any time. Collector Okada believed that it was “spiritually elevating” to view great art in an “ideal natural setting.”
Atami Sekitei displays nature as art.
Address: 6-17 Wada-cho, Atami-shi, Shizuoka-ken 413-0024, Japan.
Tel: 81 (0)557 83 2841.
Fax: 81 (0)557 82 2840.
Website: www.sekitei.co.jp. E-mail: [email protected]. Rooms: Sekitei 29, Sakuragaoka-Saryo 10. Access: 50 min from Tokyo to Atami Station by Tokaido Shinkansen and 5 min to Sekitei by taxi.
KONA BESSO Izu-Nagaoka, Izu Peninsula
Stepping-stones slow life’s pace. With each stone comes a fresh perspective. Treasuring a moment, a view, a taste, a sensation is what this old-world weekend retreat, Kona Besso, is all about.
For hundreds of years the hot springs in this area of the Izu Peninsula, south of Mount Fuji, have attracted big-city dwellers seeking a cosseting and a release from day-to-day striving. Kona Onsen was founded 1,300 years ago and eventually combined with the waters of Nagaoka Onsen to create the source that now feeds Izu-Nagaoka, a small onsen town of 15,000 people.
In the late 1930s, Kona Besso was built as the second home of a Tokyo entrepreneur. It is set in a quiet residential area, about oneand-a-half hours from Tokyo by Shinkansen and then car ride from Mishima Station. To this day Kona Besso gives the comforting feeling that one is entering a private domain.
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