Dinner in your room

A Noh stage over the pond, one family's inn since 1484

The Kan'in imperial summer villa, an inn since 1948

Masaya Hirata's 1960 sukiya annex, seven generations on

Inside the Takeo lord's 1845 garden below Mount Mifune

Garden pavilions on a pond, looking across to Miyajima

Rebuilt by Tetsuo Kobori, every room on its own courtyard

Sukiya houses by Kyoto temple carpenters in Unzen's hills

Four suites in a Kanazawa ryotei of 1965, with its kappo

Kengo Kuma's bamboo screens in a Taisho inn, eight rooms

Terrace baths down the side of the Hayakawa gorge

Nine rooms round a grove of 8,000 bamboo, for adults

Seven sukiya rooms, one a Nabeshima-domain villa

Bamboo-grove villas, all 30 baths straight from the source

One family's inn for 300 years, a Junzo Yoshimura wing

A Tokyo ryotei's bamboo-grove inn, with its own kendo hall