Where the food is the reason

Across Lake Chuzenji to Mount Nantai, with a sulphur spring

A Meiji kimono draper's machiya, with pine garden and kura

On the Wadakura moat, opposite the Imperial Palace gardens

Japan's state guest house of 1890, facing Hibiya Park

Ten villas on a farm hillside facing Mount Yufu

Jomon pottery dug on site, Mount Asama across the forest

Sixteen butler-kept suites over the Kano River

Four suites, their own spring, and a Kitcho-trained chef

Sixteen rooms around Narai's 1793 sake brewery

A sushi counter and six rooms over Nanao Bay

Snow-country preserved foods in a 150-year-old farmhouse

Ten Shigeru Ban villas facing Miyajima across the sea

A 1985 sukiya guest house, Miró in the dining room

French cooking of Okinawan produce, Pacific sunrise

French cooking of Ise lobster and abalone over Ago Bay

Miró and Chagall on the walls, an Italian dining room

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

Black villas on the Kuzuryu, by the Kokuryu sake complex

The Nabeshima sake brewery's houses in an old port town

Suites over the pearl rafts of Ago Bay, where the G7 met

A 16-seat counter in a Meiji kimono merchant's annex

Twelve villas each of one material, chosen by Koichi Uchida