Osawayama Onsen, Minamiuonuma里山十帖

Satoyama Jujo

Satoyama Jujo is a ryokan of thirteen rooms and a villa at Osawayama Onsen above Minamiuonuma in Niigata's snow country, opened in 2014 by the publisher of the magazine Jiyujin in a renovated former hot-spring inn and a farmhouse of about 150 years. Rooms are furnished with Danish and Japanese designer pieces and contemporary art, most with a hot-spring bath facing Mount Makihata or the forest, and dinner is a vegetable-led course of the region's preserved foods.

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About the property

Rooms: 14
Bath in the room: Some rooms
Dinner: Private dining room
MICHELIN Keys: 1
Recognition: One MICHELIN Key; restaurant Sanaburi one MICHELIN star (MICHELIN Guide Niigata); Gault&Millau Japan 3 toques and Terroir Award
Owned by: Jiyujin Inc.

Rooms and suites

101 Deluxe Twin Cottage (Kura)
57.6 sq m · Private garden view · A detached converted stone storehouse by the entrance, with two beds on each floor and a larger open-air hot-spring bath · up to four · one of the two rooms that take children.
203 View Tatami Twin
36 sq m · Mount Makihata view · The smallest mountain-view room, with a terrace and natural-stone open-air bath.
204 View Corner Suite
49 sq m · Mount Makihata view · Designed by the architect Kei Kaihoh in three zones, bedroom, living room and outdoor living room · stone open-air bath.
205 Group and Family
52 sq m · Forest view · With a raised tatami area and a small cypress open-air bath · up to four · one of the two rooms that take children.
206 and 207 Creators' Twin
30 to 35 sq m · Forest view · Simple twins with a large desk and a shower unit · no private bath.
301 View Tatami Twin
40 sq m · Mount Makihata view · Third floor, a 3.6 m wide window under a sloping ceiling, balcony with small cypress open-air bath.
302 View Corner Twin
40 sq m · Mount Makihata view · Interior and furniture designed by students of the Musashino Art University interior design studio · cypress open-air bath on the balcony.
303 Corner Suite
50 sq m · Forest view · Living room and bedroom loosely divided, zelkova desk and a Wegner sofa · cypress open-air bath on the balcony.
304 Tatami Triple and 305 Tatami Twin
40 sq m · Forest view · Tatami rooms with beds · no private bath · 304 sleeps three.

Suites

201 and 202 View Maisonette Suite
84 sq m · Mount Makihata view · Two-storey suites with a natural-stone open-air bath on the lower terrace · 201 is the corner, with side windows and the larger desk, 202 has the slightly better mountain view and art by Shun Kawakami. Neither takes children of primary-school age or under.
Villa
150 sq m · A private house-style suite with its own hot-spring bath, about three minutes' walk up the slope from the main house.

Dining and wellness

A small course on a board of old timber at Sanaburi
Mountain vegetables of the snow country, gathered for the course
A table set in the farmhouse restaurant Sanaburi
A vegetable dish in a stoneware bowl

Sanaburi: local gastronomy restaurant · farmhouse
Lounge Koyagumi: guests' lounge · farmhouse mezzanine · coffee and snacks 3pm–11am; spirits 7pm–11pm
Wellness: The Amanogawa open-air hot-spring bath, a private sauna with a spring-water cold plunge, and private open-air baths in nine rooms.

Where it is

Echigo-Yuzawa station: 20 min by taxi
Tokyo station: 1 h 20 by train
Shiozawa-Ishiuchi IC: 10 min by car

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Tokyo Haneda or Narita, then the Joetsu Shinkansen from Tokyo to Echigo-Yuzawa (about 80 minutes) and a 20-minute taxi; Niigata airport is the nearest.