Hiai Island, Aitsu, Matsushima-machi, Kami-AmakusaTAYUTA

Tayuta

Twelve detached villas and a 50-metre main building on Hiai Island, a small island off Kami-Amakusa wholly inside Unzen-Amakusa National Park, looking over the Amakusa islands to Takamoku island and the Shimabara peninsula. Every villa has its own bath of the hotel's iron-brown hot spring, and dinner is a long set menu built with Amakusa fishermen, farmers and potters.

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About the property

Rooms: 12
Bath in the room: Hot spring, every room
Dinner: At a counter
MICHELIN Keys: 1
Owned by: Amakusa Resort (天草リゾート), a Marrygold Holdings company

Rooms and suites

HARBOR suite
86 sq m (plot of 543 sq m) · the marina's main berth view · Japanese-modern villa with a gabled roof, a king bed, an indoor hot-spring bath behind large windows, a terrace and a private garden. The smallest villa type.
HARBOR SAUNA suite
86 sq m · the marina's main berth view · The HARBOR suite with a newly added private sauna and cold-water bath · indoor hot-spring bath · king bed. Sold on Ikyu.
TAKAMOKU suite
99 sq m (plot of 454 sq m) · Takamoku island, the 'Amakusa Fuji', with the Shimabara peninsula behind view · Garden suite with an open-air hot-spring bath, outdoor living area and large private garden · two 140 cm beds.
SUNSET suite
119 sq m (plot of 448 sq m) · the sunset straight ahead over the sea, with the marina below view · At the furthest tip of the site · open-air hot-spring bath facing the sunset and a private sauna · two 120 cm beds.
AMAKUSA suite
119 sq m (plot of 615 sq m) · the Amakusa sea and islands from high ground view · Two villas only, set a little apart from the main building and the other villas · private pool with sun loungers in the shallows and a daybed on the terrace, sauna with self-löyly, cold-water bath and open-air hot-spring bath · two 120 cm beds.

Dining and wellness

A course of the Amakusa dinner on Amakusa-made ware
Beef with seaweed, a main course at Restaurant U
Restaurant U, the sea in view from every table
The open kitchen and its stone counter at Restaurant U

Restaurant U: open-kitchen restaurant · centre of the main building · dinner
AMATA: private chef's counter · breakfast and dinner
Lounge and bar: lounge and bar
Wellness: No spa or shared baths: each villa has its own hot-spring bath, and some have a private sauna, cold-water bath or pool. An orchard in the valley beside the main building is open to walk through and, in season, to pick fruit for breakfast.

Where it is

Misumi station: 20 min by boat
Kumamoto station: 1 h 10 by train
Kumamoto station: 1 h by taxi
Kumamoto Airport: 1 h 30 by taxi
Kumamoto Airport: 30 min by air
Amakusa Airport: 50 min by taxi

7488-1 Aitsu, Matsushima-machi, Kami-Amakusa

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Tayuta has no English website. Tell us your dates and our team in Japan books it for you, at the hotel’s own rate. We ask for the room we would choose and look after everything else with the hotel on your behalf: your preferences and requests, any special arrangement, from a celebration to a car from the station, and whatever you need before and during your stay. The price and cancellation terms are confirmed with you first.

Kumamoto Airport, about 90 minutes by car or 30 minutes by helicopter; Amakusa Airport, about 60 minutes by car.