Myoken Onsen, Makizono, Kirishima忘れの里雅叙苑

Wasure no Sato Gajoen

Wasure no Sato Gajoen is an eight-room ryokan founded in 1970 at Myoken Onsen in Kirishima, Kagoshima. It is made of thatched farmhouses moved to a quiet bank of the Amori River and laid out like a hamlet. Its room Kaze, of 1978, is the first guest room in Japan with its own open-air hot-spring bath, as the inn and the MICHELIN Guide both say; every room now has a hot-spring bath, and meals are Satsuma country dishes from the inn's own farm.

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About the property

Rooms: 8
Bath in the room: Hot spring, every room
MICHELIN Keys: 2
Owned by: Founded and run by Tateo Tajima (born 1945 at Myoken Onsen into a family running a hot-spring inn), who also built Tenku no Mori in the hills nearby (2004); Tajima Honkan at Myoken Onsen has the same owner

Rooms and suites

Kaze (Type D, special room with open-air bath)
6 + 4.5 tatami, with a half-covered wooden terrace · Amori River view · The inn's original room with its own open-air hot-spring bath (1978): a carved-rock tub, an outdoor shower and a day bed on the terrace. Sleeps 4.
Keyaki (Type B, room with ofuro living)
Wood-floored room + 6 tatami, with an attic and a terrace · The hot-spring bath sits inside a heated 'bath living room' with a sofa and a bed. Sleeps 3.
Sakura (Type B, room with ofuro living)
Two Japanese rooms (one with beds), with an attic · Bath living room with a hot-spring tub. Sleeps 3.
Momiji (Type B, room with ofuro living)
Two Japanese rooms (one with beds), with an attic · Bath living room with a hot-spring tub. Sleeps 3.
Beni (Type B, room with ofuro living)
Japanese room + 6 tatami, with an attic · Bath living room with a hot-spring tub. Sleeps 3.
Tsubaki (Type E, special detached maisonette with ofuro living)
Ground floor sitting room with a box hibachi; upstairs 6 + 6 tatami · At the back of the site · the upstairs bath living room opens onto the tatami rooms. Sleeps 6.

Suites

Sora (Washitsu suite, Type WS)
25.5 tatami · Amori River view · Semi-open-air hot-spring bath indoors, a veranda with a further bath, and full-width windows that open onto the river. Sleeps 5.
Hikari (Washitsu suite, Type WS)
24.5 tatami (25.5 on the English page) · Amori River view · Semi-open-air hot-spring bath and a veranda on the river, with full-width windows. Sleeps 5.

Dining and wellness

Dinner of Satsuma country cooking, with sashimi of the inn's own free-range chicken
Dinner set on a lacquer tray
Ichou-no-ma, the thatched farmhouse where dinner and breakfast are served
Fish grilled to order over charcoal in the open-air kitchen for breakfast

Ichou-no-ma: thatched farmhouse dining room · breakfast and dinner
Irori-goya (Hearth Hut): lobby café and bar
Fubosha: book salon and café · lunch
Wellness: Two single-rock hot-spring baths (Takeru-yu), the private Utase-yu/Ramune-yu bath with its naturally carbonated spring, and a beauty treatment room beside the Amori River (Gajoen Spa).

Where it is

Kareigawa station: 10 min by taxi
Hayato station: 15 min by taxi
Central Kagoshima: 50 min by car
Kagoshima Airport: 15 min by taxi
Kagoshima Airport: 25 min by bus

4230 Makizono-cho Shukukubota, Kirishima

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Wasure no Sato Gajoen releases its rooms on set dates, months ahead. Tell us your dates and our team in Japan books it for you, at the inn’s own rate. We ask for the room we would choose and look after everything else with the inn 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.

Kagoshima Airport (KOJ), about 15 minutes by car.