Higashimachi, Bikan Historical Quarter, Kurashiki撚る屋
Yoruya
Yoruya is a 13-room restaurant inn in Higashimachi, a residential street at the eastern edge of Kurashiki's Bikan Historical Quarter, made from a city-designated traditional building put up over 110 years ago as the annex of a kimono merchant and later run as a ryokan until 2014. The old house holds the reception, a counter dining room serving a seasonal Japanese course and a street-front wine bar, and an inner lane leads back to rooms in the restored building and two new wings of lime plaster and brick.
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About the property
- Rooms
- 13
- Bath in the room
- Some rooms
- Dinner
- At a counter
- Recognition
- Condé Nast Traveler Hot List (2025); Design Hotels member (since July 2025); in the MICHELIN Guide hotel selection, without a Key (2026)
- Owned by
- Higashimachi Resort Co., Ltd. (株式会社東町リゾート), the operating company; the restoration was financed by investment and loans from the ALL-JAPAN Tourism Fund and San-in Godo Bank
Rooms and suites
Standard Room
about 30 sq m · Three rooms on the first floor of the restored main house, the only tatami-floored rooms, with a king-size bed and the original beams · wood reclaimed from the old building. Shower booth, no bath.
Maisonette – Renga
48 sq m · private courtyard garden view · Three two-storey rooms in a new brick-clad wing: washroom and semi-open-air bath downstairs, bedroom and living room upstairs, both floors overlooking a small private garden.
Maisonette – Shikkui
52 sq m · private courtyard garden view · Four two-storey rooms in a new lime-plaster wing echoing Kurashiki's white-walled storehouses, lined in hinoki cypress · semi-open-air bath downstairs, bedroom and living room upstairs.
Suites
Junior Suite
60–70 sq m · private garden view · Two rooms in the traditional building and its extension, bedroom and living area in one space under ceilings up to about 4 m, with a semi-open-air bath facing a private garden.
Suite
76 sq m · private garden view · The largest room, in the traditional building and its extension, with its own east gate as well as the entrance through reception, a separate bedroom, a living room with a ceiling of about 4 m and a semi-open-air bath overlooking a private garden.
Dining and wellness
An opening course of small bites on a dark tray at the counter
A spread of the seasonal course on the cypress counter
The 16-seat U-shaped counter around the open kitchen
Plating the mukozuke in Bizen-ware bowls
- Yoruya (dining counter)
- Japanese course counter
- Bar YORUYA
- wine bar · street-front shop
- Wellness
- No spa, gym or shared baths; ten of the 13 rooms have their own semi-open-air bath.
Where it is
- Kurashiki station
- 20 min on foot
- Kurashiki station
- 10 min by taxi
- Okayama station
- 20 min by train
- Okayama station
- 45 min by taxi
- Okayama Airport
- 35 min by bus
- Okayama Airport
- 45 min by taxi
2-7 Higashimachi, Kurashiki
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Okayama Momotaro Airport (OKJ), about 60 minutes by limousine bus to Kurashiki station or by car.
