Tarumizu Old Folk House
・The listed price is per night/person, room only.
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Tarumizu Old Folk House offers 3 private guest rooms, decorated in the pure traditional Showa-era style.
Enjoy homemade meals prepared with love by the owners and made with homegrown rice, homemade miso and other local products.
Experience Japanese traditions and bath in a traditional wood-heated cauldron shaped bathtub, and explore new activities during your stay: fishing and harvesting, there’s plenty of fun to be had in Tarumizu! Night sky and firefly observation are also on the menu and will delight nature lovers.
●Rooms
・Sakura: 14m² Japanese-style room
・Teru: 11m² Japanese-style room
・Raku: 11m² Japanese-style room
●Equipment and amenities:
・Face and bath towels, toothbrush set, comb, razor, body soap, conditioner, hair dryer
・Television, air conditioner, Wireless LAN, tea house
●Details
□Rates
The room price is 1.5 times higher as the listed price during New-Year’s holiday, Golden Week, and Obon holiday.
□Meals
Meal plans are also available. Let us know if you’re interested in adding a meal plan to your booking.
・1 night 2 meals plan: ¥6,700 (tax excluded)
・1 night 1 meal (breakfast) plan: ¥5,100 (tax excluded)
You can also eat at our tea house or izakaya (Japanese-style bar).
□Bath
You can take a bath in the Goemon-buro (traditional cauldron shaped bathtub) from 5pm to 10pm. Following the traditions, Goemon-buro bathtubs are still heated with wood nowadays. It allows the body to warm up and relax.
If you’re interested in a traditional Japanese bath experience, make sure you check availability of the Goemon-buro on arrival and make a reservation.
If you wish to shower in the morning, please use the shower.
□Child price
Elementary school children (6 to 9 y.o): Room only ¥2,800 / Breakfast plan ¥3,900 / 2 meals plan ¥5,500
Children under 6 years old: No extra bed required ¥600 / 2 meals plan ¥1,200 / Extra bed and meals ¥1,800
Contact us for further information.
□Pick up service: thank you to contact us
□Parking: 25 parking spaces available
●Activities:
・Fishing:
-Fishing in Kinko Bay on a leisure boat (horse mackerel, mackerel, golden threadfin bream
etc): from ¥8,000 (tax excluded)
-Fishing on tetrapods (false kelpfish, wrasse, sillago fish etc): from ¥5,000 (tax excluded)
*Minimum 1 participant
*¥3,000 discount if you bring your own fishing equipment and bait
*Please contact us if you wish to book a stay or rent a leisure fishing boat
*We may not be able to go fishing if the weather conditions are not good
・Mikan (small mandarin) harvest in Sakurajima
・Harvest experience
・Sunset, night sky observation
・Firefly observation
●In the neighborhood
・Tarumizu Thousand Gingko Garden, 10 minutes away by car
・Tarumizu Roadside Station Foot Bath, 30 minutes away by car
・Sakurajima, 30 minutes away by car
●Events in Tarumizu
・Takatoge Spring Azalea Festival (every year from late April to early May)
・Kampachi Festival (every year in May and October)
・Tarumizu Fureai Festa Summer Festival (every August)
●Access
Take the Tarumizu Ferry at Kamoike, then take a bus in direction of Kanoya/Shibushi (鹿屋/志布志) and get off at Nishikicho (錦町), or drive for 5 to 7 minutes.
Please note that an extra ¥1,500 will be charged for late check-in (9pm and after).