140years quaint house "Yamashigi No Mori"

● About Accommodation plan
One-building rental is available (38 ㎡×2buildings)
Adults(2person): 6,180yen~
Child( 3～14 ages): 2,000yen~
The accommodation fee is without meals.

●In Response to the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus)
Hotel staff will do hand washing and gargling, and the room is ventilated as much as possible.
For guests, please disinfect your hands and fingers with alcohol disinfectants, wear masks, hand washing, garment, and body temperature checks before entering.
Please feel free to use the antiseptic dispensers placed at the hotel.

● About this accommodation
This guesthouse is the first “Old traditional Japanese-style home-stay” in Morotsuka, which is rebuilt from a 140-year-old and 90-year-old folk house (“Shitashigi” and “Nakashigi”). It could offer a hearth, a kamado, and a Goemon bath for guests. As it located at an altitude of 650m, the surrounding area is very quiet.
* Goemon bath: a metal bathtub heated from beneath with a floating board to sit on.

● About the room
38㎡×2buildings (one building rental is available )
One building for max 15 people.
The room has a key.

● About the meal
No meal service.
There is a cooking area, and guests could cook by themselves.

● About the experience
- Making konjac (October-February)
Experience making and eating Konjac.
* Konjac: also known as Konjac or Devil's tongue, is a traditional Japanese food and is made from Konjac. Konjac is mainly grown in China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Southeast Asian countries. It's kind of rubbery but very healthy.

- Akumaki Making experience (All year)
Do you know Akumaki?
It is famous food in Minami Kyushu, which is cooked with glutinous rice in lye.
Guest will make Akumaki with local people, and enjoy the happy countryside time.

- Cutting Chicken experience （all year）
In Morotsuka, villagers will cut whole chicken during the New Year holiday and Obon Festival (summer holiday in Japan around August). But now, could experience all year.
Guest will handle live chickens and leave no meat or bones, this is a valuable experience which you cannot usually do.

- Making Washi experience (all year)
There is a "Morotsuka Washi Workshop" in Morotsuka Village.
The staff will tell you the ingredients of Washi and how to make Washi.
Guest will make one paper of Washi, which is unique in the world.
* Washi is a kind of traditional Japanese paper
　　　　
* The experience menu will be held by the Morotsuka Village Tourism Association.
Please contact us about the experiencing prices when you reserve.
* You can check other experience menus on the Morotsuka Village Tourism Association website.
http://www.morotsuka-tourism.jp/experience-menu.php#ID42

● Recommended travel spot nearby

-Ecomuseum Shiitake mushroom Museum 21
The traveler could take many kinds of experience, and also could taste many delicious seasonal mountain foods at “Donko Tei restaurant”, which only could be found at Morotsuka Village.
Shiitake mushroom Museum 21 is a perfect place for taking rest.
Approximately 10 km, about 25min. by car

- Morokko House
https://www.morokkohouse.jp/
“Shopping in the forest” is Morokko house’s conception.
The guest could buy the dried shiitake mushrooms, handmade miso, Japanese honey, etc.
All of the things are only could be found here.
Approximately 8 km, about 20min. by car

- Morotsuka Mountain
https://www.vill.morotsuka.miyazaki.jp/morotsukayama/
Mt. Morotsuka is as Kamiyama since ancient times in Takachiho, also it is the place where the name of Morotsuka Village came from.
There are more than a dozen circular burial mounds on the summit, which is said to be the reason why it is called "Morotsuka".
Every year on the first Sunday of March, the "Morotsuka Mountain Opening" event is held as "Japan's earliest mountain opening".
Guests can also enjoy beautiful azaleas when visiting from late April to early May.
*Kamiyama: The mountain where God resides
Approximately 27 km, about 60min. by car

● Recommended restaurants nearby

- Donko Tei
http://www.morotsuka-tourism.jp/eats.php
Donko Tei restaurant is attached to Shiitake mushroom museum 21.
The famous menus are Nanban Chicken and shiitake mushroom bowl, and other Miyazaki's specialties dishes.
Lunch & Dinner (Dinner reservation required )
*Nanban Chicken: deep-fried chicken dressed with tartar sauce.
(Approximately 10 km, about 25min. by car)


- Soko
https://tabelog.com/miyazaki/A4504/A450404/45005993/
Soko restaurant supply lunch and dinner (Japanese Izakaya Style).
Enjoy original multinational cuisine.
(Approximately 7 km, about 30min. by car)

● Access
120min by car from Miyazaki or Kumamoto Airport
80min. by car from Hyuga City Station
Will supply a guide map to the facility at the Shiitake Museum.

Japanese-style room: up to 15 people, futon 15 pairs, 21 tatami mats