Stay

Light the fire,
cook, and sleep.

How a night goes

15:00–23:00
Check-in
Self check-in. How to open the door is explained in the guide we send after you book. Around the time you arrive, someone local will come by to say hello.
Evening
Light the fire
We recommend lighting it while it is still light. The printed instructions and tools are in the house.
Night
Time at the irori
Cook rice on the kamado and grill over the irori. However late it gets, nothing will rush you.
Morning
The garden, and tidying up
The air in the garden is different in the morning. All we ask is that you put the fire out.
By 11:00
Check-out
Please return the key to where you found it. Let us know if you left anything behind.
A family of four smiling around the irori hearth
Families and groups gather around the irori.

Food

No meals are provided. This is a self-catering stay — you cook for yourselves.

Cook rice on the kamado, grill over the irori, or have a BBQ in the garden. Cookware, a BBQ grill and tongs are provided. Firewood and kindling for the kamado stove are included. For the irori hearth or a BBQ, please bring your own charcoal, or buy it here (6 kg for 2,000 JPY). Charcoal is paid in cash at the house.

Using a bamboo blowpipe to keep the charcoal in the irori going
The irori burns charcoal. A bamboo blowpipe helps it along.

Where to shop

DCM Nicot Hitachi Satomi
About 2 minutes by car. Groceries and daily goods.
Family Store Terashima
About 3 minutes by car.
Isaka Sake Brewery
About 4 minutes by car. The local brewery — try their Hinodetsuru sake by the irori.
Michi-no-Eki Satomi (roadside station)
About 10 minutes by car. Local vegetables and produce.
JA Satomi farmers’ market
Vegetables picked that morning.
Satomi-no-Sato market “Yamazakura”
Seasonal produce.
York Benimaru Hitachiota
About 30 minutes by car. The widest selection — best visited on your way in, in town.

Opening hours and closing days change. Please check each shop’s official information before you go.

What to bring

Your food, and warm clothes and thick socks in winter. Towels, shampoo, body soap and futons are provided.

A green mosquito net hung in a tatami room at night, lit by a paper lantern
On summer nights, you sleep under a mosquito net.

Rates are on the Book page. Please also read Before you come — no air conditioning, cold winters, insects, and a fire you light yourselves.

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