Once there was an old house built one hundred years ago, where an old woman lived alone. Considering the future of the house, she entrusted its future to us.

Sitting by the irori fireplace between the shiny black beams and columns, you can still feel the atmosphere in which the old woman had carefully lived.

Kakuzan, a house that breathes with the community, has become a base for exchanges between the locals and the travellers.

Touch the Japanese mountenside satoyama culture, and your interest to this region nourishes a new relationship.