| Mr. Ducasse is pursuing plans for a new hotel one hour from central Tokyo, a cross between a ryokan, a traditional Japanese inn, and an auberge, a French country inn. |
| Upstairs is reminiscent of a Japanese ryokan, or guesthouse, and the former banquet room still contains the stage where Japanese officers were once entertained. |
| While much of the Kumano Kodo is accessible by car or bus, our goal is to take in as much as possible by hiking, while sleeping in traditional ryokan and minshuku. |
| Accommodation ranges from four star hotels to traditional ryokan inns. |
| The spring was duly found and the priest asked a disciple, a member of the Hoshi family, to open a ryokan. |
| One of the city's oldest ryokan, it has only 19 rooms, each one perfection in understated style. |
