Chapter 03 · Experiences 03
The bay, and well beyond it.
41 ways out from the house: days guided by your host, partner workshops, and small things at the house. Add a paid tour to your stay and the stay is 10% less.
Your host guides; you travel on foot, by train, in your own car or a licensed hire car. Partners charge you directly.
This month
In season now.
十一月
霜月
November· This month
The nights come early: on clear evenings, stars over the upper deck by six.
- Maple festival at Atami Baien, lit 16:30–21:00, free entry
In season
The gazetteer
Every place, on one map.
Seals are catalogue numbers. Things at the house share the gold star.
Choose a ticket切符売り場
Pick one ticket or several; the map and the cards follow.
Collection 01
Host originals
Days only someone who lives here can give you.
The days your host invented: a whole Izu day stitched from your own picks, the fireworks from the water's edge, Atami after dark, and the Jogasaki cliffs as the sky goes pink.
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No. 016–10 hours
Your own Izu day
No. 01Your own Izu day
- Duration
- 6–10 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- By train · Come in your own car
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- G3
No. 021.5–2 hours
A fireworks evening
No. 02A fireworks evening
- Duration
- 1.5–2 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- Meet there · By train
- Price
- Free for staying guests
- Map
- G3
No. 032–2.5 hours
Atami after dark
No. 03Atami after dark
- Duration
- 2–2.5 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- On foot
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- G3
No. 13About 4 hours
Jogasaki at dusk
No. 13Jogasaki at dusk
- Duration
- About 4 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- By train · Come in your own car
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- H5
Collection 02
History and heritage
Gold, iron and the Tokugawa: four centuries of Shizuoka.
Shizuoka is where much of Japan's story turned: the gold that paid for a shogunate, the furnace built in answer to the Black Ships, the castle where Ieyasu ruled in retirement.
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No. 047–10 hours
Shizuoka history day
No. 04Shizuoka history day
- Duration
- 7–10 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- Transportation by car and a bilingual guide will be arranged · Come in your own car
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- F3
The hire company bills you directly; our fee is for the guiding.
No. 05About 2.5 hours on site; a half day from Atami
Toi Gold Mine: the Edo tunnels
No. 05Toi Gold Mine: the Edo tunnels
- Duration
- About 2.5 hours on site; a half day from Atami
- Season
- Getting there
- Transportation by car and a bilingual guide will be arranged · Come in your own car
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- E4
The hire company bills you directly; our fee is for the guiding.
No. 065–6 hours
The furnace that answered the Black Ships
No. 06The furnace that answered the Black Ships
- Duration
- 5–6 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- Transportation by car and a bilingual guide will be arranged · Come in your own car
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- F3
The hire company bills you directly; our fee is for the guiding.
No. 073 hours, or a full day with Takumi-shuku
Sumpu: Ieyasu's last castle
No. 07Sumpu: Ieyasu's last castle
- Duration
- 3 hours, or a full day with Takumi-shuku
- Season
- Getting there
- By train
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- A4
- 黒船No. 09 · History and heritageShimoda: where Japan openedPhotographs coming soon
Shimoda: where Japan opened
No. 09Shimoda: where Japan opened
- Duration
- About 8 hours (a long day)
- Season
- Getting there
- By train · Transportation by car and a bilingual guide will be arranged
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- F6
The hire company bills you directly; our fee is for the guiding.
Collection 03
Shrines and sacred places
Where Yoritomo prayed, and a camphor older than written history here.
Three shrines bound up with Minamoto no Yoritomo, and Kinomiya's great camphor: an exile's road to becoming shogun, walked from Atami.
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No. 08About 8 hours
Yoritomo's three shrines
No. 08Yoritomo's three shrines
- Duration
- About 8 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- Transportation by car and a bilingual guide will be arranged · Come in your own car
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- G2
The hire company bills you directly; our fee is for the guiding.
No. 10About 6 hours
Atami's shrines and the Jogasaki coast
No. 10Atami's shrines and the Jogasaki coast
- Duration
- About 6 hours (3.5 hours for the two shrines alone)
- Season
- Getting there
- Transportation by car and a bilingual guide will be arranged · On foot
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- G3
The hire company bills you directly; our fee is for the guiding.
No. 11About 3 hours
Mishima Taisha at first light
No. 11Mishima Taisha at first light
- Duration
- About 3 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- By train
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- F3
Collection 04
Coast, caves and geology
A UNESCO Global Geopark: lava cliffs, sea caves and a path that appears at low tide.
Izu was a volcanic island that drifted north into Honshu, and its coast still shows it: white ash cliffs in the west, black lava in the east.
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No. 12About 9 hours
West Izu: the Dougashima coast
No. 12West Izu: the Dougashima coast
- Duration
- About 9 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- Transportation by car and a bilingual guide will be arranged · Come in your own car
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- D6
The hire company bills you directly; our fee is for the guiding.
- 火山No. 14 · Coast, caves and geologyEast Izu's volcanoesPhotographs coming soon
East Izu's volcanoes
No. 14East Izu's volcanoes
- Duration
- About 8 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- Transportation by car and a bilingual guide will be arranged · Come in your own car
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- G4
The hire company bills you directly; our fee is for the guiding.
Collection 05
Mt. Fuji and tea country
Fuji over the tea rows, and the cup that comes from them.
Shizuoka is one of Japan's great tea regions, and many of its fields sit on slopes that look straight at Fuji. We go when the mountain is likeliest to show.
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No. 15About 7 hours
Mishima and Mt. Fuji
No. 15Mishima and Mt. Fuji
- Duration
- About 7 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- Transportation by car and a bilingual guide will be arranged · Come in your own car
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- F3
The hire company bills you directly; our fee is for the guiding.
No. 16About 8 hours
Tea country, field to cup
No. 16Tea country, field to cup
- Duration
- About 8 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- Transportation by car and a bilingual guide will be arranged · Come in your own car
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- D2
The hire company bills you directly; our fee is for the guiding.
Collection 06
Crafts and hands-on
Clay, indigo, bamboo and gold dust: take home something you made.
Workshops run by the people who do the craft for a living. We book them, translate at the bench if you like, and they charge you directly.
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No. 17About 3 hours
A morning at Takumi-shuku
No. 17A morning at Takumi-shuku
- Duration
- About 3 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- Meet there · By train
- Price
- We book it; the partner charges you directly
- Map
- A4
- 陶No. 18 · Crafts and hands-onThrow a bowl in ShizuokaPhotographs coming soon
Throw a bowl in Shizuoka
No. 18Throw a bowl in Shizuoka
- Duration
- About 2 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- Meet there · By train
- Price
- We book it; the partner charges you directly
- Map
- A4
No. 19About 1.5 hours
Indigo and tea dyeing
No. 19Indigo and tea dyeing
- Duration
- About 1.5 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- Meet there · By train
- Price
- We book it; the partner charges you directly
- Map
- A4
No. 20About 1 hour on site
Pan for gold, dig for gems
No. 20Pan for gold, dig for gems
- Duration
- About 1 hour on site
- Season
- Getting there
- Meet there · Licensed hire car, arranged by us
- Price
- We book it; the partner charges you directly
- Map
- E4
The hire company bills you directly; the partner bills you for the day.
Collection 07
Sea and fishing
Out at first light, Fuji behind the boat.
Sagami Bay at dawn, on a registered fishing boat we trust. What you catch, you cook yourselves or have cut by a licensed partner.
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No. 215–6 hours
A dawn boat, your own catch
No. 21A dawn boat, your own catch
- Duration
- 5–6 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- Meet there · Come in your own car
- Price
- We book it; the partner charges you directly
- Map
- G3
Collection 08
Food and local tables
The tables we book for our own family.
Kinmedai, himono, a sushi counter that fills by noon. We book through our own network; you pay the restaurant. The house itself never sells a meal.
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No. 221.5–2 hours a meal
Tables we book for our own family
No. 22Tables we book for our own family
- Duration
- 1.5–2 hours a meal
- Season
- Getting there
- On foot · Meet there
- Price
- We book it; the partner charges you directly
- Map
- G3
No. 23About 9 hours
A West Izu food day
No. 23A West Izu food day
- Duration
- About 9 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- Transportation by car and a bilingual guide will be arranged · Come in your own car
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- D5
The hire company bills you directly; our fee is for the guiding.
Collection 09
Onsen
Real hot springs: a cave spring, a geyser and a town of more than 500 sources.
The tub at the house is heated tap water. For the real thing, we go into town: Atami has bathed shoguns since 1604.
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No. 24About 3.5 hours
Onsen hopping in old Atami
No. 24Onsen hopping in old Atami
- Duration
- About 3.5 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- On foot · By train
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- G3
Collection 10
Festivals and seasons
Japan's earliest spring and its latest autumn, with fireworks in between.
Atami's calendar runs early and late: plum and cherry in January, a summer festival of thirty floats, and maples still red in December.
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No. 25About 3 hours
Kogashi Matsuri nights
No. 25Kogashi Matsuri nights
- Duration
- About 3 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- On foot · By train
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- G3
No. 263–8 hours
Japan's earliest spring
No. 26Japan's earliest spring
- Duration
- 3–8 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- On foot · By train
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- G3
- 紅葉No. 27 · Festivals and seasonsJapan's last autumn leavesPhotographs coming soon
Japan's last autumn leaves
No. 27Japan's last autumn leaves
- Duration
- About 2.5 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- By train · On foot
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- G3
Collection 11
Retro Atami
The honeymoon town of the Showa years, back in style.
In 1961 more people came to Atami's hot springs than anywhere else in Japan. The arcades, kissaten and villas from those years are being loved again.
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- 昭和No. 28 · Retro AtamiRetro Atami walkPhotographs coming soon
Retro Atami walk
No. 28Retro Atami walk
- Duration
- About 3.5 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- On foot
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- G3
- 喫茶No. 29 · Retro AtamiA Showa kissaten crawlPhotographs coming soon
A Showa kissaten crawl
No. 29A Showa kissaten crawl
- Duration
- About 2.5 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- On foot
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- G3
- 着物No. 30 · Retro AtamiKimono in retro AtamiPhotographs coming soon
Kimono in retro Atami
No. 30Kimono in retro Atami
- Duration
- About 3.5 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- On foot
- Price
- We book it; the partner charges you directly
- Map
- G3
- 城No. 31 · Retro AtamiAtami Castle, 160 m above the bayPhotographs coming soon
Atami Castle, 160 m above the bay
No. 31Atami Castle, 160 m above the bay
- Duration
- About 2 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- By train · On foot
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- G3
Collection 12
Hakone days
Owakudani, Lake Ashi and the Open-Air Museum, or the ridge above them.
Hakone is next door, about forty-five minutes away. We take the classic loop on Hakone's own trains, ropeway and boats, or climb above it.
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No. 32About 8 hours
Hakone's three classics
No. 32Hakone's three classics
- Duration
- About 8 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- By train · Transportation by car and a bilingual guide will be arranged
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- G2
The hire company bills you directly; our fee is for the guiding.
No. 335–6 hours
The Daimonji ridge hike
No. 33The Daimonji ridge hike
- Duration
- 5–6 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- By train
- Price
- Guide fee, from ¥5,000 each with your stay
- Map
- G2
Collection 13
Family and active
For children over eight, and groups who like to move.
Things we book for families and sporty groups: a court between the palms, and a salt-making workshop when the town holds one.
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- 塩No. 34 · Family and activeMake your own sea saltPhotographs coming soon
Make your own sea salt
No. 34Make your own sea salt
- Duration
- About 2 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- Meet there
- Price
- We book it; the partner charges you directly
- Map
- G3
No. 35About 2 hours
Tennis between the palms
No. 35Tennis between the palms
- Duration
- About 2 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- Meet there · Come in your own car
- Price
- We book it; the venue charges you directly
- Map
- G3
Collection 14
At the house
No car needed: the deck, the garden and the sky.
Some of the best of Atami never leaves the hill: plum from the garden, the grill on the deck, the bath with the bay in it, and Orion over the roof.
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No. 36About 30 minutes
Ume picking, and the umeshu story
No. 36Ume picking, and the umeshu story
- Duration
- About 30 minutes
- Season
- Getting there
- Meet there
- Price
- Free for staying guests
- Map
- G3
No. 372–3 hours
A grill night on the deck
No. 37A grill night on the deck
- Duration
- 2–3 hours
- Season
- Getting there
- Meet there
- Price
- Free for staying guests
- Map
- G3
- 星No. 38 · At the houseStars from the upper deckPhotographs coming soon
Stars from the upper deck
No. 38Stars from the upper deck
- Duration
- As long as you like
- Season
- Getting there
- Meet there
- Price
- Free for staying guests
- Map
- G3
No. 39A week or more
Work with the bay in view
No. 39Work with the bay in view
- Duration
- A week or more
- Season
- Getting there
- Meet there
- Price
- Part of your stay
- Map
- G3
No. 40An evening
Tub, bath and sauna, in that order
No. 40Tub, bath and sauna, in that order
- Duration
- An evening
- Season
- Getting there
- Meet there
- Price
- Free for staying guests
- Map
- G3
No. 41About 20 minutes
A welcome on the deck
No. 41A welcome on the deck
- Duration
- About 20 minutes
- Season
- Getting there
- Meet there
- Price
- Free for staying guests
- Map
- G3
How our days work
Guide fees, said once.
- With your stay
- ¥10,000 for one guest, ¥7,500 each for two, ¥5,000 each for three to twelve
- Tour only
- ¥10,000 each, for two guests or more
- Groups
- Seven or more, book 10 days ahead; more than twelve, a partner guide joins on three weeks' notice
- Fishing
- Book 21 days ahead
- Paid on the day
- Admissions, boats, workshops, meals, fares and fuel
- Getting about
- On foot, by train, in your own car or a licensed hire car billed by the hire company. Never in the host's car.
- The stay bundle
- Add a paid tour and the stay is 10% less; discounts don't combine
- Partners
- Boats, workshops, restaurants and venues set their own prices and bill you directly; booking through us is free
Ask us about a date.
Tell us the day, who's coming and what you'd like to see. Your host replies within a few hours, in English or Japanese.