Hanazono, Kutchan, Hokkaido (北海道倶知安町花園) – SHIGUCHI -シグチ – KU-空 villa tour 2025 Jun. 21
so this is the main building we came from and then here are the five villas and um according to mr wakatab um so the main building uh was a kinka an old house um relocated from toigi prefecture but these villas are from aizu wakamatsu in fukushima prefecture and uh carefully and lovingly restored so you have a detached housing that’s authentic but also modernized for the modern person’s comfort so our room is at the far end and so when we arrived we parked our car right up in front of the main building and then they brought it to in front of the building we are staying in walking there so this is how mr wakatab is graciously holding my tripod okay so this is the entrance right c oh so the room name is c which is uh the character is denotes the sky okay it’s a little dark today right [Music] so slippers some more artistic work [Music] so this is a two-story mezzanet style room this is the highest category room unless you rent out um there’s another room that you can combine two rooms into one um but that’s they only allow it for guests of three people or more and we are not so this is a coup for as a single unit um this is the highest end property oh okay that’s so this is um so it’s straight from the source never recirculated a co and uh yeah you can smell it it’s they pull it from their own spring source she shiguchi does not too far away so it’s piped in wow it’s open air but they have a screen door which is nice and then you can hear the rustling of the feathers and the uh in the stream below in there okay all right so here is the main living area this is a dining table um there are some people who do have extended stay here so um they have a little kitchenet with a sink and a electric stove and a a fullsize refrigerator all the cutlery the pantry area but again from this room you can see the valley and the river down below another view of the main living area and the onsen actually did i i did not show the i did not even see the bathing area so this is the sink and then this is the shower it’s modern okay and um all the towels and amenities are here okay
there’s one another onen downstairs there’s another onen so this room has three stories let’s so he mr wakata says there’s another onsen downstairs so this is a three floors total okay so now you’re at sort of ground level and um wow you can really smell the sulfur from the onen wow this is a really nice bedroom very japanese modern wow it’s like you’re staying in a different place mhm oh comfortable river is down below go in from here [Music] okay hello let’s just see the oh and they have a towel rack heated yep they have electronic heating of the rack toilet toilet so they have two bathrooms toilets and um and then this is the indoors wow [Music] so so if if you’re in the onen for a long time and you get hot then uh you can open up go out there and open up the the the um the glass door and kind of cool off a little bit
that’s really nice okay so um all right and onen oh the the resting area from here you can actually go in this way to the onsen anyway so now we’re going to hike up to the third floor so this is a view of the bed from this angle okay let’s go and so the third floor is a wastu means uh japanese style room and so again here’s another look at the so kitchen dining table rock bath onen uh you have the fireplace living area with pretty massive leather sofa and pillows enjoy the tall beams and this is where we came in from so anyway so let’s let’s go to the oh he says there’s another japanese room oh we haven’t been here okay oh so japanese uh washi with a tatami floor very uh stylish oh look you can even put your foot in there down there and a nice little cylindrical window of a view of nothing but nature maybe you’ll we’ll look out and see it so ezo deer native to hokkaido maybe okay so going upstairs you can see oh yeah it’s pretty big head of one okay so so from here you can see the uh wind pills again um they don’t use like nails or screws it’s it’s it’s they just um fit them in like tetris or if you’ve been to kyoto kom kizu temple man the light’s low so i think it’s pretty noisy in this video [Music] is there a light switch there’s natural light coming in oh okay so this is the japanese room the top family floor yeah it’s often used for when you have large groups uh sharing a place where they’ll roll out the futon meditation
yeah so sometimes they’ll do that let’s see okay and then and then over here is a bathroom toilet so there’s toilets in three all three floors you can see down below okay so that is coup the room um at shiguchi a new five room doan in u near nico in hokkaido japan hope you enjoyed
A walkthrough of KU-空, a 247m² accommodation at SHIGUCHI -シグチ, a 5-room luxury ryokan established in 2022 May by Shouya Grigg, and located in the Niseko area in Hanazono, Kutchan, Hokkaido (北海道虻田郡倶知安町花園.)
KU-空 is a 3-storey structure that features two “gensen kakenagashi” (straight from the source, free flowing and never recirculated) onsen (hot springs) baths, and has toilets in each floor for convenience. The structure itself is a restored “kominka” (“old house” or “folk house”) that was relocated from Aizuwakamatsu in Fukushima Prefecture and painstakingly restored and modernized.