Kashiwagura Onsen Taishikan

It is an inn with guest rooms that are all separated from each other in the middle of the landscape of Satoyama (dinner is served in the room). According to the inn's website, "Shotoku Taishi Shrine", which was founded by the predecessor, is also attached, and it is also famous as a power spot inn with a shrine. There is a very large parking lot, so I think that many visitors and day-trip hot spring visitors will come. I think it's probably the first time I've stayed at an inn with a separate room. The detached building has two Japanese-style rooms with futons already laid out. The spacious room overlooks the garden and mountains from the inn. I relaxed at the table kotatsu. I was able to watch YouTube on TV, and even though I came all the way to the inn in Satoyama, my spouse was immersed in YouTube. There were two keys for the room, which was convenient. The washroom area has been renovated and is very clean. There was a lot of attention to detail, such as the sound of the toilet running and the sound of running water becoming inaudible, and the toilet paper smelling good. About the hot spring, there was an explanation in the bath. “The source of Taishirei Kosen is located in the middle of the forest in Kashiwakura, Tochigi Prefecture, and has long been famous as a place for lions to drink water. It is said that they gathered together and drank the sacred water.” The color of the mineral spring in one of the indoor baths was gray and felt like a mud bath. The source seems to be effective, so I entered many times. The color of the open-air bath and indoor hot spring was transparent. The open-air bath is a rock bath. Dinner was served in a separate room, so I thought they would bring it all together, but they brought freshly made items many times. The appetizers were yuba, soy milk, cheese, etc., and the Tochigi sweetfish dried overnight was delicious to eat from the head. The Mushroom Nabe on the table had crispy mushrooms, and the buckwheat noodles in Oshinogi were made from new buckwheat flour from Tochigi Prefecture, fried crisply, and had a moist taste inside. The grilled steak was medium rare, and it was very soft and delicious with the original steak sauce. There was no rice, Taishi's handmade new soba, and the homemade matcha pudding for dessert was not too sweet, so I finished the dessert. As a late-night snack, he brought me Inari later. It was just the perfect dinner. The next morning, the lobby lounge was the breakfast venue. The pond with koi and Shotoku Taishi Shrine can be seen on the mountain of autumn leaves, which is a nice view. The breakfast had a lot of items, the salad had a delicious dressing, and the tofu from soy milk was eaten with rock salt. The tororo was springy with yam. There was also an after-meal coffee, and it was hot coffee, so it was good. I drank two cups. Payment was made on site. Paypay 20% point reduction was implemented in Tochigi City, so we paid with PayPay. It was my first time staying in Tochigi City, Tochigi Prefecture, but it was a wonderful inn in Satoyama.