What kind of facility is Auberge Homachi Mikuni-Minato? Auberge Homachi Mikuni-Minato is located in the Mikuni-Minato area, which prospered from the trade of Kitamae-bune ships from the Edo period to the Meiji period. It consists of 9 lodging buildings with 16 rooms, a restaurant building “Tateru Yoshino Mikuni Minato” and a front desk building, all of which are renovated old private houses that blend into the town. The name “Tateru Yoshino Mikuni Minato” is derived from the local word “sail waiting. Originally, it referred to the state of a Kitamae ship waiting for a good wind before setting sail, but since sailors were rewarded for selling their cargo or doing other cargo work, the name was translated to mean a waste or a reward for children. The hotel was named in the hope that “a stay at the hotel would be a reward for our guests.” The owner is Actibase Fukui, a group of 11 private companies, including NTT West and local businesses, which is responsible for tourism and community development in the Mikuni Minato area. Core Global Management, which operates Hewitt Resorts and other properties, will be in charge of management. The main target is wealthy people from Japan and abroad who are interested in Japanese culture, and in the future, the company hopes to have about half of their guests be inbound tourists.
Relax in a machiya where you can stay as if you were living in the house. The nine lodging buildings are scattered throughout the Mikuni Minato area as part of its heritage. The lodging buildings are renovated from traditional Mikuni Minato architecture called “Kagura-date machiya,” a gabled gable-roofed townhouse with a flat-roofed front room connected in front of a gable-roofed gable, as well as “hira-iri-zukuri” and “irimoya-zukuri” buildings. From a ryotei restaurant from the early Meiji period to a storehouse and a merchant’s store, they all have unique backgrounds. The interiors follow various themes such as martial arts, calligraphy and paintings, ryotei (traditional Japanese-style restaurants) and flower districts, Kitamae-ship and Mikuni Festival, etc. Art works provided by the owners of the townhouses are placed throughout the house, providing a unique and luxurious stay here. Some of the entrances, passageways, and gardens are decorated with “shakudani-ishi,” a type of stone that can only be found in Fukui Prefecture, so it is fun to look for it. We stayed at “Uroko,” a two-story townhouse built in the early Showa period (early 20th century) with a small garden. The rooms are equipped with a kitchen for long-term stays. A set of coffee beans, a coffee mill, and a dripper were provided to enjoy authentic coffee. In addition, as a device unique to the cold winters of Fukui, heating facilities were provided here and there. The bathrooms were heated, and there was even a small heater in the washroom, which was very much appreciated by the author, who is sensitive to the cold.
Unique Storehouse Stays Also available for tours other than the rooms in which guests stayed, the “Kikko” room, which allows guests to stay in a storehouse, was a personal hit. The room is half of a storehouse of a former wealthy wholesale storehouse, and when you look up, you can see the beams of the storehouse. In summer, guests can relax on the attached wooden deck. The former wealthy merchant wholesaler’s building is divided into four rooms, but “Bundo” facing the street is also recommended. If you climb up to the loft, you can watch the Mikuni Festival float parade through the street from the window. Normally, it is not possible to climb up, but only during the festival in May, a ladder is placed to allow visitors to do so. Enjoy the festival, which has a tradition of about 300 years, from a special seat. In addition, Auberge Homachi Mikuni Minato has prepared a map adding the hotel’s information to the municipal government’s hazard map in light of the Noto Peninsula earthquake on January 1. When we asked local residents about the situation at that time, they told us that although the earthquake shook the area, Mikuni Minato, where the ground was firm, suffered no serious damage. They said that they fled to higher ground because there was a tsunami warning, but the tsunami was only a few centimeters high and “was blended in with the rough waves of the Sea of Japan.
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