ROOM
Kura Room
This maisonnette-style room, converted from a 300-year-old Edo period kura, has a spacious tatami living room featuring a kotatsu foot warmer and a wood-floored bedroom with twin beds.
This room also boasts a second story of sorts, a tatami room under low sloping beams that is accessible by a steep set of stairs. This is a yane-ura beya, or attic room, often used in traditional homes as an additional bedroom, as a play area and secret place for children, or as a storage room. The sloping black rough-hewn beams, left over from the original kura, seem a bit low at first, but from floor level, where one spends most of one's time in this room, they are an ideal height for sitting. Gazing out the low window at the Bikan quarter below provides a nice natsukashii (old-time) feeling for Japanese guests.
This room also boasts a second story of sorts, a tatami room under low sloping beams that is accessible by a steep set of stairs. This is a yane-ura beya, or attic room, often used in traditional homes as an additional bedroom, as a play area and secret place for children, or as a storage room. The sloping black rough-hewn beams, left over from the original kura, seem a bit low at first, but from floor level, where one spends most of one's time in this room, they are an ideal height for sitting. Gazing out the low window at the Bikan quarter below provides a nice natsukashii (old-time) feeling for Japanese guests.
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