Relais & Châteaux has been striving to share traditions for almost 60 years. Throughout this period, the experienced chefs and maîtres de maison have helped the association create a veritable pool of talent, a jewel that must be preserved and developed.
In the name of our peers, the art of living and long-standing expertise, our core value focuses on the passing on of skills and knowledge. It is natural therefore that Blancpain, the world’s oldest watch-making brand, should be joining our Heritage Trophy. For this prestigious watch-maker, innovation is always synonymous with tradition. The past is an endless source of inspiration.
With this in mind, every year we reward a property for keeping its technical mastery alive and resolutely focusing its bold creativity on the future. Together we want to preserve the past and celebrate the future.
This property is open.
Hotel and restaurant in a village. Tatami mat floors, sliding paper window doors, wooden terraces... Welcome to an authentic ryokan whose traditions have carried on for seven generations. Many of the rooms look out to a lush Japanese garden and its surroundings where Japanese pines and a variety of plants and trees, shade the moss covered statues and ponds. The experience would not be complete without enjoying the hot spring baths set in a grove of bamboo and the traditional kaiseki meals, whose small dishes rival in delicacy and offer the opportunity to taste Matsuba crab (seasonal) and Tajima beef. ... Learn moreless
