About the guesthouse. ◎An elevated location overlooking the city. Alpine mountains in front from the lawned garden. ◎ Living room, dining kitchen, Western-style room, small room, Japanese-style room, sunken hearth room, bath, washroom, toilet 3. ◎Please bring your own ingredients for meals and enjoy self-cooking on your trip! ◎During your stay, the host will be stationed in a trailer house on the premises. ◎The house can be used for family stays as well as for training and camps as it can accommodate a large group of people. About Satoyama Fun. ◎You can enjoy a fire or BBQ in the bonfire circle. (Please use dead branches and other wood from the grounds for the fire. ◎Pets can play freely in the garden. ◎You can enjoy fireworks in the garden, set up a swimming pool and have fun with your children. ◎You can enjoy a charcoal grill in the sunken hearth room. Please bring your own charcoal. ◎You can enjoy playing with water in the stream running through the grounds. ◎Bamboo can be cut from the bamboo thickets on the property, and you can enjoy making bamboo crafts with your children free of charge. ◎Depending on the time of year, you can experience ploughing the fields and growing vegetables free of charge. Reservations. ◎Reservations are limited to one group per stay, from 3 to 9 persons. ◎Children under 3 years old are free of charge. Please note that if you include them in the number of guests, they will be added to the price. ◎Please note that a separate pet cleaning fee will be charged if you bring your pet with you. Access. ◎Highway use by car About 10 minutes from Komakane IC on the Chuo Expressway. From Komagatake SA Smart ETC on the Chuo Expressway, approx. 5 mins. ◎Highway bus use About 10 minutes by car from Komagane IC bus stop on the Chuo Expressway. 13 minutes by car from Komagane Bus Terminal. ◎Train use 15 minutes by car from Komagane Station on the JR Iida Line. ※ It is an inconvenient place to be without a car. There is a convenience store within walking distance, but no supermarkets nearby. For transport arrangements other than by private car ◎Taxis Ako Taxi Maruhachi Taxi ◎Rent-a-car Shinano Rent-a-Car Nico Nico Rent-a-Car Shinshu Rent-a-Car Shinshu Rent-a-Car ◎Rental bicycles RONDBICYCLE Recommended places nearby. Komagatake ropeway Suganodai - Hayataro Onsen (Komakusa no Yu/Kobushi no Yu) Komagatake Ropeway Ootagiri River The Kurokawa Fisheries Department is a fishing company that specialises in fishing for char, sweetfish and other river fish. Kurokawa Fishery - Fishing for char and ayu (Kurokawa Fishery) - Kurakawa Forest/Yomeishu Komakane Factory Marusu Whisky Komagatake Distillery (Miyata Village) Bungei Touge Zero Jiba (Ina City) Yodagiri Park swimming pool (Iijima Town) Where pets may stay. Pets are not allowed to sleep on the bedding in the bedroom. The area for medium-sized and large dogs is the entrance hall, including the entrance dirt floor. Please let us know if you need a circle, cardboard, special towel, etc. Other special notes As pets are allowed to stay at this facility, the rooms are cleaned with citric acid and alcohol disinfection, and sufficient care is taken to keep the rooms clean.

A fully renovated 100-year-old traditional Japanese house, newly opened in March 2020! While preserving the charm of a classic kominka, the house incorporates modern architectural technology to create a hybrid traditional home that stays warm even in winter. Located just one hour from central Tokyo via the Ken-O Expressway and Aqua-Line, this countryside retreat lets you experience authentic satoyama living near Tokyo. “There’s nothing special here—yet it feels deeply nostalgic.” Enjoy this quiet luxury in the living room with a wood-burning fireplace and a spacious couch sofa. Step away from everyday life and relax in peaceful Japan countryside accommodation. On the same property, there is also a private music studio housed in a traditional kura warehouse, ideal for band practice or music sessions. Chonan Town is also home to eight golf courses—perfect for enjoying a round of golf followed by relaxed conversations in a traditional Japanese house. From the nearest Mobara Station, the JR Sotobo Line Limited Express Wakashio reaches Tokyo Station in just one hour, making Guest House Ren ideal for remote work in Japan. ■ Ideal for Long-Term Stays ■ To help you fully enjoy a slow and relaxing stay, we highly recommend consecutive nights. Discounts are available for extended stays. Please check “Long-Stay Discount” under the “Options” section. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ About the Accommodation ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Guest House Ren has been used for family gatherings, stays, events, and as a relaxing community space. The house accommodates up to 6 guests (Western-style bedroom for 2 guests and Japanese tatami room for up to 6 futons), and features an open kitchen, bathroom, toilet, and shared lounge area. Guests especially appreciate the harmonious blend of traditional Japanese architecture with modern interior design. Two bedrooms are available: one Japanese-style and one Western-style. The 12.5-tatami living room includes a wood-burning fireplace and a large couch sofa. Free Wi-Fi is available. The dining room features 100-year-old antique furniture from England, offering a unique fusion of Japanese and Western styles. The adjacent 10.5-tatami Japanese room features a tokonoma alcove, built-in shelves, and traditional shoin-style design. Up to six futons can be laid out at night. The Western-style bedroom features tatami flooring, plaster walls, shoji screens, and washi paper lighting, creating a calming Japanese-modern atmosphere. The former horse stable has been renovated into a washroom and toilet. The low ceiling height enhances the authentic charm of a traditional Japanese farmhouse. The bathroom is authentically designed with Towada stone flooring, hinoki cypress walls, and a small Japanese garden view. Enjoy a relaxing bath surrounded by the soothing scent of hinoki wood. The property includes a bamboo grove, butterbur field, chestnut trees, and persimmon trees. Guests are welcome to harvest seasonal produce for personal use on the day of consumption only. Children under school age without bedding stay free. Pets are allowed up to the earthen-floor entrance area. ■ Room Facilities & Equipment ■ The 4-meter-wide kitchen is ideal for group cooking. Fully equipped with cookware, refrigerator, microwave, gas oven, tableware, and cutlery—perfect for a stay that feels like living in Japan. ■ Amenities ■ Shampoo, conditioner, body soap, soap, towels, bath towels, face towels, hair dryer, slippers, electric kettle, refrigerator, TV, scale, microwave, tableware, washing machine ■ Dining ■ ・Meals are not provided, but the fully equipped kitchen allows you to cook freely. Pots, gas oven, microwave, kettle, toaster, rice cooker, tableware, and cutlery are all available. Please bring your own ingredients and seasonings. ・BBQ equipment is available in the garden. (Free of charge; please consult staff on the day) ・A wide variety of restaurants can be found in Mobara City within a 15-minute drive. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Options ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Please apply for the following options in advance. ■ Music Studio “Kura” A private music studio renovated from a 110-year-old kura warehouse is available on the property. Available for an additional fee (one group per day). Ideal for individual practice or band rehearsals. The studio may also be booked independently without accommodation, so early reservation is recommended. ・Approx. 10 tatami in size, with toilet and mini kitchen ・Equipment: PA system, microphones, amplifiers, upright piano, electric piano, drum set, bongos, and more ・Available hours: 9:00–20:00, no time limit within hours ■ Pizza Oven Includes: pizza oven, garden table, chairs, parasol, firewood *Ingredients not included ■ Garden Table Set Outdoor table set available Includes: garden table, chairs, parasol ■ Automatic Mahjong Table Fee ■ Shuttle Service to JR Mobara Station Available for up to 4 guests by car *Free shuttle to Chonan Town highway bus stop ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Important Notes ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ■ Wood-Burning Fireplace ・Enjoy a relaxing winter experience with the fireplace. ・Staff will explain usage on arrival; please follow the manual for safety. ・Firewood is provided with an additional nightly fee, payable on-site. December–February: JPY 3,000 per night (tax included) Other months: JPY 2,000 per night (tax included) ■ No Air Conditioning Traditional Japanese houses stay cool in summer; therefore, no air conditioning is installed. Electric fans are provided. Daytime may be warm, but nights are comfortable with open windows. ■ Insects Screens are installed, but due to the natural countryside environment, insects may enter. Insect spray and mosquito coils are provided. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Area & Neighborhood ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ・Convenience store / drugstore / large supermarket: 5 minutes by car ・Eight golf courses in Chonan Town (10–20 minutes by car) ・Kasamori-ji Temple (Bando 33 Kannon): 15 minutes by car ◆ About Chonan Town, Chiba ◆ Chonan Town is a peaceful rural area surrounded by satoyama landscapes and rice fields. Despite being only one hour from Tokyo, it offers quiet surroundings, clean air, seasonal nature, local produce, Boso cuisine, and multiple golf courses—perfect for a relaxing countryside stay in Japan. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Access ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [By Car] 5 minutes from Mobara-Chonan IC on the Ken-O Expressway [By Public Transportation] Highway Bus: Tokyo Station / Haneda Airport / Yokohama Station → Chonan Town Bus Stop (approx. 1 hour) JR Sotobo Line Mobara Station → 15 minutes by car [Shuttle Service] Pick-up and drop-off available to station or bus stop (up to 4 guests). Paid service for JR Mobara Station—please book via options. ・Free shuttle to Chonan Town highway bus stop ・JR Mobara Station shuttle available via paid option