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HOTEL IL PALAZZO was born in 1989 as Japan's first design hotel, a powerful collaboration between Italian master Aldo Rossi and Japan's leading interior designer Shigeru Uchida. It has been "re-designed" as a new space that inherits the original philosophy of 2023. The 130-seat lounge "El Dorado" offers buffet-style food presentations from breakfast to dinner. Guests staying at the hotel can freely access it. Please use it as "another living room" where you can relax outside of your guest room. Enjoy the "re-designed" space and time at this historic design hotel.

This facility is located in the Ochiai village of Higashi Iya. Generally speaking, villages are formed at the foot of a mountain, followed by fields, which is the so-called ``Japanese satoyama landscape.'' However, the village of Iya was carved into the slope of a mountain. Ochiai village is a village with a height difference of approximately 390 meters, and old private houses built from the middle to late Edo period are still dotted around the cliffs. These old private houses have structures and floor plans typical of mountain villages, and together with the village roads that wind through the village, and the surrounding stone walls and cultivated land, they create a unique landscape. In 2005, in recognition of the rarity of this historical landscape, the entire village was selected as an Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings. https://www.tougenkyo-iya.jp/

A long-established inn in Ureshino Onsen that was founded in 1922, it has a quiet location surrounded by cedar trees. It was designed by the late Junzo Yoshimura, who also designed the basic design of the new Imperial Palace. Sister properties Shiiba Sanso and Seiryu are also popular.