Nazuna Obi Castle town hot spring

This project renovated a samurai residence that is over 140 years old and remains in the castle town of Obi Castle in Nichinan City, Miyazaki Prefecture, into a tourist hub and hot spring inn for the town.
Each of the five guest rooms was concept design based on a local characteristic, incorporating the town's color "honmurasaki," "cedar" that supports the industry, "tea tree" that is cultivated as a hedge, "orange" that is a citrus fruit of the city, and "moss" that is important to the town's landscape. This project was carried out using subsidies from the "Shopping District Revitalization and Tourism Consumption Creation Project," and our company participated in a wide range of projects, from hard to soft aspects, such as producing cards and maps to promote touring local shops and the area as a tourist base, developing cooking experiences, and installing new lanterns as street lights starting from Honjuku. The area is being reborn as a central presence in future urban development.

The goal is to contribute to revitalizing tourism in the city by utilizing existing buildings, such as the 140-year-old main house that the city acquired from an individual.
This is a project being carried out in cooperation with the shopping district association as part of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's "Shopping District Revitalization and Tourism Consumption Creation Project."
How can we create something good within the constraints of the traditional buildings preservation district and the constraints imposed by the city's cultural property department on changes to the building? We had to consider a comprehensive range of issues, including how to improve the experience of the stay.

I participated in the survey of the existing building, made a path to change the use with the building supervisor from the state of the building as a violating building, and coordinated with the city to bear the construction cost, etc., and was in charge of the building interiors design construction from concept design.
After applying for confirmation of change of use, we met the criteria for subsidies from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and completed the renovation work while making adjustments, such as repeated discussions with the city's Cultural Properties Division. As a regional revitalization project through the utilization of traditional buildings, we used plenty of locally grown Obi cedar and contributed to the circulation of the local economy.