Nazuna Obi Castle town hot spring

This project involves renovating a samurai residence, over 140 years old, located 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 is concept design with a theme reflecting the characteristics of the region, incorporating the town's color "purple," "cedar" which supports the industry, "tea tree" which is used in hedges as part of the local culture, "bitter orange" which is the city's citrus variety, and "moss" which is important to the town's landscape. This project utilized subsidies from the "Shopping Street Revitalization and Tourism Consumption Creation Project," and our company participated in a wide range of aspects of the project, from hardware to software, including creating cards and maps to encourage exploration of the area in collaboration with local shops, developing cooking experiences, and installing lanterns as streetlights starting from this inn. It has achieved a revitalization that will serve as a core element in future town 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 investigation of the existing building, established a path for changing the use with the building principal from the state of the violating building, and after coordinating with the city to bear the construction cost, I was in charge of the architectural interiors design construction from concept design.
After applying for confirmation of change of use, we met the subsidy standards of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and made adjustments such as repeated consultations with the city's Cultural Properties Division to realize the renovation work. As a regional revitalization project through the utilization of traditional buildings, we used plenty of locally produced Obi cedar and contributed to the circulation of the local economy.