Journal
Writing from Mori no Auberge Mitsu
How to enjoy an auberge, how to choose an inn in Hokkaido, and the ingredients of Atsuma.
Pieces we hope you will read before you travel, written a little at a time.
Lunch around Mitsu
Where to eat lunch before you check in
Check-in at Mori no Auberge Mitsu is from 15:00, so your arrival day has an open midday. Here is where to eat around Atsuma, from Kobushi-no-yu Atsuma to hokki curry in Tomakomai, with drive times from Mitsu.
Budget at Mitsu
What a two-meal rate includes, and what it does not
An auberge rate brings your room and your meals together in one figure. Here is how to read a two-meal price: what the rate covers, the lodging tax and cancellation terms, and the option to come only for dinner.
What is an Auberge
What is an auberge? The meaning, and the difference from a hotel or a ryokan
An auberge is a house where the cooking comes first. What the word means, and how it differs from a hotel or a ryokan, explained simply.
How to Choose
How to choose an auberge in Hokkaido
The cooking, the location, the rooms, the price, the size. Five things to look at so you do not regret the choice, and how to choose by purpose.
Ingredients of Atsuma
Ingredients of Atsuma: pork, rice, hokki clams and haskap
Mailabuta pork, Nanatsuboshi rice, the seafood of the Iburi coast, and haskap berries grown here on the largest planted area in Japan. The gifts of Atsuma that fill our course.
Digital Detox
A digital detox, at an inn with no television
There is no television in the rooms. Turn the screen off and the sound of the forest comes through. A night away from screens, at a hideaway that takes three groups a night.
Forest Bathing
Forest bathing: a night in a Japanese oak wood
Open the window and the forest is right there. Herbs from that forest go into the bath. Forest bathing that lasts the whole night, in the way only Mitsu can offer it.
Quiet Stay
For those looking for a quiet inn
Three groups a night, no television in the rooms, a Japanese oak forest all around. What is inside a hideaway that has quiet built into its design.
Solo Trip
An inn for solo travel in Hokkaido
We welcome guests travelling on their own. A full Japanese creative course and a goemon-style tub in your own room, for time entirely to yourself.
Before & After Your Flight
Where to stay near New Chitose Airport, before or after a flight
A late-night arrival, an early departure, or the first and last night of a longer trip. An airport hotel, Chitose town and a forest inn 30 minutes away, compared honestly.
A Night in a Kominka
What a night in a 120-year-old farmhouse is actually like
Arrival at 15:00, the forest in the late afternoon, dinner at 18:00, an evening with no television, a bath at 07:00 and breakfast at 08:30. Nineteen hours, in order.
Guide
Guides to staying and exploring
Pages that show how to spend your time at Mitsu, according to what brings you here.
Staying in a 120-year-old farmhouse / The forest herb bath and the goemon-style tub / An inn for anniversaries / 30 minutes from New Chitose Airport / Staying in Atsuma / What guests say