Traditional Thatched Houses in Miyama, Kyoto

The Origin of Japan Lives in Small Villages

You may think Tokyo or Osaka represents Japan.
But the true origin of Japan lives in countless villages of a hundred people.
If you want to understand Japan, start here.

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“Making Thatched Houses Something Everyone Can Share”

Without oil, without machines, without money,
the people of Miyama built more than 500 thatched houses.

Why?
We want you to feel it with all five senses.
Within them lies a message for world peace.

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Six Houses Across the Village

This is not a museum.
This is not a hotel.

These houses do not belong only to us.
They are meant to be shared.

They will outlive us.
Your stay sustains their future.

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MIYAMA

All things are impermanent.

Every visit reveals a different Miyama.

A Collection of Six Heritage Retreats

Stay inside a living thatched house.

Explore the Houses

Thirty Years as a Japanese Thatcher

My master said to me before he died,
“I can’t take my skills with me into the coffin.”

I was entrusted with a fragment of a tradition that stretches back thousands of years in Japan.
It is not my possession.
It is something precious, held in trust.

It must be shared —
with you, and with all humanity.

Read the Founder’s Journey

EXPERIENCE

You do not consume Miyama.
You enter it.

EXPERIENCE
DINING

In the Founder’s Own Words(5:39)

Founder Haruo Nishio speaking about Miyama and thatched-roof culture

Beneath the Thatch

This film is not simply about accommodation. It is about why these houses still stand. About the hands that keep the thatch alive. About returning to a human scale of living. We invite you to step inside Miyama.

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