Kaizen Stays

Higashi-Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

The Kaizen Dojo

OperatingMonthly stays only
A tatami room at the Kaizen Dojo with sliding shoji screens along one wall, exposed dark timber posts and beams, and warm string lights.

An abandoned Japanese house brought back into use as a guesthouse, central to the whole of Kansai. Traditional tatami rooms, shoji screens, and a maker space in what used to be a back room.

What it is
Renovated akiya guesthouse
Where
Higashi-Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Stay length
Monthly stays only
Suits
Long-stay visitors who want a whole Japanese house rather than a hotel room, and who intend to range across Kansai rather than stay in one city.

Booking

Monthly stays are arranged directly rather than priced by the night.

Ask about The Kaizen Dojo the-kaizen-dojo.com

More of it

A tatami sleeping room at the Kaizen Dojo, low bed made up against a curtained wall, timber frame and string lights above. The Den at the Kaizen Dojo set up as a workspace: a multi-monitor desk on tatami matting under exposed beams and string lights. The Den at the Kaizen Dojo unfurnished, showing bare tatami flooring, exposed structural timber and the sliding door to the garden. The Kaizen Dojo from the street: the full front elevation of the renovated house, entrance and frontage visible, shot in daylight. A detail showing the akiya renovation: restored original timber or joinery sitting next to new work, close enough to see the craft.