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Tokyo · Value Edition · No. 01

hanare

Five rooms, with Yanaka's bathhouse and bicycles as the lobby

The architects behind HAGISO run it. Guests bathe at the local sento, eat in the neighbourhood and borrow bicycles to get around.

On the recordDesign press (Dezeen, Monocle)

SourcesSaved Spaces research, October 2026: MICHELIN Guide listings, travel and design press, official hotel sites

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