CONNECT COMMUNITY
Golden sunlight streams through the street-facing windows illuminating tatami mats, simple low tables, and designer furniture alike. Calligraphy scrolls drape down in the traditional decorative alcoves, or tokonoma, with local art or fresh flowers. Transparent acrylic floors replace tatami mats upstairs. Decades old carpenter’s kanji grace the exposed beams of the roof, emphasized by LED spotlights. The early afternoon lights up all of Kiya Ryokan, a gem in coastal Uwajima, a southern town in the Ehime prefecture on Shikoku island.
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