The house is in the suburbs of Matsumoto. So you should better have your own car to get anywhere

This is a really beautiful original japanese tatami room. A rare opportunity to live in a room in traditional style.

Stayed in August 2025

Clean place. Great host.

Stayed in September 2025

It's wonderful to experience life in a real Japanese home. The room is beautiful and the host is super helpful.

Stayed in August 2025

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Elia is super nice and helpful, the house is 60 years old but it was so well renovated and maintained that I thought it was newly built! We had the best night of rest after 2 days hike in Nagano. Super host with super comfort, we plan to come back again and stay longer next time, there is so much to explore and to do around the area!

Stayed in August 2025

There is nothing I would change except to stay longer.

Elia was an amazing host, who went above and beyond at every step. He and his wife have a fantastic home, and it was the most beautiful location I have stayed in in Japan yet. He's also a professional chef so even his breakfast was delicious, and his garden in the back was superlative.

Stayed in August 2025

Beautiful traditional Japanese stay. We had a wonderful experience

Stayed in August 2025

The location is a little out from the centre or any walkable locations. Also you're staying in effectively the same vicinity as the hosts.

Traditional feel to the house which is a great novelty. The hosts are really friendly.

Stayed in July 2025

Had a great stay with Elia and Yurie! They also picked me up and brought me from the train station. The house is a traditional Showa era home with beautiful tatami flooring. They also gave me some great recommendations for places in Matsumoto. If you need to recharge this is a great place. Having a bike was an amazing way to get around and see the surrounding area and city. Bedankt voor alles! En helemaal voor de fiets!

Stayed in July 2025

Delicious breakfast and wonderful place. Nice traditional house with a wonderful location for mountain and temple treks. Friendly and easygoing host, with a warm welcome and no problems adapting to our schedule and needs.

Stayed in July 2025

Best to go with your own car/bike to give the best mobility and access to town etc...

Imagine a home-stay on the outskirts of a city in Europe, then transpose to the highlands of Japan, in a traditional Japanese setting with beautifully renovated rooms. Very friendly service and informative/accomodating hosts, you also get to enjoy a continental breakfast before taking off for the day to see the wonders of the Nagano region.

Stayed in June 2025

Google map of the house was not accurate, which is around 5-10 meters further AND on the other side of the street. We arrived after dark and it took us a good 10min to find the right house.

All round excellent place to stay - beautiful, clean house and a helpful host.

Stayed in June 2025

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Very clean and comfortable home, the hosts were great and very friendly. Amazing views from the house also

Stayed in May 2025

The bus to the center needs coins, so make sure you always have 300cent coins with you,otherwise you can't take the bus.But great option is having bicycles and ride into town amids rice fields, feeling like a local

Elio and his wife have put so much effort and love I to this beautiful guest house.It is stunning and very traditional, exceptionally clean and lovely. You will be sharing bathroom and toilet with the hosts, but have a whole japanese living room and bed room for yourself.Breakfast is included and extremely yummy The hosts are alternatively inclined regarding food and eco consciousness, so perfe t for people with the same mindset, you will love it

Stayed in May 2025

While conveniently right on a bus line, it took longer to get into town or to any food / grocery shops than I had anticipated. As a foreigner, I had a hard time contacting a taxi without a Japanese speaker's help -- which Yurie was happy to do, but it made the coming and going trickier than I anticipated.

Elia and Yurie were wonderful hosts! It was lovely to stay in a traditional Japanese home with beautiful, clean, and comfortable bedding and rooms. They are very welcoming -- even going above and beyond to let our children explore their lovely gardens and let my husband take early morning work calls in their living room so that we could keep sleeping! Thank you for having us.

Stayed in May 2025

Absolutely beautiful guesthouse, with great facilities & a very helpful host!

Stayed in May 2025

Nothing, everything was wonderful.

Nonna Milli was incredible- the beds were exceptionally comfortable, especially as Elia and his wife had them custom made for extra thickness. We woke up more comfortable than when we went to bed! The house is so beautifully kept and restored, with everything so well thought out- it felt very special staying in this house being our first time in Japan. Everything was immaculately clean. Sharing the bathroom was no problem at all, we didn’t even feel like it was a shared bathroom it was always available for us. A highly memorable experience in Matsumoto!

Stayed in April 2025

Parking on a slightly busy road was tricky and the walls are authentic paper thin- cool for authentic experience but not at all sound proof

Very authentic Japanese home stay with lovely couple that made us feel welcome. One of the best futon on tatami mats for comfort (although a little short for someone over 5’10”) that we’ve had. I would definitely recommend this stay for anyone wanting an authentic Japanese style tatami experience

Stayed in April 2025

Considering the distance from Matsumoto center you have to take the local bus every day. The fact that there are no sites, no shops, no grocery stores, no restaurants no breakfast service as a guest you have to plan ahead once moving in or out the house.

A charming traditional Japanese guest house inside Matsumoto. The House is full of wooden details and touches, really clean and all feel calm and harmonious.

Stayed in April 2025

The place is not at all convenient for non-driving tourist. Otherwise it will be an easy 10/10 for all type of tourist.

The host is friendly, spacious and clean room. Free car parking. The opportunity to live in a real local Japanese style house.

Stayed in November 2024

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The room is big and super clean.

Stayed in December 2024

A little bit of noise from traffic/house.

The traditional yet comfortable / impeccable room & the hospitality of the host.

Stayed in November 2024

Quiet and peaceful. Room in a private home. Italian host. He gave us a ride to the jr station in the morning

Stayed in November 2024

All was awesome.

It was very cozy and full of little nice details, it felt like arriving at a friend's house. I really liked that the owner put a lot of effort into his house. There is a lot of respect for local traditions, and you can appreciate it here.

Stayed in November 2024

The futons are a bit harsh to sleep on. The host told us he’ll make them thicker in the beginning of 2025. So that won’t be a thing anymore!

The authentic Japanese-style room was beautiful. The host made us feel at home and was hospitable. Also he’d had amazing recommendations, ask for the gyoza restaurant and for the katsu restaurant if you’re there! We had a great stay and would recommend it to everybody who is planning a trip to Matsumoto, also for the experience to sleep on a futonbed, as 2 Europeans it was a first :-)

Stayed in November 2024