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Guestroom 5, Baths 5, Meals 5, Location 5, Reception & Service 5

Plan: Guesthouse SORA Chikatsuyu | Supper ＆ Breakfast
Review: One of the best memories from Japan

We had a lovely stay. Everything was perfect - the hosts, the food, the place. Thank you very much!

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Guestroom 5, Baths -, Meals 5, Location 5, Reception & Service 5

Plan: Guesthouse SORA Chikatsuyu | Supper ＆ Breakfast
Review: A wonderful experience

We loved staying at Guesthouse SORA. Nome & her husband were wonderful hosts, very friendly and the most helpful of all our contacts on the walk. I would encourage all walkers to stay here!

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Guestroom 5, Baths 5, Meals 5, Location 5, Reception & Service 5

Plan: Guesthouse SORA Chikatsuyu | Supper, Breakfast & Lunch box
Review: Warm and Caring Attention to Detail

The moment we arrived after our first long hike we were greeted with warm smiles, barley tea with a tasty cracker and the offer to draw a bath for me (which I happily accepted.) Kimonos were provided and dinner was served promptly and beautifully. Each guest had a hot pot specific to her/his dietary requests. My husband is vegan and was well provided for. There were some great books available for reading (lots of Murakami) and lovely touches like toothbrushes in the shared bathroom in case you needed one. Naomi was amazingly gracious and generous, providing helpful information on the hike and about Chikatsuyu. She is genuine in her desire to connect with her guests and make them happy. Her husband is also lovely. The lunch box was also great. I would come back in a heartbeat and wish I could stay in touch because the hosts are lovely people.

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Guestroom 5, Baths 5, Meals 5, Location 5, Reception & Service 5

Plan: Guesthouse SORA Chikatsuyu | Supper, Breakfast & Lunch box
Review: Birthday at SORA

We had a very nice time at SORA guesthouse. Our hosts were super and the dinner was very good. The next morning it was my birthday and Naomi surprised me with a pancake which was amazing, thank you so much! 5/5 would recommend.

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Guestroom 5, Baths 5, Meals 5, Location 5, Reception & Service 5

Plan: Guesthouse SORA Chikatsuyu | Supper, Breakfast & Lunch box
Review: Thank you for the home like hosting!

Very friendly and considerate host couple. Nothing better than a hot bath, home-cooking dinner (and 2nd day bento box) and fun & open-minded conversations after a long day of walk! Feeling like staying at home and I hope I can be like this when I retire.:)))

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Guestroom 5, Baths 4, Meals 5, Location 4, Reception & Service -

Plan: Guesthouse SORA Chikatsuyu | Supper, Breakfast & Lunch box
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Naomi-San and husband are very kind, friendly and helpful . Naomi is so kind to find out our plan of hike for next day to Hongu, and gave us a piece of advice type of hiking plan in a brief summary paper together with bis schdules ..great help to us. .we had a great time, great food , god laugh and comfortable tatami for a night. Thank you Naomi .

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Guestroom 4, Baths 4, Meals 3, Location 4, Reception & Service 5

Plan: Guesthouse SORA Chikatsuyu | Supper ＆ Breakfast
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Glad to be given an ensuite room even though at the point of booking, it says shared batheoom and toilet. Am pleasantly surprised. Thank you !
However, the room had carpet that smelled, esp when one is sleeping on the futon on the carpet floor.

The house had lot's of treasures - books, CDs, cameras, and lovely coloured kimonos for guests to choose from. Really nice !

Host Naiomi-san was very hospitable, sitting at the dining table to entertain us during meal times. Though her english was not very fluent fluent, it's not difficult to understand her. She was very warm and really makes us feel welcome, sharing a lot of stories, history, interesting facts during meal times.

At checkin, she was very helpful with maps, showing us how to get around Chikatsuyu and even how to get to our next accomodation, with a folder of hand drawn maps and bus schedule. Must realky commend her for the good advice !

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Guestroom 5, Baths 4, Meals 5, Location 5, Reception & Service 5

Plan: Guesthouse SORA Chikatsuyu | Supper, Breakfast & Lunch box
Review: Fabulous place to stay in Chikatsuyu

We loved our stay at Guesthouse Sora. Naomi and Yasuyuki were both so friendly and helpful. They are passionate advocates for the town and Naomi was an absolute font of information. The dinner, served at a huge communal table, was quite simple but delicious and it was lovely to interact with the other guests and listen to Naomi talk about Japan and the Kumano region.

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Guestroom 5, Baths 5, Meals 5, Location 5, Reception & Service 5

Plan: Guesthouse SORA Chikatsuyu | Supper, Breakfast & Lunch box
Review: We felt so welcome

We had the lovely privilege of being the only two staying that evening during our honeymoon and had great conversations with Naomi-san and Yasu-san, sharing cultural anecdotes and discussing music. The traditional bedroom with the warming kotatsu was very comfortable. I'll never forget groggily waking up for breakfast and Naomi-san excitedly opening the kitchen door, brimming with cheer. I was barely awake and she was just thrilled to continue our talks. We were even served a special mochi after Naomi-san found out how much my wife liked it. We jokingly refer to them as our Japanese parents and will cherish our "goodbye" selfie. We hope to be back some day!

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Guestroom 5, Baths 5, Meals 3, Location 5, Reception & Service 5

Plan: Guesthouse SORA Chikatsuyu | Supper, Breakfast & Lunch box
Review: Very spacious house with kind owners

I spent a lovely evening with the kind owners in their spacious guesthouse. The location is very convenient for walking Nakahechi.