The Best Hotels Near PERTORNARE, by the Record

A Tadao Ando-designed resort on a tiny Inland Sea island where the hotel and the museum are the same building, and Monet, Pollock, and James Turrell are essentially your neighbors. Four architecturally distinct buildings hold the rooms, each offering a slightly different relationship to the art and the landscape. It holds a Michelin 2 Keys. Rates start high and the island is remote, but no budget-conscious operation hangs five Monet water lilies in a Giverny-inspired garden.

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A lakeside ryokan in Kochi where the audiophile-grade sound system gets the same thoughtful attention as the natural hot spring onsen. Rooms are sparse and uncluttered, framing the greenery outside like a considered composition, and the kitchen runs on freshly harvested local ingredients. The whole place orbits a single idea about living naturally, taken more seriously here than that word usually warrants.

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Every suite at this ryokan on the art island of Naoshima comes with its own open-air bath, which sets the tone rather well. Earthen walls, low futons, tatami mats, and handmade paper screens keep things quietly beautiful. The building doubles as a gallery, and the bar and minimalist firepit pull in the art-world crowd that arrives for the installations and stays for the sake. Holds a Michelin Key.

1. Michelin Guide 1 Key

A ten-story ryokan sounds like a contradiction, but Villa Rakuen makes it work by treating every floor as an extension of Awaji Island itself. Tatami rooms, wood-and-stone open-air baths, and private Japanese gardens just off the suites keep the tradition intact. The Hoshi rooms come with a cutaway gazebo roof for stargazing, and a top-floor celestial balcony handles the rest. Seafood and produce from the island's farms, which supply the Imperial household, fill the meals.

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