Iwate
The Takizawa-Hachimantai highlands facing Mt. Iwate. Villa-style stays with serious saunas and fire pits are appearing amid big skies and satoyama nature, for sauna, stars and four-season highland time.
Access: About 8 min by car from Takizawa IC on the Tohoku Expressway; near central Morioka. A car is essential.
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岩手県岩泉町Official site
An experience resort opened in April 2025 next to the Iwaizumi roadside station in Iwate, with rooms featuring saunas and artificial-onsen open-air baths, barrel-sauna glamping cabins, renovated folk houses, and even the Blue Train Nihonkai sleeper cars.
8 room types
岩手県滝沢市Official site
A forest glamping site in Takizawa, Iwate, where every room has its own private sauna. Choose from barrel, tent or dry saunas, then cool down in a cold bath or outdoor air, or on the snow in winter. Local branded-meat BBQ comes ready to enjoy hands-free, and several rooms welcome dogs.
8 room types
岩手県北上市Official site
A cottage-style lodging of log houses and trailer houses at the foot of the Geto Kogen highlands in Kitakami, Iwate. Enjoy casual outdoor BBQ with rental gear and an auto-camp site, with a hot-spring facility right nearby and the Geto ski area close for winter trips.
2 room types
岩手県八幡平Official site
A green-season-only glamping site within the Appi Kogen mountain resort in Iwate. Enjoy hotel-quality BBQ, highland breezes by day and starry skies by night, plus a pet-friendly tent site and resort activities such as a dog run, a fishing pond and gondola rides.
