A private cultural residencePrivate Villa esoto

About

Exquisite beauty, refined moments

About esoto

Not completed in a moment,
but nurtured over time,

carefully selected and honed.
Pared back to its essence,

inheriting and stewarding its heritage,
an incandescent beauty and opulence.

Experience

It all begins with pristine water.

Experience

Water

We will guide you through Hakushu's serene nature to the springs that shape each drop of Shichiken sake.

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Water

Rice Paddy

Rice growing. Witness a way of life rooted in the local climate and soil.

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Rice Paddy

Brewery

Taste sake and the vision of those who craft it inside a working sake brewery.

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Brewery

Journal

Echoes of Hokuto. Voices of Daigahara.

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Contemporary Hatago Cuisine|A Year at the Table

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Contemporary Hatago Cuisine|A Year at the Table

Daigahara, a post town along the historic Koshu Kaido. In the Edo period, travellers stopped here to remove their straw

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The Water of Hakushu, the Sake of Shichiken | Seventeen Expressions

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The Water of Hakushu, the Sake of Shichiken | Seventeen Expressions

The Water of Hakushu, the Sake of Shichiken Seventeen Expressions At the table of Private Villa esoto, there is always a

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A Journey to the Water Source

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A Journey to the Water Source

The story of Private villa esoto always begins with water. The sake poured at the table. The bath drawn in the kura. The

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Hokuto Through the Seasons

A sense of nature's bounty & transience

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Hokuto Through the Seasons

Nestled among 2,000-meter peaks, esoto sits within historic Daigahara—a post town on the old Koshu Kaido road where people and cultures have converged for centuries.

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