From the harmony of one town to a circle the world is drawn to.

Digging out what a plain way of living here is actually worth

Iwase sits in the arm of Toyama Bay. The Kitamae-bune trading ships once carried culture into this port, and what they left behind is still here — quiet hours, and craft built up by the people who came before.

IWASE STaY inherits a building that has kept time in this town, and breathes something new into it. What we offer is not simply a room to put yourself in. The fermented food culture of the Sea of Japan coast, the Tateyama range on the horizon, and the people who live here: what you get is the meeting between Iwase and you, and the way it slowly connects.

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Rooms

Five rooms. Each has somewhere to be that is not the bed — a terrace open to the wind, a bath you lose an hour in, a window that frames the view like a hung painting. Every room was drawn from what the existing building already offered.

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Experiences

Step outside and the port town is yours on foot. Merchant houses along the old Hokkoku road, sake breweries and a craft-beer brewhouse behind storehouse doors, the canal, the beach. Some doors here have no sign on them; ours open through the people we know.

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A ground floor open to the town

The 119.5 m² ground floor holds the lounge, a coworking space, a four-and-a-half-mat tea room, laundry and luggage storage. Something different happens here each time you come through — which is the point. It is built to work like a square, not a lobby.

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ACCESS

About 25 minutes by tram from Toyama Station. Airport and shinkansen are both within the hour.

Toyama Airport approx. 30 min by car 13 km IWASE STaY
Toyama Station approx. 25 min by tram 7 km IWASE STaY
Tokyo Station approx. 2 h 10 min by shinkansen — IWASE STaY
Kanazawa Station approx. 23 min by shinkansen 59 km IWASE STaY

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OPENING 2027

Renovation is under way. Opening date, rates and the start of bookings go to the newsletter first.