The building is located on a small hill overlooking the beautiful scenery of the Seto Inland Sea with its more than 500 islands of various sizes.
The pool juts out toward the sea, the sunken court (courtyard) is surrounded by sky, water, and greenery, and the guest rooms offer views of the Seto Inland Sea.
Each individual space has its own fascinating personality, but without them being completely disjointed,
I think we’ve created a place where the gaze, the space itself, intersects and overlaps – a place that gives people a moment that they can only get here.”

Born in Osaka. Self-taught in architecture, he established the Tadao Ando Architectural Institute in 1969.
His representative works include “Rokko Housing Complex”, “Church of Light”, “FABRICA (Benetton Art School)”, and “Pulitzer Museum of Art”,
Chichu Art Museum, Omotesando Hills (Dojun-kai Aoyama Apartment Rebuilding Project), Punta della Dogana, Shanghai Baoli Grand Theater, etc.

In 1979, he won the Architectural Institute of Japan Prize for “Sumiyoshi no Row Houses,” the Alvar Aalto Prize in 1985, and the Gold Medal of the French Academy of Architecture in 1989,
He received the Japan Art Academy Prize in 1993, the Asahi Prize in 1995, the Pritzker Prize in 1995, the Praemium Imperiale in 1996, the AIA Gold Medal in 2002, and the Kyoto Prize,
He was awarded the Order of Cultural Merit in 2003, the Gold Medal of the UIA (Union Internationale des Architectes) in 2005, the Legion of Honor (Chevalier) in 2005, and the Order of Merit for Environmental Protection in 2006.
He received the John F. Kennedy Center Gold Medal for the Arts in 2010, the Shinpei Goto Award, and the Order of Cultural Merit.
Richard Neutra Prize in 2012 and the French Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2013,
He was awarded the Grande Ufficiale of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy in 2003.