ESHIKOTO is a sake brewery tourist facility built by Ishidaya Nizaemon, the holding company behind the famous sake Kuroryu, on the banks of the Kuzuryu River, the source of Fukui's sake brewing industry. On an area of about 10,000 tsubo (about 7,000 square meters) out of the total site area, the "Shuraku Building" where visitors can enjoy Kuroryu Sake and Hokuriku cuisine, and the "Garyu Building" equipped with a second fermentation cellar for bubbly sake, opened in June 2022. On this site overlooking the magnificent nature, the company intends to encourage people-to-people encounters with sake at the core, and to promote the excellence of Fukui's food culture and traditional crafts.Simon Condor's storage facility exterior was constructed using traditional yaki-cedar board technique, and the storehouse's form, devoid of pretense, is at once traditional and modern. However, the moment one opens the door of the Garyu building and steps inside, one feels a sense of surprise, as if one has been transported to someplace else. With a ceiling height of 11 meters and a floor area of 740 square meters, the space has an imposing design reminiscent of an arcaded church. The CLT construction method, which uses no reinforcing steel whatsoever, is employed to form the exterior walls and roof frame of the massive wooden structure, incorporating Western stylistic beauty that is hard to imagine from the exterior.

A new Japanese soba shop building to be constructed in the ESHIKOTO WEST area.The architecture consists of a triangular roof covering the frame of an old Hokuriku-style house, which is reproduced in the interior.The large roof is made of Shaku-tani stone from Fukui and Takigahara stone from Komatsu City, Ishikawa . The entrance is from the upper second floor area using the terraced rice field stairs, and the lower level consists of a dynamic space with large glass windows overlooking the Kutouryu River. Another characteristic building in the ESHIKOTO WST area was designed as a bakery and is made of Kanagaso stone, quarried in the Kanagaso area of Ishikawa Prefecture and stacked in a cylindrical shape.Kanagaso stone is also a valuable stone that is no longer allowed to be mined and has long been used as material for stone storehouses in the Hokuriku area. Disused stone storehouses have been dismantled and reused.

Kokuryu Sake Brewery is planning to build a new whisky distillery, and the large space, constructed using the CLT construction method also used in the Garyu building, is configured to be used both as an area for maturing and storing whisky barrels and as an event space.

General advisor and art curator are working on the new lifestyle hotel “NOHGA HOTEL” launched by Nomura Real Estate Hotels, which opened on November 1, 2018. I worked on the ration. In order to elevate the hotel to a world-class hotel that is deeply connected to the local community, he coordinated a research trip to research the latest hotels in the United States and Europe with hotel personnel, and derived new ideas for hotels from there. We partnered with Yasuzu Yamamoto of Tokyo Gallery, who disseminates Japanese contemporary art such as Mono-ha to the world, to select art for common areas and guest rooms. The furniture in the common areas has been updated with modern touches such as reupholstering with high-quality vintage furniture and a selection of books in collaboration with floatsomebooks. NOHGA is recognized as a hotel that is a new HUB that captures new hotel culture from both macro and micro perspectives.

General advisor and art curator are working on the new lifestyle hotel “NOHGA HOTEL” launched by Nomura Real Estate Hotels, which opened on November 1, 2018. I worked on the ration. In order to elevate the hotel to a world-class hotel that is deeply connected to the local community, he coordinated a research trip to research the latest hotels in the United States and Europe with hotel personnel, and derived new ideas for hotels from there. We partnered with Yasuzu Yamamoto of Tokyo Gallery, who disseminates Japanese contemporary art such as Mono-ha to the world, to select art for common areas and guest rooms. The furniture in the common areas has been updated with modern touches such as reupholstering with high-quality vintage furniture and a selection of books in collaboration with floatsomebooks. NOHGA is recognized as a hotel that is a new HUB that captures new hotel culture from both macro and micro perspectives.

General advisor and art curator are working on the new lifestyle hotel “NOHGA HOTEL” launched by Nomura Real Estate Hotels, which opened on November 1, 2018. I worked on the ration. In order to elevate the hotel to a world-class hotel that is deeply connected to the local community, he coordinated a research trip to research the latest hotels in the United States and Europe with hotel personnel, and derived new ideas for hotels from there. We partnered with Yasuzu Yamamoto of Tokyo Gallery, who disseminates Japanese contemporary art such as Mono-ha to the world, to select art for common areas and guest rooms. The furniture in the common areas has been updated with modern touches such as reupholstering with high-quality vintage furniture and a selection of books in collaboration with floatsomebooks. NOHGA is recognized as a hotel that is a new HUB that captures new hotel culture from both macro and micro perspectives.