Takashige Yamashita, YoungAh Kang (Takashige Yamashita Office)

Reception on the ridge welcomes visitors to hotel lodges spread out on the forest hill in Gotemba, Shizuoka, embraced by grand nature with a view to Mt Fuji. In addition to accommodation services, its cafe lounge and souvenir shop, open to public introducing regional specialties, provide opportunities for locals and tourists to interact. Rooms are shifted from each other to adjust to the context and the roof curves tracing them, with its gable oriented in the same way as the cottages, only extending on one side to open up towards Mt. Fuji.