A pleasant breeze blows from the forest as you soak in the large barrel bath.
On the deck facing Maruyama, there is a barrel bath that was used as a miso barrel in Saga Prefecture.
There are chairs inside, and when you sit down, you can see right into the depths of the forest. This is a bath where you can float.

Maruyama can be seen from here

In the summer, it is covered with bamboo and trees, making it difficult to tell that this place is a mountain, but if you look at it from a little further away, it looks like a raised hill. These hills are called “tapkop” (pronounced tap-kop) in the Ainu language, hence the facility’s name.

Maruyama: 229m above sea level, about 100m above sea level.
“Maruyama” was also called “Kuccharosipe”, where “Kuccharo” = throat source, here the “mouth of the lake”, ushi = exist, and pe = mono.
As the meaning suggests, this place is located exactly where the water of Lake Kussharo flows out.

In the TAPKOP logo design, A represents Maruyama and O represents Lake Kussharo.

The cut in the O indicates that it continues to the Kushiro River. By having a symbol representing nature next to the alphabet, the design embodies the idea of ​​“neighbouring nature.”

65% of Teshikaga Town, Hokkaido, where our hotel is located, belongs to Akan-Mashu National Park, and our hotel is also located within the national park.

It is an area with a unique natural landscape created by volcanic activity, including Lake Kussharo, the largest caldera lake in Japan, Lake Mashu, which boasts one of the clearest waters in the world, and a group of lava domes including Mt. Io Sanupuri.

The surrounding mountains, the calm lake, the herd of deer running as if jumping across the meadow, and the terrifying darkness of the new moon.
Living with nature as your neighbor begins with observing trees, animals, the weather, and the stories that nature creates.