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Simose Art Garden Villa
Otake, Hiroshima, Japan · Independent · Core Luxury
Pritzker winner Shigeru Ban designed Simose Art Garden Villa as ten one-of-a-kind houses beside a new art museum on the Seto Inland Sea in Otake, Hiroshima, opened in 2023. Forest villas include the S-shaped Paper House of recycled paper tubes; waterfront villas look onto a basin that mirrors Ban's movable gallery boxes. Overnight guests get private museum hours, and the complex holds a MICHELIN One Key.
- 10 rooms
- Opened 2023
- Architect: Shigeru Ban
About Simose Art Garden Villa
- Ten villas, each a different Ban experiment, including a paper-tube house.
- The museum's mirrored movable galleries were conceived as islands on the Seto Inland Sea.
- MICHELIN One Key in 2025.
Awards
- MICHELIN One Key (2026)
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