About Echigo-Matsunoyama
Sansho House is located in the Echigo-Matsunoyama district, known for heavy snowfall with the average height of accumulated snow during winter exceeds three meters. People have been cultivating small pieces of land amongst mountains to produce rice on terraced rice field, contributing to make “the original landscape of Japan” and resulting in awards like “best 100 terraced rice fields in Japan” and “best 100 villages in Japan”. Beech forests are home for rare animals and plants such as ruddy kingfisher and oriental dollarbird. Matunoyama Ones, known as one of the three medicinal onsens in Japan, has high salt content; temperature; and moisturising effect.
