Tokushima’s Kuuneruasobu Is Perfect for Those Health Nuts Out There!!

Kuuneruasobu means “eat, sleep, and play”!

Tokushima’s Miyoshi City is famous already as a tourist city with their Awa Odori Festival, firefly watching, and the river rafting on the Yoshinogawa river’s Ooboke and Koboke sections.

In all that countryside allure there is an inn which uses an old house called Kuuneruasobu (空音遊 in kanji).

The characters read as such although they aren’t the right ones for the meaning.

“空=kuu, 音=neru, 遊=asobu”. Which means to eat, sleep and play, the concept of this inn to “bring out the natural behavior of human beings”.

Because it is an old home converted into an inn, everything is traditionally Japanese such as tatami mats, a sitting veranda, and a futon mat to sleep on. It feels so much like a Japanese home that when you come in you almost say “tadaima” (a greeting to family when you come home).

Fried local shiitake, daizu nuggets. All dishes taste amazing!

The best part of this inn is their food is all organic and vegetarian. There are no animal foods such as eggs or milk, or chemicals, or even sugar. All the while everything is made in macrobiotic fashion and as well as raw food styles mixed together to form their own style of cooking.

Pictured above is a soy bean food used to replace meat, and is a health food but doesn’t taste bland nor does it feel like you’re eating fried food.

Kaori the organic vegetarian food researcher makes the meals by hand every day. Kaori’s food celebrated as “food that makes you healthy from the core the more you eat it.”

The food here at Kuuneruasobu has an ability to make people healthy.

Homemade fermented foods! Shouyu Koji and Garlic Shoyu

The food at Kuuneruasobu is all flavored with Shouyu Koji which is soy sauce malt as well as garlic infused soy sauce, all hand made here.

The soy sauce base uses a “living” soy sauce which means each time you use it, it has a different taste.

There are also different variations such as onion infused soy sauce.

As you can see even a single flavoring like this is handmade here, and all the ingredients of the food at Kuuneruasobu are made known to the guests so you can be sure you are getting a healthy meal.

At Kuuneruasobu there is even a cooking class which you can take to learn to cook their style of organic vegetarian cooking. Please check their website for more details.

Vegetables that have been stewed for 1 day and 1 night are really sweet!

The dinner at Kuuneruasobu starts at 7pm. The staff and the guests all eat together. That is the Kuuneruasobu style.

It’s the want of the owner of this place to have everyone treasure the experience of eating together as a family.

Pictured above is the coconut curry.

This dish takes the natural umami and the sweetness of the vegetables brings them out to their full potential by stewing it for a full day and night.

When vegetables are stewed to where they break down like this they are truly sweet!

Although not many flavorings are added the food here is full of flavor.

After your body is healthy, next is the soul!

After dinner everyone sits down for discussion.

The owner Nori-san’s motto is “live a beautiful, fulfilling life in health”.

The chef, Kaori fell in love with Kuuneruasobu and the natural beauty of Tokushima that she moved from Osaka.

Another awesome thing about Kuuneruasobu is that there is a space where you can have discussions with these two as well as other guests.

A guest house is a place where people who are well travelled and have many experiences gather by nature.

Although you are still in Japan one night here makes you feel as though you have travelled the world.