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I began to think seriously about having my own vacation house in Nasu when I stayed at a rental cottage in Nasu.

Using rental cottages

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If you are thinking about owning a vacation house, it is a good idea to try staying at rental cottages several times. You can experience the lifestyle in a vacation house not as an image but as a concrete reality. If possible, stay in different seasons so that you can see how the living environment changes throughout the year. You will gradually learn the tricks of living in a vacation house, which areas are convenient for shopping, and the characteristics and atmosphere of each region. Then your image of “This area might be good for our own vacation house” will become clearer.
▼ Using rental cottages

However, please note that many rental cottages are not comfortable to stay in. Some owners started renting out their houses with the simple motive of making some extra money, thinking “I only come to Nasu a few times a year, so I might as well rent it out.” Such places often do not have good facilities. Even so, actually staying in a detached house is a valuable experience. You can use rental cottages as lessons when you eventually build your own vacation house.

If you use a rental cottage, I recommend staying there in winter rather than in summer. In summer you can only see the good side, but in winter you can experience what is really necessary to cope with the severe cold of Nasu. When I used a rental cottage in winter, I was impressed by the reality that I had to run a large stove at full power or the room would not get warm, and by the strong cold in the room in the morning and at night. When I got up in the morning, I could see my breath even inside the room, and I thought that was normal in Nasu. However, when I stayed at Pension “Sarai,” I experienced for the first time a room that stayed warm all day long with only a small amount of heating. I was deeply impressed and thought, “The comfort of a building can be so different depending on its design and specifications.”

The word “vacation house” can mean many different levels of quality. It is important to form a concrete image of what it would be like when you actually have your own vacation house, to ask yourself whether it would really be enjoyable for you, and to reconsider how strong your desire for such a house is. When you look at the floor plans of rental cottages and think, “If it were me, I would do this,” or “Why is it designed like this?”, please keep those questions and ideas in mind. They will become very useful knowledge when you eventually build your own vacation house.


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If you want to experience the harsh nature of Nasu, it is a good idea to use a rental cottage. You will realize that rich nature also means that things can go wrong if you are careless.