Overview

Étoile et Fées brings you to Seseragi no Mori in Komatsu, Ishikawa, where a European-style country house stands among forest, river sounds, and quiet mountain scenery. The name means “star and fairy” in French, and the stay reflects that feeling through antique-style interiors, chandeliers, soft fabrics, vintage furniture, and a calm setting away from busy city streets.

This is not a standard ryokan. It is a small auberge-style inn with six bedrooms, vegetable-based meals, access to the historic Seryo Onsen private bath, and a shared world that includes La Petite Porte café, Morris Bakery, an interior shop, forest terrace spaces, and wellness experiences. You can book the whole building for a private stay or reserve a room, depending on your travel style.

Accommodation

Étoile et Fées has six bedrooms inside a Western-style house, with the option of whole-building rental or room rental. The full-house stay gives you use of the large living and dining space, lounge, bedrooms, and shared areas, making it a strong choice for family stays, friend groups, celebrations, and private retreats.

The first-floor twin rooms include private outdoor bathtubs on wooden decks facing the river and forest. These rooms also have shower rooms and toilets, and two rooms can connect, making them useful when you want to stay close to family or friends. The outdoor bathtubs are not available during winter depending on snow and temperature conditions, so the main building’s natural hot spring bath becomes the key bathing space during colder months.

The second-floor double rooms include loft spaces and balconies overlooking the clear stream. These rooms have indoor clawfoot bathtubs, toilets, and a warm European guesthouse feel. The loft spaces work well for children, while the balcony gives you a quiet place to enjoy the surrounding trees and river sound.

Rooms do not have televisions, keeping the stay focused on conversation, rest, and the forest setting. A television and streaming access are available in the first-floor living room. The building has a kitchen, but it cannot be used for cooking during your stay because the house also works as a model space for the interior shop. Rooms include heating and cooling, Wi-Fi, refrigerator, washlet toilet, bath items, towels, pajamas for adults, slippers, and selected shared equipment such as an electric kettle, microwave, tea set, and living-room television.

Dining

Dining at Étoile et Fées is part of the Seseragi no Mori experience. Meals are served at La Petite Porte, the renovated kominka café in the main building. The food follows a vegetable-auberge style, with no meat, fish, or eggs used in the dinner course. Dairy-free vegan meals can also be arranged with advance notice.

Dinner may include yuzu tea, salt tofu prepared like sashimi, cold and warm appetizer plates, soy-meat hamburger with steamed vegetables in a tajine pot, vegetable temari sushi, clear soup, dessert, and after-meal drinks such as coffee, tea, or Kaga bocha. The meal focuses on vegetables, soy protein, carefully selected seasonings, and gentle flavors rather than heavy courses.

Breakfast includes a vegetable plate, homemade vegan bread from Morris Bakery, and drinks such as coffee, tea, or Kaga bocha. The kitchen also pays attention to water, salt, sugar, rice, oil, vinegar, soy sauce, and other basic ingredients, using items such as local rice, mineral-rich salt, brown sugar or beet sugar, and handmade-style seasonings. Allergy and vegan requests should be shared in advance.

Onsen and Wellness

Étoile et Fées gives you access to Seryo Onsen in the main building at Seseragi no Mori. This historic hot spring is said to have been discovered around 1471 and has been loved for centuries in the forested upper area of the Osugi River valley.

The natural hot spring is offered as a reserved private bath for overnight stays. You reserve your bathing time at check-in and use the bath privately during your session. The bath is compact, with space for a small group and washing areas inside. Towels are taken from your room, while shampoo, conditioner, body soap, and a hair dryer are available in the bath area.

The spring quality is a colorless mirabilite-gypsum spring. The source temperature is around 33.6°C, and the water is heated and circulated to keep it at a comfortable bathing temperature. The spring is associated with support for neuralgia, muscle pain, joint pain, frozen shoulder, motor paralysis, joint stiffness, bruises, sprains, chronic digestive concerns, hemorrhoids, cold sensitivity, recovery after illness, fatigue recovery, cuts, burns, chronic skin concerns, and general health promotion.

You can also enjoy the footbath during your stay. It uses the same hot spring setting and gives you an easy way to warm your feet while looking toward the forest.

Guests with Tattoos

Étoile et Fées uses a reserved private hot spring bath in the main building, so you can enjoy the onsen privately with tattoos.

Facilities

Étoile et Fées is part of Seseragi no Mori, a small complex that includes the Western-style inn, La Petite Porte café, Morris Bakery, Michael.Anne Champêtre interior shop, Seryo Onsen private bath, a footbath, a terrace, forest walking areas, and rental spaces.

Inside the inn, you can relax in the chandelier-lit entrance hall, the high-ceiling living and dining area, and the lounge furnished with original sofas from the on-site interior shop. In colder months, the fireplace adds warmth to the shared living space. The interiors are produced by Michael.Anne Champêtre, and the inn also works as a model house for its furniture, lighting, curtains, wallpaper, and decorative pieces.

La Petite Porte serves meals and café items in the main building, while Morris Bakery offers vegetarian and vegan-friendly breads and sweets. Michael.Anne Champêtre sells vintage furniture, imported interiors, lighting, washbasins, faucets, handles, hooks, stained glass, and building parts. The property also has parking, Wi-Fi, and local tourism information.

Activities

The forest setting gives you a quiet base for a slower Komatsu stay. You can spend time around the terrace, listen to the Osugi River, visit the café and bakery, browse the interior shop, or book a wellness experience connected to Seseragi no Mori.

Available experiences may include singing-ring sound therapy, crystal bowl forest retreat sessions, metatherapy, tarot and oracle card readings, shrine visit courses, and flower lessons. Relaxation treatments such as head massage and esthetic care can also be arranged with advance booking.

Nearby, you can visit Natadera Temple, known for its rock formations, historic buildings, and Hakusan faith connection. Aramata Gorge is close by for short nature walks, especially during fresh green and autumn foliage seasons. Kutani Ceramic Laboratory gives you a hands-on way to experience Kutani ware culture, while Noguchi Naohiko Sake Institute offers a deeper look at Ishikawa sake. Wisdom House and the Moss Garden area add another quiet nature-focused outing near the inn.

Additional Features

Étoile et Fées is best for you if you want a small European-style auberge in the Komatsu forest area, vegetable-based dining, access to a reserved private natural hot spring bath, antique-style interiors, and the option of whole-building rental. Check-in starts at 16:00, and check-out is at 10:00.

You also have Wi-Fi, parking, room rental or whole-building rental, selected rooms with outdoor bathtubs or clawfoot bathtubs, access to La Petite Porte café, Morris Bakery, the interior shop, the footbath, wellness experiences, and small-dog stays when you book the whole Western-style building. The area does not have restaurants, convenience stores, or supermarkets within easy walking distance, so meals and plans should be arranged before arrival.