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18. Sunrise Suites – Square Ceiling and Dry Garden Collaborating

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When our first-time guests enter Sunrise Suites’ front door, they almost always cannot help just standing there, looking up and around, astonished by seeing the unexpected dry garden right when they thought they entered a building. One of the components of the unique feel of this entrance hall, along with the garden, is the square ceiling that spreads over the garden toward the other end of the building.

The square ceiling, or “Go-Tenjo”, is said to be the ceiling style of the highest formality, often seen at temples, shrines, and castles. The grids are assembled with woods and covered with wooden boards, and the structural materials are hidden, creating quiet feel and protected atmosphere.

Sunrise Suites’ square ceiling is what is called “Oriage Go Tenjo”, literally translated, folded-up square ceiling. It is made to be higher up from the surrounding walls, and its formality is even higher than the standard square ceiling. The grid’s wooden material curves up from the top of the walls, making the ceiling higher. The vaults toward the higher floors, the bamboos growing from the dry garden through the vaults toward the sky, and the rain chains coming down through the vaults collaborate with the folded-up ceiling to produce the space with the feel that extends freely, upward.

The unique, incomparable, one-and-only space where the beauties of Japanese traditional architecture and Japanese garden are united. Sunrise Suites is a very special accommodation that allows you enjoy Kyoto 200%.

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