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Guesthouse Kominka Eguchiya

Eguchiya Guesthouse is located on the shores of Kasumigaura, the second largest lake in Japan. Guests are offered the opportunity to stay in a renovated 150-year-old wooden house with magnificent lakeside views with traditional Japanese scenery.
This guesthouse also has a rich history as a liquor store. Guests are served rice cooked in an old-fashioned wood furnace and offered fish from Lake Kasumigaura. The lodging facility offers wood-chopping workshops, pizza-making in a stone oven, and a sausage-making course.
The Tsukuba-Kasumigaura Ring-Ring Road is nearby, making Eguchiya Guesthouse convenient for cyclists. Come for a simple yet homey cultural experience here.

Mount Tsukuba Edoya Inn

Located in front of Mount Tsukuba Shrine, Edoya is a ryokan or traditional Japanese-style inn. The inn is popular with shrine visitors and hikers due to its convenient location. The open-air hot spring uses fresh spring water from the Cedar Spring, which is said to promote healthy skin. The spring water is also used to make the inn’s original sake brand.

Hoshino Resorts BEB5 Tsuchiura

Hoshino Resort BEB5 Tsuchiura has its entrance on the same floor as the Tsuchiura Station ticket gates.

Certified as a "cyclist-friendly hotel," it offers rooms allowing guests to bring bicycles and some rooms even equipped with dedicated racks. The corridors are also wide enough to easily move bicycles around.

The hotel is also equipped with special hangers and other tools, laundry nets, shoe dryers, and maintenance space. Bicycle rental is also available.
In addition to providing cycling information and services, BEB5 Tsuchiura also offers activities that allow guests to enjoy the attractions of Ibaraki by bicycle.

The lounge has a relaxed atmosphere with a bar counter where alcohol and drinks such as whole melon cream soda are served.
There are also board games and interesting events such as a smoothie-making experience using a bicycle with a blender.