This great choice has tidy, though small, six-bed dorm rooms with showers. Across the alleyway a 200-year-old villa houses the double rooms. All guests are free to use the common areas in the old house, the highlight of which is the 3rd-floor veranda, from where you can look out over the village rooftops. Friendly staff speak good English.
Male (¥60) and female dorms (¥68) are both available, with dorm bed prices rising to ¥150 during the high season, when double rooms can top ¥680.
There's a large, social courtyard dining area, where meals (breakfast/dinner from ¥10/40) are served using produce grown on the hostel's own hillside farm.