Taste DEEPLY.
Move with grace.
LIVE beautifully.

At the Mirukashi Salon we

Here we practice

A Quiet Philosophy

Do beautiful things. With excellence. As a way of life.
We cook. We gather. We settle in and pay attention.

We explore the intersection of food, craft, aesthetics, and quality of life — not as luxuries, but as everyday essentials.

Mirukashi Salon was born from a longing — not just to share the incredible flavors and depth of Japanese cuisine, but to offer a space where people can breathe deeply, reconnect with themselves and the natural world, and experience a way of life where beauty, craft, and presence are woven into every moment.
What began as a personal journey of immersion in Japan’s culinary and cultural traditions has grown into a gathering place for those who seek more than a retreat — a place to return to themselves.
Here in this rural corner of Kyushu, meals are aligned to the micro-seasons, gestures are infused with care, and craft is a quiet conversation between hands and time. This is not a performance of culture but an invitation into its living rhythm — soft, rigorous, and quietly transformative.
Mirukashi Salon exists to preserve and share these ways of being — to inspire a more artful, intentional, and nourishing life, one season, one meal, one encounter at a time.

This is

The Art of Living

Mirukashi Salon was born from a longing — not just to share the incredible flavors and depth of Japanese cuisine, but to offer a space where people can breathe deeply, reconnect with themselves and the natural world, and experience a way of life where beauty, craft, and presence are woven into every moment.

What began as a personal journey of immersion in Japan’s culinary and cultural traditions has grown into a gathering place for those who seek more than a retreat — a place to return to themselves.

Here in the countryside of Kyushu, meals are aligned to the micro-seasons, gestures are infused with care, and craft is a quiet conversation between hands and time. This is not a performance of culture but an invitation into its living rhythm — soft, rigorous, and quietly transformative.

Mirukashi Salon exists to preserve and share these ways of being — to inspire a more artful, intentional, and nourishing life, one season, one meal, one encounter at a time.

The Art of Living

Beauty must always grow from the realities of life.

- jun'ichiro tanizaki

Where beauty is a way of life.

Mirukashi Salon is not a retreat. It is a return.
To what matters. To what nourishes. To what lasts.

The Mirukashi Salon is for seekers, makers, cooks, artists, thinkers, doers — for those who long to reclaim the quiet power of living intentionally. 

For anyone called to live artfully — to slow down, to steep in simplicity, to embrace refinement without pretension, and to find the sacred in the everyday.

Still savoring the time we spent at Mirukashi Salon. The food we ate, the friendships we made, the conversations we had and the places we visited will stay with me for a long time. Thank you for sharing Mirukashi with us.

- KIM

Take me back! I could have spent another week with you all. Thank you Prairie.

- nan

It was an unforgettable time with you and our congenial circle. A rare chemistry quickly evolved over our stay. It was so very hard to leave.

- Marcia


I can’t wait to come back!!

- BETH

It was magical. There was an easy bond between all of us who are so grateful for this time and for you opening your life to us.

- SHARON

How we move through the day is
how we move through the world.

Every small act shapes the rhythm,
and the rhythm shapes the life.