Yasuesou Biohotel

Yasuesou Biohotel is a small inn in Ikeda, Nagano, surrounded by organic German chamomile fields, and the first hotel in Asia to earn certification from the Austria-based BIO HOTELS association when it opened in 2015. Everything guests come into contact with such as bedding, towels, mattresses, soap, skin care is organic or natural, down to the 100 per cent organic cotton linens and chamomile-infused communal bathwater.

Soak in the shared bath scented with the inn's own chamomile extract, then eat vegetables grown on Yasuesou's farm at dinner. Join a chamomile harvest in the surrounding fields, try yoga on the multipurpose deck, or simply spend a night somewhere built, quite deliberately, to contain nothing synthetic at all.