Check in, and rest. 🌺 Welcome back to Yonaga — this time, inside the house by the sea. A small inn on a quiet island in Okinawa: an earth floor where shoes stop, clay jars of awamori under a low lamp, a main room whose opening faces southwest, and an open-air bath built to face the cove.
🎧 Best with headphones. The waves are spatially placed, not just stereo — distant while you are inside the house, close when you step out to the bath.
🌙 A four-minute tour in 4K — no mid-roll ads to interrupt your rest.
― About Yonaga ―
Yonaga is a small, fictional hot-spring inn hidden deep in the mountains of rural Japan — a place to check in whenever sleep won’t come. Every video is built from real field recordings layered with gentle, minimal music, with no mid-roll ads to interrupt your rest. Yonaga means “long night” in Japanese.
Our second house, Yonaga by the Sea, sits on a headland above a cove on a quiet island in Okinawa — red tile roofs, fukugi windbreak trees, a white coral road, and a water basin that holds the stars.
― Notes ―
🌺 In this video:
– Video: 4K UHD (3840×2160), thirteen cuts through the house, from the earth floor to the night pool
– Audio: 3D binaural spatial audio — the waves are placed by distance, near or far depending on where in the house you are standing
🎙️ Real field recordings — every ambient sound here was captured in a real place, never synthesised.
– Cello: a slow, low line written for this house — set deeper and further back than usual, so the sea stays in front
– No mid-roll ads — nothing interrupts your rest
Sound credit:
“gentle_waves_quiet_beach” by amholma — https://freesound.org/s/376795/ — License: CC0
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