Sanshing Four Seasons ・Childhood House B&B

Painting the wonderfulness on blue-and-white pottery works at the workshop café

Pass through the path flanked by thin bamboos, you’d find a blue-and-white pottery studio and Sparrow Coffee occupying the half of courtyard house. In the yard, a cat lies on the ground while a few sparrows chirp and fly over. You push open the wood-framed glazed door, the interior space retains nostalgic traces from the original historic house like red bricks and mottled walls, which are incorporated into a local handcraft studio with a reborn new look. Here you may enjoy the cool drinks or coffee, some delicious desserts, or soft-serve ice cream, all with local produce used and served in the handmade blue-and-white pottery utensils. While waiting, just browse through the pottery works depicting the imagery of local life, such as a Guishan-Island-shaped chopstick rest and a sauce dish with a rice transplanter pattern. The delicate craftwork embodies the host’s love and devotion to the land of Sanshing.

After checking in, make a reservation for hand-painting blue-and-white pottery class. Then you walk into the spacious workshop behind the coffee shop and pick an unglazed ware you like. After the craftsman walks you through the process, you first draft with a pencil, then paint it with indigo blue pigment. Rain or shine, brushes of dark and light colors can create infinite fun with simple geometric lines. Whether you come alone or with your sweetheart, friends or family, everyone can create wonderful memories as making their own pottery works on the large wooden tables and bring back the fired final works as one-and-only souvenirs.

Four seasons change in four rooms full of wood aroma

At Sanshing Four Seasons, apart from tasting delicacies and exploring blue-and-white pottery, travelers are welcomed to stay and experience the local life here. Passing by the century-old red fruit fig tree in the backyard, you come to Childhood House B&B close to the fields and a young maple tree, this fair-faced concrete building that breathes has built up another local lifestyle.

Open the door of B&B, you are gently embraced by the pleasant hinoki aroma. Two long light-colored wooden tables make you imagine the scene of gathering with friends or family, while the large open kitchen with sunlight and green waves outside the windows warm up your hearts. The space is also dotted with blue-and-white pottery lamp fixtures and patterned tiles that illuminate the room.

Stepping onto the second and third floor by the stairs with wooden treads, you’d meet four rooms named Spring Plowing, Summer Rain, Autumn Harvest, and Winter Sun, bringing the imagery of life cycle in the natural rhythm into the lodging. Spacious Spring Plowing Quad Room with high-ceiling design adopts the idea of exhibition venue to present the interplay of nature and the space. The wood grid shelving and railing bring a feel like a kid’s hideout secret base for you to explore. The books on the shelves lead you into the world of stories, while the windows display charming ever-changing scenery. For duo travelers, Summer Rain Double Room and Autumn Harvest Twin Room would accommodate your needs, blending fair-faced concrete walls and wooden furnishings into calming and comfy spaces. Winter Sun Quad Room on the top floor comes with split-level space, glazed doors, and terrace that one can gaze at Guishan Island. What’s more delightful would be the hinoki soaking tub with the view of expansive rice fields. Here at Childhood House B&B, one can encounter the beauty of Sanshing in different seasons as well as at each room.

Enjoy heart-warming breakfast while cherishing the encounter with the ideal life

In the early morning, sparrows are harvesting red fruit figs among branches and leaves, waking you up with little noise of dropping figs to the ground. Drawing back the curtains, the green fields greet your eyes while you take deep breaths of the refreshing morning air. Downstairs, hosts have prepared the warm breakfast on the wood table, a bowl of hot congee with dishes of local vegetables, accompanied by the hospitality of the hosts and conversations with your loved ones, revoking one’s childhood memory of home, comforting and heart-warming.

Sanshing Four Seasons, born out of the love for local life, grows with rice fields, collects children’s carefree laughs and memories, and plants the seed of an ideal lifestyle. With pleasant breeze blowing, it welcomes travelers to visit Sanshing and shares the all-season beauty of Sanshing with you.