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[Mercure Tottori Daisen Resort & Spa] Enjoy the taste of winter in Tottori and Oyama. We propose a gastronomic experience to taste seasonal benizui crab and local sake brewery famous sake with warm sake

~ Winter limited food experience and all-inclusive stay that warms your body and mind in hot springs ~| Provision period: January 5, 2026 (Mon) - February 28, 2026 (Sat)

Enjoy all-you-can-eat Benizwi crab

The resort hotel "Mercure Tottori Daisen Resort & Spa" located at the foot of Oyama (Location: Hoki-cho, Saihoki-gun, Tottori Prefecture / General Manager: Masaya Oshiro) will propose a food experience to enjoy the taste of winter in Tottori from January 5 (Mon) to February 28, 2026 (Sat). After check-in, you can prepare San-in specialty Shijimi soup as a welcome drink, and enjoy a cup that warms from the core of your body. At night, at the lounge on the 12th floor, two brands of local sake carefully selected from local sake breweries are warmed, and you can taste the aroma and umami at your preferred temperature. At the dinner buffet, the seasonal benizui crab is prepared in salt boiled, and you can enjoy the original sweetness and umami of the ingredients to your heart's content. From the beginning of the trip to the end of the day, you can fully enjoy the taste of winter in Tottori throughout your stay.

Overview

[Provision period] January 5, 2026 (Mon) - February 28, 2026 (Sat)
[Exclusion date]　  Tuesday, January 13, 2026
[Fee]　　  All-inclusive bookings are included in the room rate.
[Details]　　  https://mercure-tottoridaisen-resortandspa.jp/plan/2025winter_sp2/

Three Food Experiences to Enjoy the taste of winter

1.　Welcome drink that warms from the core of the body

After check-in, the welcome drink is Shijimi soup, a specialty of the San'in region. It has a deep taste with condensed umami flavor, and is rich in nutrients such as minerals and calcium. By offering in the lobby, you can warm your cold body from the inside immediately after arriving at the hotel and relax.

[Providing time] 15:00～17:30
[Location of Offer] 1st floor lobby

2.　Lounge where you can enjoy warming local sake selected from local sake breweries

The lounge on the 12th floor, with a panoramic view of the Sea of Japan and Oyama, is a space where you can enjoy drinks including local snacks and alcohol from evening to night. For a limited time from January to February, you can enjoy 2 brands of local sake carefully selected from local sake breweries. By raising the temperature, the aroma is further extracted, and the sweetness of rice and the mature umami are noticeable. From warm sake (40°C), which has a good aroma to hot sake (50°C), where you can enjoy a crisp texture, you can adjust the temperature with a sake warmer and enjoy your favorite cup. With warm sake that warms your body warms up, you can spend a relaxing night.

【Introduction of brands carefully selected from local sake breweries】

・Chiyo Musubi Junmai Dry Jun (Chiyo Musubi Sake Brewery / Sakai Port City, Tottori Prefecture)
Using 50 million stone rice to maximize the umami of the rice, the aftertaste is characterized by dry and crisp dry dryness. The higher the temperature, the more aroma, umami, and texture of rice when contained in the mouth increases.
Recommended ways to drink: Warm warmed (around 40°C) to warmed (50°C)

・Junmai Gassan (Yoshida Sake Brewery / Yasugi City, Shimane Prefecture)
It is characterized by a rich taste and a sharp back mouth. Regular junmai sake that feels dry but mellow Izumo-ryu pure rice making. By warming it, the umami spreads and you can feel a long lingering.
Recommended ways to drink: Lukewarm (around 40°C) to Kamika (45°C)

Overview of the provision of warm sake

[Providing time] 21:00-23:00 NIGHT CAP
[Location of Offer] 12th Floor Lounge
[Remarks]　　Brands of local sake are subject to change depending on the season and purchase situation.

３.　Enjoy winter feast and Benizuwai crab to your heart's content

A winter-only menu using Benizwi crab, which is characterized by vivid red color, will be served at the buffet restaurant for dinner. Benizwi crabs live in the deep sea, so they are especially tightened in winter when the water temperature is low, increasing sweetness and umami. It is served in salt boiled to maximize the taste of seasonal ingredients, and you can enjoy all-you-can-eat Benizuwai crab, which is soft, juicy and elegant sweetness. You can also enjoy the arrangement menu by yourself using the boiled Benizwai crab.

[Unless it is a buffet. Arrangement menu that expands how to enjoy it]

Topped with benizui crab to the dishes lined up on the buffet board to enhance the taste. The charm of the buffet is that you can not only enjoy the dishes offered as they are, but also arrange them according to your own taste.

・Crab soymilk Uncle (benizui crab x Hoki mushroom sesame soymilk pot x Tottori prefecture rice)
The soup of sesame soy milk pot using mushrooms from Hoki-cho, where the chicken tsumire and the hotel are located, is poured over rice from Tottori Prefecture, and plenty of benizui crab is added to the finish. It is an arrangement menu unique to winter that enhances the sweetness of crabs with the mellowness of soy milk and the umami of mushrooms, and you can enjoy the taste that warms from the core of the body.

・Crab lobster cream pasta (venizui crab x short pasta lobster cream)
A short pasta entangled with rich lobster cream sauce and plenty of benizui crab as a finish. The rich umami of shrimp and the smooth sauce enhance the sweetness of crabs, and you can enjoy the luxurious taste that spreads the scent of the sea at each mouth.

・Crab-yaki bee-fung (benizui crab x seafood grilled bee-fung)
A savory arrangement menu that combines seafood grilled bee-fung with benizui crab. It is a dish where the sweetness of crabs is added to the light textured beefung, and the warm steam and the scent of the sea are appetizing.

[Providing time] 17:30 to 21:00 (Last entry 20:30)
[Location of Offer] 2F Buffet Restaurant Locavore (Rocaball)
[Remarks]　 The contents of the offer are subject to change depending on the season and purchase situation.
Benizwi crab is provided only with nails and legs.

About Mercure Tottori Daisen Resort & Spa

"Mercure Tottori Daisen Resort & Spa" is a resort hotel located at the foot of Mt. Oyama, a sacred mountain. With a view of the magnificent Daisen up close, rich nature overlooking the Sea of Japan in the distance, an open-air hot spring bath full of taste, an all-inclusive hospitality that includes morning and evening buffets and alcohol in the lounge, invites guests to an extraordinary moment. As CONCEPT says "Local Inspired Hotel - Hotels Created from Local Inspired", we propose a new style of travel that feels the charm of Tottori and Oyama through food and activities.

[Location]　1647-13 Nakaso, Maruyama-ji, Hoki-cho, Saihaku-gun, Tottori 689-4108, Japan
【TEL】　　03-6627-4692 (Reservation Center)
[Fee]　　All-inclusive 1 night from 18,500 yen (per room for 2 people, including tax and surcharge)
※Some drinks, activities, etc. are charged. We do not offer lunch.
[Access] About 45 minutes by car from Yonago Airport and about 30 minutes by car from JR Yonago Station
[Official Website] https://mercure-tottoridaisen-resortandspa.jp

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