Auberge Homachi Mikuniminato, a decentralized lodging facility located in the historic Mikuni Port area of Fukui Prefecture, invites intrepid travelers to discover exquisite Fukui cuisine and the art of slow living along the Sea of Japan coastline.
FUKUI, Japan, Dec. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Core Global Management Co., Ltd. operates Auberge Homachi Mikuniminato, aiming to create meaningful connections between travelers and the local community through restored merchant homes, local cuisine, and cultural experiences.
Its exceptional hospitality has earned it the Michelin Guide Hotel Selection for two consecutive years.
Official Website: https://en.homachi.jp
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/homachi_mikuniminato/
A Serene Escape
The auberge, located just a few hours from Kyoto via the recently extended Hokuriku Shinkansen line, feels worlds away from the crowds. With overtourism reshaping how travelers move through Japan, Fukui Prefecture is drawing renewed attention for its commitment to cultural preservation.
While some regions of Japan now strain under the weight of mass tourism, Fukui Prefecture remains the country's best-kept secret: a place where tradition is alive, community thrives, and residents consistently rank among the happiest in Japan.
The Village Is Your Hotel
This sense of community is strengthened by the revitalization of the village's traditional Japanese architecture for Auberge Homachi Mikuniminato. Its 16 Japanese-style suites located in nine independent heritage houses scattered throughout the village, including kagura-tate machiya townhouses and the grand homes of Edo- and Meiji-era merchants.
These historic homes have been lovingly restored to preserve them for generations to come. Each property tells a distinct part of Mikuni Minato's story, and features architecture and materials from the region: warm Fukui timber, blue-hued Shakudani stone, and handmade furnishings that reflect the town's traditional crafts. Guests benefit from both the privacy and quiet of a house, and the immersive 'live like a local' experience, walking to the restaurant for dinner, wandering its narrow pathways, or strolling along the port, just as the village's merchants once did.
Discovering Authentic Japan
Guests at Homachi are welcomed to explore the rhythms of local life and interact with the community and its history. Auberge Homachi Mikuniminato provides unprecedented access to local venues, such as Takeyoshi, a shamisen cafe. It offers guests a glimpse into bygone Japan during a 30- to 60-minute experience, held daily from 10 AM to 4:30 PM.
Participants wear traditional kimonos and enjoy matcha tea and wagashi sweets as a local musician with 60 years of experience plays the traditional three-string instrument and teaches guests to play, too. Within this sea-salt-weathered property are nostalgic photographs from the time when the area was a geisha district.
The auberge partners with numerous other skilled locals to offer lantern making and shrine prayers, enabling visitors to engage authentically with the community on a deeper level, and to become temporary residents of Mikuni Minato.
Activities: https://en.homachi.jp/activity/
Michelin-Recognized Dining by Chef Tateru Yoshino
This sleepy port village has caught the Michelin Guide Hotel Selection's attention, which noted that the auberge's chef, Tateru Yoshino, is "a veteran of some of Japan's finest French kitchens, and applies French techniques to Fukui seafood, with impressive results."
Chef Yoshino, who trained under chef Joël Robuchon at Paris' Jamin restaurant, has received Michelin stars for his restaurants in both France and Japan.
His neoclassical French cuisine celebrates Fukui's natural abundance, including Echizen crab, a winter delicacy considered the "king of crabs," which is presented annually to Japan's Imperial Household, and melt-in-the-mouth sweet shrimp freshly caught from the port. The menu reflects the village's history as a stop for Kitamaebune trading ships that once carried kelp and spices along the Sea of Japan. In Yoshino's hands, these ingredients are transformed into dishes that marry French flair with the precision of Japanese culinary arts.
"Cooking is about dialogue," says Chef Yoshino. "Between land and sea, between history and today, and between Japan and France."
Meaningful Travel
The name "Homachi," meaning "waiting to sail," refers to the time when sailors paused and waited here for favorable winds. During this time, sailors would sell cargo brought aboard or handle other cargo work to earn compensation. This evolved in Mikuni to mean pocket money or rewards for children. Fittingly, a stay at Homachi offers modern travelers a rare gift, the chance to pause and reflect before moving forward in their journey.
After pausing at Homachi, travelers can easily continue their journey to some of Japan's most well-preserved destinations. Within a one- to two-hour train ride lie the historic castle town of Maruoka, one of Japan's oldest surviving wooden castles; the serene Eiheiji Temple, a centuries-old Zen monastery surrounded by dense cedar forests; and Kanazawa, often referred to as "Little Kyoto" for its beautifully preserved samurai and geisha districts, contemporary art museums, and elegant gardens.
Access
Located in Fukui's Sakai area, the hotel is accessible from Awara Onsen Station (JR) via the hotel's free 20-minute pickup service (by reservation only).
From March 2024, the Hokuriku Shinkansen is due to extend to Awara Onsen Station. With speeds of up to 260 km/h, the trip takes around three hours (2hr 59 min.) from Tokyo Station.
Approximately 2 hours from Nagoya
Approximately 2.5 hours from Osaka
Link to images
Top:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SD8mg7QKziZ4A0mTvRI2U-eCK0GYt_5w/view?usp=drive_link
Shamisen experience:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1O37yWPKxTywVdjKCVwjk8oRBtZOPhG4J/view?usp=drive_link
Others:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1avcJdGdL8ZS6sGHWE6rYSLS_eXMKWe6C?usp=drive_link
News Release (PDF):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gmen1-4bMe7eRjL4Fx8-qRMpDL8EojEF/view?usp=drive_link
Fact Book:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cWCQ_hzw5A36Wjza4kh45Oj6Qk9HoGaw/view?usp=drive_link
About CORE GLOBAL MANAGEMENT COMPANY, LIMITED
Core Global Management Co., Ltd. was established in 2007. Its goal is to create memorable stays for the guests by connecting them with the local culture. The company works with each hotel to design a unique story to fit the location, optimizing the locale's atmosphere, cuisine, and potential for activities.
Official Website：https://en.homachi.jp/
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Fukui's Michelin-Recognized Village Retreat Redefines Slow Luxury Travel
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- Introducing 4U and 2-OU (OCP) liquid-cooled NVIDIA HGX B300 systems for high-density hyperscale and AI factory deployments, supported by Supermicro Data Center Building Block Solutions® with DLC-2 and DLC technology, respectively
- 4U liquid-cooled NVIDIA HGX B300 systems designed for standard 19-inch EIA racks with up to 64 GPUs per rack, capturing up to 98% of system heat through DLC-2 (Direct Liquid-Cooling) technology
- Compact and power-efficient 2-OU (OCP) NVIDIA HGX B300 8-GPU system designed for 21-inch OCP Open Rack V3 (ORV3) specification with up to 144 GPUs in a single rack
SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for AI, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, today announced the expansion of its NVIDIA Blackwell architecture portfolio with the introduction and shipment availability of new 4U and 2-OU (OCP) liquid-cooled NVIDIA HGX B300 systems. These latest additions are a key part of Supermicro's Data Center Building Block Solutions (DCBBS) that deliver unprecedented GPU density and power efficiency for hyperscale data centers and AI factory deployments.
"With AI infrastructure demand accelerating globally, our new liquid-cooled NVIDIA HGX B300 systems deliver the performance density and energy efficiency that hyperscalers and AI factories need today," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. "We're now offering the industry's most compact NVIDIA HGX B300 solutions—achieving up to 144 GPUs in a single rack—while reducing power consumption and cooling costs through our proven direct liquid-cooling technology. Through our DCBBS, this is how Supermicro enables our customers to deploy AI at scale: faster time-to-market, maximum performance per watt, and end-to-end integration from design to deployment."
For more information, please visit https://www.supermicro.com/en/accelerators/nvidia
The 2-OU (OCP) liquid-cooled NVIDIA HGX B300 system, built to the 21-inch OCP Open Rack V3 (ORV3) specification, enables up to 144 GPUs per rack to deliver maximum GPU density for hyperscale and cloud providers requiring space-efficient racks without compromising serviceability. The rack-scale design features blind-mate manifold connections, modular GPU/CPU tray architecture, and state-of-the-art component liquid cooling solutions. The system propels AI workloads with eight NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs at up to 1,100W TDP each, while dramatically reducing rack footprint and power consumption. A single ORV3 rack supports up to 18 nodes with 144 GPUs total, scaling seamlessly with NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand switches and Supermicro's 1.8MW in-row coolant distribution units (CDUs). Combined, eight NVIDIA HGX B300 compute racks, three NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking racks, and two Supermicro in-row CDUs form a SuperCluster scalable unit with 1,152 GPUs.
Complementing the 2-OU (OCP) model, the 4U Front I/O HGX B300 Liquid-Cooled System offers the same compute performance in a traditional 19-inch EIA rack form factor for large-scale AI factory deployments. The 4U system leverages Supermicro's DLC-2 technology to capture up to 98% of heat generated1 by the system through liquid-cooling, achieving superior power efficiency with lower noise and greater serviceability for dense training and inference clusters.
Supermicro NVIDIA HGX B300 systems unlock substantial performance speedups, with 2.1TB of HBM3e GPU memory per system to handle larger model sizes at the system level. Above all, both the 2-OU (OCP) and 4U platforms deliver significant performance gains at the cluster level by doubling compute fabric network throughput up to 800Gb/s via integrated NVIDIA ConnectX®-8 SuperNICs when used with NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand or NVIDIA Spectrum-4 Ethernet. These improvements accelerate heavy AI workloads such as agentic AI applications, foundation model training, and multimodal large scale inference in AI factories.
Supermicro developed these platforms to address key customer requirements for TCO, serviceability, and efficiency. With the DLC-2 technology stack, data centers can achieve up to 40 percent power savings1, reduce water consumption through 45°C warm water operation and eliminate chilled water and compressors in data centers. Supermicro DCBBS delivers the new systems as fully validated, tested racks ready as L11 and L12 solutions before shipment, accelerating time-to-online for hyperscale, enterprise, and federal customers.
These new systems expand Supermicro's broad portfolio of NVIDIA Blackwell platforms — including the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72, NVIDIA HGX B200, and NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition. Each of these NVIDIA-Certified Systems from Supermicro are tested to validate optimal performance for a wide range of AI applications and use cases – together with NVIDIA networking and NVIDIA AI software, including NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA Run:ai. This provides customers with flexibility to build AI infrastructure that scales from a single node to full-stack AI factories.
1https://www.supermicro.com/en/solutions/liquid-cooling
About Super Micro Computer, Inc.
Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first to market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, switch systems, software, and support services. Supermicro's motherboard, power, and chassis design expertise further enables our development and production, enabling next generation innovation from cloud to edge for our global customers. Our products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Asia, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power, and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).
Supermicro, Server Building Block Solutions, and We Keep IT Green are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Super Micro Computer, Inc.
All other brands, names, and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
- Introducing 4U and 2-OU (OCP) liquid-cooled NVIDIA HGX B300 systems for high-density hyperscale and AI factory deployments, supported by Supermicro Data Center Building Block Solutions® with DLC-2 and DLC technology, respectively
- 4U liquid-cooled NVIDIA HGX B300 systems designed for standard 19-inch EIA racks with up to 64 GPUs per rack, capturing up to 98% of system heat through DLC-2 (Direct Liquid-Cooling) technology
- Compact and power-efficient 2-OU (OCP) NVIDIA HGX B300 8-GPU system designed for 21-inch OCP Open Rack V3 (ORV3) specification with up to 144 GPUs in a single rack
SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a Total IT Solution Provider for AI, Cloud, Storage, and 5G/Edge, today announced the expansion of its NVIDIA Blackwell architecture portfolio with the introduction and shipment availability of new 4U and 2-OU (OCP) liquid-cooled NVIDIA HGX B300 systems. These latest additions are a key part of Supermicro's Data Center Building Block Solutions (DCBBS) that deliver unprecedented GPU density and power efficiency for hyperscale data centers and AI factory deployments.
"With AI infrastructure demand accelerating globally, our new liquid-cooled NVIDIA HGX B300 systems deliver the performance density and energy efficiency that hyperscalers and AI factories need today," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. "We're now offering the industry's most compact NVIDIA HGX B300 solutions—achieving up to 144 GPUs in a single rack—while reducing power consumption and cooling costs through our proven direct liquid-cooling technology. Through our DCBBS, this is how Supermicro enables our customers to deploy AI at scale: faster time-to-market, maximum performance per watt, and end-to-end integration from design to deployment."
For more information, please visit https://www.supermicro.com/en/accelerators/nvidia
The 2-OU (OCP) liquid-cooled NVIDIA HGX B300 system, built to the 21-inch OCP Open Rack V3 (ORV3) specification, enables up to 144 GPUs per rack to deliver maximum GPU density for hyperscale and cloud providers requiring space-efficient racks without compromising serviceability. The rack-scale design features blind-mate manifold connections, modular GPU/CPU tray architecture, and state-of-the-art component liquid cooling solutions. The system propels AI workloads with eight NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs at up to 1,100W TDP each, while dramatically reducing rack footprint and power consumption. A single ORV3 rack supports up to 18 nodes with 144 GPUs total, scaling seamlessly with NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand switches and Supermicro's 1.8MW in-row coolant distribution units (CDUs). Combined, eight NVIDIA HGX B300 compute racks, three NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand networking racks, and two Supermicro in-row CDUs form a SuperCluster scalable unit with 1,152 GPUs.
Complementing the 2-OU (OCP) model, the 4U Front I/O HGX B300 Liquid-Cooled System offers the same compute performance in a traditional 19-inch EIA rack form factor for large-scale AI factory deployments. The 4U system leverages Supermicro's DLC-2 technology to capture up to 98% of heat generated1 by the system through liquid-cooling, achieving superior power efficiency with lower noise and greater serviceability for dense training and inference clusters.
Supermicro NVIDIA HGX B300 systems unlock substantial performance speedups, with 2.1TB of HBM3e GPU memory per system to handle larger model sizes at the system level. Above all, both the 2-OU (OCP) and 4U platforms deliver significant performance gains at the cluster level by doubling compute fabric network throughput up to 800Gb/s via integrated NVIDIA ConnectX®-8 SuperNICs when used with NVIDIA Quantum-X800 InfiniBand or NVIDIA Spectrum-4 Ethernet. These improvements accelerate heavy AI workloads such as agentic AI applications, foundation model training, and multimodal large scale inference in AI factories.
Supermicro developed these platforms to address key customer requirements for TCO, serviceability, and efficiency. With the DLC-2 technology stack, data centers can achieve up to 40 percent power savings1, reduce water consumption through 45°C warm water operation and eliminate chilled water and compressors in data centers. Supermicro DCBBS delivers the new systems as fully validated, tested racks ready as L11 and L12 solutions before shipment, accelerating time-to-online for hyperscale, enterprise, and federal customers.
These new systems expand Supermicro's broad portfolio of NVIDIA Blackwell platforms — including the NVIDIA GB300 NVL72, NVIDIA HGX B200, and NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition. Each of these NVIDIA-Certified Systems from Supermicro are tested to validate optimal performance for a wide range of AI applications and use cases – together with NVIDIA networking and NVIDIA AI software, including NVIDIA AI Enterprise and NVIDIA Run:ai. This provides customers with flexibility to build AI infrastructure that scales from a single node to full-stack AI factories.
1https://www.supermicro.com/en/solutions/liquid-cooling
About Super Micro Computer, Inc.
Supermicro (NASDAQ: SMCI) is a global leader in Application-Optimized Total IT Solutions. Founded and operating in San Jose, California, Supermicro is committed to delivering first to market innovation for Enterprise, Cloud, AI, and 5G Telco/Edge IT Infrastructure. We are a Total IT Solutions provider with server, AI, storage, IoT, switch systems, software, and support services. Supermicro's motherboard, power, and chassis design expertise further enables our development and production, enabling next generation innovation from cloud to edge for our global customers. Our products are designed and manufactured in-house (in the US, Asia, and the Netherlands), leveraging global operations for scale and efficiency and optimized to improve TCO and reduce environmental impact (Green Computing). The award-winning portfolio of Server Building Block Solutions® allows customers to optimize for their exact workload and application by selecting from a broad family of systems built from our flexible and reusable building blocks that support a comprehensive set of form factors, processors, memory, GPUs, storage, networking, power, and cooling solutions (air-conditioned, free air cooling or liquid cooling).
Supermicro, Server Building Block Solutions, and We Keep IT Green are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Super Micro Computer, Inc.
All other brands, names, and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
** The press release content is from PR Newswire. Bastille Post is not involved in its creation. **
Supermicro Expands NVIDIA Blackwell Portfolio with New 4U and 2-OU (OCP) Liquid-Cooled NVIDIA HGX B300 Solutions Ready for High-Volume Shipment
