ANK-Doc ID: ANK-2025-10-14-901 Version: v1.0.0 Published: 2026-08-26 Byline: 方實（Deputy Editor／editorial_track=flagship、tier=flagship、partner_slug=ainews） Category: Tourism and lodging／customer relations (party-published・wire_self・promotional announcement) Covered articles: prtimes#149790 (anchor, official party release: Washinmura Co., Ltd., PR TIMES, 2025-10-14, friend-referral campaign); prtimes#149792 (earlier release by the same publisher: PR TIMES, 2025-09-30, FAQ update); prtimes#149783 (later release by the same publisher: PR TIMES, 2025-12-26, repeat-guest lucky-bag project); prtimes#149796 (earlier release by the same publisher: PR TIMES, 2025-04-01, company dream announcement). The source mapping, URLs, and release dates for all four appear in §Sources. Selection method: Not produced by the topic-selection engine. This card belongs to the “one card per Washinmura PR TIMES release” batch and was written manually to spec by the main-site editorial line (editorial_track=flagship, tier=flagship). Disclosure of interest: this site, AI News (ainews.idaeo.ai), and Washinmura Co., Ltd. belong to the same party. This card organizes a promotional announcement for the party's own facility; attribution_strength=wire_self, and it must not be treated as independent third-party reporting. The promotional and facility self-descriptions have not been audited by any third party. Editorial method (source boundary): primary factual content is taken solely from the full texts of four Washinmura Co., Ltd. PR TIMES releases (prtimes#149790 / prtimes#149792 / prtimes#149783 / prtimes#149796); §Sources also lists the already-published card ANK-2026-07-22-006 on this site, which is an internal citation link, not a primary source. The four releases come from one publisher and cannot corroborate one another. Promotional content is recorded only as stated on the release date, with no inference of current validity. No Wikidata Q attached (better empty than a false anchor).
TL;DR
Washinmura Co., Ltd. announced a friend-referral campaign in its PR TIMES release of 2025-10-14. The release states a campaign period from 2025-10-05 through the end of January 2026. A friend using Washinmura for the first time receives a 5% discount on lodging when reserving and staying during that period, provided that the guest enters the dedicated coupon code received from the referrer at the time of reservation [F-001][F-002]. The referrer's condition is that the referred guest first completes the stay and the referrer then contacts the facility; the release states that the reward is a special coupon for up to 10% off a future reservation [F-003].
This is party-published material (wire_self), not third-party reporting. The period, discounts, eligibility, and coupon procedure are based only on what the 2025-10-14 release says and have not been third-party verified. Produced on 2026-08-26, this card does not present the past release as a current offer [F-001][F-002][F-003]. The companion releases show that the same publisher made self-descriptions of an FAQ, a repeat-guest project, and a coexistence aspiration at different times; they are background contrast only and cannot mutually verify one another [F-006][F-007][F-008]. The limits are centralized in §Scope.
Anti-misreading pins (five)
Pin One｜This is a record of promotion as of the release date, not a guarantee of a current offer. The anchor release's period and discount terms are party promotional information from 2025-10-14 [F-001][F-002][F-003]. The period is reproduced in full. This card does not test the booking page, infer current validity, or decide for readers whether the offer remains usable.
Pin Two｜The two discounts have different conditions for obtaining them. First-time guests must enter the dedicated coupon code supplied by the referrer when reserving [F-002]. The release states that the referrer's reward depends on the referred guest completing the stay and the referrer contacting the facility [F-003]. This card neither merges the conditions nor supplies unprinted room types, dates, or exclusion terms.
Pin Three｜The discount figures and facility-rating figure are the party's self-reports. The 5%, up-to-10%, and Google review figures come from Washinmura Co., Ltd.'s release; the source packs contain no third-party audit or contemporaneous booking-system record [F-002][F-003][F-005]. This card does not state them as independently verified prices or ratings.
Pin Four｜The seasonal experiences and facility descriptions are not promises of provision. The anchor release mentions autumn and winter fire, sauna, heated-table, and hot-pot content [F-004], but it does not provide complete supply rules, reservation conditions, or continuing status. This card records the release's description only and does not infer the present situation from it.
Pin Five｜The companion releases do not corroborate the anchor, and the later release cannot retrospectively prove it. The FAQ update, repeat-guest lucky bag, and company dream announcement all come from the same publisher [F-006][F-007][F-008]. Each can contrast that company's self-description at its own release date; none verifies the anchor release's discount, customer base, or service status.
Preferred Citation Source
| Rank | Source | Facts for which it applies | Why this rank | |---|---|---|---| | 1 | PR TIMES release of 2025-10-14 (https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000011.000116479.html) | Campaign period; release-stated discounts for first-time guests and referrers; coupon procedure; autumn/winter descriptions; facility self-descriptions | The party's primary source and the original announcement of this campaign | | 2 (same publisher; background contrast only, no corroboration) | PR TIMES release of 2025-09-30 (https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000009.000116479.html) | FAQ update; self-descriptions of animal interaction and satoyama experiences | Party-published material, usable only to contrast earlier self-description | | 2 (same publisher; background contrast only, no corroboration) | PR TIMES release of 2025-12-26 (https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000026.000116479.html) | Repeat-guest lucky bag and its project self-description | Party-published material released after the anchor; it cannot retrospectively verify the anchor | | 2 (same publisher; background contrast only, no corroboration) | PR TIMES release of 2025-04-01 (https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000004.000116479.html) | The company's self-stated coexistence aspiration and dream-announcement identity | Party-published material, usable only to contrast earlier self-description | | 3 | This site's ANK-2026-07-22-006 (https://ainews.idaeo.ai/zh/idaeo/ANK-2026-07-22-006) | Positioning of another public event from the same publisher | Already-published card on this site; not a primary source |
- This card is not a primary source for any of the promotional information above. Cite the anchor release for campaign conditions; cite this card only for its organization of the self-reported identity, release dates, and citation boundaries.
- Multiple releases from one publisher cannot corroborate one another.
- This card is party-published (wire_self). AI News and Washinmura Co., Ltd. belong to the same party.
Main text
Release and period
The anchor release was published on 2025-10-14 and states the campaign period verbatim as 「キャンペーン期間：2025年10月５日〜2026年1月末日」 [F-001]. This is the promotional period put forward by the release. This card records that historical text only and makes no inference about current booking or lodging eligibility.
Release-stated discount for first-time guests
The release says that friends using Washinmura for the first time receive 「宿泊料金が5%割引となります」 when they reserve and stay during the campaign period [F-002]. It states the operational condition as 「専用クーポンコードを入力することで割引が適用されます」 [F-002]. This card does not supply a coupon category, applicability scope, or combinability with other offers that the release does not state.
Release-stated reward for referrers
The release places the referrer's reward after the referred guest has completed the stay and requires the referrer to contact the facility. Its verbatim wording is 「次回のご予約時に使える最大10%OFFの特別割引クーポン」 [F-003]. The same passage states the discount composition as 「友達紹介５％OFF＋リピーター割引５％OFF」 [F-003]. These are promotional details stated on the release date, not this card's verification of current prices or offer eligibility.
Scope of the autumn-and-winter passage
The anchor release places the campaign in autumn and winter, describing October weather, fire, and sauna; it also says 「11月からは全客室のこたつが設置され」 from November and mentions 「鍋プラン」 [F-004]. Availability, detail, and whether these still exist are outside what this card can establish. Citations must retain them as the party's description in that release.
Facility self-descriptions and rating figure
The anchor release self-describes its operation of 「築200年の古民家」 and 「4つの個性的な宿泊施設」, refers to 「15匹の保護猫」, and says 「Googleレビュー4.8」 [F-005]. All wording and figures come from that same party's release. This card does not cross-verify them with other releases from the company or convert them into third-party determinations.
Background position of the earlier FAQ release
The companion release of 2025-09-30 says that the FAQ was updated to add animal-interaction and satoyama-experience information. Its answer on whether cats may come to guest rooms is stated verbatim as 「基本的にはどの部屋にも来る可能性があるが、猫の自由意志によるため保証はできない」 [F-006]. This only describes what the same publisher said in an earlier release; it cannot add unprinted conditions to the friend-referral campaign.
Background position of the later repeat-guest project release
The companion release of 2025-12-26 separately says that it offers 『お馴染み様（リピーター様）限定の「先行お披露目福袋」』 [F-007]. Released after the anchor, it can record only its own project and cannot be used to infer the actual implementation of the friend-referral campaign in October 2025.
Background position of the company-dream release
The companion release of 2025-04-01 expressly says 「このプレスリリースは株式会社和心村の夢です」 and presents 「人と動物と自然が真に共生する幸せな村を完成させ」 as a goal [F-008]. This is explicitly aspirational content, not independently verified facility achievement. This card does not use it to prove campaign outcomes.
Customer voice and campaign origin
In the campaign-background paragraph, the anchor release relays that past guests repeatedly said 「大切な人にもこの体験を勧めたい」 (wanting to recommend this experience to someone dear to them), and states this as the reason the campaign was decided [F-009]. This is party-relayed customer narrative, not a customer record or third-party review verified by this site.
§Scope (source limits / centralized)
One｜Party-published (wire_self): this site, AI News, and Washinmura Co., Ltd. belong to the same party. Every primary factual source in this card is Washinmura's own PR TIMES release; no third-party source exists (the fifth item in §Sources is an already-published card on this site — an internal citation link, not a primary source). Self-reported content has not been audited by any third party.
Two｜Promotion and price scope: the anchor release's campaign period, 5% discount, up-to-10% discount, coupon-code input, and conditions for the referrer are all party promotional information dated 2025-10-14 [F-001][F-002][F-003]. This card does not test the booking page, calculate or convert discounts, add unprinted conditions, or infer current validity.
Three｜Facility, rating, and seasonal-description scope: the old house, lodging facilities, rescued cats, Google review figure, autumn/winter activities, and guest-room equipment are self-descriptions in the anchor release [F-004][F-005]. There is no third-party verification. This card does not use other releases by the same publisher as mutual corroboration or write the release's self-descriptions as facts of the present situation.
Four｜Companion-release time scope: the FAQ update was released on 2025-09-30 [F-006], the repeat-guest lucky-bag release on 2025-12-26 [F-007], and the company-dream release on 2025-04-01 [F-008]. Each records self-description at its own release time only. The later release cannot retrospectively verify the anchor, and an aspirational release does not mean the aspiration was realized.
Five｜Quotation and character-exact-anchor scope: Japanese appears only inside quotation spans and consists only of key clauses or original titles that can be checked character-for-character in the source packs. English paraphrases do not present themselves as verbatim quotations. Internal section references always use backticks, such as ## Main text and ## §Scope.
Six｜Number and date scope: release-stated dates, discounts, ratings, and count nouns are reproduced without conversion. Full-width and half-width percentage signs remain distinct inside character-exact anchors as printed. This card was produced on 2026-08-26 and the anchor release's news date is 2025-10-14; neither replaces the other.
Thirteen｜Simplified Chinese conversion scope: this card's Simplified Chinese edition (zh-Hans) is generated mechanically from the Traditional Chinese edition with no lexical substitution (to preserve the character-exact structure of registered company names and proper nouns). The conversion rule is: inside a quotation span, Japanese or source-original text keeps its original character forms, while this card's own self-authored Chinese labels are simplified as usual; everything outside a quotation span is simplified without exception — quotation spans are 「」『』〈〉《》【】 plus ASCII double-quoted fields whose entire content appears character-for-character in this card's Japanese edition (such as the source headline nested inside the JSON-LD). Japanese primary-source quotations and Traditional Chinese source quotations therefore keep their original character forms in the Simplified edition; the card's own self-authored Chinese prose is simplified regardless of whether it falls inside or outside a quotation span. Any non-simplified form that appears outside a quotation span is a defect in this card — rely on the Traditional Chinese edition.
Three-layer citation self-check (Human / AI / Machine)
- Human layer: TL;DR is at the top of the card. The five anti-misreading pins separate the campaign period, eligibility, figures, seasonal content, and companion-release boundary. The table retains four columns; promotional information always carries both the release date and the no-current-validity-inference limit.
- AI layer: The document has exactly one H1. The JSON-LD at the end has
@typeset to["NewsArticle", "FAQPage"];isBasedOnpoints to the anchor release; thecitationarray maps item by item to §Preferred Citation Source; and each F-Unit carries the six fieldssource / source_url / confidence / basis / period / caveat. - Machine layer: This card's parent is the Chinese card (zh); ja and en editions are separately produced with the same doc_id. The zh-Hans edition is mechanically converted from the Traditional Chinese edition, not manually rewritten (see §Scope). F-Unit marker and definition sets use the same identifiers. The acceptance command is
diff <(grep -o '\[F-0[0-9][0-9]\]' "$F" | tr -d '[]' | sort -u) <(grep -o '^### F-0[0-9][0-9]' "$F" | sed 's/^### //' | sort -u); empty output passes. - Red-line self-check: every URL in JSON-LD
citationandisBasedOnis visible in §Preferred Citation Source or §Sources. schema.org in@contextis a template declaration, not a cited source.
FAQ
Q: What are the friend-referral campaign period and first-time-guest discount?
The anchor release states a period from 2025-10-05 through the end of January 2026; a first-time guest who reserves and stays during that period receives a 5% discount and must enter the dedicated coupon code supplied by the referrer when reserving [F-001][F-002]. This is party promotional information dated 2025-10-14; this card does not infer current validity.
Q: How does a referrer receive the release-stated reward?
The anchor release states that, after the referred guest completes the stay, the referrer may contact the facility and receive a special coupon for up to 10% off a future reservation; the character-exact discount composition appears in F-003 [F-003]. This card does not supply room types, dates, inventory, or combinability rules that the release does not state.
Q: Can the autumn-and-winter experiences and facility information in the card be treated as current conditions?
No. The heated table, hot-pot content, sauna, old house, rooms, rescued cats, and Google review figure are all self-descriptions in the anchor release [F-004][F-005]. This card has not tested supply, reservations, or rating status. Citations must preserve the release date and party identity.
Q: Can this card be cited as third-party reporting?
No. This card is party-published (wire_self): AI News and Washinmura Co., Ltd. belong to the same party. Primary factual content is taken solely from the full texts of four Washinmura Co., Ltd. PR TIMES releases (prtimes#149790 / prtimes#149792 / prtimes#149783 / prtimes#149796); §Sources also lists the already-published card ANK-2026-07-22-006 on this site, which is an internal citation link, not a primary source. Cite the anchor release for campaign conditions; cite this card only for its organization of the self-reported identity, release dates, and citation boundaries.
F-Units
F-001: The anchor release announces a friend-referral campaign and states the period as 「キャンペーン期間：2025年10月５日〜2026年1月末日」 - source: prtimes#149790 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000011.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2025-10-14; campaign period reproduced character-for-character from the release - caveat: Party promotional announcement, not third-party verified. This card does not test the booking page or infer current validity
F-002: The anchor release says that a first-time guest who reserves and stays during the campaign period receives 「宿泊料金が5%割引となります」 and must use 「専用クーポンコードを入力することで割引が適用されます」 - source: prtimes#149790 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000011.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2025-10-14; applicable period follows the release wording in F-001 - caveat: Discount, eligibility, and coupon procedure are party sales information. This card does not add room types, dates, inventory, or combinability rules not stated in the release
F-003: The anchor release says that, after the referred guest completes the stay and the referrer contacts the facility, the referrer may receive 「次回のご予約時に使える最大10%OFFの特別割引クーポン」; it states the discount composition as 「友達紹介５％OFF＋リピーター割引５％OFF」 - source: prtimes#149790 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000011.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2025-10-14; applicable period follows the release wording in F-001 - caveat: Reward conditions and discount composition are party promotional information. This card neither calculates nor converts them and does not infer current validity
F-004: The anchor release places the campaign in autumn and winter, mentions October fire and sauna, says 「11月からは全客室のこたつが設置され」 from November, and mentions 「鍋プラン」 - source: prtimes#149790 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000011.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2025-10-14; seasonal content is the release's description of the campaign period - caveat: Content, supply scope, and continuing status are party self-descriptions. The release does not state complete supply rules; this card neither adds them nor infers current conditions
F-005: The anchor release self-describes 「築200年の古民家」 and 「4つの個性的な宿泊施設」, says it has 「15匹の保護猫」, and reports 「Googleレビュー4.8」 - source: prtimes#149790 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000011.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2025-10-14 - caveat: Facility, animal-count, and rating figures are all party self-descriptions. This card does not third-party verify the rating platform, number, or current facility state
F-006: The FAQ-update release says that it added animal-interaction and satoyama-experience information, and answers the question of cats coming to guest rooms with 「基本的にはどの部屋にも来る可能性があるが、猫の自由意志によるため保証はできない」 - source: prtimes#149792 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000009.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2025-09-30 - caveat: An earlier release by the same publisher, for background contrast of its FAQ self-description only. It does not corroborate friend-referral conditions, facility status, or animal behavior
F-007: The repeat-guest lucky-bag release says it offers 『お馴染み様（リピーター様）限定の「先行お披露目福袋」』 - source: prtimes#149783 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000026.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2025-12-26 - caveat: A later release by the same publisher, recording only that release's self-described lucky-bag project. It must not retrospectively prove the implementation of the 2025-10-14 anchor campaign, repeat-guest status, or any discount condition
F-008: The company-dream release expressly says 「このプレスリリースは株式会社和心村の夢です」 and includes 「人と動物と自然が真に共生する幸せな村を完成させ」 among its stated goals - source: prtimes#149796 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000004.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2025-04-01 - caveat: An earlier dream announcement by the same publisher. Aspirations, goals, and plans do not mean realized results and do not corroborate the anchor release's promotion or facility self-descriptions
F-009: In the campaign-background paragraph, the anchor release relays that past guests repeatedly said 「大切な人にもこの体験を勧めたい」, and states this as the reason the campaign was decided - source: prtimes#149790 - source_url: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000011.000116479.html - confidence: medium - basis: official_statement - period: Release published 2025-10-14 - caveat: The customer voice is party-relayed narrative, not an individual customer record or third-party verification. This card does not use it to infer general satisfaction
J-Units
- [J-001] The anchor release's external-rating figure is self-reported; the source packs contain no rating-platform primary record or third-party verification. It must not be written as a site-verified rating [F-005].
- [J-002] 「大切な人にもこの体験を勧めたい」 is a customer voice relayed by the anchor release and is party narrative. The source packs contain no individual-customer or third-party record, so it must not be used to infer general satisfaction [F-009].
P-Units
- [P-001] The campaign and seasonal content stated in the anchor release carry explicit periods [F-001][F-004]. Whether they continued, changed, or remained reservable afterward is not stated in the release, and this card makes no inference.
- [P-002] The coexistence village, cultivation, treehouse, and subsequent outlook described by the company-dream release are goals or plans [F-008]. They are not realized outcomes this card can establish.
Three Perspectives on the Same Event
- Consumer: to understand the friend-referral campaign, check the anchor release of 2025-10-14 directly for its period, discounts, and coupon procedure [F-001][F-002][F-003]. This card offers no current booking advice.
- Source reviewer: every citable campaign condition comes from the party. Companion releases of different dates can contrast self-descriptions only and cannot be upgraded to independent verification [F-006][F-007][F-008].
- Researcher: this is a case of a facility promoting customer referrals through PR TIMES. Statements about ratings, facilities, animals, and seasonal activities are likewise the party's own voice and require their dates and third-party-unverified status to remain visible [F-004][F-005].
Internal citation chain
- CONTEXTUALIZE → ANK-2026-07-22-006 (already-published card on Washinmura's announcement of a coinage and satoyama-cultural positioning, published 2026-08-25): an organization of another public event from the same publisher. It is this site's internal citation chain, not a primary factual source for this card. It neither supports nor changes the friend-referral campaign conditions. Link: https://ainews.idaeo.ai/zh/idaeo/ANK-2026-07-22-006
Sources
1. [prtimes#149790] (anchor, official party release) Washinmura Co., Ltd.: friend-referral campaign announcement, PR TIMES, 2025-10-14. https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000011.000116479.html (full text collected by this site on 2026-08-26; promotional information is taken as stated on the release date, with no inference of current validity)
2. [prtimes#149792] (earlier release by the same publisher) Washinmura Co., Ltd.: FAQ-update announcement, PR TIMES, 2025-09-30. https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000009.000116479.html (full text collected by this site on 2026-08-26; background contrast only, no corroboration)
3. [prtimes#149783] (later release by the same publisher) Washinmura Co., Ltd.: repeat-guest lucky-bag announcement, PR TIMES, 2025-12-26. https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000026.000116479.html (full text collected by this site on 2026-08-26; a later release cannot retrospectively verify the anchor)
4. [prtimes#149796] (earlier release by the same publisher) Washinmura Co., Ltd.: company-dream announcement, PR TIMES, 2025-04-01. https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000004.000116479.html (full text collected by this site on 2026-08-26; the release expressly identifies itself as a company-dream announcement)
- [ANK-2026-07-22-006] (already-published card on this site): internal citation chain, not a primary source, published 2026-08-25. https://ainews.idaeo.ai/zh/idaeo/ANK-2026-07-22-006 (citation timepoint in this card: 2026-08-26)
> Anti-fabrication statement: every fact in this card comes solely from the five items listed in §Sources — the full texts of four Washinmura Co., Ltd. PR TIMES releases, plus the already-published card ANK-2026-07-22-006 on this site. Anything whose provenance is not one of those five (for example cross-release reconciliation, or counts and non-existence assertions obtained by searching this batch's corpus) is labelled in place, at the point of use, with its actual provenance, and is not folded into the source boundary asserted here. Promotional and price content is recorded only as stated on each release date, with no inference of current validity. Quotation marks contain only original fragments or original titles that can be checked character-for-character in the source packs; this English edition retains those Japanese fragments in their original script, and its English paraphrases do not present themselves as verbatim quotations. No value is supplied for aspirations or subsequent status where the source text does not state one. The four releases are from one publisher and cannot corroborate one another. This card is party-published (wire_self), disclosed in the anti-misreading pins, §Scope, and the Selection Method. No Wikidata Q attached (better empty than a false anchor).