【In September】 Hobby / Cultural experience in Japan Page 52

• Age 12～Age 90
• Within 1 hour
• 11:00 / 12:00 / 13:00 / 14:00 / 15:00

This plan allows you to walk around the town freely wearing a kimono or yukata. This page is for those applying alone. There is a discount plan for two or more people. Please apply from there. The Katakai Fireworks Festival will be open for special business on September 9th and 10th. For details, search for "Kimono Rental Mayu" on SNS. You can walk around Niigata Furumachi in a kimono, and there are shrines, temples, historical buildings, and Japanese gardens nearby. You can participate alone. We will provide kimonos from October to May, and yukatas from June to September. We have over 70 kimonos for women and over 80 yukatas for women. We have basic navy blue, gray, and dark brown kimonos for men, in S, M, L, and LL sizes. We also have basic colors for men's yukatas.

• For Groups

• Age 13～Age 100
• 3～4 hours
• 09:00

At "Experience-based old private house inn Tabinosha", we will guide you through the seasonal Shizuoka mountain village experience! This plan learns from tea farmers who practice SDGs! Farm work help plan! Let's sweat a good day by helping the tea farmer's work for a whole day! It is a plan where you can experience [contribution to the global environment] and [practice of SDGs] through helping the work of tea farmers who make tea using the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System Chagusaba farming method.

• For Groups

• Age 3～Age 100
• 4～5 hours
• 10:00

At "Experience-based old private house inn Tabinosha", which was renovated from a 70-year-old old house and opened in 2017, we will guide you through the seasonal Shizuoka mountain village experience! In this plan, you can enjoy tea picking experience and BBQ using seasonal ingredients. Limited to 1 group per day♪ Tea picking experience and charcoal-grilled BBQ lunch in Kakegawa, one of Japan's leading green tea producing areas! For the tea picking experience, you can enjoy tea picking under the guidance of a local tea farmer in a tea plantation that is carefully nurtured by the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System "Chagusaba Farming Method". For lunch, we have a BBQ that you can enjoy from the charcoal fire experience. *You can also add the "Goemon bath experience" as an option♪ Experience the scenery unique to Shizuoka and the satoyama experience in an old private house built 70 years ago. Enjoy your luxurious time.

• Age 6～Age 100
• 3～4 hours
• 13:00

At "Experience-based traditional Japanese inn Tabinosha," we offer you a mountain village experience that is unique to Shizuoka throughout the four seasons! Located in the northeastern part of Kakegawa City, one of the leading tea producing areas in Shizuoka, this area is loved by locals as the mountain of the tea characters, and the tea plantations spread across the large hills at the foot of Awa-ga-take, a mountain that has been certified as a World Agricultural Heritage site, and high-quality tea has been produced for over 150 years using the Chagusaba farming method. In this plan, you will enjoy a tea picking experience in the tea fields that the tea producers have carefully cultivated. The first tea is picked from late April to mid-May, the second tea is picked in June, and the fourth tea is picked from late September to early October, which are the tea seasons for the producers, so you can enjoy tea picking according to the season. In addition, from late April to early November, you can enjoy tea picking even outside of the tea season, depending on the growth of the tea leaves. However, from late autumn to winter, until around mid-April when the tea season begins, there are no tea leaves to pick, so you will have to roll the tea using tea leaves that you have prepared in advance. Even in that case, we will still guide you to the tea fields and show you the state of the tea buds and how to make tea. You will try your hand at making kettle-fried tea using the tea leaves you picked, by heating, frying and rolling them in an iron pot. Let's make your own delicious, one-of-a-kind original tea!

• Age 3～Age 100
• 3～4 hours
• 11:00

At "Experience-based old private house inn Tabinosha", which was renovated from a 70-year-old old house and opened in 2017, we will guide you through the seasonal Shizuoka mountain village experience! In this plan, you can enjoy BBQ using seasonal ingredients along with picked tea. Limited to one group per day! Enjoy a charcoal-grilled BBQ lunch at an old private house in Kakegawa City, Shizuoka Prefecture, one of Japan's leading green tea producing areas! In the verdant backyard surrounded by bamboo groves and streams, you can enjoy a charcoal fire, a BBQ using seasonal ingredients, and delicious local tea! You can also add a "Goemon bath experience" as an option ♪ Why don't you forget the hustle and bustle of everyday life and have an extraordinary experience like living in a tea village? The ingredients and equipment are prepared, so it's easy to come empty-handed! !

• For Rainy Days

• Age 6～Age 99
• Within 1 hour
• 09:00 / 14:00

Experience matcha green tea with Kutani ware in a tatami room in a townhouse full of culture. The current owner, Mr. Yukio Uchida, takes over the pottery shop in his parents' house, and he himself creates works by overglaze painting as a Kutani ware artist. In addition to being able to see and purchase Kutani ware at the shop on the 1st floor, the atelier on the 2nd floor of the machiya-style pottery shop is open to the public, allowing visitors to see Mr. Uchida painting. We also serve matcha green tea in Kutani tea bowls made by the artist. Come and experience the world of Kutani ware, which flourished in an elegant culture.

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• In Door Activity

• Age 12～Age 99
• Within 1 hour

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• In Door Activity

• Age 12～Age 99
• Within 1 hour

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• Age 13～Age 100
• Within 1 hour
• 10:00 / 12:00 / 14:00 / 16:00

Why don't you wear kimono, which is Japanese culture, and take a stroll through the streets of Gyoda? ? You can choose from a wide variety of kimonos and yukatas to wear. You can also choose an original kimono with a pattern related to Gyoda City♪We can keep your luggage, so you can change into a kimono at "Fujiya Gofukuten" and walk around the Japanese heritage city empty-handed! For those who participate, we will present a set of 3 konpeitou (color is up to you) as a souvenir with the motif of "Hana Temizu", which is a new highlight in Gyoda City.

• For Groups

• Age 7～Age 89
• 1～2 hours /2～3 hours
• 10:00

It is a townscape walking tour of the world heritage Iwami Ginzan. On this tour, you will walk around the historic townscape of the World Heritage Site with a local guide from the Iwami Ginzan Guide Association. *Please note that this tour does not visit the mine shaft where silver was mined. The people of the town have continued to live in consideration of the landscape while protecting the ruins. As you walk through the town, you can feel the way of life that unites the community and values the town. During the tour, you will stop by a long-established confectionery shop that has been around since the Edo period and enjoy interacting with the locals. At Kanzeonji Temple, you can see the Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine ruins and the townscape lined with red Sekishu tiles. Enjoy a leisurely stroll with your guide. One bottle of mineral water is provided for each participant. After the tour, you will receive a souvenir of your participation.

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• For Groups

• Age 7～Age 75
• 1～2 hours
• 11:00

[Walk with the guide and discover! Charm of Awaji ～Izanagi Jingu Course～】Izanagi Jingu, which enshrines two gods, Izanagi no Mikoto and Izanami no Mikoto, is said to be the oldest shrine in Japan, and appears in the Kojiki and Nihonshoki. Experience a special formal worship at the worship hall of Izanagi Jingu. Main course Meet at "Izanagi Jingu-mae" bus stop of "Awajin Awahime Bus" ⇒ Special formal worship at Izanagi Jingu ⇒ Stroll around Izanagi Jingu ⇒ End

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• Age 0～Age 99
• 1～2 hours

You can enjoy afternoon tea elegantly in the tangerine field. Please enjoy coffee, mandarin orange juice, and Awa evening tea with sweets packed in a traditional craft of Tokushima prefecture. For Awa Bancha, "Shinobu-chan no Banchaya" in Kamikatsu-cho is a business trip service. Mandarin orange picking is also possible depending on the season. (Estimated season: October to December) *Varies depending on the year ~ Point ~ ・You can enjoy an extraordinary cafe in a tangerine field surrounded by nature ・You can taste both Japanese and Western sweets depending on the season ・Professional You can enjoy the evening tea brewed by

• For Family

• Age 7～Age 75
• 1～2 hours
• 13:15

[Walk with the guide and discover! Charm of Awaji ~Iwaya Course~] ``Eshima'', one of the traditional places of ``Onokoro Island'', which is said to be the first land in Japan, and ``Iwakushi Shrine'', which is said to be the home of Mr. Ebisu of Nishinomiya. and "Ebisu-sama", and the retro townscape of "Iwaya Shopping Street", which prospered as the gateway to Awaji Island, with a guide staff. Main course Meet at "Iwaya Port Terminal" bus stop of "Awagami Awahime Bus" ⇒ Eshima ⇒ Iwakusu Shrine and Ebisu ⇒ Stroll around Iwaya Shopping Street ⇒ End at "Awajishima Tacoste"

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• Age 6～Age 70
• 4～5 hours
• 10:00

Since the Warring States period, people have been using nature sustainably as a breeding ground for cattle and horses in the “Millennium Grassland” that spreads out on the north outer rim of the Aso Caldera. In this tour, under the guidance of the people who have inherited the grassland from generation to generation, you will actually handle the grassland by yourself and go around the roadless road. After the horseback riding, we will have a lunch picnic in the middle of the grassland with the local farmers who are our “guardians.” After lunch, under the guidance of a guardian, you can enjoy the "Guardian of the Grassland" experience, such as cutting thatch using a traditional sickle and making a rope using pampas grass and thatch from the grassland. 〜Experience schedule〜 10:00 Orientation After meeting at the Aso Grassland Conservation Activity Center, we moved to the northern somma crater experience area by private car. 10:30 Thousand Year Grassland Horse Riding (30 minutes of lecture/training, 60 minutes of horseback riding) Participants will ride their own horses, rather than pulling horses, through the grasslands. 12:00 Thousand Year Grassland Picnic Lunch Example of menu (Please select one from the following when applying.) Japanese food: Lunch of local cuisine handmade by Aso's farmer's mother (Aso vegetable simmered 7) Seeds, Aso takana rice balls, pickles) Western food: A natural food restaurant that also offers the food of the luxurious limited express Natsuboshi Ormo Coppia lunch box (a variety of sautéed Aso vegetables, tofu and wheat gluten, Aso cereals Rice, Aso pickles) 13:00 Free time You can enjoy making ropes using pampas grass and thatch under the guidance of "guardians" who have protected the grasslands for 1000 years from generation to generation. 14:00 Move to the foot of the caldera while watching the scenery of the Aso caldera in a special car for transportation and dissolution. End at the Aso Grasslands Conservation Activity Center

• In Door Activity

• Age 3～Age 99
• 3～4 hours

Why don't you take a photo with a samurai costume? [Tsushima City, Nagasaki Prefecture] This is a guided tour around the land of Genko. We will guide you to [Kaneda Castle]! You can do "Drone shooting" and "Rental costume" services that are not available anywhere else! Kaneda Castle Guided Tour (required time: 3 hours) A round trip from the trailhead to the summit, as well as a guide to the stone walls, the remains of the battery, and the summit. If there are costumes and photography, the required time will increase. *We do not provide transportation. *Please use public transportation, taxis, rental cars, etc. to travel to each guide location on your own. You can lead by car. ★Points★ If you wish, you can rent samurai costumes, armor, yukata, swords, etc., and shoot with a 360° camera or drone. ★ Optional ★ If you wish, you can also take a tour of the Komodahama Shrine and the temple that became the model for the Golden Temple, and experience riding a Taishu horse (while wearing a costume). (Additional fee) [Experience fee] (Komoda Beach) Adults (junior high school students and above)/3,000 yen, children (elementary school students)/1,500 yen, infants and younger/1,000 yen (Kanada Castle) adults (junior high school students and above)/7,000 yen, children (Elementary school students) / 3,500 yen, infants and younger / 1,000 yen *Prices are per person. Rental costume (from 2,000 yen), still image/movie shooting (from 1,000 yen), drone photography (from 10,000 yen) We do not provide pick-ups, so please use public transportation, taxis, rental cars, etc. to get to the venue by yourself. please! We will have a meeting with the customer in advance, and we will decide the schedule, time, guide location, costume, whether or not to take photos, etc. according to the customer's request and itinerary!

• In Door Activity
• For Groups

• Age 6～Age 100
• 1～2 hours

Would you like to make your own Kimekomi work? We will prepare the bare wood in a carved state in advance, so you can make your own product just by choosing your favorite cloth and applying the wood grain. Experience the "Paulownia Kimekomi Zaiku" that can only be experienced at Hakocho. We will prepare a box that has already undergone the "carving" process, so you can freely choose the fabric yourself, and then "color" and "kimekomi".

• For Rainy Days
• In Door Activity
• For Groups

• Age 12～Age 80
• 2～3 hours

Would you like to experience home cooking and calligraphy while wearing an authentic kimono? You can choose your favorite kimono and get dressed in a typical Japanese home. Experience and enjoy home-cooked meals while wearing traditional sashes. (We will also give you a brief introduction to soup stock.) In the calligraphy experience, why not write your favorite characters on colored paper or a folding fan to create a commemorative work? Please feel free to join us. We also have a home cooking experience plan wearing a kimono, a home cooking experience and a tea ceremony experience plan wearing a kimono. Please take a look there too.

• For Rainy Days
• In Door Activity

• Age 12～Age 80
• 2～3 hours

You can choose your favorite kimono and get dressed in a typical Japanese home. Experience and enjoy home-cooked meals while wearing traditional sashes. Would you like to wear a kimono and experience home cooking in a typical Japanese home? Dressing experience Many authentic kimonos are available. Choose your favorite kimono and we will dress you in about 25 minutes per person. Cooking experience You can experience and enjoy home cooking while wearing traditional sashes. (We will also give you a brief introduction to the soup stock.) If the weather is nice, you can wear a kimono and take a walk or take pictures in a scenic park nearby.

• For Rainy Days
• In Door Activity

• Age 6～Age 99
• 2～3 hours

This is a workshop where you can feel cacao closer, experience the fun and difficulty of making your own chocolate, and experience the charm of local ingredients. By becoming more interested in the food they usually eat, they develop a feeling of valuing food. What is the chocolate you usually eat made from? What is cacao? How can chocolate be made? You can solve such questions through a tour of cacao fields and chocolate making! Schedule 9:45 Reception starts 10:00 About cacao chocolate 10:20 Cacao field tour 10:40 Chocolate making start 11:15 Enjoy the finished chocolate with ice cream 11:45 Enclose chocolate to take home 12:00 Dissolution

• For Groups

• Age 10～Age 80
• Within 1 hour

This is a hands-on activity where you play the local traditional culture "Kanayama Taiko" in beautiful nature. Would you like to be healed by the drums echoing in the countryside and mountains? Kanayama drums have been carefully handed down locally for the prosperity of Okuzo Kanayama, which flourished during the Nara period. It is characterized by making big drums resound in the mountains. The echoing sound penetrates your body. We will take photos and videos of the experience with your smartphone or camera. Excellent access from nearby sightseeing spots such as Lake Towada, Appi and Hachimantai! Please come and visit us.

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• For Groups

• Age 6～Age 100
• Within 1 hour /1～2 hours
• 10:00 / 14:00

Using a miso-making kit (vacuum-packed boiled soybeans, salt, koji, and process instructions), everyone from children to adults can easily complete miso preparation in an hour at a workshop in Fujisato-machi using the tools of the workshop. To do! Please take home the miso you prepared and let it mature until it is ready to eat. Miso prepared by yourself is exceptional!

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• In Door Activity
• For Groups

• Age 1～Age 100
• Within 1 hour /1～2 hours

Kiritanpo-nabe and damakko-nabe are traditional dishes unique to rice-producing Akita Prefecture. In this plan, you can enjoy kiritanpo hot pot and damakko hot pot from a restaurant in Fujisato town at the foot of the Shirakami Mountains. What's more, the place where you can enjoy it is in the great outdoors at the foot of the World Heritage Shirakami Mountains! Enjoy an extraordinary meal outside with your family, friends, or work colleagues. A warm hot pot that can be used as a lunch for a drive to the Shirakami Mountains, as a setting for dinner at a camp, or during a relaxing river fishing trip. Perfect! We will prepare a hot pot + kiritanpo ingredients set (or a damakko hot pot ingredients set), a tabletop stove, a serving plate, and an instruction manual. Please choose A) Kiritanpo hot pot or (B) Damakko hot pot. Both are possible (for example, 1 pot for 2-3 servings of kiritanpo + 1 pot for 2-3 servings of damakko nabe) If you do not have a table or chair, you can rent them separately for a fee. is

• With Pets
• For Rainy Days
• In Door Activity

• Age 0～Age 100
• Over 6 hours on the day
• 09:30 / 10:00 / 10:30 / 11:00 / 11:30 / 12:00 / 12:30 / 13:00 / 13:30 / 14:00 / 14:30 / 15:00 / 15:30 / 16:00 / 16:30

You can rent a retro and girly kimono at a campaign price! Hua Ya original lace kimono is also available. You can choose an untake-style kimono such as Edo Komon from your favorite awase kimono. Please take this opportunity to wear cute adult clothes. It is a rental kimono plan that includes dressing, kimono (yukata from June to September), long skirt, underwear, obi, obi-ita, half-collar, socks, drawstring bag, sandals or clogs. Kimono return time is until 18:00. We also offer a luggage storage service.

• For Rainy Days
• For Groups
• For Family

• Age 5～Age 80
• Within 1 hour
• 09:00 / 10:00 / 11:00 / 12:00 / 13:00 / 14:00 / 15:00

The length and thickness you like ... Original My Chopsticks! ! Only bamboo carefully selected from the local bamboo forest is used. Because you use it every day and put it in your mouth, you need something safe and secure ...

• For Rainy Days
• For Groups

• Age 6～Age 99
• 3～4 hours

An excavation experience using real earthenware and stone tools that can be done at the Jomon site (Kakinoshima site), which is a hot topic in the World Cultural Heritage registration. It takes about 40 minutes, and after learning about excavation in the experience building, each person in the experience area will dig up the earthenware and stone tools actually excavated at this site. Conducted daily from 11:00 and 14:00 during the period. Participation fee is free, applicants apply at the administration building on the premises, and when the time comes, they will meet in front of the experience building. Capacity is about 20 people at a time

• For Groups

• Age 6～Age 99
• 1～2 hours

Jomon cookies are made from acorn flour.

• For Groups

• Age 6～Age 81
• 2～3 hours

Let's join a morning routine of local residence !! In Echizen Ono where is an old castle town, many local residences have a routine to do "Radio Taiso" (short exercise) and walk to "Echizen Ono castle" on the hill.We would join to "Radio Taiso" that is held by local residences in every morning, before / after the exercise enjoy chatting with them. Then, we will bring you "Oshozu" (famous water spring) for hydration and Kameyama Hill that Echizen Ono castle stands on the top with english explanation, therefore we would have tea time with panoramic view from top of the hill.After this tour, we recommend you to have a breakfast at Ryokans (Japanese Hotel) or Guest house which you can eat even you don' t stay. We are happy to assist you to reserve them. * In this plan we would not enter Echizen Ono Castle. * This plan is not including breakfast. (1,100 JPY ~)

• Age 16～Age 60
• 4～5 hours

It is possible to leave a photo of the interior and exterior of a historic building that has been certified as a national registered tangible cultural property. You can take pictures of two people with a profound feeling in the Japanese garden that matches the innocence of white and the uchikake, and in the moist hall. The kimono looks even better with the wonderful production of cherry blossoms, fresh greenery, autumn leaves, and snowy scenery. There is also a historic shrine nearby, and you can take pictures there. It is also possible to get on a rickshaw and take a picture.

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• In Door Activity

• Age 6～Age 100
• 1～2 hours
• 10:00

The ultimate eco bag "furoshiki" that Japan is proud of. Not only wrapping when delivering gifts to people, but also shopping bags, rucksacks, fukusa, etc. It is not well known that it can be used in various ways. In this hands-on course, we will explain from various perspectives, such as the history of furoshiki, its uses, actual wrapping methods, and how to use it. We propose a new lifestyle that only one piece of cloth weaves. * Comes with a furoshiki worth 2000 yen. You can also buy Japanese towels, Japanese pattern handkerchiefs, and Japanese miscellaneous goods using chirimen at the store.

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• In Door Activity
• For Groups

• Age 4～Age 70
• 1～2 hours

〇 Harvest rice grown by the owner for a year ♪ ・ You can plant rice seedlings and harvest rice grown by yourself until harvest ♪ I hope it will be useful for children's dietary education. Masu ♪ ・ For those who want to be self-sufficient in the future!・ Recommended for those who want to master rice farming!・ You can enjoy the peace of mind that you will be able to make rice ♪ ・ We will start from making rice seedlings! There are activities once or twice a month from May to 6 months. There are activities twice a month in May, June, October and November. * We will talk about the schedule from the next time onwards. Activity period Early May Rice seeding / Rice seeding Late May Scraping Early June Rice planting Late June Weeding management work July Weeding management work August Weeding / plan Yamako making / Pest control Early October Rice harvesting / drying October Late threshing Early November Sorting and paddying Late November Harvest festival 〇 Agricultural experience near the city center ♪ ・ Unlike ordinary tourist farms, you can work freely! Activities in the natural space can really be refreshed. It will also be an education through the five senses of children. ■ Experience date and time ・ 10:00 to 12:00 * Please come 10 minutes before the reservation time. ■ Experience fee ・ 1 family: ¥ 150,000 (up to 5 people) * No additional fee will be charged. * 4 kg of rice is included. (If you polish rice from 5kg of paddy, it will be reduced by about 20%.) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-

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