【In December】 Traditional culture experience in Japan Page 52

• Age 5～Age 100
• Within 1 hour
• 15:00 / 17:00

The koto is a representative Japanese musical instrument that has been around for 1000 years. The melody is very elegant and Japanese. It will be an unforgettable memory of your trip to Japan. In this program, you will actually touch the koto and practice simple songs. Recommended for people who love music.

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• Age 0～Age 100
• 1～2 hours
• 10:00 / 13:30

This is a plan that allows you to experience making "Flower Chozumizu" at Oshijo, which has been used as a setting for novels and movies♪ You can make it with your favorite flowers! You can take a commemorative photo with your own work! Let's enjoy together a valuable experience that can only be done here! For customers from foreign countries, an English-speaking guide will accompany you. [What is Hanachōzu? ] A chozubachi with flowers floating in it before worship.

• For Groups
• For Family

• Age 5～Age 100
• 2～3 hours
• 11:00 / 14:00

Experience traditional ceremonies and meals at Kanda Myojin, which has a 1,300-year history as the guardian deity of Tokyo. The current building was rebuilt in 1934, and you can enter the precious building designated as a nationally registered tangible cultural property, and experience a ritual performed by Shinto priests and shrine maidens called Shoden Sanhai. After the ceremony, it is time for a meal called Naorai. This meal is also included in the traditional ceremony, and you can have a delicious meal while having a valuable experience.

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• In Door Activity
• For Groups

• Age 10～Age 80
• 1～2 hours

It is a work made by three-dimensionally combining flowers and animals using kimono fabric and cotton. Kits and tools will be prepared here in advance, so you can participate empty-handed on the day. If you have a request, we will also hold a business trip class at your accommodation.

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• In Door Activity

• Age 10～Age 75
• Within 1 hour

We offer a simple and informal "table tea ceremony experience". In this experience, you can actually make matcha by yourself while learning the basics of the tea ceremony in one hour. ~ Flow of the day ~ ① Demonstration and hands-on experience (30 minutes) First, you will see a demonstration by the instructor. I will explain the specific steps and manners while demonstrating. After that, participants will move on to the experience of actually making matcha. The feature is that you can easily enjoy it using things you have at home, such as handkerchiefs and spoons. ②Enjoy dried sweets (15 minutes) Enjoy dried sweets with matcha green tea. Enjoy a table tea ceremony to your heart's content while enjoying flavorful sweets. ③ Exchange of impressions and opinions (15 minutes) After the experience, we will set aside time to exchange impressions and opinions with the participants. Let's share the memorable moments, what kind of realizations and impressions you had. It is also attractive to be able to freely exchange opinions in an atmosphere that is not formal. The Aime-toi Cooking School's "Table Tea Ceremony Experience" specializes in promoting table tea ceremony that can be easily enjoyed at home. You can use familiar tools such as paper towels, handkerchiefs, and spoons instead of kaishi, chashaku, chakin, and fukusa. While learning the basics of the tea ceremony, enjoy an experience that emphasizes ease and ease.

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• In Door Activity

• 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 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! !

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• 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

============================================================= I, they, and I'm ＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝ Since the early Edo period, it has been known as the “tsutsumi” of the east, especially Kabuki and Ukiyo-e. The Tsutsumi doll factory has many elegant works based on the manners and customs of the Edo period. One person is responsible for a wide range of processes, and the one that pays the most attention is "coloring", where the delicate patterns are drawn by hand one by one to create a simple expression. Since the Edo period, the Haga family has protected the craftsmanship and spirit of the one family for generations. You can visit the factory and the exhibition room.

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• 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"

• For Rainy Days

• Age 12～Age 100
• 1～2 hours
• 13:30

*Reservations for 1 to 2 adults are accepted for a flat fee of 5,000 yen due to instructor fees.・It is an experience to draw a pattern on a vessel using scraping and line engraving techniques.・You can choose either a cup or a bowl. We will ask for your preference at the time of booking.・Up to 1 piece per person will be baked for free and handed over to the customer. (Up to 3 months waiting time) No shipping fee if received directly at the workshop, separate shipping fee if shipped.

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• 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 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.

• For Rainy Days
• For Groups

• 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 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 5～Age 99
• Within 1 hour

It is a Japanese sweets experience that you make yourself. You can make 2 per person. (Take-out is possible) * What you make changes every month. All materials are available here. You can enjoy it on the spot, and we also have a takeaway pack available. Experience your own Neri-kiri Japanese sweets. As for the raw materials, we specially prepare the materials of the long-established Japanese sweets shop in Mie prefecture. No preservatives are used, so it is safe and secure. There is also a shooting time, so you can shoot your own Neri-kiri. *… *… *… *… *… *… *… [Request to customers] ・ Disinfection (inside the salon) ・ Wearing a mask Please refrain from. *… *… *… *… *… *… *… [Staff implementation measures] ・ Daily physical condition management, temperature measurement, mask wearing, hand disinfection, ventilation for each lesson, tools, thorough disinfection in the salon

• For Rainy Days
• For Groups

• Age 3～Age 99
• 1～2 hours
• 10:00

[Around Atsugi / Annual owner plan for vegetable making! ] You can experience from seedling planting to harvesting by yourself throughout the year ♪ Making a lot of vegetables of about 20 kinds a year ♪ <Recommended by friends and family ♪> ■ Recommended points 〇 Years (half a year depending on the period) The owner raised it by himself Harvest vegetables ♪ ・ You can plant vegetable seedlings and harvest vegetables that you have grown yourself until harvest ♪ I hope that it will be useful for children's dietary education ♪ ・ Regularly for one year If you come, you will know what you need to grow vegetables.・ Recommended for those who want to rent a field near their home and grow vegetables with their family and friends in the future! (I'm telling you how to do it on weekends while working) ・ I want to eventually aim for self-sufficiency! Recommended for those who want to live in the countryside! If you experience it before you start living in the country, you will not be in trouble even if you move! There are activities at least once a month from planting seedlings and sowing seeds. (Activities will be held twice a month from May to November) * We will talk about the schedule from the next time onwards. Please be assured that we will adjust the schedule as much as possible. 〇Agricultural experience close to the city center and the city ♪ ・ 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 ■ Participation fee ・ 1 family: ¥ 150,000 * No additional fee will be charged. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-

• Age 5～Age 100
• Within 1 hour
• 11:00 / 11:30 / 12:00 / 12:30

You can experience making Sasa-Mino sushi, a local dish born in the Myoko / Suginosawa area, while learning from the locals. With family, friends and couples! Would you like to experience making Sasa Mino sushi together?

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• Age 2～Age 100
• Within 1 hour
• 10:00 / 11:00 / 13:00

Why don't you experience making traditional Japanese food and rice cakes with your children? Myoko's grandma will teach you from scratch. Souvenirs include glutinous rice, perilla powder, and red beans. A recipe is also included, so you can reproduce it even when you go home!

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• For Groups

• Age 10～Age 80
• 1～2 hours
• 12:00

You can enjoy a slightly rich lunch while watching Maimusume's dance. There are many discoveries in the museum where you can feel the romance of the Takehisa Yumeji Museum and the Taisho romance, and you can enjoy it with your family, friends, and anyone! You can also take a commemorative photo with Maimusume. ～ Flow of the day ～ 12:00 Lunch) Please enjoy your meal in the large hall on the 2nd floor of the table. 12:30 Video viewing) Watch a video of the history of Sakata City and Somaro. 12:40 Dance appreciation) You can see the dance appreciation of Maimusume. 12:55 Commemorative photo with Maimusume / Senjafuda present) You can take a commemorative photo with Maimusume with your own camera. Finally, Maimusume will give you a Senjafuda. 13:00 Closing / Visiting the museum) You can visit the Takehisa Yumeji Museum. You can take pictures in the hall except for some areas.

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• In Door Activity
• For Groups

• Age 5～Age 100
• Within 1 hour

You will experience the tea ceremony in a place where you can enjoy Japanese culture by renovating an old folk house in the Showa era in Satoyama. You can take a break as a customer, or you can actually make tea yourself, and spend a rich time by experiencing the tools and how to make tea. It is a Satoyama tea ceremony workshop that you can feel free to join. It will be reserved for 1 person to 1 group.

• For Rainy Days
• In Door Activity
• For Groups

• Age 0～Age 99
• 1 Day or more
• 14:00 / 16:00

At the farmer's house in the Yatsugatake area of Nagano prefecture, which runs in a rural area with an altitude of 800 m or more, you can experience farming and living in each season for 2 days and 1 night. By spending a warm time like a family member, more than just a customer, you can get a glimpse of the unique life of this land where you live while being grateful for the blessings of nature. Experience the nostalgic activities of people, such as harvesting highland vegetables, making preserved foods such as dried persimmons, pickled Nozawana, and miso, picking edible wild plants, experiencing a wood-burning stove, and making shime rope. I can. Also, you can cook dishes using local ingredients together and talk with the farmers around the table. Recommended experience for families with children and groups of friends! An English-speaking guide will accompany you during the meeting, so you can have a smooth conversation with your family before the start. We will also hand out an interpreter that you can use during your stay, so you don't have to worry if you don't speak Japanese. You can choose from a plan from 14:00 to 9:00 the next day from 9:00 to 11:00 the next day. ～ Flow of the day (14: 00 ～ 9:00 of the next day) ～ 14: 00 Meeting → Introduction (self-introduction & house tour) 14:15 Agricultural experience → Farmer's seasonal work experience (agricultural work and preserved food) Seasonal handicrafts such as making) 15:15 Cooking experience → Making rice together using seasonal ingredients 17:00 Dinner → Rice time while talking around the table 7:00 Meteorology and breakfast → Waking up and making breakfast together

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• For Groups
• For Family

• Age 13～Age 75
• 2～3 hours
• 09:00 / 13:00 / 14:00

The world's most dangerous (?) Tea room "Takasugi-an" is located on a tree with a height of 6m. A pyramid-like tea room buried in the basement, "Hikusugi-an". And the "flying mud boat" that is hung by a cable and floats in the air. Near Suwa Taisha Shrine in Chino City, there is a strange building that you will never forget once you see it. Its true identity is the tea room of Terunobu Fujimori, an architect known worldwide for his original architecture. With special permission from Dr. Fujimori, this is a special program only for a trip where you can make tea by putting it inside the "tea room" that you can't normally enter. Along with an English-speaking guide, first of all, I went around the Suwa Taisha Maemiya, which is the origin of Mr. Fujimori's idea, and realized the "feelings for nature" that are constantly transmitted to this area. Then, after visiting the first building built by Professor Fujimori, "Jinchokan Moriya Historical Museum," we will climb the "Flying Mud Boat" and "Takasugi-an" to see the inside. In addition, you can experience making matcha while being taught by a local teahouse in "Hikusugi-an". 5 minutes by taxi from JR Chino Station. ～ Flow of the day ～ ① Worship at Suwa Taisha Maemiya: Tour started. First of all, I would like to introduce you to the origin of the idea of Professor Terunobu Fujimori, the front shrine of Suwa Taisha Kamisha. ② Walking: Walking on the ancient road behind the front shrine. ③ Visit to Jinchōkan Moriya Historical Museum: We will guide you to Jinchōkan Moriya Historical Museum (the first building built by Terunobu Fujimori). ④ Tour of Tea Room County: Visit three "Fujimori Tea Room". The guide will guide you inside and explain. 1) Climb the ladder to the inside of the "flying mud boat". 2) Climb the ladder to the inside of "Takasugi-an". 3) To the inside of the pitch-black "Hikusugi-an". After experiencing the darkness for a while, I opened the roof. I feel the brightness of the sky. ⑤ Tea experience: In Hikusugi-an, entertain with a simple “Matcha experience” by a local tea shop.

• In Door Activity

• Age 6～Age 99
• 2～3 hours
• 09:00 / 14:00

Enjoy Kutani and the stylish tradesman culture in a retro-modern townhouse. Komatsu's old town area was formed around Komatsu Castle, which used to be here. The artist, Yukio Uchida, is the only artist in this area where the stylish tradesman culture, including Kabuki and Hikiyama, still remains, and is the only person involved in the production of Kutani ware. He is also the owner of "Toraya Ceramics Store", which has a store in a renovated building of the traditional architectural style "Komatsu Machiya". In this program, under the guidance of Mr. Uchida, Kutani ware painting of "Kutani style" will be performed in a retro-modern Komatsu Machiya. After the experience, enjoy the many furnishings and tasteful atmosphere stored in the tea room with all five senses while tasting the matcha tea that Mr. Uchida himself makes in the tea room. * For foreign nationals: Information on the day will be in Japanese only.

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