Strolling tours / Walking tours in Japan Page 28

• Age 3～Age 100
• 4～5 hours
• 10:00

We have prepared a special program that is limited to one group per day and allows you to enjoy Shizuoka tea with all five senses. The Higashiyama district, which produces tea that has been designated as a World Agricultural Heritage Site, is one of the highest quality tea producing areas in the prefecture, but in recent years there has been an increase in the number of dilapidated tea plantations in this area. In this plan, you will pick tea in a scenic tea plantation that has been renovated from a ruined tea plantation, and you will enjoy the picked tea with tempura or as a kaiseki meal with seasonal local ingredients. Also, as a fun activity before and after your meal, you can work up a sweat by climbing up to the top of Mt. Awagatake, the symbol of the area, for about 30 minutes. From the mountaintop terrace, you can see the large tea garden below, the Oi River, Suruga Bay, and the Izu Peninsula on the horizon. On clear days from autumn to winter, you can even see Mt. Fuji. After your meal, enjoy a sencha ceremony where you can brew delicious tea yourself using a teapot. Local staff and farmers will give you detailed instructions, so please try it at home! ~Procedure of the experience~ ① Gather at Higashiyama Ippukudokoro (10:00) ② Welcome tea and program information at local Higashiyama tea (about 20 minutes) ③ Tea picking experience at a ruined tea plantation halfway up Mt. Awagatake (about 30 minutes) ④ Walk It takes about 30 minutes to hike to the top of the mountain! ... Awa Shrine, Iwaza ... Take a short break at the finish line on the terrace at the top of Mt. Awagatake ... ⑤ It's finally time to eat on the terrace with a spectacular view (about 60 minutes) ⑥ After the meal, enjoy being taught how to brew delicious tea Tea time (approx. 30 minutes) ⑦ Transfer to Higashiyama Ippukudokoro by shuttle car, scheduled to disband around 2:00 p.m.

• For Groups

• Age 6～Age 90
• 3～4 hours
• 10:00

We will conduct a monitor tour for the purpose of planning and developing a new SDGs-type education program. During the tour, Waseda University students act as tour guides and guide students around the university campus where they usually spend their time, as well as shopping malls lined with restaurants that satisfy students' appetites. In the future, we plan to disseminate this tour both domestically and internationally as an example of students and the local community (shopping association) working on sustainable town development. We would like to ask everyone who participated to provide us with their opinions in order to make the program even better. Please join us and give us your advice to improve the quality of our tours.

• For Rainy Days
• For Groups

• Age 6～Age 80
• 2～3 hours
• 18:00

・"Meal for Shinto and People" At the "Gonden" hall of Tanzan Shrine, we will eat a kaiseki bento box made from the "goshinsen" of the shrine's prayers.・Official worship will be held at the main hall of the shrine.・Enjoy the light-up reserved for participants.・We plan to provide a guide in English. ``Shinto-jin kyoshoku'' is a remnant of the past, now known as ``Osechi ryori'' for New Year holidays. It is a Shinto ritual that has been held at shrines for a thousand years, and there is a legend that by eating food with the gods, you will receive divine power.

• For Rainy Days
• In Door Activity
• For Groups

• Age 7～Age 89
• 1～2 hours
• 12:00

Oda City, Shimane Prefecture, a town with the World Heritage Iwami Ginzan Silver Mine. Enjoy delicious fish dishes at an inn by the sea. Spend a quiet and luxurious time while listening to the sound of the waves.・Right in front of the sea of Hane Coast in Oda City, Shimane Prefecture, where the great literary figure Ryunosuke Akutagawa once visited.・Spend time quietly watching the ocean in Japanese countryside.・The meals at Kaneko Ryokan are known for their delicious taste and are popular among locals.・Enjoy fresh seafood from Shimane in a room with a view of the Sea of ​​Japan.・Drinks can be selected from the drink list on the day.

• For Rainy Days
• For Groups

• Age 13～Age 80
• 4～5 hours
• 10:00

This is a tour that introduces the culture related to Mt. Fuji led by a local guide. The place to guide you is the Mt. Fuji area of Fuji Kawaguchiko Town and Fuji Yoshida City, where Mt. Fuji and the Fuji Five Lakes are located. Mt.Fuji is wonderful to see, but learning about the culture surrounding Mt.Fuji shows how the local people have interacted with Mt.Fuji. (Example: Maps draw north at the top, but maps of this area draw Mt. Fuji at the top. From Fujiyoshida City, Mt. Fuji is located south, so you can get a mysterious map. We will guide you on foot and by taxi. The points that can be seen at walking speed and car speed are different. There must be something you can't find anywhere else. Please feel different Mt.Fuji. ~ Flow of the day ~ 10:00) Meeting at Mt.Fuji Station We will meet at the torii gate, which is the symbol of Mt.Fuji Station. Immediately after getting off at Fujikyuko Line Mt. Fuji Station, it is a few seconds from the expressway bus stop. 10:20-11:00) Oshi Former House of the Togawa Family 11:15-12:00) Kitaguchi Hongu Fuji Sengen Shrine 12:00-13:00) Lunch Yoshida Udon, Yamanashi Specialty Hoto 13:15-13:45 ) Entering the tree form inside Funatsu and walking around the forest Before entering the cave, visit Mutomuro Sengen Shrine to explain the worship of Mt. Fuji and the structure inside the cave. 45-14:00) Move by taxi 14:00) Arrive at Mt.Fuji Station

• Age 5～Age 100
• 2～3 hours
• 13:00

Okunoshima is a small island in the Seto Inland Sea with a circumference of 4.3km. It is called "Rabbit Island" because of the large number of rabbits inhabiting it, and so many tourists come. It's a waste to just take a walk around Okunoshima! We have prepared a slightly unusual guided tour. Walk the island with your guide and enjoy the island a little deeper.

• For Groups

• Age 0～Age 100
• 1 Day or more
• 13:00

"Okunoshima" known as "Rabbit Island". A camp plan only here that is different from ordinary rental camps and glamping to enjoy this location. For those who love camping, let's camp only on Rabbit Island, where the gear is put together with the familiar "DOD". A very good plan with meals, hot springs, and an island study tour. Please give it a try ♪

• For Family

• Age 5～Age 100
• 3～4 hours
• 14:30

A special plan to enjoy the time of dusk and twilight in Takehara! Experience making your own original bamboo lights + cruising at dusk. Take a romantic private cruise surrounded by your own fantastic bamboo lights and the admiration of the setting sun. Rabbits also landed on Okunoshima during the most energetic evening hours.

• In Door Activity
• For Groups

• Age 5～Age 100
• 4～5 hours
• 10:00

Takehara once prospered in salt making. Let's experience salt making only here with the former "flow-down type" manufacturing method. You can also experience making rice balls with freshly made salt and bamboo cooked rice ♪ If you bring the freshly made rice balls and the original side dish lunch box of the popular cafe "Charyo Ichikai" in Takehara "Townscape Conservation Area", you can go to Okunoshima Let's go to lunch cruise! Let's enjoy the spectacular view of the Seto Inland Sea. At the end of the tour, we landed on Okunoshima, also known as Usagi Island. Comes with a souvenir of salt made by yourself ★

• Pickup Service
• In Door Activity

• Age 12～Age 99
• 4～5 hours
• 09:50

<Points of this plan> ・ Full-scale cooking experience using local seasonal ingredients based on local cooking research ・ A certified guide will guide you to spots where you can feel local life such as shrines and markets. ・ Walk in a local back alley full of life that is not often used for sightseeing First, head to IN KANAZAWA HOUSE through a narrow alley full of life, with a glimpse of the everyday life of the locals. IN KANAZAWA HOUSE is a traditional Kanazawa Machiya-style building where you can feel the lifestyle of those days. The traditional townhouse has a large, renovated kitchen where you can experience cooking home-cooked meals. A cooking researcher born in Kanazawa will teach you special recipes using seasonal ingredients. The cooking process will be explained with demonstrations such as how to make soup stock, and home-cooked dishes will be handed down locally. When it's done, it's finally a fun meal. After a meal, take a photo at the townhouse, explore, relax while looking at the garden, and relax. 《Weekly menu》 Sushi course Oshizushi (Ishikawa's specialty), omelet, boiled plum shellfish, 1 local dish (4 dishes in total) Tempura course Tempura using seasonal seafood and vegetables, omelet, soup, local dish (4 items in total), rice ~ Flow of the day ~ 9:50 Kanazawa Station East Exit Tourist Information Center "Hyakuman-san" Meeting / Check-in 10:00 Walk from Kanazawa Station (about 1km) An English tourist guide will guide you. Cooking experience of home cooking at IN KANAZAWA HOUSE 14:00 Dissolution in front of Kanazawa Station

• For Rainy Days
• In Door Activity
• For Groups

• Age 6～Age 100
• Over 6 hours on the day

Aizu is a city of nature and history, with the Echigo Mountains to the west and the Ou Mountains to the east. It has the faces of the four seasons, which are colorful in summer in summer and winter in winter, and shows the scenery of each season depending on the seasons you visit. From the highlights unique to Aizu, a regular winter sightseeing bus that goes around the "Tsurugajo Castle Tower" that towers in the tense atmosphere and the "Ouchi-juku", a highway post town with a lot of historical Edo atmosphere. Please enjoy another Aizu that you can feel only in winter. * The service may be suspended depending on the weather. note that. [Schedule] ● 11:10 Aizu-Wakamatsu Station (ride) Wakamatsu Station No. 2 platform ● 11:20 Tsuruga Castle (Tsuruga Castle) Tsuruga Castle, which is said to be an impregnable castle, survived the onslaught of the new government army in the Boshin War. It was rebuilt in September 1965, and in the spring of 2011 it became the only castle tower in Japan that wore roof tiles (red roof tiles) from the late Tokugawa period. ▼ 12:20 departure ● 13:20 Ouchi-juku Ouchi-juku is a post station that retains the streets of the Edo period. Private houses with thatched roofs lined up on both sides of the road connecting Aizu and Nikko called the Shimono Kaido, which played an important role as a post station for daimyo and travelers heading to Edo. It is extremely rare to see more than 30 thatched-roof private houses lined up, and even now, more than 1 million tourists are visiting and bustling, leaving behind the remnants of those days. ● Ouchi-juku Snow Festival February 13th (Sat) and 14th (Sun) The "Ouchi-juku Snow Festival" is held on the second Saturday and Sunday of February every year. The festival, which began to express gratitude to our customers, has now become a major event. In winter, the quiet Ouchi-juku is closed by snow, but you can even feel the heat for these two days. You can enjoy the unique winter atmosphere such as lanterns made of snow. * For details, see Ouchi-juku Tourism Association ☎ 0241-68-3611 ● Ouchi-juku (Yamagataya / Lunch) Lunch is made with 100% Yamagataya ground flour and handmade 11 soba noodles. Enjoy Ouchi-juku's specialty green onion soba, which you can eat while biting a green onion instead of chopsticks. ▼ 14:40 departure ● 15:00 Ashinomaki Onsen (get off) Ashinomaki Onsen It is convenient for guests staying here to get off. ● 15: 45 Aizu-Wakamatsu Station (get off) * Delays may occur depending on road conditions.

• Age 6～Age 100
• Over 6 hours on the day

Beautiful scenery and from the ~ train Aizu journey - tracing the history of the From the impregnable famous castle "Tsuruga Castle" to the townscape "Ouchi-juku" that retains the atmosphere of Edo. Please enjoy the rural scenery seen from the bus and the leisurely time and scenery of the Aizu Schedule ● 10: 50 Higashiyama Hot spring Information Center (ride) * Customers using the Hot spring Information Center should purchase a ticket at the Hot spring ● 11: 10 Aizu Wakamatsu Station (ride) Connection from Tokyo ➡ Tokyo Station 8:08 shots (Tohoku Shinkansen) Koriyama Station 9:32 wearing → Koriyama Station 9:38 shots (Ban'etsu West Line) Aizu Wakamatsu Station 10:55 wearing ● 11: 20 Tsuruga Castle (Tenjokaku) Tsuruga Castle, which is said to be an impregnable famous castle, survived the onslaught of the new government army in the Boshin War. 1965 Year rebuilt in September, 2011 Year in the spring was the only castle tower in Japan dressed in the Edo era tile (Akakawara). ▼ 12:30 departure ● 12: 45 Kappo Takino (lunch) Using the 500-Year old tradition of "Magewappa," enjoy dishes that make the most of Aizu 's ingredients, and the special menu "Rinbox Rice Lunch Set" that is only available for Bus tour ▼ 13:30 departure ● 14:00 Ashinomaki Hot spring Station (Aizu Railway) Aizu Railway station watched by cats. The stationmaster of Love will welcome you. From here Aizu Railway and enjoy the spectacular view of the Okawa Valley from inside the train. You can get Aizu Railway commemorative card limited to Bus tour ▼ 14:10 departure (train) ● 14: 24 Yunokami Hot spring Station (Aizu Railway) It is a station building with a thatched roof, which is rare in Japan. The station also has a hearth, and it has a charming landscape as a gateway to Ouchi-juku, making it a popular shooting spot. ▼ 14:45 departure ● 15: 05 Ouchi-juku (get off) It has prospered as a post town since the Edo period, and even now, more 30 private houses with thatched roofs are lined up, and the remnants of that time are still preserved. ▼ 16:00 departure ● 16: 25 Ashinomaki Hot spring (get off) ● 17:00 Higashiyama Hot spring Information Center (get off) ● 17: 20 Aizu Wakamatsu Station (get off)