Strolling tours / Walking tours in Japan Page 29

• 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)

• Age 6～Age 99
• 1 Day or more
• 18:00

This is a two-day, one-night program to gain invisible spiritual richness and a healthy body at Jion, the foremost prayer temple in Tohoku. Hayama, once counted as one of the three mountains of Dewa with three temples and 48 monks, and Jionji, the foremost prayer temple in Tohoku, a nationally designated historic site with a history of about 1,300 years, is a two-day, one-night program to gain invisible spiritual richness and a healthy body by experiencing spiritual culture with your body and mind. The program for experiencing spiritual culture includes a conversation with the head priest of Jionji, a viewing of the prayer dance and Jionji Bugaku, a nationally designated important intangible folk cultural property, and trekking in Hayama, which was once a Shugendo path. The meals served during the program are modern health foods based on the recipes of shojin ryori (traditional Japanese vegetarian cuisine) that have been handed down at Jionji since ancient times. When you finish this special program, which is not usually offered at the historic Jionji Temple in Hayama, which stands in the midst of majestic nature, you will feel spiritual richness and health that you cannot get anywhere else. (Day 1) 11:00 Meet at Yamagata Station 11:00 12:00 Travel from Yamagata to Fukuyoshi Ryokan by minibus 12:00 12:20 Arrive at Fukuyoshi, check-in, explanation of the facilities 12:20 12:40 Change into training clothes 12:40 12:50 Explanation of shojin ryori (traditional Buddhist cuisine) 12:50 13:40 Shojin ryori (traditional Buddhist cuisine) lunch 13:40 14:00 Travel from Fukuyoshi to Jionji Temple by minibus 14:00 Arrive at Jionji Temple (meet at the first parking lot) 14:05 14:15 Explanation of Jionji Temple from the head priest at the temple gate (focusing on the unique feature of Jionji Temple as a temple of prayer) 14:15 15:00 Tour and stroll around the Jionji Temple grounds (with guide) 15:00 16:00 Jogyo-Zanmai (training experience) at Amida-do Hall 16:00 17:00 "Bugaku experience at Jion-ji Temple Office *Participants will be instructed on the touching part of the dance, including the experience of wearing armor" 17:10 17:30 Travel from Jion-ji Temple to Fukuyoshi by special minibus 17:30 Arrive at Fukuyoshi, change into secular clothes (plain clothes), take a break 18:00 20:10 "Bar hopping tour ① Akahoppe (90 minutes) ② Sagae Snack (40 minutes) 20:30 Arrive at Fukuyoshi, take a bath, go to sleep (Day 2) 5:30 Wake up (Please come to the dining venue dressed in training clothes and ready to go) 6:00 6:50 Vegetarian breakfast at Fukuyoshi 6:55 Depart from Fukuyoshi 6:55 7:15 Travel from Fukuyoshi to Jionji Temple by special minibus 7:15 8:00 Experience copying sutras at Kazo-in Temple 8:00 8:20 Explanation of today's Shugendo path and prayer 8:20 8:30 Travel from Jionji Temple to the trailhead by special minibus 8:30 11:30 Trekking on the Shugendo path with a mountain ascetic