Itabashi/Kitaku/Arakawa Reservation for City walking tour | Activity Japan

• Age 10～Age 70
• 2～3 hours
• 10:00 / 13:00

This is a 6km walking tour that starts from the north exit of Shimoakatsuka Station on the Tobu Tojo Line and ends at Nishi-Takashimadaira Station on the Toei Mita Line. We will visit Akatsuka Botanical Garden, Tokyo Great Buddha, Akatsuka Fudo Falls, Itabashi Art Museum, Akatsuka Castle Ruins Park, and Itabashi Local Museum. At the botanical garden, you can see beautiful seasonal flowers such as camellias, plums, cherry blossoms, roses, sunflowers, tulips, and cosmos, as well as Japanese gardens, bamboo groves, and recreated forests. The Tokyo Great Buddha is a very large Buddha statue, measuring 13 meters from its pedestal and its head measuring 3 meters. Akatsuka Fudo Falls (a small spring water about 1 meter high) is a place where Shugendo perform purification before training. Itabashi Art Museum (admission fee of about 700 yen is not included in the tour cost), which has themed exhibitions depending on the season, Akatsuka Castle ruins, life from primitive times to the present, and farmhouses built over 100 years ago. We will also take a walk and tour the Itabashi Local Museum where the exhibits are on display. The route from Shimoakatsuka Station to the botanical garden passes through narrow alleys and stairs.

• Age 9～Age 70
• 5～6 hours
• 10:00

In a small conference room, you will experience the basic techniques of calligraphy under the guidance of an instructor. You will finish by creating 1-2 pieces of work that you can display at home. After the calligraphy experience, you will walk around Oyama Shopping Street, which is 1.2 km long and has over 300 shops and restaurants, and have lunch. Transfer to the train and bus to the Akatsuka area. You will visit the Tokyo Great Buddha, Akatsuka Fudo Waterfall, Akatsuka Botanical Garden, Itabashi Museum of Art, Akatsuka Castle Ruins, and Itabashi Local Museum.

• For Rainy Days
• In Door Activity

• Age 20～Age 100
• 3～4 hours
• 10:30

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