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
• 4～5 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 99
• 3～4 hours
• 15:30

[Limited tour at a national cultural property that is not open to the public] Enjoy a special tour at the former Brewing Research Institute First Factory (Red Brick Sake Brewery), a national cultural property that is normally closed to the public, and enjoy sake manufacturing. Learn about the history of modernization. [Special tour of the Red Brick Sake Brewery] You can tour the Red Brick Sake Brewery and feel the depth of its history. Among them is the ``Hyakunen Sake Brewery Project,'' a project that aims to age sake for decades. The Red Brick Sake Brewery in Oji, Tokyo, was built in 1904 as part of the newly established Sake Brewing Research Institute, a facility where cutting-edge technology was used to support the modernization and evolution of sake production. It is the only place in Japan where technical development and training related to sake production have been held for 120 years, and it is considered the ``sacred place for sake brewing'' because people who aspire to become sake brewers learned here. After that, the research institute was moved outside of Tokyo, but the symbolic red brick sake brewery remained and was designated as a national cultural property in 2014. Since it is not normally open to the public, it remains a hidden gem of Tokyo. [Limited to this tour! Tasting of specially made new sake with commentary from the toji] (*) A toji is a person in charge of sake brewing at a sake brewery. A person with the qualifications of Touji and Kikisakeshi (Japanese sake sommelier) will introduce you to the best sake. Afterwards, we will host a sake tasting workshop where you will learn about the different types of sake and the stories behind their production. All of this takes place in the atmospheric old koji room inside the Red Brick Sake Brewery. [Introducing sake that can only be sampled here] You can also enjoy tasting Tokyo Port Brewing, which you won't find anywhere else. [Enjoy a wonderful pairing dinner with Japanese sake that focuses on fermented foods] This is a special menu that was newly developed by the chef for this tour and can only be enjoyed on this tour. The elegant restaurant serves special dinners based on Japanese fermented foods, paired with a variety of sake. [Plan contents] *Please select at the time of reservation. ① Tour + Sake tasting only (no dinner) ② Tour + Sake tasting + Sake pairing dinner All

• In Door Activity
• For Groups