List of Aka Island

• Age 0～Age 100
• 1～2 hours
• 10:00 / 11:00 / 13:00 / 14:00 / 15:00

The ruins of Shichi Castle are said to have once been the castle of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's military strategist Kuroda Kanbei and Kato Yoshiaki, one of the Seven Spears of Shizugatake. The representative of the "Society for Preserving Shichi Castle," which is dedicated to preserving the castle every day, will guide you through this precious historic site, which was an important base for the Awaji Navy under Hideyoshi. Located in Shichi, Minami Awaji City, near the Seto Inland Sea and the Naruto Strait, Shichi Castle is said to have been built by Suga Izuminokami Michitada during the Kamakura period, and was surrendered in 1581 when Toyotomi Hideyoshi attacked Awaji. After that, it was guarded by his vassal Kuroda Kanbei (Kuroda Yoshitaka), and from 1585, Kato Yoshiaki, one of the Seven Spears of Shizugatake, became the lord of the castle. The Awaji Navy, which had Shichi Castle as one of its bases, achieved great success in Hideyoshi's conquests of Kyushu, Odawara, and Korea, and there is no doubt that Awaji Island and Shichi Castle were important naval bases for Hideyoshi. However, the valuable historical site where Kuroda Kanbei and Kato Yoshiaki once lived has been swallowed up by bamboo forests in recent years and is on the verge of being forgotten by local residents. At that time, the local volunteers "Shichi Castle Preservation Society" stood up, worried that the valuable remains would disappear if things continued like this. In order to let many people, not just the locals, know about the Shichi Castle ruins and to pass on the story to future generations, they have been clearing the bamboo forest every day for about five years, and have been carrying out maintenance activities such as installing entrance roads and signs. This is a tour of the Shichi Castle ruins guided by Mr. Sekiguchi, the representative of the "Shichi Castle Preservation Society" who has a stronger passion for Shichi Castle than anyone else! The Shichi Castle ruins are currently being maintained, and recently wells and stones that are thought to be old stupas from that time have been discovered one after another. Perhaps you, as a participant of the tour, will discover an important relic! ■Experience schedule (if departing at 10:00) 10:00 Meet at the parking lot (north side of Shichi Castle ruins, across the street from the main entrance of Super Marunaka *see photo below) 10:00-10:05 Use the handmade sign as a landmark to move to the remains of the Honmarudai 10:05-10:15 Guide explains the history and characteristics of Shichi Castle 10:15-10:55 After viewing the remains such as the Taiko stone, the remains of the turret, and the old well, walk around the moat to Ise Shrine and Shomyo-ji Temple 10:55-11:00 Return to the parking lot and disband

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• Age 6～Age 100
• 2～3 hours
• 10:00 / 13:00 / 15:00

At Senkoji Temple, which boasts a history of 1100 years and has a temple on the summit of Sakiyama, a sacred mountain on Awaji Island, you can visit the main hall while enjoying the view of Sumoto City, one of the eight scenic views of Sumoto, and experience a sutra copying experience in a mysterious silence, which is an extraordinary experience. If you wish, you can also visit Iwato Shrine after the experience. Sakiyama, also known as Awaji Fuji, is said to be the first mountain created in Japan in the legend of the creation of the world by the gods Izanagi and Izanami. At Senkoji Temple, which has a temple on the summit of Sakiyama, you can experience copying sutras. First, you can climb about 200 steps to tour the grounds of Senkoji Temple, learn about the origins of Senkoji Temple, and see the place where the Awaji Island custom of "Dango Korogashi", which is rare nationwide, is performed at the temple. You will also be greeted by a lion-like boar, instead of a lion-dog, enshrined in front of the main hall. Because it is a temple on the mountaintop, you can see the central and southern part of Awaji Island, and if the weather is good, you can see the Naruto Strait and Wakayama. Return to the temple office and go to the "Daishido" to experience copying sutras. In copying sutras, you will copy the general Heart Sutra. Place the paper on top of the model Heart Sutra and copy it with a brush pen. Beginners are also welcome. By copying the characters in a solemn space, you can spend a valuable time reflecting on yourself. You can donate the copy to the temple or take it home. After the experience, you can also visit "Iwato Shrine", a popular power spot that enshrines a huge rock where Amaterasu Omikami hid herself, about 10 minutes down from the temple. (Please note that this is a full-scale mountain path) Experience schedule (for example, if the tour starts at 13:00) Meet at 13:00 *Walk around the temple grounds, including visiting the main hall (guided by the head priest Okazaki) 14:00 Experience copying sutras at the Daishido (approx. 30 minutes to 1 hour) 15:00 Scheduled end *After the tour, you can walk around the temple grounds and visit Iwato Shrine (on your own). It takes about 10 minutes to walk one way up the mountain path to Iwato Shrine.

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• Age 6～Age 100
• 1～2 hours
• 10:30

Visit the Yura Fisheries Cooperative Association's unique fish auction with a professional fisherman and broker who also supplies fish to famous fish markets such as Toyosu Market, high-end restaurants, and Michelin-starred restaurants. Experience the lively fishing town of Yura Port, a natural harbor with the largest variety of fish landed on Awaji Island. Yura Port is located in the exact center of the eastern side of Awaji Island. With the Kitan Strait stretching out before it and a wide fishing ground stretching from Osaka Bay to the Pacific Ocean, Yura Port is known as a natural harbor, and in addition to high-end fish such as sea bream and conger eel, about 150 types of fresh seafood are landed each season. This time, you will sneak into the Yura Fisheries Cooperative Association auction, which is usually only open to those involved, together with a professional fisherman who also supplies fish to markets and high-end restaurants nationwide. This is a valuable private tour experience that is held once a day and is limited to a maximum of four people. You can watch the auction right next to the fishermen, have them guide you around the fishing port, and enjoy the atmosphere of the local fishing town, with the people working energetically at Yura Port. [Yura Fisheries Cooperative Association auction] The fishermen themselves line up crates of fish one after another on a wooden platform. The fishermen instantly select the fish, quickly write the purchase price in chalk on palm-sized rectangular plates, and throw them one after another into a designated box-like area, where the person inside the box wins the bid to the highest bidder. This is a unique system of the Yura Fisheries Cooperative Association. It only takes a few tens of seconds, but you can see the tension and speed of the professional scene with your own eyes. This process is repeated over and over, and once again the fish are selected, the price is decided, and the bill is thrown in. During this time, fresh fish are brought in one after another from the boats docked at the port. This auction continues for about an hour. In the past, on days with a large catch, the auction would continue until the evening. ■Schedule10:30 Meet at Yura Fishing Port (Market) (Meet Awajishima Suisan Yamaguchi, a professional fisherman)10:35 Take a tour of Yura Fisheries Cooperative Association with Yamaguchi, a professional fishermanFirst, he shows us one fresh fish after another caught in the waters off Awaji Island, such as sea bream, flounder, horse mackerel, hairtail, octopus, abalone, and turban shells, before they are shipped to markets at high prices. After listening to an explanation of the unique auction method of Yura Fisheries Cooperative Association, we move to the auction site. The auction finally begins.11:30 Visit to Yura Fisheries Cooperative Association auction (Go to the auction site with Yamaguchi, a professional fisherman)Professional fisherman Yamaguchi will participate in the auction. Everyone can observe the auction up close. (Please observe within the designated area.) 12:00 Auction observation ends and the auction disbands. (Yamaguchi is currently participating in the auction. We apologize for not being able to see you off properly. Please be careful on your way home.)

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• Age 12～Age 65
• 1～2 hours
• 10:00 / 13:00

The owner travels to coffee-producing regions around the world and carefully selects coffee beans that are thoroughly managed from cultivation to harvesting and transportation! In order to enjoy high-quality coffee with a rich original flavor called "specialty coffee," he roasts and brews the beans himself. The flavor changes drastically depending on the strength of the roast and the time, so adjust the roasting level to match your favorite flavor and aroma. Experience the profound world of coffee. A place in the Shitoori district of Minami Awaji City, where idyllic rural scenery spreads out. After getting off the car, walk for two minutes along a country road surrounded by trees to the Awaji Island Coffee Laboratory "BASE COFFEE," an annex to the premises of "Fuku Cafe," a quiet, hidden old-style cafe. If a cafe is a hideaway, this laboratory has the atmosphere of a "secret base." The owner, who is obsessed with the depth and unanswerable charm of coffee, is researching and studying every day to get to know coffee better and to pursue the creation of "coffee that makes you want to talk about it with others and makes you smile". The owner carefully selects coffee beans from producing areas around the world, including Central and South America, Africa, and Asia, and thoroughly manages the process from cultivation to harvesting and transportation. Using these top quality beans, you will experience roasting, the most important process that determines the taste and aroma of coffee. For the roasting process, we use a roasting pan called "mankashakasha", which is actually used in Ethiopia, one of the countries where we purchase beans. You can choose to roast lightly to bring out the fruity aroma and acidity of citrus fruits, or roast deeply to bring out the richness and bitterness of chocolate, or you can aim for something in between. In either case, it is difficult to conduct heat thoroughly to the inside of the raw beans in order to remove the moisture contained in them. In addition, even if you choose the same beans and roast in a hand pan, the heat transfer changes depending on how the beans roll and how the wind hits them, so even if the conditions are slightly different, the taste will not be the same and an original taste will be created. The staff will give you a thorough lecture, so please feel free to try it. When the roasted beans are cooled and ground in a coffee mill, a scent containing various elements, including the scent of nuts, caramel, and citrus, rises. This is the moment when the coffee beans emit the most aroma in their life. There are hundreds of elements of the aroma, which becomes a complex and rich coffee aroma that fascinates many people. Then comes the finishing process. Hot water is poured over the fragrant freshly ground beans to extract the maximum aroma and flavor, but there is also an appropriate way to pour the hot water. When you put the carefully extracted coffee in your mouth, your face will naturally break into a smile. *One cup of roasted and ground beans will be used for tasting, but you can take the remaining beans home with you.

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• Age 7～Age 75
• 1～2 hours
• 12:40

[Walk with the guide and discover! Charm of Awaji ~Parche Kaori no Yakata Course~] Awaji Island, where fragrant wood was first introduced to Japan, is now a local industry for incense sticks and incense, and boasts the highest production volume in Japan. After seeing various exhibits related to fragrance at the “Parche Kaoru no Yakata”, a facility with the theme of fragrance, you can experience making incense. Afterwards, we will visit a demonstration experiment site where herbs are grown in a medium made from recycled polyester fibers. Main course Meet at the "Parche Kaori no Yakata/Parche Kaori no Yu" bus stop on the "Awagami Awahime Bus" ⇒ Visit the facility ⇒ Experience making incense ⇒ Visit the greenhouse ⇒ Visit "STYLEM AGRI LABO" ⇒ Dismiss at the site * "Parche" The "Awagami Awahime Bus Southern Sightseeing Tour", which stops at the Kaori no Yakata/Parche Kaori no Yu bus stop, operates only on weekends and holidays from March 19th to November 3rd.

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• Age 6～Age 100
• 1～2 hours
• 13:00 / 15:00

The west side of Awaji Island: Ayuhara district is the strawberry producing area of Awaji Island. The experience location, Hoshino Kajitsuen Bloom, is an experiential complex with a cafe run by a strawberry farmer in the Ayuhara district. You can learn how to make strawberry jam by talking with a craftsman. In addition to making jam, decorate a cake made in the cake studio with freshly picked strawberries as you like! After the experience, you can eat the decorated cake while having tea in the cafe space attached to the studio. You can take the jam you made home as a souvenir. Why not try making jam with freshly picked strawberries? Making jam in a cute studio is sure to be a special memory. The west side of Awaji Island: Ayuhara district is the strawberry producing area famous in Awaji Island. There, strawberry farmer Hoshi no Kajitsuen: Matsumoto-san was born in Tokyo and worked as an office worker in Osaka. He was fascinated by the nature and the slow flow of time on Awaji Island, and moved to Awaji Island. He has an unusual career history, thanks to his connection with local strawberry farmers. After that, together with Harima-san, who was his senior in Osaka, he opened Dessert & Confiture Studio Hoshi no Kajitsuen, which sells sweets made with strawberries picked at the farm. It has become a popular sweets shop in the local area. After that, they opened Hoshinokajitsuen Bloom, an experiential complex with a sweets cafe and experience workshop, where you can enjoy a relaxed space where you can enjoy the strawberries made by Matsumoto and the sweets made by Harima-san. When making confiture, the craftsman will carefully teach you from the beginning, such as the amount of sugar to use for the weight of the strawberries and the timing of adding the ingredients. Along with the confiture experience, you can also decorate a cake made by Arima with the freshly picked strawberries made by Matsumoto. Afterwards, you can have tea with the decorated cake. Cakes and drinks can be purchased separately on-site. Enjoy a fun time with friends, family, or as a couple. Below is the experience schedule (the schedule below is from 13:00, but if it is from 15:00, please read the time accordingly) 13:00 Meet (please come to the Hoshinokajitsuen Bloom store) 13:05 Move to the experience studio (2nd floor) to prepare, workshop on making strawberry jam from Hoshinokajitsuen ・Decorate a cake using strawberries from Hoshinokajitsuen 13:40 Move to the cafe space on the 1st floor and taste the decorated cake 14:00 End

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• Age 0～Age 100
• Within 1 hour
• 10:30 / 11:00 / 13:00 / 13:30 / 14:00 / 14:30

The Benihoppe variety, known as the "sun's strawberry," is large, sweet, and full-bodied, with a moderate sourness that will make you addicted. The producers have arrived at a unique cultivation method after many years of trial and error, and the top quality strawberries are grown under strict management, and you can enjoy the sweet aroma to your heart's content. After picking strawberries, you can also interact with the animals on the vast grounds! Awaji Country Garden is located on a small hilltop in the northern part of Awaji Island. It is located in a great location where you can see the Akashi Strait and Akashi Kaikyo Bridge below, as well as the Kobe cityscape on the opposite bank. In two vinyl greenhouses in one corner of the vast grounds, there are countless large, ripe, bright red strawberries that are ready to be eaten. The Benihoppe variety, known as the "sun's strawberry," is sweet, full-bodied, with a moderate sourness that will make you addicted, and the producers' many years of hard work have improved the quality to its current level. Inside one greenhouse, there are 12 rows of growing shelves over 20 meters long, with about 2,500 seedlings growing healthy and with their leaves spread wide. Just by looking at the healthy seedlings, which are thoroughly managed based on data accumulated over many years of experience and grown using a painstaking cultivation method, you can see how much care and attention they have been given. The strawberries grown in this greenhouse are large, even at a standard size of 2L, but what is particularly noteworthy are the extra-large strawberries that are packed and sold individually as luxury gifts. These are about the size of a small peach and are priced at over 500 yen each! Participants can taste strawberries of the exact same quality through the strawberry picking experience. It may also be interesting to look for extra-large strawberries that are shipped as gifts. The joy of finding them is even greater! The cultivation method in the greenhouse is the nowadays mainstream method of raising the cultivation shelves about one meter above the ground, making it easy for adults and children alike to reach and pick the strawberries without having to assume an awkward position. Surrounded by the sweet aroma that fills the greenhouse, please enjoy to your heart's content the strawberries grown by our hard-working staff who strive to make our customers "delicious, fun, and happy."

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• For Family

• Age 4～Age 80
• 2～3 hours
• 09:00 / 13:00

Enjoy the topic of marine sports SUP by hand Awaji Island It is an experience meeting at Participation in pairs and groups is also OK, such as for friends, couples, couples! (On the day(Tandem or SUP for multiple members) Kobe, Osaka 1 to 2 hours from Awaji Island. Let's enjoy the sea walk slowly surrounded by beautiful sea and magnificent nature! Necessary equipment such as SUP board and paddle Rental Fees and lessons are included in the plan price, so please join us easily!

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• For Rainy Days
• Date Spot
• For Groups

• Age 13～Age 80
• 2～3 hours
• 09:00 / 13:00

Enjoy the topic of marine sports SUP by hand Awaji Island It is an experience meeting at Participation in pairs and groups is also OK, such as for friends, couples, couples! (On the day(Tandem or SUP for multiple members) Kobe, Osaka 1 to 2 hours from Awaji Island. Let's enjoy the sea walk slowly surrounded by beautiful sea and magnificent nature! Necessary equipment such as SUP board and paddle Rental Fees and lessons are included in the plan price, so please join us easily!

• With Pets
• For Rainy Days
• Date Spot
• For Groups