Things to do in Okayama Page 3

• Age 10～Age 80
• 4～5 hours

2018 Year This is a one-of-a-kind plan guided by a group of professional eco-tourists who have received the Japan Ecotourism Grand Prize Special Prize (Minister of the Environment Award). There is a Yamanori valley. River trekking while taking a splash of continuous waterfalls can only be experienced by those who have experienced it. Experienced members of the Hiyama Tour Desk will guide you through the hidden spots with 20-30 large and small waterfalls. Basically intermediate more However, we will guide you carefully so that even beginners can participate with peace of mind. River trekking reference URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haX4VuidR6k Mt. Kasumigayama reference URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyAwtE4i1Uk

• For Rainy Days
• For Groups

• Age 0～Age 99
• Within 1 hour

Tomomien is a tourist farm located in Akaiwa City, Okayama Prefecture, where fruit cultivation is flourishing. The size of the farm is about 15,000 square meters. We grow 23 varieties of peaches and 4 varieties of grapes. You can enjoy Peach picking" and "Grape picking" from summer to autumn. Please come and join us for the delicious fruit harvest! Please visit the tens of thousands of peaches in the garden that are bearing fruit in this plan. It will be a tasting only plan. For peach tasting, please enjoy the deliciously chilled fruits in the refrigerator in advance at our garden.

• With Pets
• For Rainy Days
• For Groups
• For Family

• Age 0～Age 99
• Within 1 hour

Tomomien is a tourist farm located in Akaiwa City, Okayama Prefecture, where fruit cultivation is flourishing. The size of the farm is about 15,000 square meters. We grow 23 varieties of peaches and 4 varieties of grapes. You can enjoy Peach picking" and "Grape picking" from summer to autumn. Please come and join us for the delicious fruit harvest! Please visit the tens of thousands of peaches in the garden that are bearing fruit in this plan. It will be a tasting only plan. For peach tasting, please enjoy the deliciously chilled fruits in the refrigerator in advance at our garden.

• With Pets
• For Rainy Days
• For Groups
• For Family

• Age 0～Age 99
• Within 1 hour

Tomomien is a tourist farm located in Akaiwa City, Okayama Prefecture, where fruit cultivation is flourishing. The size of the farm is about 15,000 square meters. We grow 23 varieties of peaches and 4 varieties of grapes. You can enjoy Peach picking" and "Grape picking" from summer to autumn. Please come and join us for the delicious fruit harvest! In this plan, you will be asked to pick peaches that are ready to eat from the tens of thousands of peach trees that are bearing fruit. Please take one picked peach as a souvenir. After the harvest experience, we will prepare moderately chilled peaches so please try them. ～On the day～ ①We will harvest the fruits from the trees that we will guide you to. ② Please take the picked fruits as a souvenir. ③ For tasting, please enjoy the deliciously chilled fruits in our garden in advance.

• With Pets
• For Rainy Days
• For Groups
• For Family

• Age 0～Age 99
• Within 1 hour

Tomomien is a tourist farm located in Akaiwa City, Okayama Prefecture, where fruit cultivation is flourishing. The size of the farm is about 15,000 square meters. We grow 23 varieties of peaches and 4 varieties of grapes. You can enjoy Peach picking" and "Grape picking" from summer to autumn. Please come and join us for the delicious fruit harvest! In this plan, you will be asked to pick peaches that are ready to eat from the tens of thousands of peach trees that are bearing fruit. Please take the two picked peaches as a souvenir. After the harvest experience, we will prepare moderately chilled peaches so please try them. ～On the day～ ①We will harvest the fruits from the trees that we will guide you to. ② Please take the picked fruits as a souvenir. ③ For tasting, please enjoy the deliciously chilled fruits in our garden in advance.

• With Pets
• For Rainy Days
• For Groups
• For Family

• Age 6～Age 100
• 1～2 hours
• 10:00 / 13:00

In the "Bizen writer Taiga Mori workshop in Bizen classroom", it has conducted a pottery experience classroom that anyone can participate willingly. In our plan, create a work by "hand forming". The Bizen work with a rustic flavor, why not try to make with their own hands?

• For Rainy Days

• Age 6～Age 100
• 1～2 hours
• 10:00 / 13:00

At the Bizen ware making artist Bizen ware workshop in Bizen ware artist, a pottery experience class where anyone can easily participate is held. In this plan, we will make works using an electric wheel. Why don't you make your own Bizen ware works with the softness and simple look of the earth?

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• Age 12～Age 99
• 1 Day or more

Day 1 evening: Experience sword-cutting at Jigen-in Temple. At the Bizen Osafune Sword Museum, the only public sword museum in Japan with a permanent swordsmith, you can observe and experience traditional forging, and enjoy a special guided evening "Sword Night Museum." Day 1 dinner: Enjoy a "Setouchi Premium Dinner" with plenty of Setouchi ingredients, mainly seafood, prepared by two Michelin chefs at the Nakazaki Family Residence Main Building, a nationally registered tangible cultural property completed around 1917. Day 2 morning: At the Safu Pottery Museum, a guidance facility at the Safu Kogama Site, a nationally designated historic site and the birthplace of Sueki ware, which is said to be the origin of Bizen ware, you will receive an explanation of the history of Bizen ware from the director, and then experience making Bizen ware. After the experience, you will stroll through Shiomachi Karakoto Street, which retains the atmosphere of the Edo period to the 1950s and is home to many nationally registered cultural properties. Day 2 lunch: Enjoy the local gourmet "Sailor's Jabu Jabu" served in Bizen ware. Day 2 Afternoon At the Okayama Castle Outer Square, watch a demonstration by the Okayama Bushotai and experience "Sword Testing". Day 2 Dinner After the demonstration, you can rent out Okayama Castle and enjoy a delicious meal made with plenty of Okayama's famous products, an inbound version of the "Kachidoki Meshi" banquet food of the Warring States period that Kenshin Uesugi, who loved Bizen swords, ate to pray for victory before going into battle.

• For Groups

• Age 18～Age 65
• Within 1 hour
• 11:00 / 13:00 / 15:00

Cultural experience in the Josai district, a designated important preservation district. You can experience zazen at Choanji Temple in the Josai district. The zazen experience starts with an explanation from the deputy chief priest and can be completed in about an hour. Even first-timers can enjoy the experience with peace of mind.

• Age 18～Age 70
• 2～3 hours
• 13:00

Tsuyama Castle, which boasts over 100,000 visitors at the Tsuyama Cherry Blossom Festival and Tsuyama Castle Momiji Festival, was specially rented out to host the first ever Tsuyama Castle Dinner (cultural experience, historical lecture, and dinner party). Keiji Takeuchi, who has been awarded the Michelin Bib Gourmand for 10 consecutive years, and Teruyoshi Saito, owner and chef of the French restaurant Hortensia, created a special menu for this dinner party using local ingredients. In addition to providing local foods such as Tsuyama's meat-eating culture (Tsuyama Wagyu beef), the event will also feature hospitality from the Sengoku period military commanders, including the first lord of Tsuyama Castle, Tadamasa Mori, as well as traditional Japanese dance and fireworks, making for a special event.

• For Groups

• Age 18～Age 99
• 2～3 hours /3～4 hours
• 16:00

After closing time, Okayama Castle will be rented out for the night. A "Sword Trial Experience" will be held at a special outdoor venue. In addition, "Kachidoki Meshi," a banquet dish from the Warring States period that Uesugi Kenshin, who loved Bizen swords, ate to pray for victory before going into battle, will be arranged for inbound tourists. Gastronomy using an abundance of local Okayama products will be served in the castle tower.

• For Groups

• Age 18～Age 99
• 2～3 hours
• 09:00

At the Kanfu Pottery Hall, a guidance facility for the Kanfu Ancient Kiln Site, a nationally designated historic site where sueki, said to be the origin of Bizen ware, was fired, a Bizen artist will explain the history of Bizen ware, followed by a Bizen ware making experience. After the experience, you will have the opportunity to stroll through Shiomachi Karakoto Street, which retains the atmosphere from the Edo period to around 1955 and is home to many nationally registered cultural properties, eat the local dish "Suifu no Jabu Jabu" served on Bizen ware, and interact with local people.

• In Door Activity
• For Groups

• Age 1～Age 99
• 2～3 hours
• 17:00

A swordsmith from Bizen Osafune Sword Museum, the only public sword museum in Japan with a resident swordsmith, will give a lecture on the history, culture, and origins of swords, including the unique Japanese values hidden in Japanese swords as weapons. Participants can try out sword-cutting, observe and experience traditional forging, and take part in the "Sword Night Museum," a special overnight reservation of the museum with a guide.

• For Groups

• Age 12～Age 99
• 2～3 hours /3～4 hours
• 18:45

A "Setouchi Premium Dinner" will be served by two Michelin chefs, using plenty of Setouchi ingredients, mainly seafood, at the "Nakazaki Family Residence Main Building," a nationally registered tangible cultural property completed around 1917. There will also be an explanation of the history, culture, and origins of swords, including the unique Japanese values hidden in Japanese swords as works of art, and an opportunity to actually hold and appreciate a real sword.

• For Groups

• Age 6～Age 99
• 2～3 hours
• 17:00

This plan includes a special dinner prepared by the chef of the restaurant "serenblue," which opened in Tsuyama in February 2024, amid the natural surroundings of the Kaminoyama rice terraces that spread across the Oashi Plateau at an altitude of 550m in Mimasaka City. You can enjoy art, food, and culture in the northern part of Okayama Prefecture, which is the venue for the Forest Art Festival. A Forest Art Festival viewing passport is included.

• For Groups

• Age 16～Age 50
• Over 6 hours on the day

It is to try to experience for the first time diving in the Sea of ​​Japan about you ?? Dynamic terrain, encounter with the migratory fish, is sure to become a much in the very valuable experience. Please enjoy the nature of the spectacular two dives a lot.

• For Groups

• Age 16～Age 50
• Over 6 hours on the day

It is a 2-dive course that you want to recommend by all means to those who time has a margin to. Please 2 dive enjoy nature rich sea.

• For Groups

• Age 16～Age 50
• Over 6 hours on the day

This is the first course for people of diving. Two dives in the Seto Inland Sea! You also let divers debut.

• For Groups

• Age 10～Age 50
• Over 6 hours on the day

Rudimentary license of diving, is a course that aims to get the open water. There is a Department of training and marine training. It takes three days in the shortest but or a stretch students in three courses or two nights and three days in the day, the plan set is available to your freedom. ※ In the case of accommodation may require additional room charge.

• For Groups

• Age 8～Age 15
• 1 Day or more

Let's have a small adventure in Nishiawakura Village! Start by making firewood from wood and burning it yourself. From every day without any inconvenience, 3 days to do everything by ourselves. What do you think and what do you notice here? We planned to have you experience it in the Satoyama of Nishiawakura Village. Parents are also welcome to participate. We hope that you will enjoy watching Nishiawakura Village together. [What is Hyakumori Study Abroad] We take care of children from the 4th grade to the 3rd grade of junior high school in Nishiawakura Village for one year, and carry out practical activities while sleeping and eating with the staff. The aim is to foster human resources who can fly in the future while interacting with the people in the village and utilizing the environment. On weekdays, attend Nishiawakura Elementary School or Nishiawakura Junior High School and have them study hard with the children of the village. International students with new values and classmates who grew up receiving the village's unique and relaxed culture. Through healthy interaction between the two, you will be able to acquire an understanding and adaptability to a wide variety of environments. Practical activities on Saturdays and Sundays are the time to demonstrate the individuality of international students. There are various contents such as making miso, handling eels for dinner, chopping firewood for bonfire, making vegetables in the field, helping to replant the turf cherry blossoms in the park, but the wishes of international students, the village We value the meeting at. In this time, we aim to foster the determination to choose what we want to do, the patience to do it, and the ability to act. "Everyone in the village is a teacher" We, the Hyakumori study abroad staff, are not teachers. Since I have lived for a long time, I may be a little more knowledgeable than international students, but that does not mean that I can teach everything. If there is a person who is familiar with the village, that person will be a teacher in that field. Ask people what they don't understand. rely. It seems simple and difficult. You will also learn how to interact with people in Nishiawakura Village, which you cannot wear when you grow up. Perhaps if the international student has a bright field, he may ask for a teacher as one of the villagers. Itinerary (Schedule) Day 1) 11:30 Chito Express Ohara Station Meeting ⇒ 12:00 Lunch ⇒ 13:00 Opening Ceremony 13:30 Visit to Nishi Awakura Elementary School and Junior High School ⇒ 15:00 Departure to campsite, tent construction ⇒ 16:00 Chopping wood 17:00 Making curry ⇒ 18:00 Dinner ⇒ 20:00 Free time 2nd day) 8:00 Breakfast ⇒ 9:00 Schedule explanation ⇒ 9:15 Tent withdrawal 10:00 Tent setting ⇒ 11:00 Sawa climbing ⇒ 12: 00 Lunch 13:00 Watermelon splitting, playing in the water ⇒ 15:00 Village information ⇒ 17:00 BBQ preparation 18:00 BBQ ⇒ 20:00 Free time 3rd day) 8:00 Breakfast ⇒ 9:00 Schedule explanation ⇒ 10:00 Wakasugihara Ikubayashi Walk 12:00 Lunch ⇒ 13:00 Tent withdrawal ⇒ 14:00 Discussion ⇒ 15:00 Dissolution

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• For Groups

• Age 5～Age 80
• Within 1 hour
• 10:00 / 10:30 / 11:00 / 13:30 / 14:00 / 14:30 / 15:00 / 15:30

Service perfect ceramic art experience! !! The amount of clay used is increasing from 500g to 600g! !! The size of the finished work will also be 1.2 times larger! !! And the original soy sauce bukkake ice cream (coffee or tea is also acceptable) is also available! !! Furthermore, for those who enjoy the original Bizen curry and Bizen burger, we also offer a 100 yen discount coupon! !! At "Sorakukan" in Inbe, Bizen City, Okayama Prefecture, we hold a pottery experience class for Bizen ware. In a relaxed and calm space, children and adults can easily enjoy making Bizen ware by hand. In this plan, the work is fired in an electric kiln. It will take 40-60 minutes. After the ceramic art experience, it is a soy sauce bukkake ice cream service that has been introduced on overseas TV. Please enjoy it slowly while watching the work you made. You can also enjoy the original Bizen curry and Bizen burger from Sorakukan, which ranked 6th in the local curry grand prix nationwide. For those who have experienced ceramic art, all the menus at the Sorakukan will come with a 100 yen discount ticket, so please enjoy the local Bizen gourmet. As soon as the specified number of kilns is ready, we will fire the kilns one by one and send them after baking. Normally, it will be baked in about 6 months, but it may be significantly delayed due to corona damage. (Available for up to 20 people) Closed on Wednesdays and Thursdays (excluding holidays)

• For Rainy Days
• For Groups

• Age 20～Age 100
• 2～3 hours
• 19:00

Hold your own private sake tasting party and learn about Okayama sake in English. In this casual party-style workshop, you'll learn how to taste Japanese sake, the basic types of sake, and about basic sake brewing techniques. Your hostess will prepare several types of seasonal sake, plus snacks that match with the sake. Enjoy conversing with your hostess, who is a long-term resident. Japanese guests can enjoy practicing and conversing in English in a natural setting.

• For Rainy Days
• For Groups

• Age 20～Age 100
• 2～3 hours
• 19:00

Visit two local sake bars and taste locally produced sake. Learn about Okayama sake in English, how to drink & taste sake, and enjoy conversing with your guide. Japanese guests can enjoy practicing and conversing in English in a natural setting. About your guide: Your guide is American, and is a long-term resident of Okayama Prefecture. She is a Japanese sake aficionado and is certified as a Sake Sommelier by the Sake Sommelier Association (London).

• For Rainy Days

• Age 13～Age 100
• 5～6 hours

Standing in promising Mihirayama summit of outlook, near the avalanche trace, far away will look at the Oyama south wall and Hiruzen plateau. The view from the summit is a superb view spot as it is impossible to forget once seen. For those who do not have a snowshoe is also rental. Please feel free! !

• For Groups

• Age 5～Age 100
• Over 6 hours on the day

To the newly profitable plan until now, was further fly-board set of topic now, super-plump 1DAY marine sports experience can plan has emerged!

• With Pets
• For Groups

• Age 0～
• 1 Day or more

Enjoy a local pot that warms up to the core, surrounded by the villagers and the hearth at the villager's restaurant, which is only empty once a month. Stay at a guest house in UEDAVILLAGE (Ueda Mura), which is located at the top of a mountain as much as a house. Wake up in the morning and admire the magnificent view from Hoshimidai. I'm just much, this more please feel free real luxury. It is the time of the month reset time. All you have to do is eat around the hearth and talk, but I think it's time to love the village. Don't miss the local hot pot on the hearth! For appetizers, you can also enjoy Ueda burdock dishes and villagers' vegetables dishes. I'll do it every month, so please go visit. And let's look at the beautiful stars and candles ♪

• For Rainy Days
• For Groups
• For Family

• Age 0～
• 3～4 hours

Enjoy a local pot that warms up to the core, surrounded by the villagers and the hearth at the villager's restaurant, which is only empty once a month. I'm just much, this more please feel free real luxury. It is the time of the month reset time. All you have to do is eat around the hearth and talk, but I think it's time to love the village. Don't miss the local hot pot on the hearth! For appetizers, you can also enjoy Ueda burdock dishes and villagers' vegetables dishes. I'll do it every month, so please go visit. And let's look at the beautiful stars and candles ♪

• For Rainy Days
• For Groups
• For Family

• Age 10～
• 1～2 hours

Let's row up to the ocean in the Seto Inland Sea with a stand-up paddle board. After placing a lecture on the basic way of riding, this plan will be a rental plan that you can wear a life jacket and play freely.

• Age 10～
• Within 1 hour

Surfing can be enjoyed with the wave created by the high power boat. ○ No wait for wave unlike natural waves ○ Wave size and speed can also be chosen ○ No troublesome local rule Wake surfing Competition An instructor with a winning experience will teach carefully. If you wish, you can also use a banana boat! Please consult in advance.

• Age 10～
• Within 1 hour

Veteran instructors who have experienced third place in the Wakeboard All Japan Competition will teach carefully so that even non-experienced and novice users can slide the wakeboard happily. If you wish, you can also use a banana boat! Please consult in advance.