Things to do in Ichinoseki/Hiraizumi

• Age 5～
• 19:30

Purify your body and mind at one of Japan's most unique festivals! Tour Highlights： ✔ At Hotel Musashibo in Hiraizumi, only overnight guests have this opportunity ✔ Experience a special nighttime activity ✔ You can make a wish as they create their own unique paper lantern At Hotel Musashibo in Hiraizumi, overnight guests have the opportunity to experience a special nighttime activity inspired by the spiritual philosophy of the town – the universal desire for ‘peace’ and ‘equality’. In the evening, guests can make a wish as they create their own unique paper lantern decorated with traditional characters for ‘peace’, ‘equality’ or whatever design they choose! The lanterns will be displayed at the front entrance to the hotel, sending forth a message of peace to the world. == Adults: 3,000 JPY per pax (tax incl.) Children: 1,000 JPY per pax (tax incl.)

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• Age 5～
• 13:00

Purify your body and mind at one of Japan's most unique festivals! Tour Highlights： ✔ Discover the true meaning of a peaceful mind ✔ Pray for a good harvest as well as good health fortune ✔ Experience highly unique ritual of Motsu-ji Temple Every year on January 20th in the World Heritage town of Hiraizumi, men and women of ‘unlucky age’ for that year come together to participate in a highly unique ritual! Carrying flaming torches, they parade through the frozen winter streets to the Shrine inside the grounds of Motsu-ji Temple, bringing with them offerings of vegetables to pray for a good harvest as well as good health fortune for the coming year. You, too, have the chance to join in this unique festival! After participating in the parade with the locals, join a special after-festival meal called ‘Norai’ and learn more about the local culture and history of Hiraizumi as you eat, drink and chat with the local people!Through your festival experience, discover the true meaning of ‘Heiwa-shiso’ – a peaceful mind – in one of the spiritual centers of Pure Land Buddhism. == Closed on Tuesdays Adults: 50,000 JPY per pax ＊Children: Free

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• Age 5～
• 08:00

Discover the 'real' mochi - an ancient cuisine recognised by UNESCO! Tour Highlights： ✔ Enjoy a taste (literally) of ancient 'mochi' food culture! ✔ Learn more about the local mochi cuisine from a 'Mochi Meister' ✔ Try pounding some with a mini-mochi-making pestle and hammer Japanese cuisine has been recognised as an UNESCO World Heritage Intangible Cultural Asset, including Ichinoseki City’s local food culture of ‘mochi’ (rice-cake). This fun experience prgram allows you to enjoy a taste (literally) of this ancient food culture! At ‘Hiraizumi Club’, a 150 year old farmhouse, learn more about the local mochi cuisine from a ‘Mochi Meister’, before trying your hand at pounding some with a mini-mochi-making pestle and hammer. Once it’s ready, enjoy comparing different toppings – from traditional Japanese flavours to some more familiar to the palette of international guests! For a different texture altogether, you’ll also try frying some dried mochi and watching as it swells and grows into chewy deliciousness over the grill. Enjoy with a few extra side dishes of local cuisine for a fun, interactive and tasty breakfast! == Closed on Tuesdays Adults: 5,000 JPY (tax incl.) Children: 2,500 JPY (tax incl.)

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• Age 10～
• 07:00

Ride through rice-fields and reward yourself with a hearty local lunch! Tour Highlights： ✔ Discover the best scenic spots on a local cycling tour! ✔ Enjoy a simple cooking lesson ✔ Learn cooking of 'Hatto-jiru' (dumpling soup), a local delicacy ✔ Stroll to the historical Towada Shrine and offer a prayer The rice fertile soil of the Kitakami River catchent area has long supported the prosperity of World Heritage town, Hiraizumi. The fresh produce and rice that are born from this soil have played an integral role in the town’s history. Discover the best scenic spots to appreciate this picturesque countryside on a local cycling tour! Riding through the atmospheric morning mist, you will truly feel the history and essence of the town. After working up an appetite, you’ll also enjoy a simple cooking lesson and re-fuel with a bowl of your own handmade ‘Hatto-jiru’ (dumpling soup), a local delicacy. Bicycles can be returned to the rental-cycle return spot in front of the station. == 3,300 JPY

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• Age 5～Age 90
• 12:30

Experience the local culture and flavours of Kesen in a traditional Japanese-style building. Tour Highlights： ✔ Enjoy a regional cuisine cooking class with local residents ✔ Taste the fruits of your labor around a traditional hearth fire ✔ Guided tour of traditional Japanese-style buildings ✔ Stay overnight at a traditional hot-spring inn The ‘Kesenn Carpentry History Museum’ is fascinating to visit in its own right, featuring three different buildings constructed using traditional Japanese building techniques. On this tour, not only will you have the chance to take-in the history and unique architecture, but you will enjoy a cooking class of regional cuisine led by local residents themselves. Once finished cooking, gather around the traditional hearth fire to enjoy the fruits of your labor for lunch! Your lodging is at Ofunato Onsen, overnight stay at a traditional hot-spring inn (ryokan) included (with Japanese-style course meal for dinner and breakfast).

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• Age 5～Age 90
• 12:30

Experience the local culture and flavours of Kesen in a traditional Japanese-style building. Tour Highlights： ✔ Enjoy a regional cuisine cooking class with local residents ✔ Taste the fruits of your labor around a traditional hearth fire ✔ Spend the morning inside traditional Japanese-style buildings The ‘Kesenn Carpentry History Museum’ is fascinating to visit in its own right, featuring three different buildings constructed using traditional Japanese building techniques. On this tour, not only will you have the chance to take-in the history and unique architecture, but you will enjoy a cooking class of regional cuisine led by local residents themselves. Once finished cooking, gather around the traditional hearth fire to enjoy the fruits of your labor for lunch!

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• Age 20～Age 90
• 12:30

A rare chance to taste Japanese sake matured in nature's best cellar ~ under the sea! Tour Highlights： ✔ Board a local boat and watch as Japanese sake is pulled up from an ocean cellar under an oyster farm! ✔ Learn how to clean and prepare fresh local oysters, before steaming them up for a feast! ✔ Pair both gifts from the deep - freshly steamed oysters and ocean-matured sake! ✔ Taste the difference with your souvenir gift pack of both fresh (genshu) and ocean-matured varieties of sake. Embrace your inner pirate and set out on a local boat to uncover treasure from the deep! This is the best kind of treasure – treasure you can eat and drink! Local sake brewers and oyster farmers in Rikuzentaka (coastal Iwate Prefecture) have come up with a genius way to mature Japanese sake at the perfect stable temperature, in nature’s best cellar – under the sea! Bottles of freshly pressed sake (genshu) are submerged into the ocean alongside shelves of oysters and matured for up to a one year. Once ready for eating and drinking, the oysters and sake are pulled up onto a local boat for guests to enjoy the perfect combination of delicious juicy oysters and smooth, umami-filled sake!

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• Age 5～Age 90
• 12:30

A rare chance to taste Japanese sake matured in nature's best cellar ~ under the sea! Tour Highlights： ✔ Stay overnight in traditional Japanese hot-spring lodging, including a feast of local cuisine for dinner! ✔ Board a local boat and watch as Japanese sake is pulled up from an ocean cellar under an oyster farm! ✔ Learn how to clean and prepare fresh local oysters, before steaming them up for a feast! ✔ Pair both gifts from the deep - freshly steamed oysters and ocean-matured sake! ✔ Taste the difference with your souvenir gift pack of both fresh (genshu) and ocean-matured varieties of sake. Embrace your inner pirate and set out on a local boat to uncover treasure from the deep! This is the best kind of treasure – treasure you can eat and drink! Local sake brewers and oyster farmers in Rikuzentaka (coastal Iwate Prefecture) have come up with a genius way to mature Japanese sake at the perfect stable temperature, in nature’s best cellar – under the sea! Bottles of freshly pressed sake (genshu) are submerged into the ocean alongside shelves of oysters and matured for up to a one year. Warm-up for the experience with an overnight stay at a traditional Japanese hot-spring hotel the evening before.

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• Age 5～Age 90
• 12:30

Tour Highlights： ✔ Start your day by refreshing your mind and body with morning meditation and yoga ✔ Take in views of the spectacular sunrise over the pacific ocean ✔ Replenish with a healthy smoothie made from local fruit and veggies Refresh your mind and body while enjoying a spectacular Pacific sunrise！ What better way to start your day than to refresh your mind and body as you take in views of the Pacific sunrise? Join a relaxing meditation and yoga class in front of ocean view windows, before replenishing with a healthy breakfast smoothie. Top the experience off with a dip in the hotel hot-spring baths before tucking in to a tasty breakfast!

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• Age 5～Age 90
• 06:30

Tour Highlights： ✔ Start your day by refreshing your mind and body with morning meditation and yoga ✔ Take in views of the spectacular sunrise over the pacific ocean ✔ Replenish with a healthy smoothie made from local fruit and veggies Refresh your mind and body while enjoying a spectacular Pacific sunrise！ What better way to start your day than to refresh your mind and body as you take in views of the Pacific sunrise? Join a relaxing meditation and yoga class in front of ocean view windows, before replenishing with a healthy breakfast smoothie. Top the experience off with a dip in the hotel hot-spring baths before tucking in to a tasty breakfast!

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• Age 5～Age 90
• 17:00

Tour Highlights： ✔ Visit the newly opened Iwate Tsunami Memorial Museum with a local guide ✔ Learn how the people of Rikuzentakata have faced and overcome past natural disaster, and how they look to the future ✔ Visit the “Miracle Pine” (Kiseki-no-ippon-matsu), a symbol of resilience and hope for the region ✔ Place an offering of flowers on the memorial to honour those who lost their lives on March 11, 2011 Check-in to your lodging at Ofunato Hot-springs. On March 3, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake and devastating tsunami hit the coast of North-Eastern Japan, taking with it entire cities and communities. The coastal town of Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture was one of the most heavily affected areas. In 2019, a new memorial museum was opened in Rikuzentakata to function both as an educational centre to spread the message of disaster prevention to future generations, as well as a provide a spiritual space to honor the memory of all those whose lives were lost or whose lives were changed forever. On this tour, you will have the opportunity to hear first-hand stories of survival and recovery from a local guide as you tour the memorial museum.

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• Age 5～Age 90
• 10:00

Tour Highlights： ✔ Visit the newly opened Iwate Tsunami Memorial Museum with a local guide ✔ Learn how the people of Rikuzentakata have faced and overcome past natural disaster, and how they look to the future ✔ Visit the “Miracle Pine” (Kiseki-no-ippon-matsu), a symbol of resilience and hope for the region ✔ Place an offering of flowers on the memorial to honour those who lost their lives on March 11, 2011 On March 3, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake and devastating tsunami hit the coast of North-Eastern Japan, taking with it entire cities and communities. The coastal town of Rikuzentakata in Iwate Prefecture was one of the most heavily affected areas, with the entire town centre destroyed by the waves and thousands of lives lost. In 2019, a new memorial museum was opened in Rikuzentakata to function both as an educational centre to spread the message of disaster prevention to future generations, as well as a provide a spiritual space to honor the memory of all those whose lives were lost or whose lives were changed forever. On this tour, you will have the opportunity to hear first-hand stories of survival and recovery from a local guide as you tour the memorial museum.

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• Age 10～Age 75

Complete a mini challenge course to fly alone on the ranch, then to a high altitude area and enjoy a walk in the air with a tandem (two passenger) with the instructor. Let's enjoy the greatest Paragliding !

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• Age 6～Age 75
• 10:00 / 13:30

I will challenge a Paragliding by myself. It runs down a gentle slope of a ranch, not a high place, and the body floats in a floating experience. Even if you are a first-time person you can float immediately.

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• Age 10～Age 75
• 09:00 / 13:00

Is a plan that flight instructor and two-seater. Even a completely inexperienced, it is possible to experience the empty world of advanced 700m!

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• Age 3～
• 09:00 / 13:00

River sports enjoyed around the world including New Zealand. Start going down the river to a spot [British coast] about 10 km upstream with a Japanese-style boat or rubber boat with an engine. While traveling with paddles, you can enjoy the change of the flowing flow and the flowing water.

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• Age 3～
• 09:00 / 13:00

Boat paddling toward the back in the direction of travel. Canoe proceed facing forward. Twelve-chome swamp is the perfect field, such as the absence of flow mirror. Practice at close to the shore, Kitara found tricks, let's explore all the way to the back.

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• Age 18～

This festival is held in Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefecture, which has a history of more 400 Year. Various parades such as Hanamaki Mikoshi, the world's number one mikoshi, and a gorgeous gorgeous float float are held here. Please wear the festival costume and enjoy the festival at the special grandstand.

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• Age 16～

Hanamaki Festival with a history of more 400 Year. Various parades such as over 100 shrines and gorgeous wind-style floats will be held lively. The most impressive of these is Hanamaki Shrine, which achieved a world record with 114 shrines. We will also prepare festival costumes here. Why do not you join the world's best shrine parade on the On the day of the Hanamaki Festival?

• Age 20～Age 99

While walking around Tono at night with a beer tourism guide Experience beer and snacks pairing that can only be enjoyed at Beer no Sato Tono! Enjoy beer village and Tono from local craft beer bars, restaurants and pubs A beer tourism guide chooses a total of 3 houses! We will take you to Tono city at night ♪ JR Tono Station Meeting before the ticket gate! Start off by taking in Tono's delicious air surrounded by mountains! ↓ First: What kind of hops are from Tono? What about hop fields? Why is Tono a village of beer? Enjoy beer while learning about hop fields and scents and flavors that you can't usually see! If you are lucky, you can visit a brewery ...! ↓ Second: Knowing hops will make beer more delicious and fun! This is the time when you can enjoy both delicious beer and delicious beer! The combination of discerning dishes that can only be eaten in Tono and Tono hop beer is outstanding! ↓ The third house: The third house that changes every time! A tasting experience at a long-established liquor store? Maybe Tono confectionery is a snack?

• Age 3～

It is a taxi plan that allows you to see the performance of "Hayaikemine Kagura" registered as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. ＜ setting date ＞ 2020 February 9 (Sun), March 8 (Sun) ＜ Journey ＞ Hanamaki Hot spring Township (9: 15-10: 00 departure) → JR Hanamaki Station East Exit (10:15 departure) → JR Shin Hanamaki Station (10:30 departure) → Kagura Day Performance (11: 00-15: 00) → Wine Chateau Osako (30 minutes) → JR Shin Hanamaki Station (arriving at 16:20) → JR Hanamaki Station East Exit (arriving at 16:35) → Hanamaki Hot spring Township (arriving around 16: 55-17: 40) * Please specify the boarding place and getting off place

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• Age 3～
• 13:00

This is a taxi plan (afternoon course) that takes you around a tourist spot in Hanamaki by riding a retro-designed jumbo taxi.

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• Age 3～
• 08:15 / 08:30 / 09:00

This is a taxi plan (morning course) that takes you around a tourist spot in Hanamaki by riding a retro-designed jumbo taxi.

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• Age 4～
• 09:00 / 13:00

If you say that winter sports this "snowmobile"! ! Do not run through a high mobility snowmobiles the pure white snow? License will be able to enjoy the sense of speed and thrill from 4 years of age and older children and adults not need. Guide is safe and secure because it firmly lecture! Feel free to let's try ♪

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• Age 4～
• 09:00 / 13:00

Popular here plan from children to adults, and snowmobile, tied canoe, a sled in three-wheeled buggy, you ran through the snowy field of one side covered with snow at breakneck speed! Adults please try to actually experience the snow play that children can also romp!

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• Age 3～

"Post station of the No. Girls 'Festival" is, Hanamaki Hot spring Girls' Festival from Township and JR Shin-Hanamaki Station Events is a day trip taxi plan headed to the venue. It is a great plan at 5,000 yen per person with lunch (Japanese food) at 3 hinamatsuri Events.

• For Groups

• Age 3～
• 08:15 / 08:30 / 09:00

This is a taxi plan (1 day course) that takes you around a sightseeing spot in Hanamaki by riding a retro-designed jumbo taxi.

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