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日本三大稲荷「竹駒神社」
日本三稲荷の一社に数えられて全国の崇敬者から極めて篤いご信仰を仰いでおります。
老舗「末廣酒造」
江戸年間の嘉永三年(1850)の創業。以来150年以上に及ぶ長きにわたって鬼瓦に守られている嘉永蔵には、酒の神様が棲み、会津杜氏の匠、蔵人の情熱が息づいている。そして21世紀、時代の流れとともに嘉永蔵の想いは博士蔵へと成長。昔ながらの完全なる手造りと最新鋭テクノロジーの共存により、末廣酒造の酒造りも大きく進化を遂げた。~末廣酒造HPより
世界ガラス館
世界の手作りガラス製品を一同に集め、世界各国の直輸入品からオリジナル商品など、全2万5000点にのぼるアイテムが一斉展示しております。敷地内には、国際ビール大賞金賞受賞の猪苗代地ビールをお楽しみいただける猪苗代地ビール館や、地元の銘菓やスイーツを集めたおかし館を併設。
福島県立博物館
昭和61年に県立の総合博物館として開館し、これまで県民の教育、学術及び文化の発展に寄与するため、さまざまな活動を行ってきました。
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2017年
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On this tour, you will join together with local Japanese people and other guests in making hundreds of snow lanterns, lighting the candles, and enjoying the show!
The Snow Lantern Festival should be a wonderful chance to make new friends!
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You will stay at Kishiro, a traditional Japanese hot springs inn located in Semi Hot Springs, Yamagata Prefecture. You will love soaking in the various hot baths and enjoy traditional local foods for both dinner and breakfast.
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Semi Hot Springs is located in a deep mountain gorge created by the beautiful Oguni River. This is a photo of Yoshitsune Bridge, named after a famous Japanese historical character.
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This is Yoshitsune’s sidekick Benkei. It is said that Benkei discovered Semi Hot Springs in the 12th century while searching for hot water to bathe Yoshitsune’s new-born son.
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In the morning, you can enjoy this free hot springs foot bath just across from your inn before returning to the train station.
SNOWSHOE TREKKING + HOT SPRINGS TOUR IN YAMAGATA 2017
Tour Highlights:
You will stay at Kishiro, a traditional Japanese hot springs inn located in Semi Hot Springs, Yamagata Prefecture. You will love soaking in the various hot baths and enjoy traditional local foods for both dinner and breakfast.
Tour Highlights:
Semi Hot Springs is located in a deep mountain gorge created by the beautiful Oguni River. Your showshoe tour, which follows the river, starts as soon as you have crossed this bridge, the Yoshitsune Bridge, named after a famous Japanese historical character.
Tour Highlights:
This is Yoshitsune’s sidekick Benkei. It is said that Benkei discovered Semi Hot Springs in the 12th century while searching for hot water to bathe Yoshitsune’s new-born son.
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After your showshoe tour, you can enjoy a free hot springs footbath here, just across the street from your inn.
2016年
Sakata is an ancient town situated at the mouth of the mighty Mogami River in Yamagata Prefecture. Thanks to its location, Sakata became a thriving commercial hub in the Edo period, transporting rice, sake and benibana (a flower used to dye kimonos and make lipstick red) to the Kansai region while bringing back boatloads of exquisitely hand-crafted goods made in Kyoto. This trade made the merchants of Sakata fabulously rich. This guided tour of the historical Sakata Harbor area will give you an intimate look at the homes of these rich merchants, the temples they patronized, and the Kyoto-inspired dancing girls (Maiko) who enlivened their evenings.
TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
Somarou
A high-class Japanese-style night club where Sakata’s rich merchants used to wine, dine and entertained their guests. Here you will watch Maiko dancers perform in traditional dress. Afterwards, you can have your picture taken with the Maiko dancers using your own camera!
Kaikōji Temple
According to legend, the Shingon patriarch Kōbō Daishi (aka Kūkai) founded Kaikōji Temple 1,200 years ago. During the Edo period Kaikōji became a must-see spot for pilgrims visiting Mount Yudono. Even now Kaikōji Temple continues to perform ritual ceremonies venerating Mount Yudono and enshrines the mummified corpses of two Yudono ascetics
Honma Mansion
It was once said that “If you try hard you may succeed in becoming a feudal lord, but becoming a Honma is impossible”. The biggest of Sakata’s rich merchant families, the Honma family served as banker to both the Edo government and numerous feudal lords (daimyo). We will tour the Honma family’s beautifully preserved original family home.
Abumiya Mansion
Abumiya was the largest rice merchant of late feudal Japan. The Abumiya mansion is a beautiful example of the “machiya” building style popular in Kyoto, Japan’s cultural capital, with which the Sakata merchants did a lively trade.
Sankyo Warehouse Complex
Sakata’s best-known landmark, a visit to the picturesque Sankyo Warehouse complex will transport you back the age when big bundles of Yamagata rice were transported up and down the Japan Sea coast on wooden sailing ships. The row of 150-year old zelkova trees behind the warehouse is perhaps Sakata’s most beautiful sight!
Wakaba Ryokan
Wakaba Ryokan is a traditional family-operated Japanese inn situated in the heard of Sakata’s old city. The inn features wonderful seafood bought fresh every morning from the harbor nearby. The inn’s Young Master, who speaks impeccable English, will be your tour guide, ready to fulfill your every wish.
“Yamabushi” mountain warriors have been practicing Shugendo, an ascetic discipline aiming at physical and spiritual rebirth, in the mountains of Yamagata for over 1200 years. This tour gives you a chance to experience a full day and night of this traditional discipline. You will wear Yamabushi, clothes, eat Yamabushi food, do Zen meditation, and perform the strenuous walking meditation knows as “Tosou” surrounded by the rugged beauty of the Dewa Sanzan mountain range. At night, you will stay in the traditional lodgings for religious pilgrims known as “Shukubo” and have a chance to eat “shojin ryori”, a simple but delicious vegetarian dinner. You will feel reborn !
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