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Uncover the hidden side of life in Suganuma, a gassho-style village that joined the register of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1995. Surrounded by rich forests and steep mountains, Suganuma is a living piece of cultural heritage–a village with permanent residents, which makes it unique among the sites on the UNESCO roster. During your journey, you’ll discover the local origins of the village’s world-famous gassho-style architecture and savor a lunch prepared using local ingredients in a traditional gassho-style home. With an English-speaking guide-interpreter to accompany you every step of the way, you can enjoy your journey with peace of mind. Inquire about an experience today.
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Gain a deeper appreciation for the beauty of Japanese tradition as you journey through Inami, a town that's practically a museum of wood sculptures. You'll visit historic Zuisenji Temple and stop by a carver's studio. You'll carve your own wooden sake cup with real tools under the guidance of a master—an experience like no other. You'll savor a fine Japanese lunch in a traditional home and tour the earthen brewhouse of the Wakakoma Sake Brewery, where you'll have a chance to sample local sake in the wooden cup you created. With an English-speaking guide-interpreter to accompany you every step of the way, you can enjoy your journey with peace of mind. Inquire about an experience today.
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A three-day, two-night tour to experience Gokayama's traditional culture, local cuisine, and hot springs. Cycle through the forest roads of Gokayama and stay at a guest house in the World Heritage Site of Ainokura Gassho-Zukuri Village. Enjoy folk songs in a room with a sunken hearth.Discover the hidden charms of Gokayama by cycling on paths that cannot be reached by public transportation.
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This is a forest path cycling tour of the Gokayama area that includes a stroll through the World Heritage Site of Ainokura Gassho-Zukuri Village.We will take you to spectacular spots that cannot be reachedby public transportation, but only by bicycle.With electric bicycles, even beginners and those who are not confident in their fitness can enjoy cycling while taking their time to enjoy the scenery.
Experience・ToursInami
Here in Japan’s foremost woodcarving village of Inami we offer a chance to try out some nice and easy woodcarving for yourself under the direction of a trained woodcarving artisan!
GokayamaExperience・Tours
Take a break and enjoy a meal overlooking the ski slopes at this restaurant and lodge in Taira Ski Park.
GokayamaExperience・Tours
Only 5 minutes from the Gokayama Interchange, this ski slope is popular with families and young people.
GokayamaExperience・Tours
Located a 20 minute drive from the Tokai Hokuriku Expressway Fukumitsu exit, the Taira Ski Park has courses for skiers and snowboarders of all skill levels.
GokayamaExperience・Tours
Enjoy the great outdoors on this spacious cross-country ski course running through the woods. Cross-country ski equipment is available for rental.
GokayamaExperience・Tours
Enjoy the great outdoors in the mountains at this campground located near the World Heritage Ainokura Gassho-zukuri Village.
GokayamaExperience・Tours
Enjoy a BBQ cookout at these cottages. Each cottage houses up to eight people, with a living room and 4 beds on the 1st floor and 4 futons on the 2nd floor loft.
GokayamaExperience・Tours
Learn to canoe in a 15 minute class, and paddle along the 3km of Lake Katsurako. You can also fish for black bass, koi, trout and more.
GokayamaExperience・Tours
Enjoy BBQ next to the emerald green lake at the campground. Each grassy campsite is about 10m x 10m with room for a car.
GokayamaExperience・Tours
This workshop makes various instruments used in the ancient “Kokiriko” folk song and dance. With a reservation, you can make your own sasara, an instrument used in Kokiriko.
GokayamaExperience・Tours
Make your own tofu among the rich nature of the Takanbo Ski area.
GokayamaExperience・Tours
As a center for creative exchange, this school is dedicated to experiences like soba and tofu making.
GokayamaExperience・Tours
Papermaking experience is availalble in this Gassho-zukuri house in which paper used to be produced as an important industriy of Gokayama in the Edo period.
GokayamaExperience・Tours
You can make your own washi paper in the Gassho-zukuri hall and enjoy the washi history and works on display in the gallery.
GokayamaExperience・Tours
This workshop produces a variety of washi paper for use in collages, paper mache dolls of the animals of the Chinese Zodiac, and more.
Experience・ToursToga
Come take a ride on our cruise boat that smoothly glides across the water of the great Shogawa River's dam lake. From the boat you can see the beautiful and quiet nature of the Shogawa River Valley and enjoy the unique picturesque scenery of each season.
Experience・ToursFukumitsu
Come on down and make your own Toyama white shrimp rice crackers! When you take one of your piping hot rice crackers and dip it into a sweet soy sauce just the noise itself is delectable.
Experience・ToursToga
In the spring we have mountain vegetables and in the fall we gather nameko mushrooms, so we are truly blessed by nature. We use the vegetables we gather to make traditional dishes that have been passed down through generations as well as completely new dishes.
Experience・ToursToga
From times past, our ancestors have cultivated soba (buckwheat) in the Toga region, ideal because of its sloping terrain and good drainage. Come, and try making soba noodles for yourself - using soba flour cultivated with careful attention here in the Toga region.
Experience・ToursToga
Our yoga takes the traditional practices and knowledge of yoga and selects the most fitting techniques to make an experience that anyone can participate in to improve themselves.
Experience・ToursToga
At an elevation of 700 meters, in the Momosegawa clear water valley, here at the Toga International Campground we offer the opportunity for people of all ages to have a great time trying to catch char fish by hand.
JohanaExperience・Tours
Our silk weaving experience is easy to participate in, even for complete beginners who have never used a machine to weave before.
Experience・ToursInami
Come on by and try out our Inami soba making course! Here you can make your soba and eat it too! The instructor is excellent, so this course is great for beginners too.
RoadsideExperience・ToursInami
We offer the chance for you to carve plates, bowls, and other daily goods out of wood in addition to wooden speakers and wooden sake cups (instructors available).
Experience・ToursFukumitsu
You can enjoy fishing here inside our facility while you are surrounded by the deep green of nature.