Sue-no-Sato is a workshop that produces the dishes, pavement, and lights for the Japanese cuisine restaurant Kokonotsuido. You can try your hand at handmade ceramics in their classroom surrounded by the beauty of nature. These lessons are available for groups of four. There is also a gallery where you can buy their works.

Oisojoyama Park is a park where the former Mitsui Zaibatsu owner had his villa as well as where former Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida spent his last years.

In order to promote the image of "Enoshima = Cycling" at the third sector organization Shonannagisa Park, they began their rent-a-cycle service in 2014. You can start your journey from Enoshima and bike your way to Kamakura or Chigasaki.

We have been farming in Yokohama for over 500 years.After cultivating rice and vegetables, raising pigs and chickens, and growing flowers, we began producing “Ohisama Shiitake” in 2012 and “Ohisama Kikurage” in 2014. In addition to prioritizing safety and quality, we aim to share the deliciousness of food, as well as the enjoyment and importance of agriculture. To this end, we offer experiences such as mushroom picking, BBQ, and at-home shiitake growing kits.We are also committed to environmentally friendly, sustainable farming. Electricity generated by solar panels and other renewable energy sources is used in our mushroom cultivation. Spent mushroom beds are not discarded but returned to the fields as compost, creating a sustainable cycle for growing delicious vegetables.At the farm, you can also try experiences such as using a hand-pumped well and entering an air-raid shelter. At our farm stand, in addition to fresh shiitake and kikurage mushrooms, we offer a variety of processed products, including tsukudani, caramel popcorn, and potato chips made with dried shiitake powder, and pasta kits packaged in collaboration with welfare facilities.

A compact city hotel directly connected to the east exit of Odawara Station, located in the Minaka Odawara complex. Natural hot spring water is sourced from Hakone-Yumoto. This hotel offers great convenience as a base for sightseeing in Hakone and Atami.

Higeta Indigo Dyeing Workshop, established during the Kansei era (1789–1801), is a fabric-dyeing and weaving workshop. It is a rare workshop in Tochigi that inherited traditional indigo dyeing. It still uses the dyeing area created at the time of its establishment to dye the fabric in the traditional manner. Inside the 200-year-old building with a thatched roof, 72 earthenware indigo vats are neatly arranged. The building and the vat area are Tochigi Prefecture’s tangible cultural assets, and visitors can freely visit and see them. Indigo is a plant dye that has long colored ethnic costumes. Long ago in Japan, 80% of commoners’ cloths were dyed with indigo. The indigo color produced by the traditional Japanese indigo dyeing and plant dyeing methods is called Japan Blue and, together with the dyeing methods, is highly recognized around the world. The workshop engages not only in dyeing but also cotton cultivation, yarn-making, yarn dyeing, and handweaving in order to preserve the cotton tradition essential to the indigo dyeing culture. The workshop sells indigo-dyed cotton fabric, coasters, and tablecloths. Please come and see the traditional techniques and the beauty of indigo.

Kegon Falls is the most famous of Nikko’s 48 waterfalls. Water from Lake Chuzenji falls 97 metres straight down to the rocks below creating a dynamic and artistic work of nature. A special lift takes visitors to the basin where the force and roar of the water can be witnessed close up! Kegon Falls offers stunning views every season. Deep green in early summer, red and yellow leaves in autumn. in winter, the water freezes as it drops creating beautiful ice shapes almost like beautiful pieces of art.

Karate-do's basic movement is ideal for the body. You focus on the medial line of the body and repeat symmetrical movement with a right posture. It will allow you to correct your posture straight. The breathing method will make your spirit energetic. On each strike when you shout from the bottom your stomach, a whole powerful body sprits will be reemerged.

This is the mountain path on the way to Hinatayakushi Hiking route.

In warm Yokosuka, surrounded by the ocean on three sides, you can enjoy fresh seafood. At “Uogashi Hamakura,” an employee cafeteria inside the market, general customers can get food as well.

You can enjoy eating a large amount of soba (buckwheat noodles) in the shape of Mount Fuji at a reasonable price. There are 17 stores in Yokohama.

There are many places that you can try dragnet fishing in the Kanagawa Prefecture. The traditional method of dragnet fishing involves the net being put out in advance and later pulled in to reveal what has been caught. When participating in dragnet fishing as a tourist activity, you will be experiencing pulling in the net that fisherman have put out. The fish which have been caught are often cooked on a BBQ soon after.You can experience traditional seine fishing from April to October. A BBQ grill set is also available for borrowing so you can cook and eat your freshly caught fish on the spot.

A fishing pond that can be enjoyed by adults, women, children, where you can enjoy fishing spatula crucian carp, carp, and goldfish. You can rent a fishing pole for free and there is also a dining facility.

On December 6th the Yamabushi (ascetic monks) in their traditional clothing pray for peace and tranquility across the country. They carry out Yamabushi-Mondou, a Buddhist ceremony in which questions in relation to Buddhism are both asked and answered.After this, they participate in the Hiwatari (fire-crossing) Ceremony, which involves the monks walking over glowing embers and praying for sound health. Firefighters, workers of the thermal power generation industry, and people of other fire-related professions come to this shrine both to worship and buy ofuda (amulets).

Hakone-en is a comprehensive recreational facility with many attractions, restaurant, and souvenir shops. It serves as a convenient base for sightseeing in Hakone as both the Ashinoko Lake Leisure Cruise and Komagatake Ropeway have stations here.

On the theme of SAMURAI, we offer Zen, Iai (sword-drawing) and Sado (tea ceremony) programs with authentic location, people, and objects at a Zen Buddhist temple steeped in nature. The temple, with a history of about 600 years, is located in Kamakura, a popular tourist spot. You can reserve the entire place and enjoy a program in quiet surroundings.

Along the Hayakawa River, there are about 450 meters of Yoshino cherry trees. During the sakura festival held at the beginning of April, the trees are lit up and you can enjoy the beautiful night view of sakuras. Photos Provided by photolibrary

Hiratsuka Offshore Comprehensive Experiment Tower is a marine and meteorological observation and oceanographic experiment platform installed in waters 1km off the coast of Hiratsuka, at a depth of 20m. Managed and operated by the University of Tokyo, the tower is used by various domestic and international research institutions as well as private equities for marine experiments. Easily identifed as the massive yellow structure visible from Hiratsuka Beach and in Ryujogaoka along National Route 134, it is nicknamed the "Hiratsuka Tower". Some visitors even paddle out to sea on standing paddleboards to get a close-up view!