Japan's Culinary Heritage
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Highlights
- Visit Kanazawa's local food market which has attracted residents and visitors for almost 300 years
- Hunt for wild vegetables (Sansai) with a Sansai expert and learn traditional cooking methods with the Gokayama community
- Learn the art of earth-oven cooking with a 70-year old grandmother in Hida-Furukawa and visit a locally-run sake brewery in Takayama
- Visit a family-run organic farm and join family members at an outdoor cookery experience amongst their rice fields in Asuka
- Visit Awaji island to learn about its seafood culture and enjoy a beach lunch with a local food-designer chef
- Enjoy an exclusive Kaiseki dinner produced by a master chef with three decades of experience
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- Full-time services of an English-speaking tour guide
- 10 nights in hotels and Japanese-style inns (Ryokan and Minshuku)
- Daily breakfast, 6 dinners, 4 lunches
- All transportation between tour locations
- Entrance to museums, temples and other sights on the group's itinerary
- Forwarding of one item of luggage
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Accommodation: Hotel
Meet your guide and other group members at the tour hotel in central Tokyo in the evening. We head out into the city’s exciting streets and your guide will advise you the best options for food and drink. You might want to try an Izakaya res...
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel
We catch the train for Kanazawa on the Japan Sea coast. Seat of the powerful Maeda Clan during the Edo Period, Kanazawa had a grand castle and was a city of great cultural accomplishments, including a refined...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation: Minshuku (Family-run guesthouse)
Today we travel by private motorcoach from Kanazawa to Gokayama, a World Heritage Site with distinctive Gassho-zukuri farmhouses sporting triangular thatched roofs which are ...
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Accommodation: Ryokan (Travellers Inn)
After a traditional Japanese breakfast we depart by highway bus to visit nearby Shirakawa-go which has its own impressive collection of Gassho-zukuri houses and has been a UNESCO World Herit...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: Ryokan (Travellers Inn)
Today, we take a short train ride to Hida Furukawa, a beautifully-preserved old town with distinctive whitewalled storehouses retaining the atmosphere of the Edo Period. Entering one of the o...
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel
We board our train in Takayama with Ekiben lunch box for Osaka. Osaka was historically known as the “Tenka no daidokoro” (the nation’s kitchen), famous not just for its Michelin starred restaurants, but parti...
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This morning, we travel by local train to Asuka, Japan’s first permanent capital. Sitting at the southern edge of the Yamato Plain, Asuka is home to some of the first Buddhist temples in Japan, built by Prince...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel
Awaji is known as the birthplace of the Japanese archipelago, when the gods Izanagi and Izanami first created an island here. Awaji has long been known as a Miketsukuni (a place of food production f...
Meals: Breakfast
Accommodation: Hotel
We travel back from Awaji island in the afternoon by train and head to the colourful Nishiki market, which has a well-deserved reputation for being Kyoto’s kitchen to see the fish, crab, pickles, tea, sweets and othe...
Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Accommodation: Hotel
Kyoto is renowned throughout Japan for its regional Washoku cuisine and specialities, also for the refinement and artistic presentation of Kaiseki cuisine. Follow your guide to some of Kyoto’s historical t...
Meals: Breakfast
Our tour ends after breakfast at the hotel in Kyoto. Your guide will offer advice on your journey to the airport for your homeward flight, or on onward travel in Japan if you are extending your stay.
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- Pay locally for drinks with meals and for 4 lunches
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If you or any other person included on the Booking Form wishes to cancel their booking, the cancellation will be effective from the UK working day (normally Monday to Friday, excluding public holidays) on which we receive your written notification by email, mail or fax. The following cancellation charges will apply:
- 60 days or more: deposit only
- 59-42 days prior to departure: 30% of the total tour price
- 41-15 days prior to departure: 50% of total tour price
- 14 days prior to departure: 100% of the total tour price
- We advise you to take out insurance against irrecoverable cancellation costs.
If any member(s) of your party is/are prevented from traveling, the person(s) concerned will be able to transfer their place to someone else (introduced by you) providing the following requirements are complied with. We must be notified of the transfer(s) in writing (giving full details of the original and substitute party member(s)) not less than two weeks before departure. A transfer will not be possible if there is a waiting list for places in which case the available place must be offered to the next person on that list. Where a transfer to a person of your choice can be made, all costs and charges incurred by us and/or incurred or imposed by any of our suppliers as a result together with an amendment fee of USD45 per person, per element must be paid before the transfer can be affected.
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