Experience New Year in Japan

Tour Duration
1 day or more
Starting From
53000JPY～(with TAX)
Tour Availability
Size
2～10

Highlights

Take a lesson about how the Japanese celebrate the New Year
Experience cooking and eating traditional New Year cuisine!
Other activities include New Year traditions like mochi (rice-cake) pounding, New Year calligraphy and the first visit to a shrine.

How would you like to spend New Year’s like a Japanese person? Each event and tradition holds meaning of family and well wishes for the year ahead. We hope your New Year will be the happiest as you experience traditions like mochi pounding, decoration making, cooking New Year dishes and making your first visit to a shrine for the New Year.

OUTLINE

Dance, Drink & Discover the Festival Spirit of Sendai!

Highlights
✔ Take a lesson about how the Japanese celebrate the New Year
✔ Experience cooking and eating traditional New Year cuisine!
✔ Other activities include New Year traditions like mochi (rice-cake) pounding, New Year calligraphy and the first visit to a shrine.

How would you like to spend New Year's like a Japanese person? Each event and tradition holds meaning of family and well wishes for the year ahead.We hope your New Year will be the happiest as you experience traditions like mochi pounding, decoration making, cooking New Year dishes and making your first visit to a shrine for the New Year.

What’s Included

Experience Japanese New Year's, cook and eat traditional, New Year's cuisine, Stay at Ryokan inn, Insurance

Not included

Any additional meals and drinks

Meeting place

TOUR COURSE

Day One

13:05: Meet at Yamoto Station
[Best train option: JR Senseki-Tohoku Line Rapid for Ishinomaki: Departs Sendai Station 12:17 from platform 2 (40 mins, 9 stops)]

13:05: Walking tour of town

13:30: Lesson about New Year in Japan

13:45: Break-time/tour of ‘Kurasshik-park’ centre

14:30: Try New Year calligraphy, experience making New Year decorations and shrine ornaments

15:30: Mochi (rice-cake) pounding and New Year cuisine cooking lesson

17:00: Prepare the New Year meal and eat!

18:30: Check-in to Ryokan inn accommodation

Day Two: head to ‘Kurasshik-park’ centre after breakfast

09:00: Experience wearing a kimono

09:30: Experience ‘Hatsumode’ – the first visit to a shrine for the New Year.

10:00: Experience traditional game, change out of kimono

11:40: Souvenir shopping time at ‘Antenna Shop Machindo’

TOUR DETAILS

Where: Yamoto Station (JR Senseki-Tohoku Line)

Time: 1 day or more

Size: 2～10

Price: 53000JPY～(with TAX)

Sign-up Deadline: three weeks prior

Cancellation Policy: The cancellation fee will be required in accordance with the policy below.Up to three days prior, no cancellation fee.Two days prior: 20% Day before: 30% On the day: 100%

TOUR PLAN

Basic Plan

Price 53000JPY～(with TAX)

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