- 2 x 14 Day Japan Rail Passes
- JPY 1,500 Pasmo Card for use on the non JR trains
- Tokyo Full Day Guided Tour including lunch
- Shirakawago and Ainokura Day Tour
- Kyoto Half Day Guided Morning Tour
- 6 nights at the Shinagawa Prince Hotel - Tokyo
- 2 nights at the Hakone Hotel inc. breakfast - Hakone
- 2 nights at the Hida Hotel Plaza inc. breakfast - Takayama
- 2 nights at the Hotel Mystays Premier Hotel - Kanazawa
- 3 nights at the Hotel Granvia - Okayama
- 2 nights at the Hotel Granvia - Hiroshima
- 5 nights at the Miyako Hotel Kyoto Hachijo - Kyoto
- 2 nights at the Nikko Station Hotel Classic inc. breakfast - Nikko
- 3 nights at the Hotel Metropolitan Sendai East - Sendai
- 2 nights at the Art Hotel - Hirosaki
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Experience Japan's main island to the fullest with our One Month Long Tour of Honshu. Explore the north, south and everywhere in between on this wonderful adventure. This tour also includes a number of rest days which provides a perfect opportunity to take a break and immerse yourself in the local culture.
*inclusions shown in the bullet points - package does not include airfares
Hirosaki Castle
Check-out of the Hotel Metropolitan Sendai East and from Sendai Station board a Hayabusa bullet train to Shin-Aomori Station. (90 mins) Change trains and board a Limited Express Tsugaru train to Hirosaki Station. (30 mins)
Your accommodation at the Art Hotel Hirosaki City is a one minute walk from the station.
Hirosaki is a small castle town in Aomori with a varied architectural heritage featuring temples, samurai residences and a castle from the Edo period, and churches, libraries and civic buildings from the Meiji Period when many foreign scholars were invited to Hirosaki.
With Aomori producing more than half of the nation's apples, and being the birthplace of the Fuji apple, you will find apple-incorporated sweets throughout Hirosaki. A Hirosaki Pie Guide Map will direct you to 47 of the best apple pies around.
After check-in, commence your exploration of Hirosaki by boarding a Dote-Machi city sightseeing loop bus from in front of Hirosaki Station to Shiyakusho-mae bus stop. (15 mins) From here it is a two minute walk to the Otemon Gate of Hirosaki Castle (09:00 - 17:00/JPY310). Built in 1611, this castle of the Tsugaru Clan is one of the 12 remaining original castles in Japan.
Visit the Tsugaru-han Neputa Village (09:00 - 17:00/JPY550) where you can watch as artists create traditional crafts, and enjoy a performance of the Tsugaru-jamisen, a three-stringed folk instrument.
A short walk from here is the Nakacho Traditional Buildings Preservation District where the traditional townscape has been maintained. Visit the Kawasaki Dyeing Plant where the traditional art of natural indigo dyeing is still carried out.
*Your stay at the Art Hotel Hirosaki City includes breakfast daily
Stay: Art Hotel Hirosaki City - 1/2
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