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Let's enjoy City of Water and making handmade "masu" !
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Joined 2018
Have you ever been to Ogaki, in Gifu? Ogaki is a beautiful city which has a castle and a canal. The city is called "City of Water" thanks to its beautiful springs and a canal. It also has unique local products, and one of them is "masu", or a square wooden cup. People use it for measuring rice and drinking "sake", Japanese tasty alcohol. It is made of pieces of Japanese cypress. It smells good and eco-friendly product. Let's enjoy beautiful water city and making SDG's product together!!
Itinerary
This itinerary can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Send me a message with your requests!
Meeting Point
At your hotel in Nagoya
Nagoya Station or your hotel
Meet at your hotel in Nagoya
Ogaki Station
by JR train, let's go to Ogaki, only for 20 minutes ride from Nagoya Station to Ogaki Station.
Ogaki Castle and History Museum
Ogaki Castle once was a National Treasure and it has a rich history.
Ohashi Ryoki,
Let's enjoy rare experience of making "masu" at a local factory!
Haiku Poem Museum
Ogaki is the final destination of famous haiku collection, named "Oku-no-Hosomichi" by Matsuo Basho
Lunch Time
Let's enjoy local food, such as sushi lunch!
Ogaki Station
Get on the JR train bound for Nagoya
Ending Point
Ogaki Station
Want to personalize this tour?
This tour can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Click below to send me a message with your requests.
Inclusions & Exclusions
guide fee, hotel pick-up in Nagoya area, transportation fee for guide, entrance fee for guide
transportation fee for you, entrance fee and masu experience fee for you, lunch for you and guide
Tour Important Information
entrance fee for Ogaki Castle and History Museum is 200 yen per a person
It costs 1000 yen for the experience of making "masu" per a person
entrance fee for Haiku Museum is 300 yen per a person
JR train fare from Nagoya to Ogaki is 770 yen per a person(round trip costs 1540 yen)
It takes about 30 minutes on foot from Ogaki Station to the masu factory
Important message from the supplier
I will guide you every day except for the day that my schedule is not vacant.
I'm a local guide of Gifu, Nagoya and Aichi, but I can guide you around Kyoto, Nara, Osaka, Kanazawa, Takayama and Shiga if you pay my transportation fee.
Cancellation Policy
- Free cancellation - 8 days prior to meeting time
- 50% Refund - 3 to 7 days prior to meeting time
- No Refund - Within 2 day(s) prior to meeting time
Joined 2018
About Tour Guide Yuriko S.
I am Yuriko from Gifu Prefecture. I was an assistant English teacher at junior high school. I started to work as a National Certificate tour guide in 2019.
I'm very interested in kimono, tea ceremony and Japanese castles. I sometimes guide in kimono. There are so many nice places to visit in Gifu and Nagoya! I also guide around Takayama, Shirakawago, Kyoto, Nara, Osaka and Kanazawa if you pay my transportation fee from my hometown. Let's enjoy Japan with me!
Reviews
Jeff D.
“Great Tour To and Through Gujohachiman”
The tour itself was a nice mix of relaxation, walking, and a small hike to Gujohachiman castle. The silk screen printing was also a very fun and simple experience. But of course all good tours are because the guide themselves are great people. Yuriko-san was a very fun and informative guide. She’s also incredibly kind and great at involving you in conversations with locals as a translator rather than just talking by herself. I also had a lot of fun learning about her life and family and sharing my stories as well. If you’re in or near Gifu prefecture, I highly recommend Yuriko-san as a guide!
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Yuriko S.
Thank you so much for posting an excellent review and wonderful comments, Jeff-san! Your comments encourage me a lot. I also had a wonderful time to talk with you while getting on a local train or walking around Gujo-Hachiman nostalgic street. Especially, it was fun for me to hear you and a staff at silk screen shop joyful conversation. Thank you for coming to Gujo-Hachiman, Gifu. I would like you to come to Gujo-Hachiman in summer. Let's enjoy bon-dancing in yukata, or cotton summer kimono together!!
Julie P.
“Nagoya Castle”
Yuriko was our tour guide and she was very friendly and knowledgeable about all sites we visited. I would highly recommend her to others who are looking for a tour in Nagoya.
Yuriko S.
Thank you for your excellent review and nice comment!! I'm so happy to read your kind comment. I really had a wonderful day in Nagoya with you, though it was too hot and humid. Please enjoy your tour in Japan and come to Japan again in different season. See you again!! Yuriko(Lily)
Abisola O.
“Lovely & kind”
She was great, very polite & lovely and full of nice facts about the different things we saw.
Yuriko S.
Dear my guests, thank you so much for posting an excellent review and comment! I also had a wonderful time with you in Kyoto. It was very hot and humid, but you looked so happy and always so smily. Please come to Japan again and I hope to see you in the future. Your guide, Yuriko
$162/ per group
More tours by Yuriko S.
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Let's enjoy early morning Kyoto and maiko experience
Kyoto is one of the most popular places to visit, but so crowded. If you want to enjoy quiet Kyoto, I recommend you visit there early morning. In this tour, you can enjoy bamboo grove, morning coffee at a Japanese style coffee shop and beautiful river and mountains scenery from a wooden bridge. After that, why don't you try 'washoku', or Japanese cuisine and maiko, or cute apprentice geisha's dancing? My special early morning tour will give you wonderful and unforgettable memories in Japan!!
Let's enjoy early morning Kyoto and maiko experience
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Enjoy sightseeing in Nagoya on route bus
Nagoya is located in the center of Japan. It has both "samurai" culture and modern technology. If you visit Nagoya, you can enjoy traditional culture as well as modern technology. Why don't you come and enjoy Nagoya with me?
Enjoy sightseeing in Nagoya on route bus
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Wondeful one-dayTakayama tour from Nagoya
Takayama is located in the north of Gifu, central Japan. It takes about 2 and half hour from Nagoya by highway-bus. While bus riding, you can enjoy beautiful mountainous scenery, especially in winter, the snow-covered landscape from the bus window is wonderful!! Takayama is an old castle town, I am sure you will have a wonderful time while walking through the nostalgic town street!! Takayama also has a lot of high quality craftsmanship, you can experience such a skillful art by yourself!!
Wondeful one-dayTakayama tour from Nagoya
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Local classic train-ride and silk-screen printing in Gujo
Gujo is an old castle town, where holds bon-dancing every summer. You also enjoy dancing together! Local classic train takes you to such a nostalgic town. You also enjoy the beautiful scenery of clean river and mountains from the window during the train-ride. In the town, you enjoy the castle on top of the hill, clean canal with some colored carps and silk-screen printing. Please come to Gujo-Hachiman in Gifu!!
Local classic train-ride and silk-screen printing in Gujo
Other Popular Unique Experience Tours in Gifu
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Cormorant fishing viewing on the Nagaragawa River
Gifu Castle standing on the Mt.Kinka provides visitors with nice panoramic views day and night. You also enjoy watching a traditional unique event Cormorant Fishing on the Nagara River while eating dinner in a viewing boat. Sir Charlie Chaplin visited Gifu twice to enjoy this unique traditional event. Besides, a photogenic street Kawara-machi and the Great Buddha statue in Shoboji-temple move you so much.
Cormorant fishing viewing on the Nagaragawa River
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Handmade paper Mino-Washi and traditional swords of SEKI
You enjoy two distinctive fields of Japanese culture by visiting two small towns in one day trip. The one is Mino which is famous for Japanese hand-made paper Washi. Another one is Seki famous for Japanese-swordsmith. Strolling around two towns, you will learn some of secrets of cool Japan.
Handmade paper Mino-Washi and traditional swords of SEKI