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Aizome Indigo Dyeing & Private Open-air Bath Experience Tour in Gotemba
Joined 2024
In this tour, you can experience Aizome indigo dyeing and bathing in an open-air hot spring bath. How about dyeing fabric and making only one item in the world? After that, please relax in an open-air bath in a private room.
Itinerary
This itinerary can be customized to meet your needs and preferences. Send me a message with your requests!
Meeting Point
At around the ticket gate of JR Gotemba station
- I hold a piece of paper that says “Let’s Enjoy Gotemba!” You take a taxi for about ten minutes from Gotemba station to the workshop.
Aizome indigo dyeing experiencing course at the workshop
Aizome indigo dyeing has a centuries-long history in Japan. Established in 1861, this workshop has dyed fabric and threads with only natural indigo dye.
At the workshop, you choose your favorite item for dyeing from several products such as towel, handkerchief, silk stole, T-shirt. You can make a one-of-a-kind piece by yourself.
You take a taxi for about twenty minutes from the workshop to the hot spring facility “Konohananoyu”
Relaxation in a private open-air bath with a great view
"Konohananoyu" is adjacent to Hotel Clad on the grounds of Gotemba Premium Outlets. You can enjoy bathing in a private open-air bath at a popular hot spring facility for an hour.
Weather permitting, you can see breathtaking views of Mt. Fuji from the open-air bath. You can buy drinks and light meals at the café and can bring them to your room.
Lunch is available at a buffet-style restaurant in the facility after bathing as well.
If you would like to enjoy shopping or hanging around Gotemba Premium Outlets (the biggest one in Japan), it is possible to end the tour there. In that case, please return to Gotemba station on your own. Free shuttle bus is available to Gotemba station. Buses leave every 15 minutes.
If you are going to Hakone area, you can catch the bus bound for Gora (Hakone) from the bus terminal of Gotemba Premium Outlets. Buses leave every hour.
JR Gotemba station
You return to JR Gotemba station by free shuttle bus. It is a 20 minute bus ride.
Ending Point
JR Gotemba 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
- taxi fare (you and guide)
about 1,200 yen (from Gotemba station to the workshop)
if there are more than 3 people in your group, you need two taxis
- taxi fare (you and guide)
about 2,200 yen (from the workshop to Konohananoyu )
- course fee for Aizome indigo dyeing – please refer to the “Tour important information”
- charge for a private open-air bath – please refer to the “Tour important information”
- food and drink
- lunch (if you need)
Tour Important Information
<Aizome Indigo Dyeing Experience Course>
・Course fee depends on the item you choose. The prices for each product as follows:
towel - 4,400 yen, handkerchief - 5,500 yen, silk stole - 9,500 yen,
silk stole (big size) - 13,200 yen, T-shirt - 13,200 yen
・You can choose your favorite on the spot.
・Aizome product dyed by this workshop is listed as one of the traditional crafts that Shizuoka prefecture is proud of.
・Please note. Your clothes and shoes might be dyed blue with the splash of indigo dye. Please wear casual clothes and shoes you don't mind getting dirty just in case.
<Hot spring>
・People with tattoos are not allowed in a public bath area. However, this hot spring facility has 19 private open-air baths, and those can be used by anyone, with or without tattoos.
・Charge for a private open-air bath
A. Mountain View open-air bath / maximum capacity 2 people /
6,500 yen / weekdays
B. Mountain View open-air bath / maximum capacity 6 people /
7,500 yen / weekdays
Please let me know which room you would like to reserve, A or B.
・Prices are per room per hour, including face towel and bath towel rental fee and tax.
・Bath amenities are provided.
・Bathing in a swimsuit is not allowed.
<<< Reservations must be made at least 1 week in advance for both Aizome Indigo Dyeing course and a private open-air bath. Please ask me if there are availabilities on your preferred day before signing up for this tour. I will reply as soon as possible. If the facilities are not available, we can discuss an alternative itinerary.>>>
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 2024
About Tour Guide Yumiko K.
Hello, I am Yumiko, a government licensed tour guide. I was born and raised in Aichi prefecture. I have lived in Gotemba City at the foot of Mt. Fuji for over 35 years since I moved from Tokyo. Needless to say, Mt. Fuji is a symbol of Japan. It shows many faces depending on the seasons and time of the day. Many tourists visit here to see Mt. Fuji from home and abroad every year.
Gotemba is located halfway between Hakone and Fuji five lakes area. And it is easily accessible from Tokyo. You can come to Gotemba from Shinjuku in Tokyo by Odakyu highway bus or Odakyu limited express train without any transfers. Please visit attractive sightseeing spots in Gotemba, such as Chichibunomiya Memorial Park, Tokino Sumika and Gotemba Premium Outlets, the biggest outlet mall in Japan.
I love eating, chatting, traveling abroad and meeting people. And I enjoy tea ceremony and ballroom dancing.
I would be happy if I could show you around Gotemba and Hakone area. I am looking forward to seeing you soon!
$129/ per group
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