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JPN culture bonsai tour with garden!
Joined 2023
Bonsai is traditional Japanese art and culture. It is miniatured, dwarfed and potted tree and plant. You can see bonsai in hotels and shops during your stay in Japan, but you have few chance to learn it systematically. In this tour, your can not only acquire knowledge about bonsai but also become interested in bonsai at only village named bonsai in Japan. The whole town with bonsai-like atmosphere in one square kilometer will attract you. Then you will fully enjoy Japanese beauty.
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 Tokyo
Meeting
I will pick you up at your hotel in Tokyo (within 23 wards).
Three Bonsai Schools and The Bonsai House of the Four Seasons
You will visit three different types of the bonsai schools, such as Fuyouen, Seikouen and Manseien. In the Bonsai House of the Four Seasons, you will take a break while seeing sunken hearth. In addition, you can not only appreciate bonsai, but also buy bonsai tools and pots.
Bonsai Art Museum
A wide variety of valuable bonsai are displayed. It includes five needle pine bonsai called Seiryu (blue dragon) and Chiyonomatsu ( thousand years) and so on. Basically every bonsai schools doesn't allow you to take a picture inside, but it is possible in the museum.
Omiya station
You will take a late lunch around Omiya.
Rikugien Garden
It is one of the most famous daimyo garden whose pond is placed in the center and surrounded by different types of trees and rocks. You can enjoy traditional Japanese garden rich in beautiful scenery while walking around the pond.
End of the tour
Ending Point
At your hotel in Tokyo
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 Tokyo within 23 wards
・Transportation fee (you and guide)
・Lunch
・Admission fee of Bonsai Art Museum (310 JPY for adult, 150 JPY for over age of 65) and Rikugien Garden (300JPY for adult, 150JPY for over age of 65)
Tour Important Information
◆ You can acquire knowledge as bellow: basic information regarding bonsai, how to appreciate bonsai, what a kind of bonsai is more valuable, how to create bonsai, how to
maintain bonsai
◆ This tour is not conducted on every Thursday because bonsai village is closed.
◆ I am afraid that every bonsai is so valuable that children under age of 12 are not allowed not to give damage to them.
◆ It doesn't include experience you make a bonsai.
◆ Please let me know if you have any food restrictions.
Important message from the supplier
Bonsai tour is available on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
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 2023
About Tour Guide Koichi O.
Nice to meet you. I am Koichi. History and culture attract me. So, I have enjoyed making a communication with foreign visitors since 2019. I can arrange your tour based on you request and curiosity. It will be original for you in the world. For example, if you are interested in bonsai, I can take you to Bonsai village. Because I have learned it for seven years. Look forward to hearing from you. Thank you.
$182/ per group
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