EcoTour

Camping and Char Fishing! Try fishing chars in a mountain stream, if you can’t get any, catch them with your hands! Enjoy freshly cooked fish and walnuts or wild berries along the trails. If you are lucky, you might see Japanese serows!

Join the activities such as pruning unnecessary branches or branches that have grown too dense, maintaining the trails, and planting fungus for mushrooms to preserve and to utilize the forest in Yuhidera. You can learn the connection between our lives and the nature throughout this experience.

Another exiting harvest season has come! Let’s try gathering rice crops at a rice field in Shunran no Sato. After reaping the crops, taste the new rice!

Fall brings many treasures in mountains; digging sweet potatoes, picking up mushrooms, and so on! Be a village-dweller and enjoy the blessings in the mountain! Make a bamboo plate and a mug cup, and try the various kinds of mushroom dishes.

The small village in Togatani, and there is only one family living there. Scoop the fresh water by the big drooping cherry tree and pick up some mushrooms along the trail, and now you are ready to enter the beautiful beech wood… Warm up yourself with some mushroom soup and enjoy the fall beech wood!

Let’s have a tea break with special sweets called Nengwaji Nengwaji is the local dry sweet that used to serve with Shojin Ryori (Buddhist Cuisine) in Chugu. Make the sweets usig the mountain products such as chestnuts, taros, and walnuts. Enjoy the brisk fall weather in Yoshino with the Nengwaji sweet!

The biggest old tumuli in Ishikawa were built on the top of Bijozan mountain. Start climbing up from the roots of Quercus serrata (Konara oak)-Pinus wood, follow the trails walking around the tumuli, and enjoy the views from the top of Bijozan.

Let’s enjoy the view of the leaves turned in autumn. We will take the most popular route of Sabo new road to the top and return to the foot of the mountain. You may see partly covered with snow near Midaga field, but mostly you enjoy the beautiful colorful leaves along the route.

Let’s become an expert of fishing octopus with the old way and learn more about its mysterious biology!

Another Tsukimi festival held in October beside the one in September 15th called “Jugoya”. “Shitsurai” is the way to enjoy viewing the moon and to celebrate the harbest by decorating the room with flowers and other plants, also belongings. Let’s learn how Japanese connect agriculture with the moon and how Japanese feel about the moon.