Lectures & Experience

To gain a true understanding of another culture's way of life, sense of values, and way of thinking, there is nothing as powerful as physical experience - appreciating a Noh performance or sitting in a tearoom - that one begins to see the essence of Japanese culture. Atlas Japan Tour offers full range of cultural experiences. Such experiences should help you understand Japan more deeply.

• Zen - Japanese Meditation
• Fruits Picking
• School Visit
• Japanese dancing.
• Japanese drumming - Taiko
• Tea ceremony
• Japanese calligraphy lesson
• Dragnet fishing
• See traditional art performances - Kabuki,Noh,Bunraku,Kyogen
• Tour and tasting at Japanese Sake brewing and tasting
• Go shellfish gathering on the beach
• Field Seminars of Ishikawa Nature Institute (with interpreter)
• Japanese style party with geisha or maiko girls
• Flower arrangements
• Traditional martial arts: KENDO
• Traditional martial arts: KARATE
• Traditional martial arts: JUDO
• Making soba - buckwheat noodles
• Making Japanese confectionaries
• Wearing traditional clothing (Kimono)
• Dyeing of Kimono Fabric
• Japanese cooking
• Steaming hot sand baths
• Historical houseboat
• Japanese Garden & Bonsai
• Kyudo-Japanese traditional Archery

Lectures provide an overview of Japanese arts and culture, and provide insights into Japanese society.
You can choose a theme, place and time according to your itinerary.
For example, a tea ceremony lecture teaches philosophical concepts of Wabi and Sabi.Lectures make your travel more valuable.

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