Learn About Shintoism with a Priest and Shrine Maiden in Odawara

Learn About Shintoism with a Priest and Shrine Maiden in Odawara

With this tour you will be able to experience the local side of Japan, Satoyama. 

A local family will welcome you with open arms, while teaching you the daily farm life. 

There is a guided walking tour when you first get off the station, where you will head to the Fujino Art Sanctuary. 

You will be participating in making lunch with the local ingredients with your host family. 

Enjoy the great outdoors and the country side of Japan with this tour.

Fujino has the traditional Japanese rural landscape and art sanctuary. 

Take a short trip from Tokyo and visit a local family in relaxing country side. 

You can experience farming, preserved food cooking, swimming in the river, goats, sheep, or chicken breeding etc.. in this unique Satoyama and learn Japanese original life style. Local family will be welcoming you! 

About Satoyama 

　Satoyama is the woods and forest where the nature and humans live together in close synergy. Satoyama are often inhabited by a variety of species adapted to and rely on these landscapes to survive, and to nurture their own culture. They play an important role in sustaining and enhancing biodiversity. 

Satoyama represents Japan’s beautiful ancestral homeland. You can think of Japan's children visiting their grandparent's for the summer holiday. 

About Art Sanctuary 

Many artists live in Fujino as the basement of their art work attracted by the nature of Fujino. There are lots of art events held in Fujino. "Green Love Letter" is a symbol of the art, which is a huge love-letter seen in the green mountains. You will have fun finding many artworks dot along the area. It takes more than 3 hours if you walk around the forest, but a local guide will take you to the highlight of the art road in 1 hour where many arts can be found.

What you can expect 

・ Guided walking tour in Fujino Art Sanctuary 

・ Get pickup by car and move to local home

・ Make lunch using local ingredients with host family 

・ Lunch with host family 

・ Satoyama Experience 
*Examples of Satoyama experience: Walking Satoyama, farming, preserved food cooking, swimming in the river, goats, sheep, or chicken breeding and etc.. 
*The contents differs depending on the the host and seasons. 
*You can not choose the kind of Satoyama Experience.