You can enjoy the Arima Hot Spring resorts, Mt.Rokko, and Sake Tasting.
Arima onsen is one of the three oldest hot-spring resorts in Japan.
In the 16th century, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the warlord who unified Japan for the first time in 1590.
We take cable car to the Rokko Garden Terrace, where you can command a panoramic view of Kobe.
Then we go to Arima Onsen by opeway. Of course you enjoy having public Onsen, and Hotel onsen you can feel relaxation for about 2,000JPY/person.
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We walk around Arima hot spring resorts and relax at Onsen.
You can enjoy 10-minute "walking in the sky."
We can command a panoramic view of Kobe city.
we use cable car to the foot of MT Rokko.
We know how to make sake in the film and enjoy sake tasting. You can byt Japanese sake.
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You can enjoy the Arima Hot Spring resorts, Mt.Rokko, and Sake Tasting on this tour.
Arima onsen is one of the three oldest hot-spring resorts in Japan along with Dogo Onsen in Ehime Prefecture and Shirahama Onsen in Wakayama Prefecture. In the 16th century, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the warlord who unified Japan for the first time in 1590, ordered the Arima Onsen repaired for his personal use.
It is well-known for Kinsen, or the "Gold Spring" and Ginsen, or the "Silver Spring." Arima is located some 360 meters above sea level, on the northern foot of Mt.Rokko in Kobe.
You can enjoy traveling in the air from Arima Onsen Station to Rokko Sancho Station using the Rokko Ropeway. After having lunch at Rokko Garden Terrace, you can look upon a panoramic view of Kobe Bay, Osaka Bay and Wakayama from Tenrandai Observation Platform. We'll go back down from Rokko Sanjyo Station to Rokko Shita Station using the Rokko Cable Car.
In the afternoon, you can enjoy Japanese sake at the Hakutsuru Sake Brewery Museum. After you appreciate a short video about how to sake is made, you can enjoy some sake sample tasting. You can also enjoy shopping at Sannomiya Center Shopping street or the department stores at Sannomiya, the central part of Kobe. After walking around Kobe Port, I would like to take you to Nankinmachi, or China Town. You can take a look around at the nearby shops, which sell a variety of things such as buta-man (steamed pork buns), ramen (Chinese-style wheat noodles), etc.
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Guide Fee
Our transportation fee (you and guide) is 3,410yen per person, lunch, (no entrance fee is needed)
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We spent the entire day with Hideo, we met us at the cruise ship port and stayed with us until after dinner. Our day with him was the best day of our 14 day visit to Japan! He is kind, knowledgeable, and easy to be around. He made great recommendations and we would use him again for future tours.
I'm very happy to receive your excellent review. First we visited Engyoji Temple. It is the set of "The last samurai." And we entered the Himeji Castle called "White Egret Castle." Finally we had Kobe Beef for dinner. Thank you for joining my tour. I hope you come back to Japan again. I wish you and your family good health and happiness.
Hideo is an excellent guide, he explained everything so clearly, and give us a tour of the most important places to visit, very kind and helpfull, we highly recomend Hideo
Thank you for your excellent review. We visited Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park including Atomic Bomb Dome and Peace Memorial Museum. It was a day of the long vacation holidays, so the museum was so much crowded with people. Next we visited Hiroshima Castle. We could see the newly replaced Torii of Gokoku Shrine. It was the torii that we already saw in the panel in front of the Hypo center (Shima Hospital). I hope you come back to Japan. I wish you and your family all the best.
An absolutely fantastic tour of Hiroshima with Hideo! I can’t say enough about how much I and my group enjoyed our tour with Hideo. His attention to detail and knowledge of the sites were evident in the planning stages. Hideo reached out numerous times before our arrival in Japan to clarify what we wanted to see before we locked in the final itinerary. On the day we arrived in Hiroshima he met us at the port with sign in hand. We boarded our transport to visit the Atomic Dome, the Museum and then on to Miyajima. Hideo took us on a walking tour around the dome, stopping at each of the monuments to explain their significance. Everything he shared was delivered with the reverence required for site of service ch historical significance. Many in the group were overwhelmed with emotion from being at ground zero of the blast. From the Dome we walked to the Museum, which is a “must see attraction” for anyone looking to understand the impact of the use of Atomic Weaponry and the hopes that it is never used again. After a “heavy” beginning of the tour we were off the Miyajima Island. What a beautiful way to end the day and our tour. I want to thank Hideo as he was open the answer any question and delivered a professional tour in temperatures that exceeded 43C or 109F. He carried on without issue when people ½ his age were struggling. The comments from the group were of immense regard and thanks for Hideo, everyone loved it. If you are visiting Japan, Hiroshima is a “must stop” and Hideo would be the guide to show it to you. Thanks so much! Mike Expedia Cruises Oakville South (Ontario/Canada).
I'm very happy to receive your message. I showed you why Atomic Bomb Dome remained standing. In front of the Memorial Tower of mobilized students we saw the statued of Goddess that combines 3 religions. Sadako is lifting up the paper crane toward the sky in the Children's Peace Monument. We could see a lot of white tents because they were getting prepared to hold the Peace Memorial Ceremony on Aug 6 when the Atomic Bomb was dropped. In Miyajima we could see the Great Vermillion Shrine Gate from the ferry. In the evening it was almost full tide, so the shrine gate looked like as if it were floating on the sea. Despite the evening it was very hot and humid, but I'm relieved that all the guests were NOT suffering from the heat stroke (except me?). Thank you for joining my Hiroshima tour. I hope you enjoy Japan travel and I wish you and all the guets good health and happiness.
Hideo is an interesting and informative gentleman. The tour he took us on was well thought out and very full of top places around Kyoto that would have taken us much longer to get around without his expert knowledge. A thoroughly informative and interesting tour to top sites and the benefit of local knowledge made it seem very easy. Recommended.
Thank you for joining my Kyoto tour. I'm sure you could see how the Ninomaru Goten Palace was beautifully decorated in Nijojo Castle. Many outsider feual lords visited to meet shogun at this Palace. We visited Arashiyama Bamboo Forest and Tenryuji Temple where we could see a typical Japanese garden and beautiful lotus flowers in full bloom. I wish you good health and happiness.