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Studio Yumekoubou (Maiko Makeover Studio), Kyoto

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Maiko Experience “Studio Yumekoubou” is a photo spot that you can meet unlike usual through experiences transforming into “Maiko” or “Oiran” (courtesans). Various plans are prepared, including “Chibikko Maiko” for girls aged 5 to 12, “Mother-daughter plan” which can be transformed with parents and children, regular clothes for men and “Shinsengumi” costume etc. After the experience wearing the costumes of Maiko or Oirans, there are plans where you can walk around the city. Papa mama should be a very satisfying day for her lovely transformation.
The child ‘s Maiko appearance is pretty, and the way that she walks in Kyoto’ s town in such an appearance is very interesting. For kids, Maiko experience in Kyoto will be a lifetime memory.

The inside of the shop is a different space of Japanese that imaged the movie world of “Spirited Away” of Studio Ghibli famous for animation. Unusual beauty is directed. In the taste of Japanese harmony like Kyoto, you can enjoy a non-everyday space like if you get lost in a different world. Contrary to that atmosphere, comfortable facilities like make-up floor and beauty salon are substantial. Boasting the largest store space in this business, the waiting room is also spacious, it is safe to use in families.
It is 10 minutes on foot from JR Kyoto Station and good access. Most of the major sightseeing spots in Kyoto can be reached from Kyoto station. It is a very convenient location as a base for various sightseeing spots after experiencing transformation here. Nishi Hongwan-ji Temple is around 5-minute walk from there. You can go to To-ji Temple famous for its five-storied pagoda and Kyoto aquarium in about 10 minutes on foot. You can also take the bus to Kiyomizu Temple in 30 minutes by bus.
When you come to Kyoto sightseeing, how about trying it out?

To be elegance, graceful and beauty

The “Maiko”, being both elegance and graceful and beauty, walking the town of Kyoto is an idol regardless inside and outside of the Kyoto. It is the “Studio Yumekoubou” to be able to transform into such a Maiko. Why don’t you try getting an elegant feeling there once by being taken a picture in flamboyant costumes by a professional photographer.

You can choose the style according to your preferences

There are plural studios in Kyoto, and the theme of each studio is like “Luxuriously beautifully” as the Kyoto station square head office, and “Pretty and Gorgeous princess” as the Kiyomizu sannenzaka studio, etc.

It is one of charm points that you can choose the style according to your preferences.

Express a tradition and newness

Makeup artists of those studio are professional, and they are superior in a technique to express a tradition and newness.

The ultimate one

Furthermore, after a first-class photographer take your picture redeeming your beauty, and a retoucher revises it carefully one by one, so they finish it to the ultimate one while being natural.

Satisfy your desire for transformation

It is used widely from a small child to an elder over 90 years old. It might satisfy your desire for transformation.
You might feel the culture of “Hana Machi” (the entertainment district) and the maiko closely, if you transform yourself into a beautiful maiko figure.

Information

Name:	Studio Yumekoubou (Maiko Makeover Studio)
Adresse:	511 minami-machi shimogyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto 600-8232 Japan
Access:	JR Tokaido-honsen “Kyoto-eki Station” (10 minutes walk)
Tel:	(+81) 75-353-4423
Price/Charge:	Popular plans for foreigners are here.
Official site:	http://www.yumekoubou.info/

Ooedo Onsen Monogatari (Onsen Theme Parks), Tokyo

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“Ooedo Onsen Monogatari” (Onsen Theme Parks) that can fully enjoy natural hot springs continues to be loved by a wide range of age groups as a tourist attraction of Odaiba. It is extremely popular as Japan’s largest hot spring theme park which can enjoy the atmosphere of the downtown of Edo. Since it is open from 11:00 am to 9:00 the next morning, you can enter the hot spring even at midnight. After eating, drinking and playing, you can enjoy ways to be healed at hot springs.

Besides the natural hot spring springing from 1400 meters below the ground, there is a rest space, a space to play and a gourmet zone, which is a hot spring theme park that you can not get tired of all day long. Once you duck under a shop curtain, you can experience lively days of Edo where you can enjoy sweets and yo-yos fishing, throwing shuriken. You can enjoy it alone, but it is the perfect place to go out when you want to play with friends and lovers. As kinds of hot springs, there are various types of baths such as public baths, outdoor baths, saunas, foot baths, etc. and they can not be bored. Mist sauna that glad for women and can expect beautiful skin effect is also installed.
In addition, there are 19 original Yukata available, so you can wear your favorite pattern and you will soak in the mood of the Edo period. All facilities such as “eight-hundred-and-eight towns” (The number eight-hundred-and-eight is traditionally associated with innumerable) that can enjoy the taste of Edomae (Tokyo style) and Hirokoji street that imagined the downtown of Edo are substantial. Many people from families, couples, friends and other age groups, as well as many foreign tourists visit.

Reproduced “town of Edo”

“The Ooedo Onsen Monogatari” of Tokyo Odaiba, that started as a first Japanese Onsen (hot spring) theme park on March 1, 2003 (the 400th anniversary of the Edo shogunate), is a new famous place of Odaiba that reproduced “a town of Edo” in the downtown area.

Eccentric place for dating

In addition, it is the hot spring facilities which you can go willingly, and is popular among all the children, adults, and elderly people, and gather attention as an eccentric place for dating.

Visitor change into yukata

The theme is based on traveling back in time to the Edo era, and it is a point of popularity that the visitor change into yukata which this park rent after entering a building, and you can do the play that is popular in the Edo era in the hall.

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Mom-and-pop candy stores

There are a lot of shops which you can pay all with a tsuko-tegata (a certificate for people in the Edo period) in Hirokoji (a main street). There is a mom-and-pop candy stores where you can buy Japanese nostalgic cheap candy.

And there are some souvenir shop, so you can fully enjoy an atmosphere of Edo before entering the hot spring or the occasion of the meal.

You can buy chopsticks and T-shirt of the Edo design, and “The Hello Kitty version of Ooedo Onsen Monogatari” in souvenir shop, which are popular among the junior and senior high school students.

Information

Name:	Ooedo Onsen Monogatari (Onsen Theme Parks)
Adresse:	2-6-3 Aomi, Koto-ku Tokyo 135-0064 Japan
Access:	Yurikamome line "Telecom Center-eki Station” (2 minutes walk)
Tel:	(+81) 3-5500-1126
Price/Charge:	2,612 yen (Adult : Sat. & Sun. ¥2,828・Special Day ¥2,936) 1,058 yen (Age 4 - 12) Free (Under 4 years old) Please refer the official web page.
Official site:	http://daiba.ooedoonsen.jp/

The Osaka Museum of Housing and Living (Kurashi-no-Konjakukan), Osaka

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The “Osaka Museum of Housing and Living” (Kurashi-no-Konjakukan) located in the Tenjinbashi shopping district of Kita Ward, Osaka City, is a museum based on the theme “Housing History and Culture” which opened in 2001. The streets of Osaka in the Edo period and the appearances of Meiji, Taisho and Showa in Osaka are reproduced. Especially popular is the floor of the Edo era, it makes you feel as if you were back in that period. It is a popular museum not only for locals but also for foreigners.

Kurashi-no-Konjakukan is located in the center of Osaka and it is convenient to access by train. The nearest station is “Tenjinbashi roku-chome” of subway Tanimachi line or Sakaisuji line, or Hankyu Railway line. It is directly connected from exit 3.
The 9th floor of Kurashi-no-Konjakukan is a reputed high floor in “Saijiki of Naniwa town family (Saijiki is a catalog of season-specific words used in composing haiku)” which reproduced the town of Osaka in the Edo period. Osaka flourished as a town of merchant is reproduced to detail, and it is a popular floor. Here you can actually walk around the town, so you can feel like a time slip in the Edo period. The town which can not be thought of as being inside a building spreads and it seems to forget the real world.

This is the “Kurashi-no-Konjakukan” (Museum of Past and Present of the Living) in the information center Building facing the shopping street of Tenjinbashi, Osaka. It is the museum of the house which can experience the change of a town and the house of Osaka of Meiji, Taisho, and Showa era from Edo era.

The biggest highlight is the cityscape of Osaka which completely restored in the latter part of the Edo period (1830-1844), and the mechanisms or devices which change the state of the town depending on time.

It is interesting to watch it because the decoration of theme is changed seasonally. There are various events including the traditional entertainment, treasure exhibition brought by the citizen, and the old dish. There is the guidance as a volunteer named “Machiya-shu”, too.

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The space that reproduced a town of Osaka of the Tenpo era in size of the original is on the ninth floor. When you enter one step from an wooden entrance gate, a bathhouse, a bookstore, a joiner, a grocer’s, an imported goods dealer, a shop dealing kimono fabrics, pharmacists line up on both sides of the main street and there is a fire watchtower high conspicuously on the town-block office. When you pass through the alley, an aspect of the daily life of the common people is seen in 45 minutes of movie with a sound and a picture.

For Japanese people, this facility give them a break.

Information

Name:	The Osaka Museum of Housing and Living (Kurashi-no-Konjakukan)
Adresse:	Tenjinbashi 6-4-20 Kita-ku Osaka-city, Osaka 530-0041 Japan
Access:	Osaka Municipal Subway Tanimachi-sen line "Tenjinbashisuji-rokuchoume-eki Station” (It is directly connected to the station)
Tel:	(+81) 6-6242-1170
Price:	600 yen (Adult) 300 yen (Students) Free (Junior High School Students or Under) Please refer the official web page.
Official site:	http://konjyakukan.com/

Samurai Kembu Theater, Kyoto

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The traditional performing art of Japan

“Samurai Kembu Theater” is a facility where you can experience “Kenbu” (a sword dance), a traditional performing art that conveys the samurai culture to the present age. You can wear the costumes just like Samurai and challenge authentic dancing with swords and fans. In the commemorative photograph of free time, instructor poses in front of gold folding screen, so you can take instagrammable picture. Because trial lessons are mainly in English, it is also popular with foreign tourists. Learn how to handle a sword such as the direction of the cutting edge, how to swing, how to house it to the sheath.

From a handy 1 hour lesson, 2 hours lesson that you can learn in earnest is available. It is possible to participate only by observing the demonstration by the teacher. Please keep in mind that any plan requires advance booking and you can not participate on the day.
The Kembu (a sword dance) is a traditional performing art to dance to Chinese poetry and a Japanese poem with a sword and a fan. It is thought that the prototype of dance existed from Nara or Heian period, but is said that the modern Kembu was born after the Meiji Restoration.

The lesson performed in English

In Samurai Kembu lesson, the participant changes into full dress of the samurai and learns the dance using a Iai-Katana (practice sword used in iaido). In addition to the exhaustiveness which not only how to handle sword but also the manners such as the ways of the bow teach, the lesson performed in English is very popular.

Turn completely into a samurai

The fee rate is divided into a full-scale lesson or a simple lesson; adult 4,000-9,000 yen, 3,000-8,000 yen less than 11 years old. The lesson takes approximately 1 to 2 hours. In the end, you turn completely into a samurai and take a ceremonial photograph. Just observation is OK.

The sense of values and the spirituality of the samurai

The Kembu is one of the traditional arts of Japan. It is the dance matching recitation of the Kanshi (Chinese poetry) and the Waka (31-syllable Japanese poem) with the attire of the samurai with a sword and a fan. It takes approximately two and a half minutes to finish the dance of 1 program, and the sense of values and the spirituality of the samurai are condensed. The samurai culture is one of the origins of the Japanese culture, the sense of values and beauty continues being valid in the modern Japanese mind.

Experience a Japanese-style

The Samurai Kembu theatre is the most recommended for the demand to experience a Japanese-style that you can know “the samurai culture and the origin of Japan”.

Information

Name:	Samurai Kembu Theater
Adresse:	35-7 Sanchome (Higashi-iru, Sanjo-hanamikoji) , Higashiyama-ku \| B1F Neo Art Bldg., Kyoto 605-0005, Kyoto Prefecture
Access:	Kyoto Municipal Subway Tozai-sen line "Sanjo-eki Station” (1 minute walk)
Tel:	(+81) 75-751-2033
Price:	There are variou plans. Demonstration 3,000 yen (Adult) 2,000 yen (Elementary School Students or Under) Lesson 4,000 - 11,000 yen (Adult) Please refer the official web page. (Japanese Page is here.)
Official site:	http://www.samurai-kembu.jp/

Ninja Museum, Mie

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The Ninjutsu experience and the Ninja show

Now the ninja is popular all over the world, not just in Japan. And it is Iga City in Mie Prefecture that declared “Ninja City” which is attracting attention as a village of ninja. This place of Iga school’s birth has “Ninja-Museum of Iga school” which inherits the skills and tools still. In Ninja-Museum, it tells us the figure of “true ninja” that can only be seen here such as the true Ninja Show that pursued image of Iga school’s ninja, the secret of the ninja house, the life of a ninja village, etc.
Ninja – Museum of Iga school consists of Ninja house, Ninjutsu Experience Hall and Ninja Trading Hall. If you pay extra fee, you can experience ninjutsu demonstration show and throwing knife (Shuriken). In the ninja house, “Kunoichi” (female ninja) and ninja’s guide will introduce you while demonstrating inside the house.
The palace of the Iga style ninja consisting of “Ninja Yashiki House” “Ninja experience building”, “Ninja Denshokan Museum”, and “Ninja Hiroba square”. There are the Ninjutsu experience and the Ninja show, and by which you’re a ninja from today.

Representative weapon of the ninja

It’s possible to peep at the world of Iga way Ninja wrapped mysteriously here. You can experience a secret of the Iga style art of concealment. It display “Ningu” and document more than 400 items at the time of “the throwing knives” which are the representative weapon of the ninja.

The mechanism corridor

In addition, you can really sense “a water spider” and “the chain armour” which a ninja used bodily. The mechanism corridor where the devices such as “a reversal” or “a bypath” made you somewhat taste the throb feeling that oneself seemed to steal into a mansion.

Experience beating a genuine throwing knife

You can experience beating a genuine throwing knife per person for 200 yen. A ninja show of force perfection is being held.
Speaking of the ninja show, there may be people who think like dance performance. You will be overwhelmed by its quickness ,technique and tension at the show “Ashura” which is performed by the special army corps of Iga school’s ninja. It is a demonstration of a virtuosity acquired by only those who passed down the tradition of true ninja.

Ninjutsu show

Visitors can watch a show where ninja tools that were actually used in the ninja heyday are demonstrated. Shuriken, swords, and kusarigama are used in this exciting display.
And, Iga-ryu Ninja Museum sells original ninja goods that cannot be found anywhere else. There are t-shirts, toys, ninja tools, and ninja clothing, all of which are rare items only found in the Museum Shop.

Information

Name:	Ninja-Museum in Mie
Adresse:	Uenomarunouchi 117 Iga, Mie 518-0873 Japan
Access:	Iga Tetsudo Railway Iga-sen Line “Uenoshi-eki Station” (10 minutes walk)
Tel:	(+81) 595-23-0311
Price/Charge:	756 yen (Adult : Over 16 years old) 432 yen (Child : 4-15 years old) Please refer the official web page.
Official site:	http://www.iganinja.jp/

Mission Gion, Kyoto

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Topic shop where people of a wide generation can enjoy kimonos

Mission Gion is a Japanese-style clothes rental shop located in the Gion area, a popular tourist spot in Kyoto. It seems that not only tourists but also magazine models and celebrities visit with confidence. It deals in Japanese clothes arranged from contemporary style from high-quality kimono of the long-established Kimono shop. It is a topic shop where people of a wide generation can enjoy kimonos.

The dressing done in the correct way cultivated in Gion

Mission Gion seems to be a Japanese-style clothes rental shop operated by the top class beauty group in the Kansai area. So it seems to be a shop that makes it easy to realize a high-sense hair makeup like a fashion model of a magazine. The dressing done in the correct way cultivated in Gion seems to be reputed that even if you stroll in Kyoto city all day, it will not collapse.

Relatively reasonable pricing

Mission Gion’s kimono rental is relatively reasonable pricing. The plan for women who visited Kyoto sightseeing is a price range of 3,000 yen to 5,500 yen. Even if you give options such as “hair set” and “next day return”, the cost will be within 10,000 yen.

Even if you use it with a couple, it is competitive price

Also, the price for men’s plan is 5,000 yen, which is a reasonable price setting. Even if you use it with a couple, you will be able to create memories at reasonable prices.

It will surely be a memory of good Kyoto sightseeing

Discounted rates apply for groups and couples. So please make good use of such convenient service and enjoy kimono rental with great advantage. It will surely be a memory of good Kyoto sightseeing.

Information

Name:	Mission Gion
Address:	Tominagacho 129 Kyoto Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto 605-0078 Japan
Access:	Keihan-honsen Line “Gion-Shijo-eki Station” (3 minutes walk)
Tel:	(+81) 75-533-7317
Price/Charge:	3,000 yen - 15,000 yen Please refer the official web page.
Official site:	http://mission-gion.com/

Bujinkan Ninja Dojo, Chiba

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Studied under last actual fighting ninja called the tiger of Mongolia

Masaaki Hatsumi, studied under Toshitsugu Takamatsu who was last actual fighting ninja called the tiger of Mongolia, inherited the head family of old martial art 9 school, and established Bujinkan Dojo.
Hatsumi wished he would like to become strong since he is young, and has been familiar with judo or boxing. When he was 27 years old, it had a game with the martial artist Takamatsu in his 70s, and was treated like a child. Then he continued going by a night train from Chiba with the parents’ house to Nara who lived of Takamatsu every weekend. At last at the age of 42, he finally succeed to Nine schools, such as Togakurery Ninpo style, Shinden Fudo Ryu Daken Taijutsu (schools of Japanese martial arts included Ninjutsu), etc.

Spread among the professional of the fight

“Martial art is to Surve” is Mr. Hatsumi’s belief. He said that martial art is Taijutsu (techniques) which being able to be valid also for an enemy with what kind of arms, and surviving in any situations . He went over to New York alone at the age of 50 years old, in order to find out whether his martial art is recognized around the world. Especially the martial art “Bujinkan” that Mr. Hatsumi founded in order to survive was accepted in the foreigner, and spread even among the professional of the fight, such as FBI and a member of SAS of the U.K. The number of pupils rise to more than 200,000 people all over the world now.

A lot of earnest pupils visit the headquarters of Bujinkan

A lot of earnest pupils visit the headquarters of Bujinkan in Noda-shi, Chiba from the inside and outside the country because such Mr. Hatsumi’s instruction is received directly.

In order to study martial art and ninja art

In order to study martial art and ninja art, towards Bujinkan, much knights-errant comes to Japan from various countries in the worlds, such as the United States, Spain, Germany, and Brazil. They take the vacation for about ten days or one week, visit Japan from several people or dozens of people in one group, and receive instruction of Mr. Hatsumi at the headquarters of Bujinkan.

The mecca of martial art and ninja art

Along with the mecca of judo, “Kodokan”, and the mecca of aikido, “the headquarters of Aikido”, “the headquaters of Bujinkan” is also widely known as the mecca of martial art and ninja art in the world.

Information

Name:	Bujinkan Ninja Dojo
Address:	Noda 636 Noda, Chiba 278-0037 Japan
Access:	Tobu Railway Noda-sen Line “Atago-eki” station (10 minutes walk)
Tel:	(+81)4-7122-2020
Price:	Please ask the Honbu Dojo (Headquarters of Training Center) (+81)4-7122-2020
Official site:	http://fudoan.cdx.jp/bugei/bujinkan/bjk.htm

Okinawa World, Okinawa

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The event are substantial

To Okinawa World, It takes about 30 minutes by car southeastward from Naha Airport. The limestone cave “Gyokusen-do” is the most famous. The photograph of the white stalactite and the pond which praises blue water may have been seen. Facilities with the different charm gather like “the habu natural history park” having only one, the “Ryukyu Kingdom castle town” which can experience the Ryukyu culture in the old private house of the reconstructed genuine article, the brewing place etc. which are performing manufacture of habu alcohol or microbrewing, in the world other than Gyokusen-do Cave in the site. In addition, there is show every day, and an event is substantial like an unusual limited plan.

The largest stalactite cave in Japan

It is “Gyokusen-do” of the stalactite cave to have opened first in Okinawa World. After being discovered by the research group of Ehime University, the passage etc. were improved for sightseeing. There are the most kinds of the stalactite in the stalactite cave in the whole country, and there is the stalactite of 37 kinds. In addition, not only there are many numbers, but also the density of the stalactite is high, too. In 890 meters in total length, 1 million stalactite exists. The length of the cave which is opened to the public is 890 meters, but the full length of it is approximately 5,000 meters and is the largest stalactite cave in Japan.

The tangible cultural properties of the country

If you comes out on the ground from the exit of “Gyokusen-do”, you will arrive at the very back of Okinawa World. Furthermore, when it progresses, there is a Ryukyu Kingdom castle town. This zone is lined with old folk houses of red tiled like Okinawa, and, in the Meiji, and early Showa era, the building where person actually lived in was removed and rebuilt. It is registered with the tangible cultural properties of the country, and the beauty is genuine.

The late maestros’ precious shisa

Much shisa (a lion shaped amulet commonly found in Okinawa) is exhibited by the kingdom historical museum in the castle town, and the late maestros’ precious shisa can be seen there.

The coolness of popular entertainment show “Super Eisaa”

You cannot miss the coolness of popular entertainment show “Super Eisaa” (Eisaa is Okinawa’s traditional dance that uses native drums) so that repeaters appear one after another, and the fun of “the show of a habu” of the habu natural history park.

Information

Name:	Okinawa World
Address:	1336, Tamagusuku Maekawa, Nanjo-city, Okinawa Prefecture, 901-0616
Access:	Approximately 30 minutes from Naha Airport by Car
Tel:	(+81)98-949-7421
Price:	Free Pass: Adult - 1,650JPY, Children - 830JPY Gyukusendo Cave & Kingdom Village: Adult - 1,240JPY, Children - 620JPY Kingdom Village & Habu Center: Adult - 1,130JPY, Children - 570JPY
Official site:	http://www.gyokusendo.co.jp/okinawaworld/

Edo Wonderland (Nikko Edo Mura)

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The entertainment facility which reproduced Edo

Edo Wonderland is the entertainment facility which reproduced Edo 808 town faithfully.
When you will step into the “barrier” of the entrance, there seemed to totally traveled back in time to the Edo Period.
The merchant’s houses, the post town, the samurai residence, etc. stand in a row, and a samurai, and town girl, etc. greet. The show is carried out everywhere in the park, including the powerful action show of The Grand Ninja Theatre, and it is full of events.
In The “Dress Up Edo Style Zone”, you can changes into Edo period clothes, and turn completely into the people from Edo, and can also take a walk.

All events in high quality

You can enjoy all events in high quality.
The rows of houses of Edo are reproduced firmly, and since the staff called Edo-nin (people of Edo) identified with the characters of the role completely, the view of the world of Edo is held.

The extremely powerful ninja play

The charm of Edo Wonderland seems to be the “show.” The extremely powerful ninja play is performed in The Grand Ninja Theatre. The action is high-level, and the performance that excelled does not permit a blink, the length of the fight scene is very long and grasp sweat in a hand though knowing it is a show,

The water comes out from various places

In “Mizugei-za”, water comes out from various places, the comical player also comes out, it is pleasant show. But please be careful. Water splashes when you sit down toward the front. Let’s view behind the direction which does not want to get wet.

There is much experience which can enjoy only here.

in addition to this, there are the samurai residence which can study history, a throwing knife throw, bow and arrows, etc. which can experience and play of Edo, and there is much experience which an adult and a child can enjoy themselves only here.

Information

Name:	Edo Wonderland (Nikko Edo Mura)
Address:	Karakura 470-2 Nikko, Tochigi 321-2524 Japan
Access:	Tobu Kinugawa-sen Line “Kinugawa-Onsen-eki Station” (10 minutes by car)
Tel:	(+81)288-77-1777
Price:	4,700 yen (Adult) 2,400 yen (6 to12 years old) Free (5 years old and under)
Official site:	http://edowonderland.net/

Ryukyu Mura Village

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This place is unmissable

In the Ryukyu Mura village in Onna-son in northern Okinawa Island, you can see the traditional old folk house of Okinawa and industrial arts experience, and can enjoy the powerful Eisaa of the traditional dancing. For the traveler to Okinawa for the first time, this place is unmissable.
A village has the old private houses of traditional red roof tile, and it is thought that time has passed slowly.
The sound of sanshin which is a musical instrument of Okinawa from where, or a drum can be heard, it seems that one can be wrapped with a spectacle time-slipped to old Okinawa.

The nation’s registered tangible cultural properties

The Ryukyu Mura village goes north from Naha Airport for approximately one hour, it is a sightseeing theme park in Onna-son village of the resort area. In the garden, there are many old folk houses, which was removed and rebuilt from the various places throughout the prefecture, and some of those are registered the nation’s registered tangible cultural properties. Traditional Okinawa can be felt while spending in a traditional house.

The good recollections of Okinawa

Because the industrial arts experiences are possible in the old folk house, too, so you should experience it by all means if you have time. It surely becomes the good recollections of the travel to Okinawa.

Okinawa no Eki Chanpuru

“Okinawa no Eki Chanpuru” is the area of the touch which mixed the time of Showa with the house of the traditional red tiled roof. The taking a ceremonial photograph is possible in the costumes for rent of the colorfully-dyed pattern here, not to mention a souvenir, too. Because there is a roof, you can enjoy even rain in comfort.

The Eisaa is a traditional art of Okinawa

The Eisaa is a traditional art of Okinawa in something like Bon festival dance. When it is the Bon Festival in Okinawa, people parade around the area all through the night.

Information

Name:	Ryukyu Mura Village
Adresse:	Yamada 1130 Kunigamigun Onnason, Okinawa 904-0416 Japan
Access:	60 minutes by bus from Naha airport
Tel:	(+81)98-965-1234
Price:	1,200 yen (Adult) 600 yen (Under 15 years old) Free (Under 5 years old)
Official site:	http://www.ryukyumura.co.jp/

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