From March to December
JR Nasushiobara Station
Nasu, Otawara
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3-Days 2-Nights
From just over an hour from Tokyo, trade skyscrapers for mountain air, hidden temples, and steaming hot springs. Ride Experience Inc. designed this three-day itinerary for travelers who want to experience Nasu’s nature and culture at its most authentic, meditative, and flavorful form.
Three choices of excellent ryokans with onsen (natural hot-spring) in Nasu
Lunch & Dinner provided
Leave Tokyo in just 70 minutes and ease into Nasu’s nature and slower pace.
After meeting you, we will guide you through a walk of the grounds of the 800-year-old Unganji Temple, framed by a vermilion bridge amid forest and streams.
For lunch we will enjoy a riverside lunch of fresh river fish on the Naka River, then continue to an organic sake brewery for a tour and tasting.
We will finish the day by checking into a traditional ryokan with onsen for a two-night stay.
Temple quiet and river flavours set a gentle pace, with local sake and onsen bringing the evening to a calm close.
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner provided
After being picked up from your ryokan at 9:00 AM, we will drive you to Nasu’s lower farming area and set out on a 15 km e-bike ride through peaceful countryside and historic villages.
Follow quiet lanes alongside a 2.5 km stretch of terraced rice fields, slip into a hidden bamboo forest, and pause by an old willow celebrated in haiku.
Share a full-course lunch at a farmer’s home, seated at a low table with fresh, seasonal local dishes.
Choose an optional bamboo-grass craft visit with a young artisan before returning to your ryokan.
Breakfast provided.
We will leave the ryokan at 9:00 AM and head to Mt Nasu for a two-hour hike across volcanic slopes, or choose a gentler 1.5-hour walk.
Raw volcanic scenery appears almost immediately and, on clear days, sweeping mountain views open up. In October, the slopes glow with vivid autumn colour.
We will pause for a picnic on the mountain, then descend by ropeway for an easy finish.
Finally, we will wrap up with a rare tasting of vintage beer aged from 1 to 26 years, before saying farewell at Nasushiobara Station.
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