Local Cooking at a Temple in the Brewery Town of Kinomoto

Course Details Kinomoto is a charming old brewery town blessed with an abundant local freshwater source. As a former lodging town along a historic Edo period trail, the town has retained much of its original charm without catering heavily to tourism, but rather by sustaining its local family-run business community that has thrived here for […]

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Historic Nakasendo Post Town & Hidden Crafting Village

Course Details Samegai juku is a post station town of the historic Nakasendo trail, one of two main trails that connected Edo (old Tokyo) and imperial Kyoto. A small crystal clear river runs through the heart of the village, fed by a nearby mountain spring, and also attracts summer visitors every year who come for […]

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