A journey to heal your body and mind with wellness experiences in the Japanese landscape and culture. A journey to heal your body and mind with wellness experiences in the Japanese landscape and culture.

Make dried flower wreaths at a flower park and taste Kasama-grown chestnut sweets in Ibaraki, refresh your mind with a tea ceremony and yoga class in Tokyo, and experience the starry sky for a moment of healing. Visit Zenkoji Temple, a national treasure, to experience Shinshu artwork in Nagano, before returning to Tokyo. Unwind at a Japanese spa and see rare rainforest plants at a botanical garden. Then, conclude this wellness travel plan by enjoying the sea and mountain scenery of Chiba!

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Tokyo is the capital of Japan and one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. Tokyo is a dynamic, world-leading city that attracts people from around the world.
In addition, by using public transportation such as the Shinkansen bullet train, express trains, and highway buses, visitors can enjoy a more enjoyable one-day tour of tourist attractions throughout Japan, starting in Tokyo.
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Experience wreath-making with Ibaraki flowers and enjoy chestnut sweets, a specialty of Ibaraki Experience wreath-making with Ibaraki flowers and enjoy chestnut sweets, a specialty of Ibaraki

10:30am: SHIN-OKACHIMACHI STATION

Tsukuba Express: Shin-Okachimachi → Tsukuba
Taxi: Tsukuba → Ibaraki Flower Park

11:50am: IBARAKI FLOWER PARK

A flower park where different flowers bloom from season to season. Participate in a wreath-making experience, where you can choose the dried flowers and wreath base you prefer to create your own original wreath. After the experience, you will have lunch at a restaurant within the park. The flower bouquet salad set is recommended, which you can eat in the restaurant or take outside to eat anywhere you like in the park.

Taxi: Ibaraki Flower Park → LaKuri

3:30pm: LAKURI

Kasama City is also famous for its chestnuts. You will visit a café and store that sells a variety of original chestnut sweets and specializes in Kasama chestnuts, a local delicacy. The popular sweet "LaKuri Filo" accents the flavor of the chestnuts themselves, which will gently spread throughout your mouth.

Taxi: LaKuri → Tsukuba
Tsukuba Express / Keihin-Tohoku Line: Tsukuba → Akihabara → Yurakucho

6:20pm: BARADINING

After returning to Tokyo, dinner will be at a restaurant inside IBARAKI sense, a promotional store in Ginza run by Ibaraki Prefecture. It offers a wide range of menu items that use seasonal ingredients from Ibaraki Prefecture. Ibaraki Prefecture's famous products and specialty building materials are also used for the interior and ornaments throughout the building!

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A traditional Japanese tea ceremony and yoga meditation, followed by a relaxing stargazing experience in the heart of Tokyo at night A traditional Japanese tea ceremony and yoga meditation, followed by a relaxing stargazing experience in the heart of Tokyo at night

9:00am: SHINJUKU STATION

Yamanote Line: Shinjuku → Ueno

10:00pm: ÈCLAT TOKYO - PERSONAL YOGA, TOKYO UENO STUDIO

Start the day with a one-on-one lesson with an instructor at éclat Tokyo - Personal Yoga, located within walking distance of Ueno Station. This yoga and Pilates studio offers customized private lessons tailored to each individual's physical condition and goals.

Bus: Higashi-Ueno 6 → Ueno Station

1:00pm: TOHAKU CHAKAN

Experience Japanese culture in an authentic Japanese tea café. Savor meals, sweets and drinks that are a fusion of Japanese and Western styles and made with seasonal ingredients, while enjoying a view of the garden from the cafe’s porch.

Keihin Tohoku Line / Yamanote Line: Ueno → Shinagawa
Bus: Shinagawa Station Takanawaguchi → Tennozubashi

3:00pm: TAKIZME

Experience the Japanese culture of tea ceremony in a tea house with a cozy 7m2 tea room. After preparing your mind through meditation guided in fluent English, you will taste several kinds of Japanese tea. Seasonal Japanese sweets that are a treat for the eyes as well are also included.

Bus: Tennozubashi → Shinagawa Station Konanguchi
Keihin Tohoku Line: Shinagawa → Yurakucho

7:00pm: PLANETARIA TOKYO

Enjoy the starry sky in the middle of the city at Konica Minolta's planetarium. A wide variety of entertainment planetarium productions are on display, including collaborations with popular artists and original aroma-scented healing works.

nagano

Prepare your body and soul with vegetarian food before visiting Zenkoji Temple. Feel healed by the landscape paintings of Shinshu in the adjoining art museum. Prepare your body and soul with vegetarian food before visiting Zenkoji Temple. Feel healed by the landscape paintings of Shinshu in the adjoining art museum.

8:40am: TOKYO STATION

Shinkansen: Tokyo → Nagano
Bus: Nagano → Zenkoji Daimon

10:40am: INCENSE STORE KOTAKI

This store sells original incense with a gentle fragrance that is calming to the body and mind, using only natural incense ingredients. Choose from the many natural incense materials and mix your favorite fragrance, and wrap it in a small Japanese-patterned bag to complete your own product.

12:00pm: ZENKOJI YAKUOIN

Zenkoji Yakuoin, one of the 39 lodgings at Zenkoji Temple, offers elaborate shojin ryori meals, as well as Zen meditation and a sutra transcribing experience. Shojin ryori is based on Buddhist teachings and is prepared using only plant-based ingredients such as vegetables, grains, beans, and seaweed, without using any animal products such as meat or fish.

2:00pm: ZENKOJI TEMPLE

Known as one of Nagano's most popular tourist attractions, the temple's principal deity is the Amida Triad Sharing One Halo. The present main hall was built in 1707 and is the fourth largest wooden structure designated as a national treasure. From the far end of the main hall, visitors can experience the "O-kaidan tour" through a pitch-black passageway that passes directly under the temple's principal idol. After praying at the temple, take a stroll along Nakamise Street and enjoy a bite to eat!

4:00pm: NAGANO PREFECTURAL ART MUSEUM

This museum stands in Joyama Park, adjacent to Zenkoji Temple, and exhibits works by local artists and modern and contemporary art, with a focus on Shinshu landscape paintings. There is also a space that can be entered without a fee, where you can casually interact with art works. After enjoying the art, take a break at the Kaze Terrace café on the 3rd floor rooftop, which overlooks the main hall of Zenkoji Temple.

6:00pm: MUSEE RESTAURANT ZEN

This restaurant offers a French and Italian menu with Japanese-inspired presentation. The large windows offer a framed picture-perfect view of Zenkoji Temple and Shinano. Enjoy a special course menu while taking in the relaxing view.

Nagano Electric Railway: Zenkojishita → Nagano

8:30pm: NAGANO STATION

Shinkansen: Nagano → Tokyo

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Experience plant-based treatments at a Tokyo spa and view rare tropical plants Experience plant-based treatments at a Tokyo spa and view rare tropical plants

10:50am: TOKYO STATION

Marunouchi Line: Tokyo → Ginza

11:00am: WASPA

Waspa is a "made in Japan" spa that gathers together items from all over Japan that are good for the body and skin, as well as for the soul, including green bamboo, lava stones from Mt. Fuji, and aroma oils made from a blend of camellia oil from Izu Oshima and herbs from Oita. Feel your fatigue be relieved as your body and mind recovers.

1:10pm: HYOKI

A luxurious lunchtime experience in the heart of Ginza's ryotei district. Their specialty is dashi shabu, which is made with carefully selected, top-quality pork. Shabu-shabu is a pork dish with a good balance of tender lean meat and sweet fat that goes perfectly with the special broth.

Oedo Line / Yurakucho Line: Tsukijishijo → Tsukishima → Shin-Kiba

3:00pm: YUMENOSHIMA TROPICAL GREENHOUSE DOME

More than 1,000 varieties of tropical plants are cultivated in this greenhouse dome. You can view not only familiar plants such as cacao and coconut palms, but also plants from the Ogasawara Islands, which are registered as a World Natural Heritage site, such as the Pandanus boninensis and the Melastoma tetramerum.

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Feel healed by the seascape and the spectacular view from Mount Nokogiri, before going to a nostalgic pier for sunset Feel healed by the seascape and the spectacular view from Mount Nokogiri, before going to a nostalgic pier for sunset

9:00am: SHINJUKU EXPRESSWAY BUS TERMINAL

Highway Bus: Shinjuku Expressway Bus Terminal → Kisarazu
Uchibo Line: Kisarazu → Hama-Kanaya

12:20pm: THE FISH

Enjoy fresh seafood with a view of the Minami-Boso sea at this restaurant. You can enjoy a variety of fish dishes such as sashimi, fried fish, sushi, and seafood rice bowls. After your meal, visit the souvenir store attached to the restaurant and choose from a variety of local and marine products as souvenirs.

Nokogiriyama Ropeway: Sanroku → Sancho

1:50pm: MOUNT NOKOGIRI

Mount Nokogiri is a low mountain with an elevation of approximately 329 meters, making it easy for even beginners to climb and easy to reach the summit by ropeway or car. There is a Japanese temple within a large precinct, famous for its "Jigoku-nozoki" (peering into hell) and the 31-meter tall Giant Buddha. In addition to the view from the top of the mountain, along the way you will feel the history of the quarrying that once flourished here.

Nokogiriyama Ropeway: Sancho → Sanroku
Uchibo Line: Hama-Kanaya → Tomiura

3:30pm: HARAOKA PIER

Okamoto Pier, also known as Haraoka Pier, is located between Haraoka Beach and Tadara Kitabama Beach and is one of the few wooden sea piers in Japan. This historic pier was built for fishing and has a nostalgic appearance. The atmosphere is especially photogenic at sunset.

4:40pm: TOMIURA BIWA KURABU

Highway Bus: Tomiura Biwa Kurabu → Shinjuku Expressway Bus Terminal

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