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Itinerary
1-Day Togakushi Tour: Soba making, Ninja Town, and Hidden Shrines
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1-Day Togakushi Tour: Soba making, Ninja Town, and Hidden Shrines
5 (0)
Activity Duration (8 hours)
Moderate
Hosted in English
No refund if cancelled
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What you'll do
Discover the enchanting village of Togakushi, just outside Nagano City, where ancient traditions meet natural beauty. Explore iconic Shinto shrines and stroll along the majestic cedar avenue as your guide shares the area’s rich myths and legends. Try your hand at making soba noodles, then savor your flavorful creations for lunch. For an exciting twist, step into the secretive world of ninjas at the Togakushi Ninja Museum.
Tour Highlight
Discover the enchanting village of Togakushi, just outside Nagano City, where ancient traditions meet natural beauty. Explore iconic Shinto shrines and stroll along the majestic cedar avenue as your guide shares the area’s rich myths and legends. Try your hand at making soba noodles, then savor your flavorful creations for lunch. For an exciting twist, step into the secretive world of ninjas at the Togakushi Ninja Museum.
What is included?
- English-speaking guide
- Transportation fee from Nagano to Togakushi and between activities/attractions
- including your own handmade noodles
- Entry ticket to the Togakushi Ninja Museum
- Guided tour at all listed attractions
- Entry/Admission - Tonkururin
- Entry/Admission - Togakushi Folk Museum Togakushi Ninja Museum
- Entry/Admission - Togakushi Shrine Okusha
What is not included?
- Shinkansen/Bullet Train ticket
- Accommodation
- Additional food, snacks & drinks
Additional Information
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- This tour has a minimum of 2 guests to operate
- This tour includes a significant amount of walking, often along forest trails. While paths are well-maintained, the ground is uneven in places and requires a reasonable level of fitness to partake. The itinerary is designed to breakup periods of walking into 30-minute blocks. Please ensure you wear good quality shoes or boots.
- Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
- This tour is well-suited to children but they will need to be able to walk or be carried for up to 30-minutes at a time.
- This tour spends a considerable period of time outside. Weather conditions in Togakushi are often notably cooler than Nagano City, even in summer. Please also ensure you wear suitable clothing for the season and bring a waterproof jacket and/or umbrella as weather conditions can change quickly.
- This tour includes a 'soba' (buckwheat) noodle lunch in Togakushi village. If you have any dietary requirements please let us know at time of booking.
- Infants (0-5) are free of charge. An infant lunch is not included and the order will be made directly to the restaurant according to your needs.
- Due to the amount of walking, this tour is not suitable for guests who are mobility impaired
- This tour/activity will have a maximum of 20 travelers
Meet your host
Lighthouse Tour Guide
Verified host
Host since 2019
Lighthouse Tour Guide, operated by Machinovate Japan Ltd., is a Nagano-based travel and hospitality company that strives to provide the quintessential Central Japan experience to all eager travelers through quality group and private tours, convenient private charters, as well as organizing your hotel stays and ski packages. No matter your destination: from the famous Snow Monkey Park to serene Shirakawa-go, from majestic Mount Fuji to the quaint corners of Kanazawa, we are excited to be a part of your unforgettable journey in Central Japan!
Itinerary
No meal included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
Here is the starting point
Tonkururin
1
Tonkururin
Stop: 2 hours
Start your soba making journey from scratch with the help of your guide and the museum's expert soba artisans.
Enjoy the fruits of your labor with a handmade soba lunch inside of the museum's restaurant seating area!Read moreMore about Tonkururin
2
Togakushi Shrine Chusha
Stop: 30 minutes
Depart for the Togakushi Ninja Museum, with a short stop at the Togakushi Chusha Shrine along the way.Read moreMore about Togakushi Shrine Chusha
3
Togakushi Folk Museum Togakushi Ninja Museum
Stop: 2 hours
Once arrived at the ninja museum, your guide will accompany you to the ninja trick house to enjoy engaging and authentic puzzle-solving to escape the manor. Time permitting, you will have time to enjoy other aspects of the ninja museum during free time.Read moreMore about Togakushi Folk Museum Togakushi Ninja Museum
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Togakushi Shrine Okusha
Stop: 105 minutes
Walking from the Ninja Museum with your guide, you will head toward the 'Okusha' (Upper Shrine) through the 'Zuishimon' Gate and along the giant cedar avenue. This is specactular landscape and ideal end point for the tour. The walk to and from the gate takes around 25-30 minutes (in both directions). Please note, due to time constraints and difficulty of the walk, we will not walk all the way to the Upper Shrine.Read moreMore about Togakushi Shrine Okusha
This concludes the tour.
You’re free to explore at your own pace from here.
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