super serious tourism promotion thread

Kokho tho

Nagoya


Considered one of the most boring large cities in Japan.


As discovered in a survey done by the City of Nagoya.






edit: c'mon down and I'll take you to a cool retro gaming bar, hue

My town is too FUBEN and MIYLOKU-NASI for anything connected to Kyoto

But I hope this thread succeeds and some sort of new tour can be born from the forums; that would be pretty cool.

Well, almost all of the people that come here to visit come for MANABI about the disaster, which includes touring around areas that have been preserved in their post-disaster destroyed state, listening to personal stories from a 語り部, and then touring around the construction area and learning about the reconstruction plan. 

In addition to that we do homestays and 農業・漁業体験. 

Ichinoseki is the closest shinkansen to us, and that is right next Hiraizumi, which is world heritage. So potentially it could be:

arrive and spend 一泊目 in hiraizumi, and then go to Rikuzentakata for TSUNAMI MANABI, GYOGYO TAIKEN, and then homestay for 二泊目, and then go back to Tokyo on the third day. 

But public transportation between Ichinoseki and here is a pain. You have to either take local train for 1.5 hours and then a bus 50 minutes, or take a local bus for ~2.5 hours. 

But if it's for a tour, maybe you would charter a bus ne. 

That's all I got

I am happy to help put together sample itineraries and things to do to support travel companies, especially those looking to serve small groups/FIT travelers looking to get off the beaten tourist path and avoid overcrowded tourist areas. We have long been dominated by group tourism and need to move beyond that as it is dwindling.

Is this only for day trips from Kyoto? Where I am is more like 2 hr from Tokyo by train and there are direct LCC flights from KIX.

If you can message me with the type of tourist you are able to/interested in marketing to I can compile some ideas.

no no, it could be from anywhere really, i was just saying that our "standard" routes generally take us from tokyo - hakone - kyoto/osaka, so anywhere that is easily accessible from any of those places (eg, kanazawa, kobe, hiroshima) also gets visited quite often.

we can do internal flights as well.

it doesn't have to be a day trip, but if it's overnight then there should be enough for at least a full day of activities.




amazing, this is exactly the kind of thing i was after. doesn't need to be more detailed like this, and if i want/need more info i'll pm.

again, no guarantees that i'll be sending any group anywhere, but this can be a nice catalogue of places just in case we do get a group in a certain area, or wanting to do very specific things. you'd be surprised.

1.　Outdoor/Wildlife tour
Start the day at Cape Toi, a beautiful coast where 102 wild horses can be found. Have lunch at Tagiri Hotel and proceed to Kojima Island by boat to see the wild monkeys. After returning on land, stop over at the beautiful Koigaura (Love Bay) before proceeding to Obi, a preserved old castle town.

2. Brewery Tour
Visit the 3 breweries in Nobeoka to see how shochu, sake and beer are made. Hideji craft beer has been gaining popularity within Japan and overseas after they clinched the gold award at the Japan Asia Beer Cup. Visit Mt Atago which is not only beautiful for its night view but it also a popular dating spot as it is said that the god and goddess Ninigino Mikoto and Konohana Sakuyahime met and got married on Mt Atago.

You could also throw in snorkelling in the morning before visiting the breweries. Besides, Nobeoka is said to be the creator of Chicken Nanban, the specialty food of Miyazaki Prefecture.

3. Spiritual Tour
Miyazaki is said to be the place where the gods first landed on earth, creating the country Japan. Shintoism also began here in Miyazaki.
You could organise a day trip or 2 day trip that covers:
- Viewing Mt. Takachiho from Gokuraku Onsen Takumi no Yado where they could enjoy the onsen.
- Takachiho Gorge
(Both Mt. Takachiho and Takachiho Gorge are said to be where the gods first landed)
- Amano Iwato Shrine and Amano Yasukawara Cave (which are associated with the Sun Goddess Amaterasu)
- Watching the night Kagura performance
- Eda Shrine and Misogi Pond (where many gods and goddesses were created from a purification ceremony done at the pond)
- Aoshima and Aoshima Shrine (associated with the gods Yamasachihiko and Umisachihiko)
- Udo Shrine (one of the three greatest descending shrines in Japan). This shrine is associated with Yamasachihiko and Princess Toyotama.
- Miyazaki Shrine (the birthplace of Emperor Jinmu, Japan’s first emperor)

I have done most of the things on the Spiritual Tour and they are all good destinations. After seeing many many shrines all over Japan they tend to blur together, but the shrines in Miyazaki are unique continue to remain fresh and interesting. Amano Iwato, Aoshima, and Udo are all really beautiful and interesting to visit.

Also if I'm going to rep all of Bear Origin, Aso is incredible and you should definitely make an Aso/Kurokawa/Bear Origin city tour.

CaptainSeery kira

can you make these day trips from fukuoka?
i have a group that looks like they'll be based in fukuoka for a few days

shinkansen is totally fine.
also, 10th-13th november. anything special going on then?



might need more details from you on this one. PM me if you have time!

It's possible if they are visiting just northern Miyazaki i.e. Takachiho and Nobeoka but it will take 3 hours one way.
I'd highly recommend flying in which is the most time efficient way to see the most of Miyazaki. They could visit the places in Miyazaki City before driving up to Nobeoka and Takachiho. Aso is just an hour away from Takachiho so taking the Fukuoka-Miyazaki-Bear Origin-Fukuoka route might be the logical option. 

Responding the the last post here are sample routes for Tohoku for a project that never quite got off the ground. The content is solid though, for people who want to experience as much as see and directly help support the recovery from the tsunami.

www.tohokunow.com/

Hamamatsu is super keen to promote its lake, especially cycling, and I think there are lots of suggested tours that involve various combinations of:

- cycle round some of the lake (or all of it, depending how much you want to cycle)
- catch a boat across the rest of the lake (there are special bike boat things)
- eating local speciality MIZUUMI NO SACHI (eel, oyster, shirasu, other seasonal stuff, etc)
(ref: hamamatsu-daisuki.net/cycle/)

Other things you could include:
- kanzanji or bentenjima onsen
- a side trip to the flower park, fruit park or garden park (all separate botanical gardens near the lake)
- 5 old temples near the lake (my personal favourite is 方広寺, which also offers zen vegetarian lunches with fake vegetarian unagi and explanations of the principles of buddhist stuff (unfortunately only in Japanese, but they were happy for me to interpret when I took my family))

Things that are big right now but only domestic tourists will probably care:
- the taiga drama museum
- Ryotanji temple is the setting of the latest taiga drama (it's also a nice temple in its own right but v crowded right now, wouldn't recommend this year)


The only downside with some of these places is that public transport is a bit difficult, since the lake is away from the centre of town
Getting to Hamamatsu itself is super easy, and tbh I see its potential most as a quick stop between Tokyo and Kyoto (equidistant from both on the shink), with an onsen/lake/cycling based stop as a breather if you have people interested in the natural side of Japan, but also wanting to hit the main tokaido places
We have a tourism division cir here as of last year so if you're interested I can put you in touch


fake edit: also hamamatsu matsuri is legitimately great and really nuts, definitely think that's a wasted opportunity with the lack of tourists (takes place the 3 holiday days of Golden Week each year, flying giant kites near the sand dunes during the day, dragging floats round the town at night, general revelry and noise and drunkeness for 3 days straight, top bants)


real edit: しｔ I forgot our industrial tourism and musical instrument stuff
PR: hamamatsu is the centre of musical instrument manufacture in Japan, with the first domestically produced piano blah blah
The upshot of that is that we have a really nice musical instrument museum (which my hulemdo who's into music decided was their favourite place from the whole trip when we hit Tokyo/Kyoto/Nara/Osaka/Hamamatsu(idgi personally))

Also, I think industrial tourism in the form of tours of our factories, particularly Yamaha/Suzuki are pretty common
These places have public museums and 記念館 as well

We also have the unagi pie factory, which is open to go look round too



oh and if you want to see the most embarassing PR movie ever
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rRVG0y9QkE&feature=youtu.be

hue! Getting the main casts to dress like that was probably the biggest mistake they made. Having fast forwarded through the video, I remember nothing about Hamamatsu other than 3 weirdos dressed in strange clothing