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Japan Escorted Tour 2006 , Art & Ikebana

 

Art & Ikebana - Japan Escorted Tour

Japan Escorted Tour
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Ideal tour for people interested in Japanese art, pottery, craft, culture and ikebana. This journey focuses on central Honshu island, featuring a wide variety of traditional Japanese culture including architecture, gardens, temples and shrines. This First Class Tour has been designed for the discerning traveller who appreciates the value of personal service, quality accommodation and travelling with a small group of like minded people.

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AN EXCLUSIVE ITINERARY

We have created an exclusive series of visits on this tour that you will not find from any other company. You will be venturing off the beaten track to meet craft artists, potters and a bonsai master where you will most likely be the only foreign guest.

See examples of Edo period and contemporary architecture, watch craft makers producing Shibori Dyeing, visit Noritake Park and see potters at work in studios in Mashiko, Shigaraki and Tokoname, a great opportunity to look for unique ikebana containers.

Special arrangements have been made for our guests to visit the headquarters of the Ikenobo School of Ikebana in Kyoto as well as headquarters of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana in Tokyo.



GARDENS, POTTERY & INDIGO DYE

We will take you to the gardens of Sankeien, Ryoanji and Kinkakuji, Nikko and Fuji Hakone Izu National Parks and Omiya Bonsai Village.

You will also look into the culture and history of Japan by visiting temples and shrines and we have arranged for you to experience a private Tea Ceremony.

Visit the Noritake Pottery Park and Museum, to enjoy the worlds greatest collection of this fine ceramic ware and see how it is produced. Learn of Noritake's fascinating history and of it's unexpected range of products from teeth to knife blades. Visit the pottery kilns, galleries and ceramics markets of Shigaraki and Tokoname, two of the six ancient pottery centres of Japan.

At Mashiko you will visit the former home and studio of famous potter Shoji Hamada and an indigo dye workshop with traditional dye vats sunken into an earthen floor.



ART MUSEUMS

Five of Japans most outstanding Art Galleries will be visited on this tour. Saitama Museum of Modern Art, Yokohama Museum of Art, Idemitsu Museum of Fine Arts, Hakone Open Air Museum and the spectacular MIHO Art Museum designed by architect I M Pei, are all included for your enjoyment.



TRANSPORTATION & ACCOMMODATION

By private charter coach we will take you touring into areas seldom visited by foreign tourists. Our private charter coach will save you all the trouble of getting lost in the public transport system. Your accommodation has been especially chosen for it`s atmosphere, convenient location and it`s quality.

We'll stay in a both traditional Japanese style spa resorts and more familiar western style hotels, enjoying local cuisine and customs.

Experience the cultural elegance of staying in traditional Japanese style accommodation for three nights, where you can relax in the therapeutic waters of hot spa baths and enjoy fine local cuisine at a Japanese style banquet which are included for your pleasure. Immerse yourself in a real Japanese atmosphere of bedrooms with sliding paper doors, tatami mat floors and futon beds.

This is an experience often looked for by cultural travellers and not always included in itineraries from other tour companies.

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