Gathering spot: Kobe Portpia Hotel, in front of the entrance of the main building ( the 1st basement ).
Gathering time: 10minutes before the departure time.
*note: If the minimum passenger count for each course is not met, it will not run and all fees will be refunded in full to each applicant.
(Tour 1) Kobe Culture course
Minimum number of participants : 40 persons
Price: 5,000 JPY
From 8:30 am to 3:00 pm
Itinerary:
Portopia hotel - Minatogawa shrine - Hakutsuru sake brewery museum - Kobe shushinkan brewery (Lunch) - Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution - Portopia hotel
Include:
transportation fee by chartered bus, Lunch, entrance fee and English guide.
[Minatogawa shrine]
Exhibits numerous treasures of Kusunoki Masashige who is enshrined here, including some important cultural properties, e.g. his hand-copied Buddhist sutras and his bellyband.
[Hakutsuru sake brewery museum]
Original brewing equipment exhibited in a wooden sake cellar established in he Taisho era. Try fresh unrefined sake on the house.
[Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution]
Facilities established in memory of Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake to contribute to disaster prevention and damage reduction.
(Tour 2) Kobe Resort course
Minimum number of participants : 40 persons
Price: 5,500 JPY
From 9:00 am to 4:30 pm
Itinerary:
Portopia hotel - Hall of halls Rokko - Rokko garden terrace - Lunch - Arima hot-spring - Portopia hotel
Include:
transportation fee by chartered bus, Lunch, entrance fee and English guide.
[Hall of halls Rokko]
"Hall of Halls Rokko" is a museum of music boxes. There are mainly Cylinder and Disk music boxes made in America or Europe in the 19th to the early 20th century. Also, there are some kinds of automatic musical instruments include the Dance Organ that is one of the world's largest. There are 14 concerts held in a day with varieties of instruments and numbers. You can enjoy the concert with the explanation by staffs.
[Arima hot-spring]
Arima Onsen is a popular tourist destination where visitors can experience Japanese culture, walking around this elegant town with many hot springs, shrines and temples. The changing seasonal scenery and the local cuisine makes Arima an appealing destination.
(Tour 3) Rokko Hiking course
Minimum number of participants : 10 persons
Price: 8,000 JPY
From 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
Itinerary:
Portopia hotel - Rokko garden terrace - (hike) - Top of Rokko mountain - Lunch - Portopia hotel
*Schedule is subject to change on very short notice based on weather.
Include:
transportation fee by chartered bus, Lunch, entrance fee and English guide.
What to bring:
*comfortable clothes and shoes
*Sun hat, sun glasses
*Water
[Rokko Garden Terrace]
Complex facilities consisting of cafe, restaurants and accessory shops opened at the top of Mt. Rokko. You can see a panorama of Kansai International Airport to Akashi Kaikyo Bridge on the observatory space. Also you can enjoy the night view.
[Rokko mountain]
Mt. Rokko, the symbols of Kobe, have been loved by the locals as great mountain leisure areas through the ages.
(Tour 4) Ijinkan Foreign Residences course
Minimum number of participants : 40 persons
Price: 4,000 JPY
From 9:00 am to 3:30 pm
Itinerary:
Portopia hotel - Kitano area (Free) - Portopia hotel
Include:
transportation fee by chartered bus.
[Kitano area]
The Kitano area is dotted with residences built by foreigners who arrived in Kobe after the port opened is a popular sightseeing area. Mt. Maya, which is directly behind Shin-Kobe Station, the shinkansen station, is a great spot to experience nature so close to town.
(Tour 5) Nara course
Minimum number of participants : 40 persons
Price: 8,000 JPY
From 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
Itinerary:
Portopia hotel - Todaiji temple - Kasuga grand shrine - Lunch - Horyuji temple - Portopia hotel
Include:
transportation fee by chartered bus, Lunch, entrance fee and English guide.
[Todaiji temple]
The Todaiji Temple is the representative temple of Nara. The principal image of worship there is the Daibutsu(Grreat Buddha), the 1,250 year old sitting image of Vairocana(Rush -ana-Butsu-zaso. This bronze Buddhaaffectionately known as Daibutsu-san, measures approximately 15m(49.5ft) in height, and weighs about 250t, with a face that measures 5m(16.5ft) in width.
[Kasuga grand shrine]
Built as the family shrine of the Fujiwara Family, Kasuga Shrine has become famous for its graceful wisteria blossomes which almost sweep the ground at the south side of Utsushidono Hall. The rows fo approximately 2,000 stone lanterns along the pathways, and the over 1,000 hanging lanterns of the Main Hall and cloister create a breathtaking spectacle of lights.
[Horyuji temple]
Horyuji Temple's five-storied pagoda, the main hall and Chumon(middle gate are the world's oldest wooden structures, constructed in the late 7th century. Their gentle roof lines are beautiful and are complimented by the atmosphere of Ikarugano-sato (the region of Ikaruga).
(Tour 6) Kyoto course
Minimum number of participants : 30 persons
Price: 12,000 JPY
From 8:00 am to 6:00 pm
Itinerary:
Portopia hotel - Kinkakuji temple - Nijo castle - Lunch - Heian Shrine (From the bus'swindows) - Kiyomizu temple - Portopia hotel
Include:
transportation fee by chartered bus, Lunch, entrance fee and English guide.
[Kinkakuji temple]
It is perhaps the most widely-recognized image of Kyoto. Seen reflected in the adjoining "mirror pond" with its small islands of rock and pine, Kinkaku-ji Temple, "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion," is a breathtaking must-see.
The building's first purpose was to serve the retiring Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358-1409) as a residence. The gold-leaf-adorned building was converted into a Zen temple shortly after his death. In an event that was later fictionalized by the renowned author Yukio Mishima, a 21-year-old monk burned Kinkakuji down in 1950. The temple was rebuilt in 1955 and continues to function as a storehouse of sacred relics.
[Kiyomizu temple]
Kiyomizu-dera Temple is perhaps the most beloved of Kyoto's temples and is a fixture in the minds of the Japanese people. The temple's veranda juts out of the side of a mountain supported by 13-meter-high wooden columns. The main hall with its distinctive hip-shaped roof of cypress bark rests to the rear of the veranda and houses within it a priceless statue of Kannon Bodhisattva, the goddess of mercy. From the veranda, one can appreciate fine views facing west over the city of Kyoto.
(Tour 7) Osaka course
Minimum number of participants : 30 persons
Price: 12,000 JPY
From 8:30 am to 4:00 pm
Itinerary:
Portopia hotel - Osaka castle - Aqua Liner (Osaka river cruise) - Lunch - City sightseeing (Free) - Portopia hotel
Include:
transportation fee by chartered bus, Lunch, entrance fee and English guide.
[Osaka castle]
Osaka Castle Park opened in 1931 and covers an area of 106.7 hectare.
Osaka Castle Park is colorfully embellished. You can see about 600 cherry trees, including someiyoshino in Nishinomaru Garden. About 95 kinds of Japanese apricot flowers,1250 trees in total bloom in Ume Grove, and in Omoide-no-mori (Grove of Remembrance), you can enjoy beautiful autumn colored leaves.
The scenery, which changes from season to season, attracts many visitors throughout the year. Although the castle park is located in the center of the city, it is a place of recreation and relaxation familiar to Osakans.
[Aqua Liner]
Aqua-Liner, an aqua-bus touring Osaka's Okawa River, the Water Capital. Enjoy yourself while viewing Japanese esthetic scenery reflected on the surface of Okawa River during the changes season to season.