Experience Hall / Accommodation Experience (Training) Facility Spots in Japan

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Experience Hall / Accommodation Experience (Training) Facility

Murasaki Mura historical village

3.5

224 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Okinawa Pref. Nakagamigunyomitanson Takashiho 1020-1

Murasaki Mura is a large experience-oriented theme park located in Yomitan Village. Visitors can experience traditional crafts and culture, water activities, sports, cooking classes, etc.; more than 100 different experience activities are available in over 30 different workshops. There is also a buffet-style restaurant, and the Okinawan Soba Noodles restaurant (with its delicious noodle broth), is particularly popular. Accommodation is available adjacent to the park.

I’ve visited this place several times while living here. There are a few make your own souvenir shop, which can be fun for visitors or kids. It’s pretty empty during the weekdays and I haven’t seen...
Iga no Sato Mokumoku Tezukuri Farm

4.0

135 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Mie Pref. Igashi Nishiyubune 3609

A farm and tourist-oriented facility which only creates additive-free and low additive products based on the theme of combining healthiness and deliciousness. The farm’s spacious grounds are host to a brewery, café, hot spring bathhouse, and more. At the Ham & Weiner Senmonkan, you can watch ham and sausages being made through a glass window. Visitors can learn about food and farming through a variety of classes on hand making foods. At the educational farm area, children can milk cows and ride ponies. There’s also a restaurant which serves fresh vegetables and pork raised on-site.

This farm covers a large area. When we visited there were several large school parties, and they were clearly having a lot of fun. Our group ate in a large barn-like restaurant at the top of the...
Satoumi An (Ama Hut Experience)

5.0

186 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Mie Pref. Shimashi Shimachoukoshika 2279

This sightseeing facility located in Shima Town, Shima City, Mie Prefecture allows visitors to experience a moment inside an ama hut, a place where the ama (female divers) would warm up for diving or relax after their dives. You can sit around the hearth and enjoy local seafood while listening to tales of the sea shared by current working divers and former divers. In addition to seafood harvested in the nearby ocean such as Ise-ebi spiny lobster, abalone, and turban shellfish, visitors can also try Tekone Sushi which is a local specialty of the Shima region. Advance reservation is required and applications are accepted for three or more adults.

Wow this is a bit off the beaten track and you probably need a car to get there but wow. You must reserve esp for lunch. Good deal for lunch at 3850 Yen for filling meal with scallops, welk, squid...
Kandu (AEON Mall Makuhari New City Shop)

3.5

102 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Chiba Pref. Chibashi Mihama-ku Toyosuna 1-5 Aeon Mall Makuhari New City Family Mall 3F

"This theme park in AEON Mall Makuhari New City lets children ""try out"" over 30 kinds of jobs including being a police officer, pilot, and newspaper reporter in the facility's make-believe city of Kandu. Using equipment and wearing uniforms that resemble the real thing, these occupational role-plays give them a deeper understanding of society. There's also a restaurant that's a great place to relax while the kids are occupied."

小6の娘という5歳の息子と行ってきました。良かった点は、・子供がお仕事参加中に、親が次の仕事を予約できること・休憩スペースが広く、食事のメニューが豊富でLINEでオーダーできること気になった点は、・仕事のクオリティが高くない（幼稚園児〜低学年向けの）・カメラマンが雑お目当てのポケモンセンタースタッフの仕事ができて、子供たちは満足してました。キッザニア同様に、人気のお仕事はす...
Kawaguchiko Herbkan

3.5

107 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Yamanashi Pref. Minamitsurugunfujikawaguchikomachi Funatsu 6713-18

A building specializing in herbs located on the banks of Lake Kawaguchi. The interior features a specialty shop with a variety of herbal products, like herb tea, bathing herbs, and dried flowers, a cafe with a menu that uses herbs, and a craft shop where you can experience herbs in a number of different ways-flower arranging, pressed flowers, and a herbarium. The central lawn is a herb garden, so you can enjoy a stroll wrapped in the wafting aroma of fresh herbs.

It was a very good stopover, especially if you are on a trip to relax and to put your minds at ease. It has a nice souvenir store with natural flowers home-grown (e.g., essential oils). If you are...
Kaga Traditional Handicrafts Village Yunokuni no Mori

4.0

118 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Ishikawa Prefecture Komatsu City Awazu Onsen Na -3-3

An amusement park roughly 1,000,000 square meters in size, Kaga Traditional Handicrafts Village Yunokuni no Mori is a place expressing the beautiful mystique of an old house merged with nature, and one where you can see, touch, and make traditional crafts of Hokuriku Kaga. With 11 buildings, over 50 types of experiences, and many art museums and galleries, this park provides many courses for walking through the forest. You can try out things like wajima lacquering, yuzen dyeing, kutaniyaki (pottery), yamanaka lacquering, gold leaf pasting. Approximately 20 minutes by car via Katayamazu Interchange on the Hokuriku Expressway.

A traditional handicraft village featuring thatched-roofed houses. Each house have arts and crafts. People can use and learn the techniques.
Koyasan Daishikyokai Temple sutra copying and precept instruction

4.0

90 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Wakayama Pref. Itogunkouyachou Kouyasan 347

Visitors to sacred Mt. Koya can engage in a variety of esoteric Shingon practices, such as copying sutras and being instructed in the precepts of Buddhism. Sutra copying can be conducted after learning how it is performed. First, participants rinse their mouths, after which they light incense and perform a ceremony before copying the Heart Sutra. Sutra copying costs 1,000 yen and may be dedicated to someone. Being instructed in the precepts requires a 500-yen entry fee. During the instruction in the sutras, visitors listen to the 10 Bodhisattva Precepts in a pitch dark temple hall. Both sutra copying and instruction in the precepts may be participated in with a same-day reservation.

This is a big hall where many people can come together to worship the founder of Shogun Buddhism in Japan and of Koyasan,Kobo Daishi Kukai (774-834)
Ikebukuro Life Safety Learning Center

4.5

66 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Toshima-ku Nishiikebukuro 2-37-8

This facility where you can experience authentic disaster prevention in an urban area is located a five-minute walk from Ikebukuro Station. With a tour-type program led by an instructor, you can go on three types of experiences: earthquakes, smoke and fire extinguishing. The fire extinguishing corner where you can experience fighting a realistic fire projected on a large screen uses recycled water. You can experience discharging water using indoor fire hydrants and standpipes that you do not normally use. Groups of 10 or more people can also experience the disaster training drill corner, where you create roads, rivers and danger information on a map, allowing you to recheck your ability to manage disasters and sense danger.

I come from a country with no major natural disaster. Is an eye opener for me. The staff are extremely friendly.
Gala Aoi Umi

4.0

106 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Okinawa Pref. Nakagamigunyomitanson Takashiho 915

Gala Aoi Umi is an interactive facility beside the sea in Takashiho, Yomitan Village. There is a salt processing factory, an atelier, a studio for Ryukyu glass and pottery, marine services, “coral field” for cultivating coral, and various kinds of production, snorkeling and coral seedlings can be experienced. It also has an ocean view restaurant which takes advantage of its position, a pizza shop as well as an ice cream shop where a salt ice cream using Okinawa’s sea salt can be enjoyed.

We are visiting Okinawa after being gone for 8 years and decided to venture back by this place. It doesn’t seem like you can make the salt anymore but you can purchase it. We had a great time at the...
Sado Nishimikawa Gold Park

4.0

81 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Nigata Pref. Sadoshi Nishimikawa 835-1

A hands-on museum built on the site of the former Nishimikawa Gold Mine in Sado City, Niigata Prefecture. Mentioned in the Konjaku monogatarishu, a collection of stories dated to the end of the Heian period, this ancient and historic mine even helped fund the war efforts of Uesugi Kenshin, a historic figure. The museum presents a variety of materials relating to gold and gold mining in its exhibition rooms and theater. There’s also a museum shop. The museum lets visitors try panning for gold and participants can take home the gold dust they find stored in a keychain or pendant.

I remember gold panning as a kid in West Virginia. On a rainy day, we were traveling around Sado, and if you know this island, you know most of its charm is the outdoors - not exactly ideal to...
Koiwai Farm's solitary cherry tree

4.5

70 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Yamagata Sakata-shi Hiyoshicho 1-2-20

This is an entertainment complex in 1 Chome Hiyoshi-cho, Sakata City. Built in the remodeled Soma-ya, a famed Sakata restaurant, the 1st floor features Teahouse Kutsurogi Dokoro, and the second floor has a dining theater where you can watch Maiko dances while you dine, as well as the Takehisa Yumeji Art Museum. The main Soma-ya manor was destroyed in the Shonai earthquake of 1894, but was soon rebuilt and is now designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

The BEST part was the English tour given by Ms Maki throughout the Museum & Geisha Show ❤️❤️❤️ So many Beautiful & Rare Art & Porcelain Antiques in a Truly Antique Edo Period Mansion ❤️❤️❤️
Sante Park Tahara

4.0

61 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Aichi Pref. Taharashi Nodachou Ashiken Pond 8

An activity-oriented theme park surrounded by flowers and greenery, Sante Park Tahara also holds all sorts of events. Advance reservations are required, but the park’s numerous mini-classes are also extremely popular with children. The park has a 4,000 square meter farm where visitors can try picking seasonal vegetables. The park also has a restaurant, tea room, and market selling local farm products; whether you come as a family or a group of friends, you can enjoy an entire fun-filled day here.

春の季節のサンテガーデンはとても綺麗です。チューリップの開花時期が一番いいです。平日でも駐車場は意外と混んでいます。休日は混み合うので時間をずらして行くと良いと思います。チューリップの咲く季節はきれいで写真をたくさん撮ってきます。今年は桜の開花が早く、チューリップの満開と同じ日には見れませんでしたが、また来年行って見ます。
Ice Experience Museum Hokkaido Ice Pavilion

4.0

74 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hokkaido Kamikawagunkamikawachou Sakaemachi 40

The Hokkaido Ice Pavilion in Kamikawa, Hokkaido, at the foot of Mt. Daisetsuzan, is the world’s first and best place to experience the extreme cold. The temperature inside the ice hall is kept at -20°C which creates a completely 360° world of ice. You can experience the extreme cold of -41°C and the ‘diamond dust’ effect (where the moisture in the air is frozen) and you can also have your photo taken with the sea angel, Clione. The giant icicles, which have been 25 years in the making, are also a must-see.

The place is not big but it offers a different kind of experience. We arrived there just before lunch time and asked if they have food available, but they said no and recommended us to take a short...
Kawaguchiko Natural Living Center

4.0

15 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Yamanashi Pref. Minamitsurugunfujikawaguchikomachi Oishi 2585 In the Oishi Park

Located in Oishi Park along Lake Kawaguchi's northern bank, Kawaguchiko Nature Living Center features a cafe, restaurant, a shop that sells Mt. Fuji goods, Yamanashi traditional crafts, locally-made items, and sweets. It is also a facility where you can try making jam of picking fruit. Jam-making requires a reservation in advance.

こちらの生活感館の副題は、「ブルーベリーの里」です。ということで、お土産もブルーベリー関係のものはもちろんのこと、富士山麓の水なんかもありました。何と言ってもここの前からは富士山が綺麗に見えます。
Dino Park Yanbaru Subtropical Forest

4.0

87 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Okinawa Nago-shi Nakayama 1024-1

A park located in a forest adjoining the Okashigoten Nago Shop in Nakayama, Nago City. Here visitors can go on an adventure in a subtropical virgin forest and encounter over 80 animatronic dinosaurs brought to life with stunning movement and roars. A fun destination for children and adults alike, there are walking paths in the park and at the end of the course is a children's area with dinosaurs and play equipment kids can ride, as well as a shop filled with dinosaur merchandise. Visitors can also use a tablet and view moving 3D dinosaurs and, depending on the season, charming seasonal flowers. Be sure not to miss the park's rare subtropical flowers.

A great place for kids who love dinosaurs. This rainforest has lots of stairs and slopes where baby strollers are not allowed. The entire experience in the jungle with the dinosaurs (plus their...
Yamato Kouji Park

4.5

55 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Onomachi 4-a-170

An interactive style factory and shop facility located in Ono-machi, Kanazawa City a 15 minute drive from Kanazawa Station. Yamato Soy Sauce & Miso Co., Ltd., founded in 1911, seeks with this facility to convey to visitors the wonders of koji malted rice through a variety of experiences. You can visit the company's own shop located and taste various products, eat popular soy sauce soft serve ice cream or Yamato's satsumaage fried fish paste, and do a variety of activities. On the park's guided tour, you can soak your hands in a soothing and rejuvenating hand bath which contains koji. Also recommended is the course which allows you to taste and compare different miso flavors and make your own original instant miso soup.

Although we did not have pre-existing tour reservations, Patrick took the time to give us a thorough tour of the facilities that extended well beyond the 15 minute tour we were expecting. We were...
Nakabu An

4.5

57 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Kagawa Pref. Shouzugunshoudoshimachou Yasuda A1385

A somen noodle factory and restaurant which preserves traditional techniques but which also continues to take on the challenge of crafting noodles which make use of further polished and refined hand making methods. The establishment also offers reservation only noodle stretching experiences and factory tours. There are three courses available, the 60-minute course included noodle stretching, factory tour, and meal, the 30-minute included factory tour only, and other (advance reservation required).

If you drive, I think this restaurant is good. At first, we want to have our lunch at 野之花. Unluckily, it is closed. We search another restaurant in trip advisor. It is found that this restaurant...
Glicopia Kobe

4.0

46 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Hyougo Pref. Koubeshi Nishi-ku Takatsukadai 7-1

A chocolate factory and museum operated by the famous confectionary company Glico located a one-minute walk from the Takatsukadai 1-Chome bus stop. The entrance is a giant Pocky stick and inside visitors can peer through windows and watch snacks like Pocky and Pretz being made. The facility also offers visitors the chance to make Bisco by hand. The factory shop sells exclusive and new products perfect for souvenirs and gifts. Entry requires a reservation made by phone or over the Internet; reservations are accepted up to four months in advance.

The general manager had email me to confirm my visit when my visit date was near. My reserved time was 15:00, but I arrived at 16;30. The staff was very kind, she allowed us to enter & give us quick...
Crafthills Kasama

4.0

57 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Ibaraki Pref. Kasamashi Kasama 2388-1

"Crafthills Kasama is located in Kasama Geijutsunomori Park, around 10 minutes' drive via National Route 355 from the Tomobe Interchange of the Kita-Kanto Expressway. At Crafthills Kasama, visitors can enjoy making their own Kasama-ware ceramics. Based around the concept of ""moving beyond ceramics that you can look at to ceramics that you can have fun with,"" Crafthills Kasama offers electric potter's wheel experience activities, hand-thrown pottery experience activities, and ceramics painting experience activities, etc. For those with a more serious interest in ceramics, Crafthills Kasama runs a Ceramics School that can help would-be ceramists progress from beginner to having solid ceramics-making skills. Other popular craft experience activities include silver clay art making, where participants can learn how to make unique silver accessories from silver clay. There is also a permanent exhibition of ceramic art, and special seasonal exhibitions."

焼き物を中心とした美術工芸品が屋外に飾られている公園です。敷地は広いですがかなり高低差のある広場なので、球技などで遊ぶというよりも散策を楽しむスペースになっています。草むら風の不思議なオブジェや謎の矢印の置物など、ちょっとゼルダの伝説の世界観があります。陶器風タイルで覆われた道はかなり滑るので雨の日にはお勧めしません。
Menard Aoyama Resort

4.0

36 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Mie Pref. Igashi Kiryu 2356

This resort facility is located in a part of the Murou Akame Aoyama National Park. The vast resort space spreads out over three million square meters centered on the Menard Aoyama Hotel. Its draw is the green landscape that covers Takayama Kogen at a height of 600 meters and the fresh air. You can get panoramic views of mother nature, relaxing everyone who visits. There is a hot spring and indoor heated pool in the facility, and there are also recreational facilities such as a golf course and experiential workshop. In addition, there are places to come into contact with nature such as an herb garden and firefly pond.

日帰りプラン「ハイグレードアップ昼食客室で滞在プラン」を利用しました。同行者がエステを受けている間、温泉に入って、部屋でゆっくりくつろげるので、おすすめです。ランチはシャンベールのレストランでしたが、ロケーションが素晴らしく、大満足でした。部屋もシャンベールのモダン和室で、１７時まで滞在可とのことで、かなりゆっくりできます。温泉もきれいで、備付けのシャンプーなどは、さすがのメナードです...