Sample tour of Winter

Experiencing the Silvery World of Snow and Ice in Tohoku - 5 days (5 days, 4 nights)

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Day 1

Itinerary Meals
Day 1 Arrive Sendai Airport 2:25 p.m.
Depart Airport 3:00 p.m.
Sendai Airport
Breakfast : -
Lunch : on plane
Dinner : provided
Approx. 4:30 p.m. -
Snowy landscape and a milky-white sulfur hot spring
Zao Shiki No Hotel, Zao Hot Springs

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Day 2

Itinerary Meals
Day 2 Leave hotel at 8:00 a.m. Breakfast : provided
Lunch : - (eat on your own)
Dinner : provided
9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Enjoying the scenery from a ropeway
The Ice Monster in Zao, Yamagata
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Tracked snow cat vehicle
"Wild Monster"
Zao Sumikawa Snow Park, Miyagi
1:30 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.
Lunch on your own
Sendai (lunch)
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
A World Heritage Site
Hiraizumi: The Golden Hall of Chusonji Temple
Approx. 5:40 p.m. -
Bathing inn built in the shrine-carpentry architectural style
Yama-no-Kami Hot Springs

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Day 3

Itinerary Meals
Day 3 Leave hotel at 8:30 a.m. Breakfast : provided
Lunch : - (eat on your own)
Dinner : provided
9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Traditional culture of the Snow Country (February 14th - 16th)
Yokote Kamakura Festival
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Lunch on your own and shopping at a local-products shop
Akita Furusato Mura
(Modern Art Museum, Crafts Gallery, and Kamakura Gallery)
Approx. 3:20 p.m. -
Winter hot-spring scenery with nostalgic architecture from the early 20th century
Ginzan Hot Springs, Yamagata

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Day 4

Itinerary Meals
Day 4 Leave hotel at 8:00 a.m. Breakfast : provided
Lunch : - (eat on your own)
Dinner : - (eat on your own)
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Japanese Samurai culture
Shonai Movie Village, Tsuruoka
12:20 p.m. - 1:10 p.m.
Lunch on your own and shopping
Shonai Kanko Bussankan
3:40 p.m. - 5:40 p.m.
Shopping
Aeon Mall Natori
Approx. 6:30 p.m. -
Sendai Kokusai Hotel
Eat dinner on your own at East Ichibancho, and after dinner you will enjoy shopping.
Yodobashi Camera, drugstores, and more

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Day 5

Itinerary Meals
Day 5 Leave hotel at 9:00 a.m. Breakfast : provided
Lunch : on plane
Dinner : -
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Opened July 2015 / One of the biggest sea-lion shows in Tohoku
The newest aquarium in Japan
Sendai Umino-Mori Aquarium
11:10 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Large-scale shopping mall
Mitsui Outlet Park
Arrive 1:30 p.m.
Sendai Airport

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