Course 5 - Tochigi (warehouses)

This course can be reserved based on your request. Please sent me your request through inquiry on the last page.

Location & Outline

Tochigi city prospered as the town of a wholesale dealers of shipping transportation and a post station for special messengers to Nikko Toshogu Shrine from the Imperial Court

from the Edo Period. As the Reiheiji Highway to Nikko from Kyoto runs through the center of the city, the city was crowded with people including many feudal lords who are going to pay a visit to Toshogu Shrine from the west. As a current main street was a part of the highway, some black imposing warehouses or those with white wall remain. They are reminders of those days' prosperity. The tour will visit those buildings and museums and experience to make Japanese sweets.

Where to go

The tour includes these places shown in a red circle below. And You can confirm them by using the function of the enlargement, the picture view or street view of the Google Map after the next below .

1. Tochigi Float Hall

An admission fee : ¥500 is included in the tour price.

2. Tochigi Warehouse Museum

The admission fee : ¥300

3. Yokoyama Folk Museum

Admission fee : ¥300

4. Old Tochigi Prefectural Office

5. Okada Memorial Museum

Admission fee : ¥800

6. Okada's Villa

7. Amamike & Abuden Miso

8. Yamamoto HQ Office, Experience Japanese sweets making process

Decision to enter attractions #2,#3,#5 is up to you.

Google Map

Even the map is shown in Japanese, You can change the map to in English.

1. Click "拡大地図を表示” the bottom of the left top window.

2. Then click "言語", and choose "English" in the Google Map "Menu (≡)" on the left top window.

You can check real view using a picture above as a reference according to the function of the enlargement or the picture view of the Google map, and street view.

Pictures