Try three types of onsen and feel refreshed in light activities in great nature (4 days, 3 nights)
Schedule
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 1
Tokyo Station
- 20min by car / 40 min by bus
Shiobara Coffee
2A Japanese style café restaurant operated by Cheese Garden
Shiobara Coffee is a shop with a café operated by Cheese Garden, a Western confectionery brand that sells products using cheese. The shop interior is designed with Japanese décor to create a serene and tranquil atmosphere. The café menu features Cheese Garden’s standard products and apple pie available only at our café. You have to be there to taste our famous apple pie made with a generous amount of large cuts of apple compote. The café has a rich lineup on the food menu too including Shiobara Onion Curry Rice and seasonal pasta dishes. There is also coffee-flavored soft ice cream and a range of drinks. Please drop by and enjoy.
- 25min by car
Nasu Mukunone
3Connect with nature at the water garden Mizuniwa in its one and only landscape
- 15min by car
ONSEN RYOKAN YAMAKI
4A small, modern architecture inn with only eight guest rooms. Experience the rich nature, natural hot springs, and untouched landscape of Japan.
Please savor the out-of-the-ordinary time of healing and relaxation produced by Onsen Ryokan Yamaki.
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Stay at ONSEN RYOKAN YAMAKI
Day 2
Hotel (ONSEN RYOKAN YAMAKI)
- Pick-up service available (need to inquire / Contact : Ride Experience)
Custom Private Cycling Tours with “Ride Experience”
5Discover authentic Japan in a multi-day cycling holiday with onsen, local foods and local knowledgeable guides!
Ride Experience’s cycling tours are guided by local Nasu cyclists.
As such, they are familiar with the local food, accommodations, and people, and offer cycling tours that provide an authentic experience unique to Japan and the region.
Themes, areas, schedules, routes, and distances traveled can be arranged to meet your specific needs and expectations to create a special private cycling tour.
English-speaking guides as well as professional mechanics will accompany you on the tours, so you can feel confident that you are in good hands.
Come and experience an experience of a lifetime, only here and only at Ride Experience.
- Pick-up service available (need to inquire / Contact : Ride Experience)
Nasu Bettei KAI
6Built with traditional Japanese materials, Nasu Bettei KAI nicely blends with the beauty of the four seasons of Nasu
Stay at Nasu Bettei KAI
Day 3
Hotel (Nasu Bettei KAI)
- 10min by car / 70min by bus
Nasu Heisei-no-Mori Forest
7Have a healing journey into the woodland!
Nasu Heisei no Mori is a forest park that was originally part of nearby Nasu Imperial Villa. The forest opened to the public in 2011 as part of Nikko National Park.
Nasu Heisei-no-Mori Forest consists of two areas: the Forest Recreation Zone and the Forest Learning Zone.
You can stroll freely through the forest. There are three loop trails in the Recreation Zone. The longest, about 3 kilometers, leads to the Komadome Waterfall Observation Deck. At Nasu’s Komadome Waterfall, the scene created by the dynamic, seasonal landscape of the mountains and the contrast of the waterfall’s stunningly clear, blue water is simply breathtaking.
In contrary, entering the “Forest Learning Zone” is limited to people with guide reservations in advance, but is definitely a valuable experience, since a guide will walk you through the forest while providing you interesting knowledge about the surrounding nature.
During the winter months when the Forest Learning Zone is closed to the public, the Field Center offers guided snowshoe walks through the Recreation Zone.
- 10min by car / 50 min by bus
STEAK HOUSE JYURAKU
8Experience high-quality Tochigi Wagyu at a steak house directly operated by a long-established Wagyu butcher
- 5min by car / 15min by bus and on foot
Shika no Yu
9This hot spring facility is located in Yumoto, Nasu Town. It is said to have opened approximately 1,300 years ago.
The origin of the discovery of this hot spring is said to be that a county official was hunting in the mountains and chased a deer that he missed shooting, and the deer healed its wounded body with the hot spring.
It is considered the oldest hot spring in Tochigi Prefecture, and many of the surrounding hot-spring hotels use it as their spring water source.
The baths are divided into six temperature levels ranging from 41–48 degrees Celsius (there is no 48-degree women’s bath). It is said that by following the bathing protocol, such as pouring water over yourself before entering the bath, you can increase the hot spring’s effects.”
- 3min on foot
Sessho-seki (Killing Stone)
10A mysterious legendary rock in a desolate scenic spot
Sessho-seki is a huge lava rock on the slope of Mount Nasu near Nasu Yumoto Onsen.
According to literature from the Muromachi period (室町時代) (1336-1573), a fox with nine tails disguised itself as a beautiful woman and tried to kill the Emperor Toba. After fleeing to Nasu, the demon vixen was vanquished and turned into a stone. The stone was named “Sessho-seki ” (Killing Stone) because many creatures died from the poisonous air it emitted.This place has been designated a National Place of Scenic Beauty.
- 5min by car / 10min by bus
Stay at Nasu Bettei KAI
Day 4
Hotel (Nasu Bettei KAI)
- 40min by car
Daioji
11Experience Zen meditation at a Soto sect Zen temple with a history spanning over 600 years.
The family temple of the feudal lord of the Kurobane domain (now the area around Otawara), who belonged to the Ozeki clan, this Soto sect Buddhist temple is over 600 years old. All seven of the buildings on the grounds have thatched roofs, and several have been designated important cultural properties, including the temple's main hall, Zen hall, and cloister. Visitors can enjoy various kinds of scenery depending on the season, from flowers such as peonies, fringed irises, and hydrangeas to fall foliage. At Daioji Temple, anyone is welcome to participate in Zen meditation and sutra copying, regardless of nationality or religion. Even if it's your first time, there will be a thorough explanation of the proper etiquette, so there is no need for concern. In the main hall is a scroll depicting a makuragaeshi, a spirit said to visit at night to one's pillow side and flip over the pillow in Japanese folklore, whose gaze seems to follow you around the room. This rare work dates back to the Edo period (1603-1868). Mysterious and frightening tales report that if you sleep in front of the scroll, you will awaken to find your head and feet facing the opposite direction and your pillow flipped over.
- 10min by car
NASU FARM VILLAGE
12Befriend a horse and enjoy a lunch featuring fresh vegetables in great nature
- 10min by car ※If you plan on drinking, please take a taxi.
TENTAKA SHUZO Co., Ltd.
13Join the tour of a sake brewery with over 100 years of history
- 70min by Shinkansen