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[Departing from Sendai Station on January 13th] A life trip to experience the gods of Zao that combines mountain worship. Reservations for a 2-night, 3-day luxury winter cultural experience tour in Miyagi Zao (Zao Town, Miyagi Prefecture)
[Departing from Sendai Station on January 13th] A life trip to experience the gods of Zao that combines mountain worship. Reservations for a 2-night, 3-day luxury winter cultural experience tour in Miyagi Zao (Zao Town, Miyagi Prefecture)
[Departing from Sendai Station on January 13th] A life trip to experience the gods of Zao that combines mountain worship. Reservations for a 2-night, 3-day luxury winter cultural experience tour in Miyagi Zao (Zao Town, Miyagi Prefecture)
[Departing from Sendai Station on January 13th] A life trip to experience the gods of Zao that combines mountain worship. Reservations for a 2-night, 3-day luxury winter cultural experience tour in Miyagi Zao (Zao Town, Miyagi Prefecture)
[Departing from Sendai Station on January 13th] A life trip to experience the gods of Zao that combines mountain worship. Reservations for a 2-night, 3-day luxury winter cultural experience tour in Miyagi Zao (Zao Town, Miyagi Prefecture)
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[Departing from Sendai Station on January 13th] A life trip to experience the gods of Zao that combines mountain worship. Reservations for a 2-night, 3-day luxury winter cultural experience tour in Miyagi Zao (Zao Town, Miyagi Prefecture)

Japan-Tohoku region of Japan , Miyagi , Sendai
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  • This tour combines two traditional cultures with different stories of worshipping Mt. Katta in the Zao mountain range, and is a life trip experience where you can feel close to the "gods" at two shrines that have been the spiritual anchors of local residents since ancient times.
  • This festival is held every year at Kattamine Shrine in the Akatsuki Mairimiya area of Kattamine Shrine. For the past 70 years, men who are in their unlucky years (42 years old in the traditional Japanese age reckoning system) have carried 100-kan shimenawa ropes and paraded through the town before making an offering to the 500-year-old sacred tree, a pair of cedars in the shrine grounds. In addition, kagura performances and a Dondo festival are held in the shrine grounds.
  • In order to visually raise awareness of the mountain gods of mountain worship, a lighting production will be held at Yugami Shrine during events that utilizes light (illuminations and searchlights) to shine in the direction of worship and on landmarks (such as the direction of the peak of Mt. Katta).
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This tour combines two traditional cultures with different stories of worshipping Mount Katta in the Zao mountain range, and is a life trip experience that allows you to feel closer to the gods, focusing on two shrines that have long been a spiritual anchor for local residents.

At the "Karitamine Shrine Dawn Pilgrimage" held at Karitamine Shrine in the Miya district, you can enjoy a special tour of the "Hyakukan Shimenawa Offering," in which one of Japan's largest shimenawa ropes is carried and dedicated to the sacred tree, as well as unreleased content that has only been shown locally until now!

Utilizing Yugami Shrine, which was built to give thanks to the gods for the source of Togatta Onsen, which has been in operation for over 400 years, this limited experience serves dishes made with ingredients blessed by nature through volcanic activity and involves the experience of a ritual to express gratitude. Yugami Shrine is an unopened, uncrowded area that is only known to a select few local residents.
We will provide a high-added-value content experience that allows visitors to experience the culture and food associated with this shrine together.

In addition, both content programs are high-added-value tours that offer a visual experience of the mountain gods of mountain worship through illuminations and other night-time content.


Expected schedule

Day 1: January 13th (Monday)
13:00 Meet at Sendai Station
14:00 Mountain worship walking tour
15:30 Check-in at Takesenso
17:30 Move
18:00 Yugami Shrine Illumination 16:00-20:30
19:30 Move
19:45 Light meal

Day 2: January 14th (Tuesday)
9:00 Departure
9:45 Zao Sake Brewery (High Class)
10:30 Departure
11:15 Lunch
12:30 Departure
13:30 Tour of frost-covered trees
16:00 Move
17:00 Dawn Visit (High class students do not participate)
18:30 Move
19:00 Hotel
19:10 Dinner

Day 3: January 15th (Wednesday)
8:30 Departure
9:00 Strawberry picking
10:00 Prayer (farewell) / Goshuincho (stamp book)
10:45 Departure
11:45 Disband @ Sendai Station

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  • What to wear/bring: Please bring warm clothes.

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  • Cancellations 6 day(s) (inclusive) before the selected date are allowed. Unused orders can be canceled for free
  • For cancellations made 4 to 5 days prior to selected date, a cancellation fee of 20% will apply
  • For cancellations made 3 to 3 days prior to selected date, a cancellation fee of 30% will apply
  • For cancellations made 2 to 2 days prior to selected date, a cancellation fee of 40% will apply
  • For cancellations made 1 to 1 days prior to selected date, a cancellation fee of 50% will apply
  • Cancellation is not allowed between 0–0 days from the selected date. Orders cannot be canceled or modified, and refunds will not be granted.
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