Walk Japan has launched a new tour that allows customers to glimpse the beautiful bucolic rural region of Kyoto.
The Kyoto: Mountains to the Sea tour will explore the Kyoto prefecture, a region that significantly contrasts Kyoto’s urban landscape.
In this region, many sublime foods and crafts have provided livelihoods for generations, making it a culturally rich region perfect for tourists.
Mountains to the Sea is a fully guided, eight-day tour that ventures through Kyoto’s backcountry. It explores the countryside, where the pace of life is still measured by seasons, and there are a multitude of colourful festivals throughout the year.
The tour follows ancient trails, once vital for commerce and communication, and weaves through valleys and over high passes until culminating on the rugged sea of Japan coast at Amanohashidate. This is considered one of Japan’s three classic vistas.
The route will pass through little-known villages and historic temples and shrines.
For accommodation, customers will stay in a range of Japanese inns, where friendly hosts will warmly welcome guests and provide mouth-watering meals composed of locally sourced and grown ingredients. These ingredients include Kyoyasi heirloom vegetables, Miyama ayu sweetfish, Tanba buri yellowtail, and saba mackerel.
These ingredients are the same staples celebrated in the cuisine of Kyoto City’s famed high-class ryokan inns and restaurants for decades.
Kyoto: Mountains to the Sea is an eight-day, seven-night, fully guided tour that covers between eight and sixteen kilometres daily.
Established in 1992, Walk Japan is an independently owned and managed walking tour company that enlightens and enriches its guests. From the less-travelled regions of Hokkaido to the far north of Okinawa, Walk Japan has guided thousands of customers through the country's beautiful landscapes.
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