Tentative free tour plan for foreign visitors (Hokuto and Iida)

Date 18 Jan (Sat)

location hometown airport Narita or Haneda airport

time

transport itinerary ation airplane coming from the airport in your home country

accommodation

Tokyo 19 Jan (Sun) Tokyo

Hokuto

airport from the airport to the hotel in Tokyo limousine bus afternoon check in dinner breakfast 8:00 chartered move to Hokuto (2.5 to 3 hours) bus 11:00 experience ranch life (Kosuda Farm) lecture for husbandry by the rancher brushing horses, feeding cattle with grass chopping firewood and rice-cake making 12:30 13:30 15:00 lunch (barbecue) horseback riding (Kosuda Farm) learn about turning points in dairy husbandry at Paul Rusch Memorial Center

hotel in Tokyo

16:30 17:00

18:30

arrive at Pension Marionetto listen to storytellers' talk about reclamation of Kiyosato during the upland farming era at Yatsugatake Community Center deeping fellowship at the pension with the owners (married couple) and local people including farmsers and enjoying cooking local cuisine for dinner Pension Marionetto breakfast

20 Jan (Mon)

Hokuto 9:30

making local cuisine oyaki (dumpling) and houtou (noodle) lunch after lunch, move to Iida (2 hours)

11:30 Iida 14:30

meeting with local farmers stay at farm houses (experience agricultural life) **staying at three farm houses by four participants with the same sex **agricultural experience and preparing dinner deepen exchanging at dinner **cleaning dishes and making bedding

farm houses in Iida

21 Jan (Tue)

Iida

morning 8:45 9:00

breakfast at each farm house farewell to local farmers Experience local rice cake making (Gohei-mochi) Lunch Chartered Return to Tokyo (4 hours) bus arrive in Tokyo Dinner wrap-up meeting (2 hours) Breakfast

Tokyo

14:00 18:00

hotel in Tokyo

22 Jan (Wed)

Tokyo morning

Narita or Haeda airport hometown airport

airport from the hotel to Narita or Haneda Airport limousine bus Depart from the airports arrive at airports in your home coutry

**trafic jam might cause schedule changes.