Towada and Oirase (Aomori)
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While going sightseeing you can enjoy yourself! Towada, Oirase and Hachinohe, excitedly, Experience.

Towada, Oirase and Hachinohe where nature such as Oirase valley stream and Towada lake is much. I'll introduce Experience which can enjoy charm in this area fully from Activity which can enjoy the scenery every season to Property which can learn the country living which communicates with each other with local people and a traditional craft.

< recommendation Activity in Towada, Oirase and Hachinohe>

I arrange for moss garden in Oirase in the palm size.

Fairy of moss "KOKKI". "One moss ball" is made in Experience.
Fairy of moss "KOKKI". "One moss ball" is made in Experience.

Homemade Experience such as "moss ball" making and gourd lamp making is in the tourist information spot along Oirase valley stream "Oirase valley stream house", and made. One of the mini Bonsai trees with which "moss ball" can be made easily. A vegetable root is covered by earth, it's rounded and moss is stuck to the surface. The form covered by moss up seems to have cut the scenery of the Oirase valley stream off, and fits memory making. When the form made a colon is also pretty, it's famous.
The plant growing naturally in Oirase valley stream and something of the same kind are used for a foundation. It's possible to choose several kinds of favorite one from some plants. It's the beech and the maple the autumnal tints of the autumn as well as the green season can also enjoy that it's very popular. The fern which has the atmosphere in the forest where it's compatible and deep with moss is also recommended.

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Moss ball making, Experience is popular for a child and in adult . It isn't possible to round moss so that I may think of the beginning but you can get the hang easily by gentle advice.

In the motif of the thoughtlessness of Oirase, a gourd lamp, handmade.

Direct Staff/staff member is a lecture. A completed work can be delivered door-to-door (extra charge).
Direct Staff/staff member is a lecture. A completed work can be delivered door-to-door (extra charge).

The thoughtlessness of the perfectly round "TAMAGOKE" and more than 300 kinds of "KOTSUBOGOKE" etc. with flower patterns is found by Oirase valley stream. "Gourd lamp" the one which designs the design of its thoughtlessness while making and making a hole in the gourd fed on water of Oirase valley stream in Experience. The light which leaks from the inside will be very romantic and be the nice interior.
If it's bought for gifts, it's to a shop section. A lot of lamps and "moss balls" equal, as I look, you can enjoy yourself.
Don't forget to eat "Oirase moss software" at the cafe in the inside of the building. Moss is imagined and it's the feature of the Oirase valley stream house with a lot of Matcha Green Tea powder.

Oirase moss ball atelier (Oirase valley stream inside of the building)
  • The addressTowada-shi, Aomori large section of a village Okuse letter Tochikubo 183 MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from about 40 minutes and JR Misawa Station by car from JR Shichinohe-towada Station, about 50 minutes
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR Shichinohe-towada Station, Shichinohe Towada Oirase shuttle bus "Niigata Yakeyama" way ride for about 1 hour and last stop getting off for about 5 minutes on foot (G.W. Only the middle of* June-October moves.)
  • Business hours9:00-16:30
  • Days closedOpen everyday
  • Admission"Moss ball" Experience of 2000 yen-makes and needs reservation by the gourd lamp production Experience 5000 yen※ previous day.
  • TEL0176-74-1233 (Oirase valley stream house)
  • ParkingFree
  • MemoThe details of holding time of Experience and the target age are subject to confirmation in formal HP.

I try for traditional fabric and southern retsushoku NANBUSAKIORI making!

The centerpiece made in the south retsushoku Experience. Required, about 1 hour
The centerpiece made in the south retsushoku Experience. Required, about 1 hour

The spot making Experience of an artifact with vegetables from a local stockbroker and fruit can do including a traditional craft. Here, by all means, Experience, would, centerpiece making by the south retsushoku. The south retsushoku makes the torn cotton cloth a woof and weaves into the warp of the hemp by the fabric transmitted to Aomori southern rural areas from the front for more than 200 years. When it became old because cotton was valuable at a northern land before, it was re-formed in a band and the kotatsu account and it was used importantly in this way.
I'll choose the favorite pattern from multicolored cloth, be here and complete it by a weaving machine as a seat machine (IZARI BATA) in Experience. You can tell politely by man-to-man mostly, so even a beginner is relieved. Cloth tears it and changes to a nice work.

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I'll can make them reborn to the next fabric also use it without throwing it away if it's worn. A device of living, wisdom and various expectation of the people who live in a northern land are felt.

I'll make ecology slippers using cornhusk.

A completed centerpiece and you're RA slippers.
A completed centerpiece and you're RA slippers.

Slippers making for which you used RA (cornhusk) is also Experience this land. Towada is learned about as a producing center of a horse from the old days, and they're these slippers that I could think the cornhusk brought up for food isn't made wasteful.
Experience, can, for, the work with which a bottom part like straw sandals is made. A part in the back needs technique, so finished goods are installed basically. Work is one leg and I need the perseverance a little with about 4 hours, but fit is good and the retrospective pattern is also fashionable. It also fits a gift.
Additionally a dumpling, tofu and bread are made by hand using the ingredients made in Towada-shi in farm products processing Experience which does once a month. The taste of the hometown just made can be eaten, and can enjoy oneself from a child to an adult.

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  • The addressTowada-shi, Aomori large section of a town Denpoji Hirakubo 37-2 MAP
  • DirectionIt's a taxi from Misawa Station, about 26 minutes
    It's a taxi from Shichinohe-towada Station, about 30 minutes
  • Business hoursCenter house 7:00-20:00 (in 11-next March, 8:00-19:00) and the others are different depending on Property.
  • Days closedOpen everyday (when great master ateliers are Monday and a holiday, the next day)
  • TEL0176-28-3790
  • ParkingFree

To the forest of moss where the whole country is outstanding by information on a nature guide.

Tour time frame of "Oirase valley stream moss Sanpo", at the middle ofApril-at the beginning of November.
Tour time frame of "Oirase valley stream moss Sanpo", at the middle ofApril-at the beginning of November.

The Oirase valley stream by which academic meeting selection of Japanese moss plant moss kinds (red snapper Rui who doesn't do) is chosen as "forest of Japanese valuable moss". A professional nature tour guide is doing the "Oirase valley stream moss Sanpo" which shows charm of Oirase valley stream through moss at the Oirase natural workshop of tourist attractions. How to take a picture how to use the loupe and photograph by smartphone and a camera for observation can also be learned including how to distinguish moss and concerning with moss and other creatures.
Or 1 hour and 30 minutes hang hundreds of meters on this tour for 3 hours, and, with freeness, walk style as rumbling I walk. I listen for the cry spring loves plants, and by which summer is a little bird of great Ruri, and if, nature besides the moss can also be enjoyed much.

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When the moss seen in the same way was also thought to see rather far by a loupe, the size and the kind were different one by one. Moss is seeming to be observing carefully prettily.

How to enjoy oneself is various every season for nature in Oirase.

"Toadstool * coolness, photo tour" then, you can also meet the pretty fungus judged from a picture book.
"Toadstool * coolness, photo tour" then, you can also meet the pretty fungus judged from a picture book.

Something colorful and something with the unique shape look for various fungus in 6 Monday-October, and "toadstool * coolness, photo tour" and "pteridophyte observation tour" I walk are held.
I recommend "Oirase Sanpo of snow-crystal fantasy-" for the winter nature tour performed in 2 Monday-March. I look for the footprint which puts on a snow shoe, goes out to the silver world and enjoys the moss shut in ice it, and is wildlife of ten, and if, expedition feeling can be tasted.
Every tour is a system of a small number of people up to 5 or 6 people, so it's also charm that communication with a guide tends to take it.

Oirase natural workshop of tourist attractions
  • The addressMt. Towada-shi, Aomori Nishi Hatazou Hase 11-1 and around Towada-shi, Aomori Okuse Sou, 1 (the meeting place "stone KE door Waiting Room") MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car for about 50 minutes from Aoimori Railway Misawa Station by car from JR Shichinohe-towada Station, about 1 hour
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR and Aoimori Railway Hachinohe Station, a ride for JR bus northeastern Towadakita line "be here, number" Towada lake, for about 1 hour and 40 minutes, I get off "stone KE door", immediately, (only the middle of April-middle of November, movement and 2 a day)
  • Business hoursHolding of 9:00-17:00 (the telephone opening hours) and a tour is 6:00-17:00.
  • Days closedThe regular holiday-lessness
  • Admission2000 for a schoolchild-3000 yen and students over junior high school 3000-about 6000 yen (It's different depending on tours.)
    ※ Each tour needs reservation. It's subject to confirmation in formal HP for details.
  • TELInquire of 0176-23-5866 or info@oiken.org by e-mail.
  • ParkingFree (Stone KE door Waiting Room Parking is used.)

The special reserve which is Towada lake by high-speed boat, cruise!

The RIB tour which represents Japan, required, about 50 minutes. The max speed of the movement section, 50Kt! You can participate from 1-year old.
The RIB tour which represents Japan, required, about 50 minutes. The max speed of the movement section, 50Kt! You can participate from 1-year old.

That various Activity can enjoy Towada lake in a starting point, "GURIRANDO".
The most popular "RIB tour" takes the RIB boat used for for armies, rescue and a polar expedition, and is an adventure cruise going around Lake Towada. The special reserve where steep cliff and wildwood spread is explored. One in the source where an eye spot is Oirase valley stream "inlet in ITOMUKA". The surface of the lake with outstanding clarity is mysterious, and a creature in the rare water such as TOUHOKUSANSHOUUO is also seen in the water.
The probability that you can also visit a cave, antiquities and a power spot by a tour and meet wildlife of an antelope, a flying squirrel and mountain eagle by while traveling is about 99 %. Dynamic nature can be enjoyed much.

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I'm impressed with beauty of the water of the Towada lake which isn't seen from land. There is feeling of speed which can't be sensed easily, and it's refreshing!

Activity a snowy district enriches.

The "Towada lake CAT tour" that a drive is enjoyed by a snowmobile
The "Towada lake CAT tour" that a drive is enjoyed by a snowmobile

Until the middle of December-middle of March, a Towada lake ridge and Oirase valley stream, Activity a snowy district is enjoyed fully by the "Towada lake CAT tour" that I take a drive by a snowmobile.
A tour for about 1 hour when this tour also goes to the eminent view spot "kanmizuumi (KAN KO) stand" at Lake Towada. You can change into the way and a snow shoe and also enjoy the trekking which is while looking at a snow scene in a front page. There is drink service at a goal spot, and Ishigama pizza and on the snow can also barbecue by extra charge. The dish by which the one just made which is tasted under the air which became clear is warmly is special. You heat up a body and a heart.

GURIRANDO
  • The addressTowada-shi, Aomori Okuse letter Towada lake ridge Utarube 123-1 MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR and Aoimori Railway Hachinohe Station, about 1 hour and 20 minutes
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR and Aoimori Railway Hachinohe Station, a ride for JR bus northeastern Towadakita line "be here, number" Towada lake, about 2 hours and 5 minutes and "the bottom, Utarube" getting off for about 2 minutes on foot (It moves at the middle ofApril-at the middle of November.)
  • Business hours7:00-19:00 (corresponding to the telephone)
  • Days closedOpen everyday (A kayak tour is absent from the middle of next 11 Monday-April.)
  • AdmissionMore than 12 years old of RIB tour, 4000-6000 yen (It's different depending on sailing time.) and less than 11 years old, 2000 yen and more than 16 years old of kayak tour of 6000 yen
    More than 12 years old of Towada lake CAT tour, 5000 yen and less than 11 years old of 2000 yen
    ※ There is a presence of reservation by each tour. It's subject to confirmation in formal HP for details.
  • TEL0176-75 - 2755 or 090-4159-4811
  • ParkingFree

The country living in Hachinohe-shi Nango, Experience.

The near strike and, "TENPO, fence", the make, year-round Experience, can.
The near strike and, "TENPO, fence", the make, year-round Experience, can.

Exchange Property of Experience type in Nango in Hachinohe-shi suburb. The living and the traditional culture transmitted to this rural areas can be learned.
Of the near strike, tofu making and the moist and soft food texture, "TENPO, fence", the taste of the crowded hometown such as "oh, feed polishes" builds crushed beans up in rice flour, and is grandmother's local recipe. Additionally the Experience menu is various by a season cloth compilation slippers making and basket making using a crane of waste made of a remnant. Only one with which traditional living wisdom is clogged everything. In the person who can also touch and has the warmth and conversation of a dialect mixture with local people, a heart, HOKKORI.

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The Experience menu by which masters in an area play an active part is enriched. The location is also nice.

Calm Property wrapped in dear atmosphere and nature before

About 2,000,000 sunflowers which bloom in the schoolhouse back. tsumitori Experience is also made.
About 2,000,000 sunflowers which bloom in the schoolhouse back. tsumitori Experience is also made.

The one by which Reno Beth made the wooden schoolhouse of the old Masuda elementary and junior high school which became closed ExperienceProperty. Nostalgic various articles such as an organ and the channel system television equal inside of the building at a building before more than 100 years.
To build Yomashi (excelling) dam, there is also farmer Restaurant which can taste "Yomashi dam Shiryokan Museum" and the home-grown Soba Noodles Made from 100% Buckwheat Flour which introduce living of a village around the school which sank in a dam lake.
Additionally the popularity which is to the extent more than 35,000 people every year visit the "flower viewing week of" buckwheat and sunflower when you also go to a seasonal event and hold it in the end of August. About 4 ha of field is dyed in white and the yellow 2 colors, and a sigh is beauty which goes out.

Easy school in a mountain
  • The addressHachinohe-shi, Aomori Nango large section of a village island keeper letter northern NO field 6-2 MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Hachinohe Station, about 25 minutes
  • Business hours8:00-17:00 and Experience,-15:00 and farmer Restaurant are 11:00-14:00.
  • Days closedMonday (It's absent on the next day in case of a holiday.)
  • Admission100-3000 yen (It's different depending on the Experience contents.)
    ※ There is a presence of reservation by each Experience. It's subject to confirmation in formal HP for details.
  • TEL0178-82-2222
  • ParkingFree
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