Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)

Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)

Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)
Experience Village Community Life Amid the Rice Terraces of Kamiseya in Rural Kyoto With Gibier Lunch (Group Price)

Overview

On this tour you can experience the life of Kamiseya Village, amid a bounty of mountains, sea, and beautiful terraced rice fields in the Tango area of Kyoto Prefecture. Connect with the life and wisdom of Kamiseya through seasonal experiences and interaction with the villagers. Such as farming in the organic rice terraces and fields, or handicrafts like making konnyaku and pounding mochi using traditional tools. At noon, you can enjoy a lunch of wild game (gibier) prepared by local hunters. We can also arrange the content of the experience to meet your requests.

Highlights

  • Visit Kamiseya where the old culture of “Satoyama,” a village coexistent with nature, lives on
  • Optionally, visit the local microbrewery Kohachi Beerworks run by a Belgian and Japanese couple (fee applies)
  • Learn to use old-fashioned tools such as furnaces and mortars, and the wisdom of the villagers who coexist with nature
  • Participate in seasonal farm work and handicrafts while being taught by the villagers of Kamiseya
  • Enjoy the spectacular views of a haven amid mountains, sea, and beautiful terraced rice fields

Key Information

Important Information

  • Note this experience is conducted mainly in Japanese; local Nepalese residents will assist with English language support, but if you don’t speak any Japanese at all please arrange your own interpreter
  • Prices shown are group rates; there is no per-person price
  • Elementary school students and younger are free of charge, but if 4 or more elementary school students will participate please contact us to discuss the price
  • Elementary school students and younger must be accompanied by a guardian, and junior high and high school students who are not accompanied by a guardian must obtain consent from a guardian (it is necessary to submit the consent form in advance)
  • The maximum number of participants is 5 (preschool children and above) if you use the a pick-up service; if there is no pick-up, the maximum number is 8 (elementary school students and above)
  • Add-on options include a brewery tour: note the legal minimum drinking age in Japan is 20 and guests younger than that cannot participate
  • Held in the event of light rain; in the case of stormy weather, the experience will be canceled
  • We ask about any food allergies at the time of booking, but may not be able to accommodate all requests; in that case please bring your own lunch
  • Please come in clothes that are easy to move in and that you don't mind getting dirty because you will be doing farm work
  • At the time of booking, the event operator will contact the customer with an overview of the experience and notes
  • Accommodation is not included, so if you need a place to stay please make your own arrangements Nearby accommodation
  • Tango Umi to Hoshi no Mieru Oka Park (15 minutes by car)
  • Pension Jikyujisoku (about 15 minutes by car)

Booking (4 steps)

1
Check availability and select date
2
Choose your option

Duration

5 hours

Included

  • Kamiseya village experiences (farming, etc.)
  • Meals (breakfast and gibier lunch)
  • Drinks unique to the region (such as shiso syrup from local farmers and purple yam vinegar from Iio Jozo)
  • Other drinks (tea, etc.)
  • Free transportation
  • Car transportation during the experience (free)
  • Insurance
  • A village map created by a Japanese paper artist who is a resident of Kamiseya Village
  • Rental of work clothes

Not Included

• Interpreter • Insurance

What to Bring

Required: • Comfortable clothes that you don’t mind getting dirty • Rain gear (rainwear, etc.) • Shoes suitable for snowy roads such as snow boots, boots, trekking shoes (Dec–Feb)

Optional: • Bug repellent • Anti-itch medicine • Sunscreen • Hat • Eco bag • Change of clothes

Meeting Point

March–Nov: Seyahime Shrine; Dec–Feb: JA Kyoto Miyazu Fuchu Economic Center

Venue Address

Kyōto Prefecture, Japan

Schedule

Operating days: Either Saturday or Sunday + 1 day on weekdays (held about 5 times a month)

Meeting place: • Dec–Feb (Winter): Meet at JA Kyoto Miyazu Fuchu Economic Center at 08:30 • March–Nov (Spring–Autumn): Meet at Seyahime Shrine at 08:50 Pick-up is possible only for accommodation facilities within 15 minutes of the village. In that case, we will pick you up at around 08:30.

Example timeline • 09:00 Guided tour of Kamiseya while overlooking the village from a scenic spot • 09:30 Breakfast at Seya House, an old private house, while listening to an explanation of the village, and the day’s itinerary • 10:00 Seasonal handicraft and farm work experience (content adjusted according to the season) • 12:00 Village walk • 12:30 Gibier game lunch over a hearth

If you wish to visit a craft beer brewery (Kohachi Beerworks), we will do so after walking around the village (additional charge).

Provided by

上世屋獣肉店 / Kamiseya junikuten

3
Choose your start time
4
Select participants or quantity
Cancellation Policy
No-show: You pay 100% of experience price
2 days before: You pay 100% of experience price
3 days before: You pay 50% of experience price

Description

Twenty-three people in eleven households live surrounded by terraced rice fields in the small village of Kamiseya in Tango, Kyoto Prefecture (as of January 2023).

Two-thirds of the residents are immigrants, and in addition to farming and hunting, this rare village has created new livelihoods that take advantage of the local nature, such as making Japanese paper and textiles, and brewing beer. The strong community is protected in a harsh environment where snow can reach up to 2 meters in winter.

You can experience the life and wisdom of such a small village through farming in organic terraced rice fields and fields, and food experiences and handicrafts such as making konnyaku and mochi rice cakes on the stove during the off-season in winter. For lunch, you can enjoy the vegetables you harvest yourself and game lunch prepared by a local hunter.

Through interacting with the villagers and seasonal farming, food, and handicrafts, you can feel the wisdom and techniques of living in harmony with nature, and the way of life of the Kamiseya Village that has been passed down without change.

Experience examples by season Spring: picking edible wild plants, chopping firewood, planting rice, harvesting fields, working in the rice terraces (organic farming).

Summer: playing in the river, harvesting fields, working in the rice terraces (organic farming), chopping firewood.

Autumn: harvesting rice, sun-drying, harvesting fields, basket weaving.

Winter: sledding, walking on snowy roads with snowshoes, making konnyaku in a furnace, making soba in a furnace, pounding rice cakes in a furnace and mortar, shoveling snow.

  • We will do our best to accommodate any requests, but it may not be possible depending on the situation on the farms, the availability of ingredients, and the circumstances of the villagers.
  • You can enjoy the following experiences even if it rains: seasonal food cooking experience with gibier, straw broom making experience, wisteria weave tabletop experience.