A two-day, one-night trip living with lumberjacks. From searching for water sources to cutting logs, you'll experience the mountains to the fullest.
[Highlights]
- We'll actually go into the mountains and talk about environmental changes and the role of forestry from a forester's perspective.
- You'll return to the origins of humans who use fire.
- You'll have a simulated experience of life in the early Showa period using firewood you've made yourself.
- You'll get a real sense that humans are sustained by the blessings of nature.
[Itinerary]
Introduction to the Lumberjack Lifestyle
Day 1
1:00 PM - Check-in
Introductory tour of the accommodation facilities
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Pathless mountain exploration
3:10 PM - 3:40 PM Firewood chopping experience (Otaya)
3:50 PM - 5:00 PM Wood-fired boiler and Goemon bath
*A lumberjack instructor will accompany you up to this point
5:30 PM - Fire the hearth
5:30 PM - Meal preparation
6:30 PM - Free time
Day 2
9:30 AM - 10:20 AM Pruning experience
*A lumberjack instructor will accompany you
11:00 AM Check-out
[Details]
This is a two-day, one-night experience tour, staying in a traditional Japanese house. Accompanied by a lumberjack guide, you'll travel into the mountains to search for water sources and learn about the role of the mountains from a lumberjack's perspective. After moving to the traditional Japanese house, you can try your hand at lumberjacking by cutting logs with a chainsaw, splitting firewood, using firewood to heat a Goemon bathtub, and cooking meals in the hearth. You can also try charcoal making, and enjoy a wild game BBQ using charcoal you've made yourself.
INFORMATION
- date
- Excluding the first and third Saturdays and Sundays, and the New Year's holiday period.
*Schedule may change in the event of rain.
- Start time
- 9:00 to 14:00 the next day
- Target age
- Ages 10-65 (experience can be changed if you have small children)
- Travel time
- 2 days and 1 night
- Number of participants
- 2 to 7 people
- price
- Rental: 30,000 yen (up to 7 people per building) + trial: 8,000 yen (3,000 yen for elementary school students) (per person)
(Prices current as of July 2024)
- Meeting place
- Otaya: A lodging where you can experience woodcutter work and feel the natural surroundings
- address
- 1136-1 Iwato, Kitahiroshima-cho, Yamagata-gun, Hiroshima Prefecture
- Phone Number
- 070-9005-1634
- email address
- 1973ryozan903@gmail.com
- Website
- Number of parking spaces
- 3
- Parking fee
- none