Showing posts with label biketour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biketour. Show all posts

Monday, December 25, 2017

Shizuoka Short cycling & Green Tea Farm Experience (2/2)

Hello, Welcome to my blog!
I am Hirokane at Local Travel partners.

Today I would like to intorduce our 
Shizuoka Short cycling & Green Tea Farm Experience.
(continued from my last blog post)

After viewing the green tea farm of the Moriuchi Tea Farm,
we visited their farm house.


This house was built more than 150 years ago.

The board reads:
Honyama Meicha / Moriuchi Tea Farm
Honyama is the brand name of tea around this area.
Meicha means refined tea

Let's go inside.


Moriuchi-San preparing our tasting experience with 4 kinds of tea.


There is also a traditional Japanese tatami room.

These nice 2 photos (below) are courtesy of Moriuchi-San.


As you can see one may really experience a relaxing moment there!





This farm has been welcoming many overseas travelers. 

They enjoyed viewing tea farms, tea picking outside, 
tea tasting and tea farming lecture inside.


We tasted 4 kinds of tea which are made from the same tea leaves.
Green Tea, Paochong Tea, Oolong Tea, Black Tea,

Have you ever experienced any of them?
This was my first tasting experience.

It was really amazing!
Each taste is quite different and all the tea are so delicious.
I can't believe these are made from the same tea leaves!

You can do the same with their "Tasting 4 kinds of Japanese green tea experience"
made from  different tea leaves.
(This is the most popular course with overseas travelers.) 


We enjoyed 4 kinds of tea and Japanese confectionary.
The green jelly cake one includes Wasabi!


Lecturing about tea farming and preparing the various kinds of tea.


We leaned about all the hard work to make such delicious tea.


We were offered delicious tea and had a wonderful time.
We stayed longer than we expected!


This is a room where the make and preserve tea cakes.


Moriuchi-San, 
Thank you so much for your warm hospitality and delicious tea!

Now we are heading back to town on our bikes.


Going through  old Sengen street 
(japanese language site)


Shizuoka Local food at an "Oden" shop.


This  Shizuoka Oden, a very popular local food!


Going through  Sumpu Castle park,


The statue of General  Ieyasu Tokugawa inside  Sumpu Castle Park


After visiting Sumpu Castle Park, we went back to JR Shizuoka Station.
It took  about 10 minutes by bikes.


Our reliable members, 
Thank you so much for your cooperation!

We are refining this exciting new program  and will start offering it to you soon!

Thank you!



Saturday, August 12, 2017

GuIded Cycling around Fujinomiya area

Hello, Welcome to our blog!

We are a travel agency in Shizuoka City.
Local Travel Partners, Inc.
I am Hirokane the manager of this company.

We are mainly providing 

1.chartered (jumbo, regular)taxi 
2.rental hybrid bike service in Shzuoka City
3.guided cycling in Shzuoka and Fujinomiya

Today, I would like to introduce our bike tour around Fujinomiya area.
and visit Lake Tanuki and Shiraito Falls. (about 20 kilometers)


Our guests from Netherlands!  
Welcome to Shizuoka!

Asahi Waterfalls in Fujinomiya City. 


We stopped cycling to enjoy minus ion atmosphere in the woods.
The air was so fresh!


The weather was cloudy. We could not see Mt.Fuji.
But good for cycling (not so hot).




Arrived at Lake Tanuki
Not such a famous tourstic place as Lake Kawaguchi
but very nice place to spend a leiseurly time.
Camp, B.B.Q,walking,


Good for families and groups


Oh, Where is Mt.Fuji ??  
These guys are so tall!


When the weather was good, Mt.Fuji could be seen over the lake. Like this.
This photo was taken by me last December.


Lunch time!
They are talking about how to make soba sauce.

It was a very precious time for us to talking about  the cultural differeces between Netherlands and japan, our ways of thinking about vacation, foods and so on. 


After walking around the lake, started cycling again.


She is asking.  "What are these plants? 
We don't see these plants in our country."
  
Sorry. We could not answer at that time.


They were Ashitaba =Angelica keiskei in English
(We answered after coming back home.)


Nice smiles!


Nice guide!


You can look down at the waterfalls from this step.


Making a "Mount Fuji pose" at Shiraito Falls.


Thank you so much for joining our bike tour!

More info About this bike tour

Useful information about Mt.Fuji area 
by Shizuoka prefecture