Experience Hall / Accommodation Experience (Training) Facility Spots in Miyagi Area

  • National Hanayama Youth Outdoor Learning Center
    Travel / Tourism
    Miyagi Pref. Kuriharashi Hanayama Honsawanumayama 61-1
    30 kilometers from the Wakayanagi-Kannari Interchange on the Tohoku Expressway. Located in Kurihara City, Miyagi Prefecture, this national youth outdoor learning center was established in 1978 as part of an event celebrating 100 years since the establishment of the national school system. Surrounded by abundant natural beauty, the center offers a variety of nature activity programs such as seasonal adventure activities and environmental learning activities. Facilities include a square where camp bonfires can be held, and outdoor cooking area, and a lodging building. The center is used for nursery school and school classes and also holds nature activities and training courses for all ages, including family and children's events, and youth association activities.
  • Takiniwa no Seki Komasho
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Miyagi Kami-gun Kamimachi Kanohara Yamashita 3
    This soba restaurant is located in a renovated kominka (old Japanese folk house) in Yamashita, Kanohara, Kami Town, Kami County. It serves handmade soba noodles, tempura made with wild plants and other seasonal ingredients, and more. The restaurant also offers soba making classes taught by its staff. It also offers visitors the chance to experience life in a rural community by staying overnight at the restaurant. A reservation is required for both programs.
  • Nihachiya Bussanten
    Travel / Tourism
    Miyagi Miyagi-gun Matsushimamachi Matsushima Chonai 80
    This specialty kokeshi doll store is located along National Route 45, in Chonai Matsushima, Matsushima-cho, Miyagi District. The store creates and sells Naohide Matsushima kokeshi, which feature Japanese camellia patterns. The store also has a kokeshi painting experience workshop, where visitors can create their own original kokeshi dolls.
  • Osato Town Development Center “Hanryogura”
    Travel / Tourism
    Miyagi Kurokawa-gun Osatocho Nakamura
    This facility offering a variety of hands-on experiences is located on Prefectural Route 9 in Babasawa, Nakamura, Osato Town, Kurokawa County. The facility develops and manufactures processed products made with specialties of the region. It also offers a hands-on experience program that includes making udon noodles with Jew’s mallow, a specialty of the town, as well as making miso paste by hand (reservation required).
  • Hyakuyo no Sato Nanatsumori Pottery Experience Center
    Travel / Tourism
    Miyagi Kurokawa-gun Taiwacho Miyatoko Takayama 120
    This hands-on pottery studio is located in Takayama, Miyatoko, Taiwa Town, Kurokawa County. It offers two types of pottery experiences in which participants can create their own unique work of pottery. In the hand building course, participants form a shape from clay and fire it in a kiln. In the painting course, participants paint an unglazed pottery vessel. A reservation is recommended for both programs.
  • Matsushima Kamaboko Honpo Main Shop
    Travel / Tourism
    Miyagi Pref. Miyagigunmatsushimamachi Matsushima Chounai 120
    A shop which serves kamaboko seasoned fish paste, a Matsushima specialty. The shop makes and sells sasa kamaboko and other kamaboko varieties. The shop's first floor was remodeled in April 2012 and in this space, customers can watch kamaboko being made, eat this tasty treat, and relax. Customers can eat mu, a type of kamaboko made with tofu, fresh fried in oil in the restaurant's demonstration space. Large, eye-catching sasa kamaboko are cooked in the broiling space and served to customers fresh off the grill.
  • Sendai Castle Virtual Reality GO
    Travel / Tourism
    Miyagi Sendai-shi Aoba-ku Sendai Shiro Honmaru Ato

Miyagi Areas

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Lying along the northeastern coast of Japan, Miyagi prefecture is home to lashings of natural parks, oysters, and hot springs. While the bustling city of Sendai offers some simple city entertainment, it’s the Matsushima islands that deserve the most attention, having boosted the prefecture’s reputation as one of Japan’s most scenic views.

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