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

  • Koiwai Farm's solitary cherry tree
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    Yamagata Sakata-shi Hiyoshicho 1-2-20
    This is an entertainment complex in 1 Chome Hiyoshi-cho, Sakata City. Built in the remodeled Soma-ya, a famed Sakata restaurant, the 1st floor features Teahouse Kutsurogi Dokoro, and the second floor has a dining theater where you can watch Maiko dances while you dine, as well as the Takehisa Yumeji Art Museum. The main Soma-ya manor was destroyed in the Shonai earthquake of 1894, but was soon rebuilt and is now designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

    The BEST part was the English tour given by Ms Maki throughout the Museum & Geisha Show ❤️❤️❤️ So many Beautiful & Rare Art & Porcelain Antiques in a Truly Antique Edo Period Mansion ❤️❤️❤️

  • Iki-Iki Miyama-go Nodoka-mura
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    Yamagata Nishiokitama-gun Shiratakamachi Miyama 2537
    This lodging facility is in Miyama, Shirataka Town, Nishiokitama County. It's in an old farmhouse, and it offers hand-made soba made from locally grown buckwheat flour and local mountain vegetable. There is also a wide range of activities available, including soba cooking, washi making, farm activities, wild vegetable picking, and more (reservations required). They also have seasonal events like the Nodoka Village Festival in June, and the Fresh Soba Festival in November.

    お婆ちゃん一人で接待しててメニューも出て来ないので注文にも来ない・・・三組位のお客と一緒に食べずに出て来ました(-_-;)

  • Furusato-mura Hoya
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    Yamagata Tsuruoka-shi Hoya Butai 170
    This facility was built to promote connection with nature through agricultural experiences and events. Groups of five or more with a reservation can experience making soba noodles by hand with buckwheat grown in Hoya. The facility, which is equipped with a break room and accommodations, can be utilized for a wide variety of events. Visitors can also eat freshly-made soba noodles at the attached Hoya Soba, buckwheat processing facility. The large park located nearby can be used for camping and outdoor events.

    During the visit to the city of Tsuruoka, Yamagata prefectures stopped at Furusato Hoya. In this place I liked the fact that they serve delicious Japanese food:tempura, sashimi, tofu, beans and many...

  • Dyeing and Weaving Workshop Wakuwaku-kan
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    Yamagata Yonezawa-shi Gobyo 1-2-37
    About a10-minute drive from the JR Yonezawa Station, this interactive facility promotes the over 200-year old art industry of Yonezawa weaving and benibana dyes extracted from the Yamagata prefectural flower, the safflower. During the Yonezawa weaving experience one can make silk table centers or coasters, and with the Benibana dying experience one can enjoy dying such items as silk scarfs, Reservations are not required, and you can take your own creations home. The facility also sells small items or bags of the Yonezawa-weave, and benibana dyed original accessories and shawls. At the adjoining cafe, visitors can enjoy a beverage in a peaceful atmosphere.

    When you visit Yonezawa, this is a must do ! It is a small factory where they also make kimonos. The family provides an experience that you can weave yourself. Our daughter had the best experience...

  • Shichiemongama Pottery
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    Yamagata Pref. Yamagatashi Hirashimizu 153
    At the southern foot of Mt. Chitose in Hirashimizu within Yamagata Prefecture's Yamagata City is “Hirashimizuyaki” pottery, which holds history passed down from the Edo period. There are over 300 artisan-made items on display and for sale. There are (paid) ceramics experience classes, and by crafting with a hand-cranked rokuro, or potter's wheel and doing their own painting, guests can create a truly unique piece. It is baked and shipped out after a month or so. Ceramics classes are open from 9 am-3 pm.

    陶芸体験ができる施設です。予約なしでふらっと立ち寄れるにも関わらず、スタッフの人が丁寧に教えてくれます。 手軽さが気に入り、何度も利用しています。作品の仕上げの色などもいろいろ選べて満足度が高いです。

  • Sakegawa Village Ecopark
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    Konomori, Kamogawa-mura, Mogami-gun, Yamagata Prefecture
    This nature park is designed around the theme of coexistence with nature. There is a auto campground, an unallocated lawn, forest-embraced wooden deck sites, and cottages for a wide variety of accommodation. At the general reception area Kinoko-no-Mori Center, there is a cafe serving various mushroom dishes, a rest space, and a souvenir shop.
  • Nezugaseki Sea Kayak
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    Yamagata Tsuruoka-shi Nezugaseki Hara Umi Marine-Park Nezugaseki
  • Kurashi Kobo
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    Yamagata Mogami-gun Kaneyamamachi Nakada 298
    This activity center is located in Nakada Sugisawa, Kaneyama Town, Mogami County. Here you can get in touch with nature through indigo dyeing, collecting maple sap and crafting. A bed and breakfast service is also available. All activities and stays require reservation.
  • Hana no Yakata
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    Yamagata Nishiokitama-gun Shiratakamachi Juo 1707-1
    This activity center is in Juo, Shirataka Town, Nishiokitama County. This lodging house lets you experience life on a farm in this safflower farming village, with seasonal activities like picking the safflowers and using them in dyeing, fruit picking, making taro hotpot imoni, skiing, and more. They also have a safflower field ownership system, and you can also join some activities without staying as a guest (reservations required).
  • Genryu no Mori Center
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    Yamagata Nishiokitama-gun Iidemachi Sugo 669-3
    This information center is in forest park in Genryu no Mori, in Sugo, Iide Town, Nishiokitama County. They have an exhibit of materials related to the forest, a shop selling handicrafts, a playground with wooden play equipment, a rest area, and a film hall. They also offer a full program of activities with forestry classes, adventure classes, pottery classes, and craft classes.
  • Murayama Rural Culture Tradition Museum Soba Dojo
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    Yamagata Murayama-shi
    This activity center is in Motosugishima, Kawashima, Murayama City. The soba dojo (reservations required) offers an observation of expert soba-making, followed by a chance to make it yourself under guidance from the master. You can then cook and eat your own soba for the full experience! They also offer classes in home-style cooking and pickle-making.
  • Togashi Candle Shop
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    Yamagata Tsuruoka-shi Sannomachi 10-52
    This candle shop is on Sanno-dori Avenue in Sanno Town, Tsuruoka City. They make e-rosoku, painted candles, a Tsuruoka tradition that were offered up to the Edo Bakufu (shognate) in the feudal period as well. They sell intricately patterned candles painted by hand. They also offer classes on painting your own candles (reservations required).
  • Yuki no Sato Sansan
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    Yamagata Higashiokitama-gun Takahatamachi Kamiwada 1282
    Yuki-no-Sato Sansan is a community information center located in Takahata Town, Yamagata Prefecture, at the intersection of the Budo Matsutake Line and Prefectural Route 236. It offers experiential learning in making miso and Yubeshi (a type of traditional sweet) and other processed agricultural products, and nature tours in the local fields and woodlands. Visitors can also interact with local residents in a 230-year-old farmhouse and can hold barbecues or stay overnight in log cabins. The Yuki-no-Sato Sansan Festival is held every October, featuring local autumn cuisine, such as 100% buckwheat soba noodles and Imoni (taro root stew with meat and vegetables) with matsutake mushroom
  • Obanazawa Tokurako Youth Natural learning Center
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    Yamagata Obanazawa-shi Nobesawa 3636-13

Yamagata Areas

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Although often overlooked, Yamagata prefecture by no means lacks appeal: the Yamadera temple trail through the mountains, deliciously tender Yonezawa wagyu, and over 100 steaming hot springs, most notably Zao Onsen, await visitors. When winter comes, the snowcapped peaks become dotted with skiers by day and onsen-goers by night, while summer brings the celebration of juicy Yamagata cherries.

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