Let’s enjoy the Horse Riding in wonderful nature!

In the spacious nature, horse riding experience makes you feel like coming to a foreign country. There are some ponies too, so kids can ride easily and enjoy it! And also there is indoor horse riding and you can enjoy horse riding even in the rainy weather and winter season. It seems fun to get a license!

• Time required
• About 15 min～
• Reference fee
• 1300 yen for one person riding
• Remarks
• Experience available on the day. There are various menus. For example, Two-seater riding course, Long distance course, License Acquisition Course.
• Open dates
• Whole year.

Cycling tour with a guide.

There is a bicycle exclusive road of about 30km for one round in Hiruzen Kogen. Let’s refresh by cycling while looking at the special view of Hiruzen. There are also bicycle rental facilities and a new guided cycling tour began this year.

• Time required
• Free
• Reference fee
• Bicycle rental 200 yen an hour～
  Cycling tour with tour guide 1 person 3000 yen.
• Remarks
• Cycling tour with tour guide.
• Open dates
• Except winter season.

Let’s experience bouldering at low price!

If you look up, there is a 15 meter high wall. Why don’t you once try challenging bouldering? There are low walls in the room, so kids can enjoy it too. And it`s all at a low price!

• Time required
• 1 hour～
• Reference fee
• 90 yen/hour on the boulder wall
• Remarks
• Climing shoes ( 20～28㎝ ) free
• Open dates
• Whole year

Let’s make a wreath by choosing the best material of your choice.

There are various dry flowers and blizzard flowers are lining up in the workshop, you can choose the best material of your choice and experience the wreath making! Recently, there are many customers who buy dried flowers as a material for handmade accessories.

• Time required
• About 30 min～
• Reference fee
• Flower Arrangement Experience Fee 100 yen ＋ Material cost. Experience kit 800 yen～
• Remarks
• Possible on the day
• Open dates
• Except winter season
  (closed from December to March)

Making dragonfly balls (Tonbo dama) and stained glass experience.

There are many kinds of experience menu to make a “Tonbo dama” necklace, candle pots and photo frames. Also you can make a night lamp with a stained glass. Everyone can enjoyed it! Let’s combine the glass of your choice and make a nice piece! You can enjoy it in rainy weather and in the winter time.

• Time required
• 30 min ～
• Reference fee
• Small candle pot 1500 yen
  Dragonfly balls necklace 2940 yen and other
• Remarks
• Possible on the day
• Open dates
• Whole year

Only one in the world! Making lamps of Japanese paper and wood.

You can experience making lamps near by Kanba no Taki (Kanba waterfall) in Katsuyama area. It will take time to complete, but the moment of lighting the lamp with a light is very impressive! Please enjoy it for your memories of the trip.

• Time required
• About 6 hours
• Reference fee
• One work 6000 yen
• Remarks
• Reservation is required one week before Tel: 0867-44-3468
• Open dates
• Whole year

BBQ Barbeque at cottage deck.

There are plenty of fresh and tasty ingredients in Hiruzen Kogen! You can enjoy gathering food while sightseeing. We have famous Jersey cattle meat at the Jersey Land, fresh Hiruzen vegetables at Michi-no-Eki market, Rainbow trout at Shiogama and fresh fish at supermarkets! The cottage is equipped with a deck and rental BBQ set. You can start BBQ anytime and have fun surrounded by the great nature!

• Reference fee
• BBQ set 1500 yen ＋ foods
  ( You can bring some foods )
• Remarks
• Cottage customers only

Lucio’s olive oil course.

Our owner Lucio is from Sicily Island. 「I want Japanese people to know genuine tasty and delicious olive oil!」 These are his thoughts and he started a shop of olive oil in Japan. Additionally Lucio runs olive oil course which teaches you how to distinguish good olive oil, how to match it with dishes, and he tells you various interesting facts about olive oil in Japanese. There is also tasting of olive oil and you can get 1500 yen ticket. It is fun to learn about olive oil and let’s use it!!

• Time required
• About 30 min～
• Reference fee
• 2200 yen
  (Including olive oil purchase tickets)
• Remarks
• Reservation required
  Tel: 080-3059-2590

Our blueberry field has a lot of fresh blueberries that taste delicious!

The harvest while looking at Mt Daisen and Mt Hiruzen will be a special experience of your summer vacation. There is an all-you-can-eat menu and you can also buy blueberries for your souvenir. We hope you can enjoy your summer and have relaxing time here.

• Time required
• Free
• Reference fee
• All-you-can-eat at unlimited time
• Entrance fee
• Adults 500 yen
  Children 200 yen
  Free for children in primary school and younger.
  Take out 200 yen / 100g
• Remarks
• Please be sure to make phone reservation
  Tel : 090-1682-3087 (Miyanaga)
• Open
• From early July to early September

Let’s feel the unusual world in the night snow shoe!

Let’s go to snowshoe exploration on a dark night! There is a snow street at night, but the guide is also with you. You can enjoy it in safety. There is a special experience for you to see the beautiful stars on the sky on a dark night and there is also surprise present for you!

• Time required
• About 3 and half hours (18:30～22:00)
• Reference fee
• Adults 3500 yen.
  Below high school students 3000 yen
  (Including headlight rental fee)
• Remarks
• Please check the HP for clothing etc.
• Open dates
• Winter season from January to March

The starry sky observation of the whole sky at Hiruzen highland

Away from light pollution and with clean air you can see the beautiful starry sky at quiet Hiruzen highland at night! Shooting stars and the Milky Way can be seen too on a good weather.
When the stars can not be seen because of the bad weather, it is possible to explain them indoors on the screen.

• Time required
• About 1 ～ 2 hours
• Reference fee
• 6000 yen (the explanation fee)
• Remarks
• Please apply and inquire one week before your request
  【 Contact Information 】
  Hiruzen office of tourism
  Tel:0867-66-3220
• Open dates
• Whole year

I want to see the fishing light of the fishing vessels on Japanese sea!

Generally, mountain climbing is limited to the daytime. But here in Hiruzen night climbing is possible too thanks to the tour of the local guide who knows local mountains completely. From the top of the mountain you can see fishing light of the fishing vessels on Japanese sea as well as old little villages. Come and join exciting night hiking!

• Time required
• About 3.5 hours (18:30 ～ 22:00)
• Reference fee
• Adult 3500 yen
  Below high school student 3000 yen
  （Including headlight rental fee 500 yen）
• Remarks
• Please check clothes etc on HP.
• Open dates
• May ～ November

The experience of feeding horses

Why don’t you attempt to feed horses at Hiruzen Horse Park? Horses are very pleased if they can hand out their favorite carrots! Feeding is the best for young children to get along with horses. Fun experience not only for children!

• Time required
• 5 min ～
• Reference fee
• Carrot 1 cup 100 yen
• Open dates
• Whole year.

The fishing of national brand-name spring water hundred piece “Shiogama Reisen”

Let’s attempt to catch the fish which grew up in the beautiful water of “Shiogama Reisen” that was chosen as the national brand-name spring water hundred pieces! It is OK! The young fresh fish can be prepared onsite using charcoal and the clay portable cooking stove. You can also take it home and eat it with BBQ at your cottage.

• Time required
• About 30 min ～
• Reference fee
• Up to 400 g fish (3 to 5 tails)
  Including rod rental fee 1000 yen
• Remarks
• cooking stove rent 1 unit 1000 yen
• Open dates
• Winter (Except December ～ mid March)

The experience of the milker

Would you like to pet Jersey cows that grew up free from all cares at natural rich Hiruzen highland? Why don’t you try to squeeze delicious milk? The experience that will let you understand sustainable food industry where the nature, the animals and people live with harmony providing healthy food. The milk which was squeezed onsite can not be drunk but instead you can try delicious pasture milk that tastes like nowhere else!

• Time required
• About 10 min
• Reference fee
• 600 yen
• Remarks
• There is a subscription reception at the meeting place.
  It presents one piece of milk to the participant.
• Open dates
• weekend, holiday
  It plans holding three times a day.

Ｍountain climbing with the tour guide

There are various courses such as the course of Mihira Mountain of about 1.5 hours and about 1000 m round-trip which is easy for beginners and small kids, or about 6 hours course to traverse 2 or 3 peaks of Hiruzen mountain for more fit hikers. A local guide will not only lead you through a scenic area and make sure you are safe but also introduce a quiz and tell fascinating stories about Hiruzen and detailed explanation of nature and culture. 

• Time required
• About An hour and a half ～
• Reference fee
• Adult 2500yen
  Below high school student 2000yen ～
• Remarks
• Please check clothes etc on HP.
• Open dates
• May ～ November

River trekking in Yamanori ravine

Explore the nature walking in the river! The experienced guide will show you the way through secluded part of the ravine where you will climb 20-30 waterfalls! Being bathed in a lot of negative ions in the waterfall and in the forest, it charges your batteries from the mystic nature.
Highly recommended!

• Time required
• 4 hours 〜
• Reference fee
• Guide fee
  Adult 3500 yen 〜
  Below high school student 3000 yen 〜
• Remarks
• Please check clothes etc on HP.
• Open dates
• May 〜 October

The big tree tour in the wildwood of the beech

There is a place, Yamanori ravine on the land of mystery, where even many locals don`t set foot. The experienced guide will lead you through the wildwood of the beech which spreads to the source part.
The forest is so dense that in some parts you can`t see what`s  3 m ahead. There is no trail in the forest, the guide uses GPS and the route is different each time which make the trip even more exciting! Physical strength is required.

• Time required
• About 7 〜 8 hours
• Reference fee
• The guide fee
  Adult 5000 yen
  Below high school student 4500 yen
• Remarks
• Please check clothes etc on HP.
• Open dates
• May ～ November

The snowshoe tour with animals footprints 

Walking on snow by wearing a snowshoe and sliding on it! The pure-white silvery snowscape of the spreading pastures and the woods. By the footprints and the guide explanation you can imagine what animals live in the area. Both adults and children will be excited about the big snow slide!

• Time required
• 3 hours ～
• Reference fee
• The guide fee
  Adult 3000 yen ～
  Below high school student 2500 yen ～
• Remarks
• Please check clothes etc on HP.
• Open dates
• January ～ March

The snow board and the ski lesson

The school provides 4 courses: the beginner’s class, the intermediate level, the upper class and a course for children only. With the help of experienced instructor you can learn quickly from the basics. Recommended also for the ones who already ski and want to master their skills. Let`s ski like a pro!

• Time required
• 3 hours ～
• Reference fee
• The ski and the snowboard school
  3000 yen, 5000 yen for every half day of children for every half day of adults
  The ski and 3000 yen of snowboard set rentals
• Remarks
• The school has a full-day tour, too.
• Open dates
• January ～ March
  http://ww51.tiki.ne.jp/~bear-ski/bearvalley-facilties.html#school

The snow facilities

From spring to autumn there are wide green pastures  in front of  National Holiday Village hotel. Every year the pastures transform into fabulous silvery snowscape when the winter comes allowing children to play with snow, enjoy sleighing, building a snowman, Kamakura (snow house) and more. Special playground is built with various attractions including the snow tubing and sledding. Lots of fun for big and small at Hiruzen Kogen snow park!

• Time required
• Free
• Reference fee
• Admission fee ( The 1st of charged areas )
  Remarks of 800 yen for every equal to or more than 4 years old
• Remarks
• There is a charged rental of the playground equipment such as the sleigh. It is possible to bring in, too.
• Open dates
• 12/17 – 3/20 ( the snow status changes a period )