Arashiyama, Kyoto - Skip the train and experience Hotsukawa rafting
Take your parents to Arashiyama for the second time this year, want to change the experience, recommend you try Kyoto Kameoka Hozu-gawa River Boat Ride, in the valley slowly enjoy the scenery of Arashiyama's banks (red leaf season is very beautiful).
【 Purchase Ferry Ticket 】
Can be scheduled in advance can spot buy, season suggestion on the official website reservation in advance, 2 hour rafting fare only 4500 yen/person (about 185 yuan/person), high cost performance.
【 Bojin River Cruise Introduction 】
Started in 1895, as a traditional culture continues to this day, many generations of Japanese emperors, foreign royal families have been along the river cruise. The traditional Japanese wooden boat is controlled by three boatmen, one oar, one pole, one rudder, and the whole 2 hours down the 16km mountain gorge, which can not only enjoy the unique natural scenery of the four seasons, but also experience the unique thrill. The three boatmen will also take turns to perform in English and Japanese, singing boat songs and telling jokes for two hours.
The interior of the retro wooden cruise boat is made of tempered fiber, which will not be damaged by collision with rocks. Each boat can seat 20 passengers, each wearing a life jacket tied to their waist. In the rain, the boat will propped up the plastic shed, and in the winter, the boat will lay a carpet, light a fire, and sit around the fire to enjoy the canyon snow, as if people in a painting. Small luggage and collapsible strollers can be placed in the stern.
【 Watch along the river 】
Koyo Falls: The only waterfall with a name in Hotsu River. It comes from the saying that the small fragrant fish cannot swim upstream from here, and the height difference is about 2 meters. Temple Fish Farm: Ancient princes fishing place, the water depth of about 10 meters, the second deepest in Bojin River. There are carp over a meter long. (The deepest place is the "Quyuan", which is 15 meters deep.) Pole trace: A depression formed over 400 years when boatmen pole the same place. Net trace: Over 350 years, the rope rubbed against the rock when the treller tugged the boat. Books rock, river deer rock and other shapes of different rocks
【 Traffic route 】
From Kyoto Station, take JR Yamin Main Line and get off at Kameoka Station. It takes about 25 minutes. From other locations in Kyoto, just switch to Yamin Main Line. After leaving the station, you can walk to the boat dock for about 10 minutes (there are signs at each intersection, you will not go wrong, see Figure 2). Disembark near the Tsukiyubashi and walk 20 minutes to Sagao-Arashiyama Station, passing the Tenryuji Temple and the Bamboo Forest Path. Kyoto city can be reached in 15 minutes by JR Sanyin Line from Saga Arashiyama Station.
The winning Shrine in Tokyo!
Fukutoku Jinjya Shrine, also known as the "Yabui rice" Fukutoku Jinjya Shrine, is most famous for "praying for the lottery roll". In addition, if you want to grab concert tickets such as things that need luck, you can also come to the shrine to pray for the blessing of the gods.
The main worship of the shrine is the "Uka Yuki God", who protects the harvest, before the worship, you need to wash your hands and then pray for the introduction of the shrine in the way of "two obeys, two claps, one obeys".
It is said that the shrine got its nickname from spring when a new sprout sprout from the ancient tree bark torii of the shrine, hence the name of the shrine was named "Habuka Inahara". In history, so many famous people would come to the shrine to worship and over a very, very long time the shrine was renovated several times. What does not change is the efficacy of the Ford Shrine, as well as people's admiration.
📍 Address: 2-4-14 Nihonbashi-muromachi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Sales department opening hours: 9:00 ~ 17:00
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