Day 3 START
Kyotango Geotrail
This short course walks through the San'in Coast UNESCO Global Geopark area, which stretches from Kyoto Prefecture to Tottori Prefecture.
It runs from Goshikihama, where colorful boulders sparkle beautifully on the shore, to Yuhigaura, a famous sunset viewing spot. You can enjoy the pristine scenery of the Sea of Japan coast.
13 minutes by car
Torimatsu
At Torimatsu, diners can enjoy a Japanese kaiseki multi course meal filled with locally sourced seafood and other seasonal ingredients. The local Tango specialty dish, Barazushi, is also available on the menu. Here you can savor the taste of Tango and the refined beauty and flavors of Japanese cuisine while taking in the stunning scenery.
5 minutes by car
Walk the Tango Chirimen Corridor, a Japanese Heritage Site
Tango Chirimen Weaver Tayuh
Tayuh Textile Industry Co., Ltd. is a weaving shop founded in 1931.
Tango Chirimen refers to textiles woven in the Tango region of Kyoto prefecture that have been dyed post-weaving, and you can get up close and personal with the roughly 30 looms that are in operation
Silk products and silk Tango Chirimen accessories are available to purchase at the gallery.
10 minutes on foot
Tango Chirimen Silk Handkerchief Dyeing Experience
(Amity Tango)
Local experience with “Tango's traditional techniques + Chirimen"
At Amity Tango, visitors can try their hands at dyeing Tango Chirimen and hand-weaving with silk threads.
This souvenir shop also has an impressive lineup of locally produced items such as sake and brand name confectionery.
There are plenty of other fun spots to enjoy!
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Nishijin Asagi Museum Tango
The Nishijin Asagi Museum Tango is located in the Tango Creative Center, and visitors have the chance to tour an open factory and observe Nishijin textile looms at work. Beautiful Nishijin brocade works produced by skilled craftsmen using 1800 needle jacquard looms are also on display.
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TANGO OPEN CENTER
Tango Open Center is a silk refining and processing factory that is open to the public. In Kyotango, the largest producer of silk for kimono in the country, visitors get the chance to take a look around one of the most important silk processing factories in Japan's largest production center of pure silk post-dyed fabrics for kimono. At the open factory, visitors can see firsthand the process of refining Tango Chirimen through a factory tour called "Seiren no Sekai" (The World of Refining).
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Kotohira Shrine (Guardian Cat Painting Experience)
Kotohira Shrine in Mineyama-cho, Kyotango City is home to rare Komaneko, guardian cat statues, rather than the usual Komainu, guardian dog statues. The porch of the shrine main building is lined with unique Komaneko figurines painted by visitors! Visitors can take part in Komaneko painting workshops and since the painting is done on unglazed pottery, they can be displayed at the shrine that same day.
15 minutes by car
KISSUIEN Stay & Food
KISSUIEN Stay & Food, a guest hotel in Mineyama-cho, Kyotango
The hotel offers simple yet comfortable guest rooms designed to help guests "rediscover their true selves" .
The dishes prepared by master chefs are heartwarming creations that make the most of locally-sourced seasonal ingredients.
Inside the facility
Private Sauna “Nuka to Yuge”
At “Nuka to Yuge”, you can enjoy a rice bran enzyme bath and a private sauna at the same time The whole body is enveloped in the fermented heat of rice bran, warming the body to the core and regulating the autonomic nervous system in a one-of-a-kind warm bath environment that is a cross between Japanese 'hakko' fermentation culture and Finnish sauna culture.
15 minutes by car
Musu Goka Sauna
Enjoy nature to the fullest in a completely private outdoor sauna facility in a village of just 14 households. Renovated from an old private house, this dimly lit Finnish-style sauna is warmed by a wood-burning stove with a river flowing right in front to cool off in. It is a great way to enjoy nature.
