Experience Ainu Culture in Shiraoi and Hiking at Poroto Forest
1-DAY
DIFFICULTY
GREEN SEASON
1 day
Min. 15, Max. 24
Hiking
- HIGHTLIGHTS
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- Highlight 1 Exploring Ainu Culture at UPOPOY Museum and Shiraoi town
- Highlight 2 Hiking at Poroto Forest to see how Ainu culture coexists with nature
- Highlight 3 Enjoy the traditional Ainu cuisine and Bamboo chopsticks making
- LOCATION
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Hokkaido Shiraoi
Hiking at Poroto Forest
Hiking at Poroto Forest
UPOPOY National Ainu Museum
UPOPOY National Ainu Museum
OVERVIEW
Ainu spirit is still strongly remaining in Shiraoi town. UPOPOY National Ainu Museum and Park has been established to widely disseminate the Ainu culture. In this tour, with the guidance of Ainu people, you can deeply understand of Ainu History and real life of Ainu. In the Poroto Forest, you may have an opportunity to think “how we should act toward for a sustainable society” by getting hints from how humans and forests relate that the Ainu have cherished.
ITINERARY
Exploring Ainu Culture in Shiraoi UPOPOY National Ainu Museum and Park
UPOPOY park will show you about the Ainu history and culture while learning about the Ainu views of the world and nature. UPOPOY enables people of all nationalities and ages to learn about the Ainu’s worldview and respect for nature and Enjoy Bamboo chopsticks making.
Hiking at Poroto Forest
You can enjoy the nature walks in the forest , and take a walk while looking at the traces of Ainu and encounter Ainu culture in a tranquil forest of Shiraoi. Surrounded by primeval forest , you can enjoy know more about the Ainu people how to maintained their relationship with the forest and thinking about how to we can make use of that learning and serve with a special coffee which made by the sap (comes from Itaya Maple Tree) instead of hot water.
LUNCH
Traditional Ainu cuisine at Forest of Poroto Camping field
Ainu cuisine is the cuisine of the ethnic Ainu in Japan. The cuisine differs markedly from that of the majority Yamato people of Japan. Raw meat like sashimi, for example, is rarely served in Ainu cuisine, which instead uses methods such as boiling, roasting and curing to prepare meat.
Menu: Ohaw(Soup), Sito (Kind of dumpling), other dishes using with local ingredients
Tour Operator / Contact
ANA X Inc.
- Address
Front Place Nihonbashi, 2-14-1, Nihonbashi, Tokyo 103-0027, Japan
- Contact Person
Inbound Tour Marketing & Sales
- Official web site
https://www.ana.co.jp/en/jp/japan-travel-planner/
ANA X Inc. was launched in 2016 to handle ticket sales and travel business operations for the ANA Group . Our mission is to provide high quality of service and products and to deliver the most satisfying travel experience. The Leisure Travel Business Division develops and markets original tour products. We are committed to fulfilling the expectations of our customers and offering unique and attractive and original tour products. ANA has been highly commended [by SKYTRAX] for its consistently superior quality of service and for its dedication towards the further improvement of the overall passenger experience, in order to meet the needs of global customers. Furthermore, ANA i s currently the only Japanese airline to have achieved the exclusive 5-star status for 8 consecutive years. Using the ANA Group motto “Trustworthy, Heartwarming, Energetic!” as the foundation of our operations, we will continue to treat our customers sincerely and provide safe travel products with high added value, while further improving our services through the united efforts of all of our employees.
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