Originally Posted by
pacificfit
So I am racing Ironman Japan 70.3 (
http://ironman703.jp/e/) in June, and I'll have a few days to kill after the race.
I'm not too keen to spend a ton of time in a train or bus, so is there anything relatively near Nagoya or Tokoname that would give me a taste of authentic Japanese culture?
I'm thinking a day trip with an overnight stay somewhere relatively nearby so I don't spend the day parked inside public transportation...
Ideas?
Yes, see post 4 in this thread.
When I created an itinerary so that my non-fiction book phobic mother could learn about Japanese history I took my parents to stay in the village of Tsumago first so they could experience life in the olden days before Commodore Perry's Black Ships 'opened' Japan and we then went on to Meiji Mura so they could see first hand how the traditional architecture evolved over the last century into what we have now in the modern era.
Worked a treat, and I'm sure she enjoyed her time in Kyoto and Tokyo much more as a result of this instructive tour.