Forest Adventure
Scramble through a maze of nets and passageways strung high up in the forest, and ride crazy ziplines over a river gorge.
Scramble through a maze of nets and passageways strung high up in the forest, and ride crazy ziplines over a river gorge.
If you’re keen to experience the joy of hot-spring bathing in Shikoku, let us know and we’ll be sure to include some onsen opportunities in your itinerary.
Shikoku is home to many traditional crafts, and one of the most prominent is indigo dyeing, a once-thriving industry that has its roots in Wakimachi, Tokushima.
Many visitors to Shikoku are keen to stay in kominka, the traditional farmhouses and townhouses of Japan. Kōya is a charming and peaceful farmhouse in Oku-Iya, Tokushima.
Anan is a small city in Tokushima Prefecture. It’s the easternmost point of Shikoku.
Wasanbon is a fine-grained Japanese sugar, traditionally made in Tokushima and Kagawa. The sugar is often used for Japanese sweets (wagashi).
As home to the Shikoku Pilgrimage, one of the few circular pilgrimages in the world, the island of Shikoku is itself one big power spot, but this aside, there are many individual sites on Shikoku that are known as power spots.
In this series of articles, we look at the top ten places in the four main cities of Shikoku. Here we look at Tokushima, the capital of Tokushima Prefecture.
Out of the twelve surviving castles from the Edo period, four of them are located in Shikoku – Marugame, Matsuyama, Uwajima and Kochi. Shikoku also has many castle ruins, as well as restored castles.
The little village of Nagoro, deep in the valleys of Tokushima Prefecture is known around the world as the Village of the Dolls. As the population of Nagoro declined precipitately, Tsukimi Ayano started to replace the people who left or died with life-sized replicas made of straw and old clothes.