• 日本語
  • 中文
  • Facebook
  • RSS
Fuji-Hakone-Izu Travel Guide
to
  • HOME
  • TRAVEL REPORTS
  • UPCOMING EVENTS
  • FEATURES
  • STAFF PICKS
  • DESTINATIONS
    • Koshinetsu & Hokuriku
      • Yamanashi
    • Kanto
      • ODAWARA
      • MT. FUJI AREA
      • HAKONE
      • NUMAZU & MISHIMA
      • EASTERN IZU
      • CENTRAL IZU
      • WESTERN IZU
      • SOUTHERN IZU
      • SHONAN AREA
      • YOKOHAMA
      • sagamihara
    • Tokai
      • Aichi
      • Shizuoka
    • Kansai
      • Kyoto
  • TRANSPORTATION
  • All News
  • Nature Sites
  • Historical Sites
  • Museums
  • Parks
  • Dining
  • Souvenirs
  • Spas & Onsen
  • Accommodations
  • Activities

Time: 4:20 pm

You are here:

  • Home

Saiko ‘Iyashi no Sato Nenba’

2014/02/16

By: wera

category: historical-sites, mount-fuji-area, sightseeing-spots

17295 0

Iyashi no Sato stands on the site of a former farming village on the western shores of Lake Saiko. The village was destroyed by a typhoon in 1966. Forty years later the village’s traditional thatched roofed houses were reconstructed and reopened as an open air museum and traditional craft village where people can learn about the culture and try out and purchase various local handicrafts. Village is surrounded by Aokigahara Forest, known as the Suicide Forest as well. Also, during a sunny day, from Iyashi no Sato you can see the top of Mt. Fuji, but when I was there, it was too cloudy for seeing anything. Walking around the Iyashi no Sato makes you feel like time turned back to the Showa period. It’s really worth seeing!

IMG_0760IMG_0769

IMG_0741IMG_0756

 
 

Autumn is one of the most beautiful seasons in Japan. Instead of Mt. Fuji view, I watched thatched roofed houses in surrounding of autumn red-colored leaves. Because of soon coming Halloween, village was decorated with many pumpkin accessories. What especially attracted my atention, were plants called ‘kikoa’. They are these dense, pink plants in the picture below. Thatched roofed houses and space arrangement around make that it’s really easy to feel the atmosphere of village from the old times. Besides admiring architecture of village huts, you can come inside the houses, where you can enjoy many different attractions. The first house I came in was called ‘Seseragiya’. Inside, you can try to make a card with your own drawwing, during listening of relaxing river’s burble. Also, during a weekend you can watch a performance of local crafter making bamboo draining baskets.

IMG_0744IMG_0804

IMG_0748IMG_0754

IMG_0805IMG_0821

 
 

Then I came to the next house, where visitors can deal with creating many various types of ceramic dishes, figures and accessories. Crafter, that I met there encouraged me to create ceramic owl, that is one of the easiest thing to make there. The man explained me basics and I started to model the owl. At the end, to make my work more individual, I added some original elemnts to the model, like a hut. I was so much fun!
The most popular and the most crowded house was portrait studio, where you can get dressed in kimono or samurai armour. People couln’t wait to wear these traditional japanese clothes and make photo sessions. Right next to the house, there is ‘Fujimi Bridge’, where people go to pose to photographies in the background of old cottage huts. I picked the favourite pattern of kimono and got dressed by woman from the staff as well. I felt like a very important person in that costume and imagined for a moment how did it feel to wear it every single day.
Except of houses, where you can create some local crafts, many huts are adapted to art galerries, where you can watch exhibitions of paintings, photographies and old household accessories. For person, who is into art, like me, this is really great place to visit! After sightseeing we went to see the Saiko Lake with the hope, that we will see some great autumn view there, but it was still to early for the most spectacular autumn leaves. However, we uncovered a few great places with autumn view.

IMG_0788IMG_0790

IMG_0841IMG_0864

 
 

Summary

Iyashi no Sato is really great tourist spot with many interesting facilities. If you want to drop in to every hut, sightseeing will take a long time, but I’m sure, that you will not get bored! Due to the number of houses onsite, you can easily spend a nice day here. Besides many attractions, you can try there local specialities of high quality. If you will be in surroundings of Fuji Five Lakes, let’s come here!

Weronika Golubska

Recommended articles:

Article about ‘Oshino Hakkai’,eight ponds in Oshino Village

Article about preparing before Mt. Fuji climbing

 
 
Information
Name Saiko ‘Iyashi no sato NENBA’
Address 2710, Saiko, Fujikawaguchiko-machi, Minamitsuru-gun, Yamanashi
Open houres Between March to November : from 9:00 to 17:00
between December to February : 9:30 to 16:30
close: Wednesdays during December to February
Price Adults 350 yen
Children 150 yen
Contact 0555-20-4677
Access From Kawaguchiko Station take Retro Bus Saiko, Aokigahara Line to ‘Inoukyou (farm co-op)’ or ‘Iyashinosato Nenba village’, or route bus for ‘Saiko guest house village’ or ‘Nenba Minshuku’ or ‘Gyominsou-mae’
Homepage http://www.fujisan.ne.jp/iyashi/

*Please check for the latest information before visiting.

* This article was written by a trainee from overseas. Please note that there might be spelling and grammar mistakes.


Rating

  • 17295views
  • 0comments

recommend to friends

Recent News

Budo no Oka

2020/06/30

10682

Hita River Sightseeing Festival on 20-21 May 2017

2020/06/30

6259

Kiyomizudera, a celebrated Kyoto temple

2020/06/23

7013

The Samurai Challenge, Classic car rally in Sado

2020/06/20

7909

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked. *

Name*

E-mail*

Website

Comment

Cancel reply

Popular news

IMG_2158

Oshino Hakkai

2015/06/29

  • 83966
  • 0
IMG_8596

Izu Shaboten Park

2016/01/15

  • 64363
  • 0
83df2a006e70151941cfe762ec770216_m-610x259

How to Pray in a Japanese Shrine or Temple

2015/01/08

  • 53053
  • 0
Fuji-Hakone-Izu Travel Guide
BACK TO TOP

ABOUT FUJI TRAVEL GUIDE

Fuji, Hakone, Izu travel guide is sightseeing portal site to introduce nature, the history, culture of Fuji, Hakone, Izu to for visit to Japan foreigner. This site is running by Techno Research Corporation.

RECOMMENDED BROWSERS

Please use the latest version of the following browsers for viewing this site.

・Internet Explorer(Windows)

・Firefox(Windows、Mac、Linux)

・Safari(Mac、Windows)

・Google Chrome(Windows、Mac)

POPULAR NEWS

IMG_2158

Oshino Hakkai

2015/06/29

IMG_8596

Izu Shaboten Park

2016/01/15

83df2a006e70151941cfe762ec770216_m-610x259

How to Pray in a Japanese Shrine or Temple

2015/01/08

  • About us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact Us
  • Facebook
  • RSS

Copyright © 2013-2015 TECHNO RESEARCH Corporation | All rights reserved.

Close

Enter the site

Login

Password

Remember me

Forgot password?

Login