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Kumamoto Afternoon Half Day Miyamoto Musashi Tour with Hired Car 20% OFF
Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
$572.28
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Overview
Kumamoto offers a captivating half-day tour dedicated to the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, showcasing significant locations from his life. This journey invites you to engage with history through museums, burial sites, and the serene cave where Musashi wrote his famous treatise on swordsmanship.
- 🏛️ Visit the Shimada Museum of Arts, featuring items related to Miyamoto Musashi, including swords and portraits from his storied life. Enjoy a guided tour with insights from the museum director or an English-speaking guide.
- ⚰️ Explore Nishi-no-Musashizuka, a potential burial site of Musashi, marked by a natural rock inscribed with his Buddhist name. Discover connections to his students, including Terao Nobuyuki, who received the manuscript of The Book of Five Rings.
- 🧘♂️ Spend time in Reigando Cave, where Musashi composed his renowned text. Take a moment to meditate in the same space that inspired his thoughts on swordsmanship and martial arts.
- ⛩️ Experience a swordsmanship display at Unganzen-ji Temple, showcasing the skills of Musashi's disciples alongside the Five Hundred Disciples of Buddha, unique stone statues lining the path to Reigando.
- 🚍 Enjoy convenient hotel drop-off services for accommodations located in Kumamoto City, ensuring a hassle-free return after your tour.
- 🎟️ Admission fees, experience costs, and transportation are included in the tour package, allowing for a worry-free experience.
- 👨🏫 A National Government Licensed English Guide Interpreter will accompany you throughout the tour, providing valuable context and enhancing your understanding of the sites.
- 🧒 Children up to 5 years old can join for free, though they will not have hired car seats or experience activities unless booked under the child rate.
- 🌧️ In case of inclement weather, meditation will shift from Reigando Cave to a hall in Unganzen-ji Temple, ensuring a comfortable experience regardless of conditions.
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Half Day Tour
Duration: 4 hours
Duration: 4 hours
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 4 hours 10 minutes
- Hotel drop-off (Only for hotels in Kumamoto City)
- Admission fees, experience fees, and transportation costs included in the tour
- National Government Licensed English Guide Interpreter fee
- Fees other than those listed in Includes
Meeting point
Meet In front of Information Center entrance inside Kumamoto Station building. Access: Inside Kumamoto Station Building. Customers who are late for the departure time will have their reservations canceled. Please give yourself plenty of time.
Return details
If you are staying at a hotel in Kumamoto City, you can utilize our drop-off service. Your guide will confirm your drop-off location for the return trip with you during the tour.
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Shimada Museum of ArtsThe Shimada Museum of Art houses many items related to Miyamoto Musashi. Look forward to seeing swords said to have been owned by Miyamoto Musashi, as well as portraits such as those of this legendary swordsman and that of his duel with rival Sasaki Kojiro at Ganryujima. Enjoy a guided tour by the director along with explanations from the English-speaking guide. If the director is unavailable, explanations will be given by the the English-speaking guide.
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At Nishi-no-Musashizuka, in the family grave of Terao Nobuyuki, one of Miyamoto Musashi's students, there is a natural rock inscribed with characters for "Harunobu Koji." Harunobu is Musashi's real name, and Koji is the title for a man who devotes himself to Buddhism without becoming a priest. Terao Nobuyuki's brother, Terao Magonojo, is said to have been Musashi's most important student, and to whom the manuscript of The Book of Five Rings was given. There are several places in Kumamoto City that are thought to be Musashi's grave. There is a theory that his body was actually buried in the Terao family grave, so this tour will visit the Nishi-no-Musashizaka, "The Western Grave of Miyamoto Musashi."
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Spending his last 5 years in Kumamoto, Miyamoto Musashi retreated to the Reigando cave and composed The Book of Five Rings. The Book of Five Rings is a text on the essentials of the art of war, such as secret techniques of swordsmanship. Take a moment to imagine the fabled swordsman in this cave, and spend some time meditating. At Unganzen-ji Temple, a swordsmanship display by Musashi's disciples and The Five Hundred Disciples of Buddha can be viewed. The Five Hundred Disciples of Buddha (Gohyaku Rakan) are a large number of stone statues, each distinctly shaped like disciples of Buddha, placed alongside a narrow path on the rocky mountainside from Unganzen-ji Temple to Reigando. In case of inclement weather, the meditation experience will not be held in the cave; instead it will be in a hall in Unganzen-ji Temple.
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Kumamoto Afternoon Half Day Miyamoto Musashi Tour with Hired Car 20% OFF
Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan
$572.28
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
01
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!