Tour Itinerary
Journey To Where It All Began
May 15-23, 2022
Celebrating 100 years of Reiki on Mout Kurama, May 22, 2022
*The tour itinerary is subject to change without notice based on local conditions at time of travel.
May 15, 2022 (Sunday) Welcome to Japan – Day 1
Arrival
- Independent arrival at Kansai Airport (KIX), with Private Transfer to hotel (included)
- Accommodation: Hotel Monterey Kyoto
- Welcome Dinner as a group (included)
May 16, 2022 (Monday) Classic Kyoto – Day 2
Privately Guided Day by Public Transportation
- Breakfast in the hotel (included)
- Sanjusangendo (Temple of the Thousand Armed Kannon)
- Samurai Tea Ceremony at Bikouen Tea House
- Lunch at a local restaurant (included)
- Nishi Honganji (Jodo Pure Land Buddhist Temple)
- Nishiki Market (A traditional foods paradise)
- Reiki Share with Hyakuten Inamoto’s Reiki Students from 6 to 8:30 p.m.
- Open Evening for you to explore restaurants, bars, karaoke, and other activities around Kyoto (self-pay). Yoshie will be glad to help you make your plans for the evening if you ask her during the day.
May 17, 2022 (Tuesday) Tokyo Day Trip – Day 3
Privately Guided Day by Public Transportation
- Breakfast in the hotel (included)
- Take the Shinkansen to Tokyo (bullet train)
- Reiki self-treatment on the train
- Meet Dr. Justin B. Stein in Tokyo
- Lunch at a local restaurant (included)
- Tour of Usui Memorial at Saihoji temple and cemetery
- Tour of Meiji Jingu and Meiji Shrine
- Dinner as a group in Tokyo at a local restaurant (included)
- Return to Kyoto in the night by Shinkansen
May 18, 2022 (Wednesday) Kurama – Day 4
Privately Guided Day
- Breakfast in the hotel (included)
- Take taxi to Demachiyanagi station, then Eizan line train to Kurama station
- Meet Dr. Justin B. Stein for a guided Reiki tour of Mount Kurama
- Box Lunches provided to be eaten on the mountain (included)
- Tour of the mountain with Dr. Stein continues until sunset
- Transfer back to Downtown Kyoto by Public Transportation
- Enjoy Dinner at a local restaurant with Dr. Stein (included)
May 19, 2022 (Thursday) Kurama – Day 5
Privately Guided Day
- Breakfast in the hotel (included)
- Take taxi to Demachiyanagi station, then Eizan line train to Kurama station
- Yoshie leads group from Kurama side, over the top of the mountain, to the Kibune side
- Lunch in Kibune in a restaurant over the river (Included)
- Tour Kibune with Yoshie
- Return to Kyoto
- Open Evening for you to explore restaurants, bars, karaoke, and other activities around Kyoto (self-pay). Yoshie will be glad to help you make your plans for the evening if you ask her during the day.
A Dreamy Kurama Evening
To rest your weary bones after a day of hiking the mountain, consider an evening’s pampering under the twinkling stars of the mountain’s dark night sky. A soak in Kurama Onsen’s healing thermal waters, shrouded in steam from the relaxing hot pools, will do wonders for sagging spirits and mutinous muscles. The pools for men and women are divided by a bamboo fence. This onsen allows guests with tattoos, unlike many in Japan.
Those desiring this inexpensive excursion will pay for it themselves, and return to the hotel on their own schedule using the train from Kurama station to the center of Kyoto. The Onsen offers a free shuttle van to the nearby Kurama train station at frequent intervals, and Yoshie will be glad to provide travel instructions if you ask her during the day.
May 20, 2022 (Friday) Arashiyama – Day 6
Privately Guided Day by Public Transportation
- Breakfast in the hotel (included)
- Otagi Nenbutsuji Temple (with 1,200 cute moss-covered Buddha statues)
- Lunch at a local restaurant (included)
- Tenryuji Temple (famous for its scenic garden and pond)
- Arashiyama Bamboo Forest (pictured at right)
- Open Evening for you to explore restaurants, bars, karaoke, and other activities around Kyoto (self-pay). Yoshie will be glad to help you make your plans for the evening if you ask her during the day.
May 21, 2022 (Saturday) Eastern Kyoto – Day 7
Privately Guided Day by Public Transportation
- Breakfast in the hotel (included)
- Fushimi Inari-Taisha Shrine (a full mountain covered in picture perfect Tori gates)
- Manshuin Temple (with famed Zen garden and raked dry stone landscape)
- Lunch at a local restaurant (included)
- Enkoji Temple (famous for it’s “Running Dragon Garden”)
- Shisendo Temple (a smaller Zen temple also famous for it’s landscape)
- Open Evening for you to explore restaurants, bars, karaoke, and other activities around Kyoto (self-pay). Yoshie will be glad to help you make your plans for the evening if you ask her during the day.
May 22, 2022 (Sunday) Kurama – Day 8
Privately Guided Day by Public Transportation
- Breakfast in the hotel (included)
- Taxi to Demachiyanagi station, then Eizan line train to Kurama station
- Time to wander the mountain (possible time for Reiki Treatments)
- Lunch in the Yoshuji-Kurama Noodle Shop (Pay on the spot by guest) or other
Kurama restaurant - 2 pm Circle of Oneness in front of Kurama-dera temple with Reiki people from around the world
- Transfer back to Downtown Kyoto by Public Transportation
- Enjoy a Farewell Dinner with the group at a local restaurant (included)
May 23, 2022 (Monday) Sayonara – Day 9
Departure
- Breakfast in the hotel (included)
- Independent Departure with Private Transfer to the Airport (included)