Japan: Hamada Shoji and the Mingei Movement March 2025

This tour includes round trip airfare from CPH to destination, all lodging, train transportation, breakfasts, three dinners, a Japanese, Danish, and English speaking guide, entrance fees to museums and attractions on the program, and online support prior to departure.

This trip includes a flight ticket from Copenhagen to Japan. Traveling from another part of the world? -6000dkk if you arrange your own ticket.

We stay in many different types of places: small and large hotels, minshuku, ryokan, airbnb, bed and breakfast. This trip includes double lodging throughout the adventure. If you're traveling with a friend or partner, great. Otherwise, it's easy to be roommates with someone else on the tour If you'd like a single room, there's an additional fee of +4800dkk.

All breakfasts and three evening meals are included in the price of the trip. Lunches you pay for by travelers, and we generally eat light and on the go to save time for our curiosity. The first, middle, and last evenings we have a collective dinner, where we have a chance to have introductions, updates, and evaluation of the trip.

The guide speaks English, Danish, and Japanese. Other languages are also welcome. Google and other translator programs make it possible to navigate many situations in Japan when necessary, and facilitate individual exploration.

Transportation between the main destinations of the tour, for example from Tokyo to Kyoto via Shinkansen, are included in the tour. Travel in the local areas, for example Kyoto itself, is paid for by the individual traveler. To facilitate this, the tour will provide each traveler a card for which they can add funds to, which can be used on the local transport systems. You can also pay for taxis and in shops using these cards. Please return the transport cards to the guide at the end of the trip.

All entrance fees to activities listed on the program will be paid for by the tour. This includes museums, galleries, artist workshops, special exhibitions, etc. See the detailed tour program for an overview.

Before and after our adventure together, we're happy to provide online support and information for our travelers. If you're in Japan on a tour already, please speak with your guide about details and information.

If you're going on this trip, you need to be responsible for your passport, visas, travel insurance, vaccinations, and any additional expense not specifically mentioned in the included on this tour section.

Travelers need to have a valid passport with more than six months to expiry on arrival in Japan. If the destination requires a visa, you're also responsible for making certain that you obtain this in good time prior to departure. Please provide a copy of your passport so that we can be sure that we get the spelling of your name correct for flight, train, and hotel reservations.

Travel insurance is required for participation on Ceramic Adventures Travel. As each person is different, it's important to check with your insurance provider to make certain that you have appropriate coverage for the destination that you're traveling too.

Each person is different, and it is important to check with your personal physician about vaccinations that they recommend and can provide.

Additional costs and expenses on the trip need to be paid by the travelers themselves. This can include non-covered meals, snacks, transportation, purchases of pottery and other craft items, and services at hotels, as well as shipping of items to our final destination, airport, or home address.