This document provides an overview and itinerary for a tour of Tokyo, Kyoto, and Hiroshima from May 4-19, 2020 called the "Splendours of Shikoku Tour". The tour includes visits to major sites in each city like Tokyo Sky Tree, Sensoji Temple, and Tokyo Tower. It will also include trips to areas on Shikoku island like Ritsurin Garden, the Otsuka Museum of Art featuring ceramic replicas of famous artworks, and the scenic Iya Valley. The tour highlights the natural beauty, cultural activities, and historic sites of each destination.

1. Welcome to our
“Splendours of
Shikoku” Tour
Including Tokyo,
Kyoto & Hiroshima
4th May - 19th May 2020
Photographs courtesy of: JNTO, Otsuka Museum of
Art, Jan Hutton, Jeff Stirling, Keith Craig, Ian Ferguson
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2. Tokyo Sky Tree – tallest stand alone radio tower in the world.
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3. Tokyo Tower
Icon of the
Tokyo skyline
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4. Hozomon – Entrance gate to Sensoji Temple in Asakusa - Tokyo
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5. Wax food models on display - Tokyo
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6. Jizo Statues – Zojo-ji Temple - Tokyo© Copyright Kiku Consulting

7. Ameyocho Markets - Tokyo

8. Shinkansen (Bullet trains) Tokyo Station© Copyright Kiku Consulting

9. Korakuen Gardens - Okayama

10. Korakuen Gardens - Okayama

11. Korakuen Gardens of Okayama

12. Okayama Castle also
known as “Crow
Castle” due to its
black exterior.

13. Bikan District of Kurashiki
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14. Beautiful vine
covered building –
Kurashiki Bikan
District
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15. Seto-ohashi Bridge connecting Honshu and Shikoku – over 13kms long

16. Konpira Shrine – It is the Guardian of the Sea
Many fisherman and sailors visit here.

17. Udon
Noodle
making -
Cultural
activity

18. Ritsurin Gardens - Takamatsu

19. NNaruto Whirlpools – can be up to 25meters in diameter

20. The following 2 photographs are of rooms of the OTSUKA MUSEUM OF ART.
“The Otsuka Museum of Art is a “Ceramic board masterpiece art museum”
with the largest exhibition space in Japan (total floor of 29,412 square
meters), built to commemorate the Otsuka Pharmaceutical Group’s 75th
anniversary in Naruto City, Tokushima Prefecture. Inside there are more than
1000 replicas of priceless masterpieces of Western art selected by a
committee of 6, from ancient murals to modern paintings, and collection from
more than 190 art museums in 25 countries worldwide. These masterpieces
are reproduced to their original size using special techniques by the Otsuka
Ohmi Ceramics Co., Ltd. Unlike the paintings in art books or textbooks, visitors
will be able to appreciate the true artistic value of the original works, and
experience art museums of the world whilst being in Japan.
Furthermore while the original masterpieces cannot escape the damaging
effects of today’s pollution, earthquakes and fire, the ceramic reproductions
can maintain their color and shape for over 2000 years, and this is a large
contribution in the nature of preserving the history of cultural treasures. This
is a ground- breaking experiment where we have reproduced “Guernica’,
which can no longer be moved, and El Greco’s high altar panels, which have
been dispersed during the war. The Otsuka Museum of Art can be considered
as the world’s first and only ceramic art museum, both technically and
philosophically.
Ichiro Otsuka, Director General, Otsuka Museum of Art

21. A photograph of one of the exhibits in the Otsuka Museum - Shikoku

22. A
Photograph of one of the exhibits in the Otsuka Museum - Shikoku

23. Awa Odori – Traditional dancing

24. Indigo Dyeing -
Cultural activity

25. “Peeing Boy “ – Shikoku Mountain Range

26. Oku-Iya Vine
Bridge – Iya
Valley

27. Kazura Vine Bridge
Iya Valley - Shikoku

28. Japanese washi paper - Cultural activity

29. Dogo Onsen in Matsuyama – said to be Japan’s oldest hot spring with
a 3000 year history

30. Itsukushima Shrine and famous torii gate – Miyajima Island

31. Famous floating torii gate – Miyajima Island

32. Beautiful view of floating torii gate and Itsukushima Shrine - Miyajima

33. Miyajima’s famous rice scoops

34. Hiroshima’s famous oysters

35. Peace Park - Hiroshima

36. Children’s Peace Monument in Hiroshima Peace Park

37. Hiroshima Castle

38. UNESCO World Heritage Kinkaku-ji “Golden Pavilion” - Kyoto

39. KIBONE – 45 minutes from Kyoto

40. Magnificient Bamboo
Groves – Arashiyama
Kyoto
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41. Heian Jingu Torii in Kyoto - one of the largest and tallest gates in Japan
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42. Beautiful dry sand garden “Sea of Silver Sand” at Ginkaku-ji - Kyoto
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43. beautiful tradition – Kyoto``

44. SAYONARA
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