Hida Satoyama Cycling

Making your way just outside Takayama, this is an opportunity to head deeper into rural Japan while engaging with a key part of modern Japanese culture – cycling. With the picturesque Hida Mountain Range as a backdrop, your personal English speaking guide will take you on a three and a half hour ride through rice paddies and past rural villages. Along the way, you’ll call into natural springs, an orchard, a local temple and traditional minka wooden farmhouses as you’re introduced to the local residents and their slower pace of life, a foil to the country’s city energy. You might also have the chance to interact with a few of the locals with your guide acting as translator. There are a few steady inclines but, don’t worry, shortcuts are available.