Yaizu Things to Do

Located in YAIZU, Shizuoka Brewery and the Mini Brewery are fascinating places to visit and see the brewing process.

Their is a newly completed "Shizuoka Beer Garden" offers fresh beer from the factory

Free admission

• Free beer sample after the tour..

• TOUR Hours 9:00a.m. 10:30a.m. 1:30p.m. 2:30p.m.
(Takes about 60 minutes)

• CLOSE, Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays. December 29 - January 5.

For reservations and further information,
call at +81-54-629-5111

When you want to make a reservation by e-mail,please specify the name of Brewery,date,time and number of people.

Brewery tours are conducted in Japanese only.

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The Japanese love things that are cute and cuddly, and Print Club is what happens when the locals get their hands on the boring old "Passport Photo Machines" found in the West.

The result is Print Club - you step into the enlarged machine,
select any number of wacky backgrounds,
have your digital photo taken a few times,
decorate it with hearts or stars or rainbows or whatever ultra-cute charactr takes your fancy, run around the machine a few times trying to figure out what to do next, and then, eventually, you get 16 photo stickers you can swap with your friends!

the cost about 400 yen

IN HISTORY

The founder of the Yamato dynasty was the Emperor Jimmu, whose reign began in 660 BC. Yamato Takeru no mikoto was a son of the 12th emperor, Keikou.

Yamato Takeru lived around 200-300 AD and is thus an historical person and not a mythological figure, although it is unclear whether all the feats attributed to him in the Kojiki were actually performed by him.

Yamato Takeru's religious significance in Shinto is primarily as an example of the ideal warrior-prince, who is resolutely steadfast in his duty and loyalty to the emperor (or shogun) and his authority.

Even the act of murdering his brother was done, not in rebellion against the emperor, but in (misguided) support of the emperor (his brother was the one who actually "rebeled" against the emperor through his disgraceful behavior).

Shortly before his death, he became a white plover, which may have been a sign of divine favor for dedicating his life to the defeat of clans and kami who were in rebellion against the emperor.

The songs that were sung at Yamato Takeru's funeral rites subsequently became part of the Shinto funeral ritual for the death of an emperor.

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Shrine visitors write their wishes on these wooden plates (EMA) and then leave them at the shrine in the hope that their wishes come true.

Most people wish for good health, success in business, passing entrance exams, love or wealth.

There are a few of these lantern leading to the main hall..

Japanese lanterns were originally introduced by China. The first ones were made of metal and primarily used to light doorways to shrines and temples.

They were later made of granite stone for use in gardens, but it wasn't until they were introduced into japanese tea gardens by tea-master Sen-no-Rikkyu did they really become a major garden element.

Japanese tea ceremonies were often held in the evenings and light was needed to guide guests to the tea room.

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Depending on the shrine's architecture style, the main hall (honden) and offering hall (haiden) are two seperate buildings or combined into one building.

The main hall's innermost chamber contains the shrine's sacred object, while visitors make their prayers and offerings at the offering hall.

shimenawa is a straw rope with white zigzag paper strips (gohei). It marks the boundary to something sacred and can be found on torii gates, around sacred trees and stones, etc.

A rope similar to the shimenawa is also worn by yokozuna, the highest ranked sumo wrestlers, during ritual ceremonies.

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you can purchase OMIKUJI in this house..its about 200 yen per paper..

Shinto shrines are places of worship and the dwellings of the kami, the Shinto "gods".

Sacred objects of worship that represent the kami are stored in the innermost chamber of the shrine where they cannot be seen by anybody.

People visit shrines in order to pay respect to the kami or to pray for good fortune. Shrines are also visited during special events such as New Year, setsubun, shichigosan and other festivals.

New born babies are traditionally brought to a shrine a few days after birth, and many couples hold their wedding ceremonies there.

Omikuji are fortune telling paper slips found at many shrines and temples.

Randomly drawn, they contain predictions ranging from daikichi ("great good luck") to daikyo ("great bad luck").

By tying the piece of paper around a tree's branch, good fortune will come true or bad fortune can be averted.

This is where the ARAI MATSURI is held every August 13-14..

One or more torii gates mark the approach and entrance to a shrine. They come in various colors and are made of various materials.

Most torii, however are made of wood, and many are painted orange and black.

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They were a few of these around the shrine..

Found near the entrance, the water of these fountains is used for purification. You are supposed to clean your hands and mouth before approaching the main hall.

There are so many different kinds, each shrine seem to have there own unique one