CULTURAL CONNECTION

The Fuji Kachoen Garden Park welcomes you with over 30 varieties of feathered friends. The owl enclosure holds over 100 owls and most were hand bred by the park staff and are quite friendly to people! The park is also home to an extensive selection of over 10,000 begonias, fuchsias and hydrangeas which are exhibited throughout the park. These blooming flowers can be enjoyed all year round. For lunch stop at Asagiri Food Park, you can take a leisurely stroll through the trees in the park, visit each workshop and experience the taste that each company is proud of. Around Mt. Fuji’s base, past eruptions and resulting lava flows have created multiple caves in the Fuji Five Lake region. Up until the beginning of the Showa era, the wind cave, with an average temperature of 3℃, was used as a refrigerator to store silkworm eggs. The lateral cave is 201m long and 8.7m high and one can see lava shelves, rope-like lava and ice pillars that do not melt even in the summer. The Bat Cave, named after its former winter inhabitants, is the most extensive of the lava caves. In total, the cave is nearly 350 meters long and has multiple large chambers and diverging tunnels. Both caves have been designated as Japanese natural monuments.

COST BY AGE GROUP:

$55 (13 & Up) $45 (6–12) $30 (4–5) $30 (3 & Under if Bus Seat is needed)

ITINERARY:

Depart 7 a.m. Park 9:30–11:15 a.m. Lunch 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m. (Lunch on Your Own) Wind Cave 1:30–2:30 p.m. Bat Cave 3–4 p.m. Return 7 p.m.

Tour cost includes bus transportation, admissions to the park and the caves. This tour does not go to Mt Fuji’s 5th Station. For updates on all things ITT, visit /YokotaITT. For detailed information on ITT’s upcoming tours, visit YokotaFSS.com/ITT. 227-7083 • Bldg. 327