Visit HYOGO

Check into Hotel Wakamizu, where upon entering your room, you will be met with lucky charm decor locally produced in Takarazuka City. Enjoy an exclusive lucky bag, which includes handmade lucky charms only available here.

Until dinner, you can relax in the open-air indoor bath with roses floating in red and other assorted colors bearing good luck, whilst taking in the view of the city.

At the designated time, you will be welcomed with an original kaiseki meal using abalones among other auspicious ingredients to be enjoyed in a private dining hall, as is customary in respect to feng shui, along with Hyogo’s sake tasting.

Fire, an indispensable element in people's lives, has been treated since ancient times as something sacred that purifies all things. Here, you can receive hibashi (fire tongs) to ward off evil spirits as a good luck charm. Please enjoy strolling along the 1km approach lined with local restaurants and souvenir stores along the way.

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Visit the workshop of Ebisu Shimada, which actually produces the lucky charms for the guest rooms. After receiving an explanation of the history and production process of lucky charms from an active craftsman, visitors can create their own original lucky charms to take home. If the timing is right, you can also purchase the lucky charms on the spot.

This is the main shrine of Ebisu Shrine, which enshrines Ebisu, the god of good fortune. You can purchase the o-fuda sold to visitors to the shrine and put them in an Ebisu Shimada o-fuda holder to enjoy the set.

*If you include the Takarazuka - Nishinomiya itinerary in your tour, the o-fuda holder is enclosed in the lucky bag.

Serene seas encapsulated in the largest spherical aquarium in Japan. That is the setting. There you will be served a private Kobe beef dinner course paired with sake from the region, hand-picked by a sommelier. This is without a doubt, an exclusive dinner experience designed and curated with you in mind. While you eat, enjoy some jazz. As Kobe is the fountainhead of Japan’s jazz movement, it only makes sense for it to be the soundtrack to your evening. The player is also from Kobe, so delight in a night bound in Kobe’s sights, sounds and gastronomy.

You will visit Nushima, a place sheathed in mythology.

Particularly its role in the legends surrounding how Japan came to be. We will board a fishing boat and visit the spot where the myth was set.

The next day, you can see a performance of Ebisu, the first god created by the two gods who appear in the myth of the birth of the country, and feel a deeper connection with the myth.

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