The old map walk will begin.
The "Let's Walk Around Town with an Old Map in Your Hand," which was very popular last year, will be held again this year. will start again this year.
Nagato City offers four courses. Please note that each course has a different reservation destination, amount, and deadline.
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Let's walk around the town with an old map in hand.
Old Map Walk, Dori
Tour of fishing town streets with kindness and humanity that lived together with whales
The Tong area of Qinghai Island is a fishing village with narrow alleys and rows of houses characteristic of traditional fishing villages, which evoke the original Japanese landscape.
With an old map in hand, the Kayoi Guide Association will take you on a tour of the village of old-style whaling, where whale culture, which lived on the sea and depended on whaling for its daily sustenance, still remains strong.

information
- Dates: 1st and 3rd Saturdays from October 2019 to March 2020
- Start time: 10:00~.
- Meeting place: Whale Museum
- Time required: about 2 hours (about 3.2 km)
- Participation fee: 500 yen (cash payment on the day)
- Minimum number of participants: 4
- Application deadline: 1 week before the event date
- Application: Nagato City Tourism & Convention Association TEL: 0837-27-0074 FAX: 0837-27-0079

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Old Map Walk, Senzaki
Tour of Senzaki, a port town that prospered as a port of call for Choshu and Kitaura whaling and Kitamae ships
In Senzaki, Nagato City, called Setozaki in the Edo period (1603-1867), it was a bustling port town.
In addition to being a fishing port for sardines and whales, it was also a port of call on the westbound route of Kitamae-bune, and commerce thrived there.
With an old map in hand, the Nagato Volunteer Guides' Association will lead you on a tour of the area to see what it must have looked like in those days.

information
- Dates: every Sunday from October 2019 to March 2020
- Start time: 10:00~.
- Meeting place: Roadside Station Senza Kitchen Tourist Information Center YUKUTE
- Time required: about 2 hours (about 3.7 km)
- Participation fee: 500 yen (cash payment on the day)
- Minimum number of participants: 1
- Application deadline: One day before the event date
- Application: Nagato City Tourism & Convention Association TEL: 0837-27-0074 FAX: 0837-27-0079

FAX Application Form
Old Map Walk, Misumi
Origin walk of Seifu Murata and Masanosuke Shufu, who laid the foundation for the Meiji Restoration
Misumi, Nagato City, produced "Murata Seifu," who played a central role in the clan's political reforms and laid the foundation for the Restoration Kaiten, and "Shufu Masanosuke," who was a reformer in the clan and supported the aspirants at the end of the Edo period.
The Misumi Local Culture Study Group will guide you to the places associated with the origin of the local forefathers.

information
- Dates: every Sunday from October 2019 to March 2020
- Start time: 10:00~.
- Meeting place: Seifu Murata Memorial Hall (see MAP)
- Travel time: approx. 2 hours (approx. 4 km)
- Participation fee: 500 yen (cash payment on the day)
- Minimum number of participants: 1
- Application deadline: 3 days before the event date
- Application: Nagato City Tourism & Convention Association TEL: 0837-27-0074 FAX: 0837-27-0079

FAX Application Form
Old map walk, Tawarayama
Onsen ranking West Yokozuna-dono's tour of hot spring cures
During the feudal era, the northern route of the Akamaseki Highway connecting Hagi and Akamaseki was designated to go via Tawarayama Onsen in a roundabout way.
The Tawarayama Shittoru-kai will guide you, map in hand, through the streets of Tawarayama Onsen, a "therapeutic hot spring loved by the feudal lords," where records of successive feudal lords have visited.

information
- Dates: every Sunday from October 2019 to March 2020
- Start time: 10:00~.
- Meeting place: Yumachi Ward parking lot next to Kumano Shrine
- Travel time: about 1 hour and 30 minutes (about 1.2 km)
- Participation fee: 1,000 yen (cash payment on the day)
- Minimum number of participants: 1
- Application deadline: 3 days before the event date
- Application: Tawarayama Onsen Gomei Kaisha TEL: 0837-29-0001
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