【Summer Vacation: July 19 – August 24, 2025】 Touching Oyama, learning rivers and nature, free research & activities perfect for homework during summer vacation

Nature guided tour to learn about the forest, water and river

Time: From 16:00 (Required time: about 1.5 hours)
Capacity: 20 people
Location: Forest road walk course (about 20 to 30 minutes from the hotel)
Price: 500 yen per person
Reservation: Advance reservation required

　
A nature guide walks along the forest road from the hotel with customers and explains plants and creatures.
During the tour, you can experience the coldness by touching the river, listen to the birds singing while strolling through the forest, and enjoy the scent of cromoji. In addition, we will experience drinking and comparing water such as local water, domestic commercially available water, and hard water overseas. You can feel nature through the five senses, such as seeing, touching, and smelling.

Let's make a wood pen

Time: 15:00～　／　From 17:00 to 2-part system (required time: about 1 hour)
Capacity: Up to 20 people each time
Location: 1st floor free space
Price: 500 yen per piece
Reservation: Advance reservation required

　
On the forest road that spreads out in the backyard of the hotel, we will go to find branches of trees with different shapes and textures, and carry out a craft experience utilizing this natural material. While enjoying the feel of wood, the lines and pictures drawn with the pen you made will also be an unforgettable memory of summer.

Dr. Mizu Morikawa's quiz rally

Time: 9:00～19:00
Location: Forest road walk course (about 20-30 minutes one way from the hotel)
Price: for guests staying at the hotel.
　
While walking along the forest road leading from the backyard of our hotel to "Jizo Falls Izumi", which was selected as one of the 100 Best Waters in Heisei, you can use a smartphone app to solve quizzes on nature and water installed in various places. For example, "Which creature is living in a beautiful river?" “What is Ayu eating?” "If one 500ml plastic bottle of tempura oil is poured into the river, how much water is needed to return it to the river where fish can accumulate?" The theme is the content that parents and children can enjoy. You can learn in the healing natural environment where the birdsong and the babbling of the river echoes.

Let's make monsters! ‧ River Creatures

Time: From 17:00 to 19:00 (take time: about 20 to 30 minutes)
Location: 1st floor free space
Price: 500 yen per time
Please come to the venue on the day
　
We will hold an art workshop "Let's Make Monsters" that nurtures children's imagination with Mr. Kohei Asakura, a picture artist living in Daisen Town, as a lecturer. Based on motifs such as creatures living in the river, he created his own "monster cover" using newspapers and colorful tapes. You can enjoy a workshop that combines art, learning, and play.

Starry sky viewing party - Summer astronomical observation in Hoshitori Prefecture

Time: From 21:00 (Required time: about 1 hour)
Capacity: 20 people
Location: Hotel premises
Price: 500 yen per person
Reservation: Advance reservation required

　
Tottori Prefecture is a beautiful area with a starry sky known as "Hoshitori Prefecture". At the "Starry Sky Watching Party", which is held with star specialists, the observation location will be changed and explained depending on the constellations that color the summer night sky and the stars that can be seen on the day, such as the "Summer Great Triangle", and full-scale astronomical observation using a telescope You can also experience. In the event of rain, we will explain the stars in the museum, so you can learn about the stars and the universe.

Coffee sachet making experience

Time: From 16:00 to 17:00 (Required time: about 20 minutes to make sachet)
Location: 1st floor free space
Price: 500 yen per person
Please come to the venue on the day

July 21 and August 14 only
Oku-Oyama's washing coffee course & coffee sachet making experience
Time: From 16:00 to 17:00 (Required time: about 1 hour)
Capacity: 20 people
Location: 1st floor free space
Price: 500 yen per person
Reservation: Advance reservation required

　
A sustainable experience using coffee lees at local Discovery. Make your own original coffee sachet! On July 21 and August 14, a coffee workshop will be held with Mr. Endo, a flush coffee coffee from Okuyama.