Experience

◇◆Factory tour & MY SOCK MAKING◇◆◆
The Japanese sock industry has a long history and tradition. Visit a factory in Nara, which develops and manufactures sports socks used by many professional baseball players.
・You can choose your favourite colour combination and produce your own socks.
・You can experience the sock making by sewing the toes together using a machine and finishing with steam.
・The socks can be taken home on the same day.

Lunch can be enjoyed at a restaurant run by a locally loved sake brewery!
・Sake tasting set.
Soft drinks are also available for those who do not drink alcohol.
・The restaurant has a spacious artificial lawn and benches in front of the restaurant, where you can relax and enjoy your drink.

～Lunch includes～
Beef tenderloin doteyaki (stewed in miso and mirin), Sake-kasu Margherita, 3 types of sake (can be changed to soft drink)

The tour will take you to the World Heritage Site of Horyu-ji Temple.

The guide will accompany you only up to this point. You are free to visit the temple. (Admission fees are not included).
Feel 1,400 years of history at ‘Houryu-ji’, famous for the world's oldest wooden building.

◆ ◆Schedule◇◆◆
9:40 Meet at JR Horyu-ji Station.
↓Transfer by car
10：00 Ueda Co.
Sock factory tour
Make your own socks (colour selection / sew toe by machine / finish work)
↓ Go by car
12:00 Transfer
↓ 12:10
12:10 Choryo Brew Park
Lunch & sake tasting set
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13:10 Move on
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13:30 Arrive at Horyu-ji Temple and finish.


All transfers by car with English-speaking guide.

☆Making Your Own Socks☆
・Choose the length of your socks.
・Choose your favourite colour for each part of the sock.
・Choose your size.
・You will be carefully guided through the operation of the machine. An English-speaking guide will be accompanying.
The colours in this picture are for illustrative purposes only.

The meeting point(The north exit of JR Horyuji Station)