World Agricultural Heritage Brompton Bicycle Tour

Explore the streets where old-fashioned life remains. An elegant time to buy sweets at a local Japanese confectionery store and eat them in an old mansion in the Edo period. If you run along Japan's best clear stream, Sadamitsu River, you can see steep slopes of the World Agricultural Heritage and beautiful waterfalls.

Itinerary

This tour focuses on an area that was accredited as World Agricultural Heritage in 2018. You can experience life in the mountains, visiting settlements perched on the V-shaped valley carved by the pure river.

We’ll show you things that don’t feature on the usual tourist route — the blue stones of this region, a huge basin carved out by the river, the 85 m Narutaki Waterfall, and the precipitously sloping farm plots of Sarukai Village with its spectacular vistas.

At weekends, we recommend the Iwado buffet lunch made with local seasonal ingredients.

On the Sadamitsu double udatsu street you can get a feel of the life of the successful Shikoku merchants of the Edo period. People are still living in these houses with their intensely nostalgic atmosphere. The Brompton bike is the ideal way to discover these back alleys.

There’s also the Sadamitsu River Short Tour which is limited to summer.

Stop At:

• Tsurugi-cho, Tsurugi-cho, Mima-gun, Tokushima Prefecture, Shikoku
• Savor Japan, 1-2-1, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda 100-0013 Tokyo Prefecture