Chauffeur Service

(1) A – B Transfer

Price (Business Class Sedan / Van)

Basic: 7,400 Yen (From Anywhere in Tokyo to Anywhere in Tokyo)

Additions:

Beyond Tokyo: Extra miles cost (Ask for estimates)
Adding waypoints: +3,000 Yen per waypoint

How to order

Please send email to sales@tac-z.com with your Club ID, name, pax and date / time.

(2) Hourly Service

Price (Business Class Van)

Basic: 7,700 Yen per hour

Additions:

Beyond Tokyo: Extra miles cost (Ask for estimates)
Additional time: 3,850 Yen per 30 mins

How to order

Please send email to sales@tac-z.com with your Club ID, name, pax and date / time.

(3) Pottery Workshop (All Time)

Visiting a Mashiko potter and make your own. （http://komine-gama.com/）

We’ll also visit Shoji Hamada Memorial Mashiko Sankokan Museum to learn how the Japanese workmanship on crafts have been developed.

Shoji Hamada was one of the leading potters in modern Japan. Born in 1894 in Kawasaki, he aspired to become a ceramist during the prefectural middle ages of Tokyo. After that, he went on to the ceramics department of Tokyo Higher Industrial School, where he met Kanjiro Kawai, a senior in the second grade, and became a lifelong friend. He traveled to England with Bernard Leach in 1920 and started his career as a potter in England. Shoji Hamada, returned to Japan in 1923, wanted to live in the countryside he knew in England, and moved to Mashiko in Tochigi Prefecture the following year. Established Mingei, a folk art movement with Soetsu Yanagi and Kanjiro Kawai, and worked to popularize it, while establishing a creative style for individual artists’ works with old folk art pottery as a motif. In 1955, he was certified as the first holder of important intangible cultural assets (living national treasure) along with Kenkichi Tomimoto and Toyozora Arakawa, and in 1968, he received the Order of Culture, the third person as a potter.

Itinerary

9:30	Pick-up from your home
12:00	Lunch in Mashiko (most likely Japanese style, around 2,000 Yen per capita)
13:00	Shoji Hamada Memorial Mashiko Sankokan Museum
14:00	Pottery Workshop (2 hours, 1,650 yen for workshop + options around 2,500 yen per person)
17:30	Back to Tokyo

280km / 8 hours

Price

Regular Price: 153,150 Yen (Alphard) / 188,000 Yen (Hiace for two-three family)
Special Offer: 75,000 + Tall (per Alphard) / 98,000 Yen + Toll (per Hiace)
Going by your own car but with a bilingual guide: ask for estimates
Going by your own car (or rent-a-car): Free (Pay your own)

Details

Price includes car, driver, and gas. Toll is not included.
Arrangement for lunch and pottery workshop are included, however, lunch cost and tuition for workshop are not included. You will pay at the locations.