• * Visit the three most popular & scenic spot in Kyoto by this day trip: Miyama Town, Amanohashidate, and Ine Funaya
• * Amanohashidate is situated along a sandbar that separates the Aso Sea from the Sea of Japan and Miyazu Bay
• * Around the coast of Ine Bay, there are approximately 230 boat houses, known as "Funaya" in Japanese
• * Miyama is renowned for Kayabuki-no-Sato, a small village featuring several farmhouses with thatched roofs

Take a bus from Nihonbashi, Osaka, to Gassho Village in Kyoto, known as Miyama in the town of Shirakawa, famed as one of the three major Manjusri. Enjoy the scenic views at your feet. Then head to Ine-cho, a quaint fishing village dubbed the Venice of Japan, where you can admire over 230 ancient boathouses built during the Edo period, a sight seldom seen on other Japanese coastlines