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Immerse yourself in a side of Japan where cutting-edge modern aesthetics seamlessly intertwine with centuries-old traditions. This carefully curated 10-day study tour invites art enthusiasts, creators, and design lovers to explore the cultural riches of the Hokuriku region—a stunning, lesser-known area of Japan nestled between the Sea of Japan and the majestic Japan Alps.

这是一场专为艺术爱好者、创作者与设计爱好者量身打造的深度日本美学探索之旅,我们将带你走入日本海与日本阿尔卑斯山之间鲜为人知的北陆地区,在10天的行程里,亲眼见证前沿现代美学与传承千年的古老传统如何在这片土地上自然共生。

Departing from Tokyo, our route follows the Hokuriku Shinkansen line with a series of inspiring stops, taking you deep into a region where landscapes, traditional crafts, and heritage are flawlessly preserved. Because cities like Kanazawa were left unharmed during World War II, they offer a rare, unbroken window into Japan's cultural evolution.

我们从东京出发,沿着北陆新干线路线开启一系列充满灵感的停靠站,带您深入探访自然风光、传统工艺与历史遗产皆完美保存的地区。由于金泽等城市在第二次世界大战中未受破坏,为我们提供了一个珍贵且未曾断代窗口,去窥见日本文化的演变历程。

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Throughout this immersive tour, participants will be introduced to a rich collection of architectural movements spanning generations. You will explore traditional masterpieces like Nagano's Zenkoji Temple, step into pre-war modernism at the National Crafts Museum, and admire striking contemporary works from more than a dozen visionary creators, featured at acclaimed sites like the D.T. Sukuzi Museum and the Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art.

在这场沉浸式的旅程中,您将接触到跨越数个世代、丰富多元的建筑流派。您将探访长野善光寺等传统杰作,走进国立工艺馆感受战前现代主义建筑的魅力,并欣赏如铃木大拙馆和金泽21世纪美术馆等由十多位日本当代顶尖创作者的标志性作品。

​Art, architecture, and design are beautifully woven into almost every detail of this journey, including your accommodations. Each stay has been thoughtfully selected to mirror the tour's design ethos, offering a dynamic mix of environments.

艺术、建筑与设计巧妙地编织在这次旅程的每一个细节中,包括住宿。每一次住宿都经过深思熟虑的挑选,以呼应本次行程的设计理念,带来充满动态变化的居住体验。

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You will spend your nights moving from the colorful, design-forward rooms of Tokyo's Toggle Hotel to authentic temple lodgings (shukubo) in Nagano, before settling into the minimalist, striking woodwork of KUMU Kanazawa and finishing at the stylish Hotel Noum Osaka. This journey offers an unparalleled look into the spaces, structures, and philosophies shaping Japanese design before concluding our tour in Osaka.

 

从东京Toggle酒店色彩鲜明、极具设计感的客房开始,入住长野传统的善光寺宿坊(寺庙住宿),随后下榻于散发着极简与惊艳木艺美学的金泽KUMU 酒店,最后在独具格调的大阪Noum酒店为旅程画上句号。本次行程将为您提供一个无与伦比的视角,去解构塑造日本设计的空间、结构与哲学,最终在大阪圆满解散。

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Highlights
行程亮点
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Michelin Guide Selected Accommodation
米其林指南精选酒店

Experience the perfect blend of local culture and hospitality. Rather than just a place to sleep, these meticulously curated spaces, such as KUMU Kanazawa and Hotel Noum Osaka, are destinations in their own right. They focus on contemporary design, thoughtful integration of regional craftsmanship, and a relaxed, artistic ambiance that redefines accommodation.

行程中为您挑选的金泽KUMU与大阪Noum酒店,绝非仅仅是休憩的场所,更是建筑与美学设计的延伸。这些空间将现代极简主义与地方传统工艺完美融合,营造出极具艺术气息的放松氛围,让旅宿本身成为探索城市底蕴的重要一环。

Priztker Prize Architecture
普利兹克奖建筑

Step inside a masterclass of structural genius. This segment of the tour showcases buildings honored with the Pritzker Prize, the Nobel Prize of the architecture world. By exploring icons like the Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, you will experience firsthand how world-class architects use space, natural light, and innovative geometry to seamlessly blend art with the surrounding community.

步入建筑界的顶尖殿堂,亲身体验空间大师的几何奇迹。本行程将带您朝圣荣获建筑界诺贝尔奖“普利兹克奖”的经典作品 - 金泽21世纪美术馆。在这里,您将见证顶尖大师如何打破艺术与公众的边界,巧妙运用自然光影与通透流畅的空间流动,让建筑化身为一件巨大的公共艺术装置。

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1300-year-old Onsen Town
1300年历史温泉乡

Journey back in time to the historic heart of Japanese wellness culture. Nestled in the Hokuriku region, these hot spring destinations boast over 1,300 years of therapeutic heritage. From the sleek, modern glass lines of the Kaga Katayamazu City Spa to the traditional, retro charm of Yamashiro Onsen, you will experience how Japan's ancient bathhouse traditions have evolved alongside cutting-edge modern design.

穿越时光的洗礼,沉浸于传承千年的日本汤治文化。北陆地区的温泉源远流长,拥有超过1300年的疗愈历史。从兼具现代剔透玻璃美学的加贺片山津温泉总汤,到散发浓郁复古风情的山代温泉,您将在这场温泉乡之旅中,体会古老名汤在当代设计语言下的完美蜕变与新生。

One of the world's most beautiful libraries
​世界上最美的图书馆之一

Discover how books and breathtaking design come together in spaces built to inspire. This journey introduces you to revolutionary spaces like the Kanazawa Umimirai Library, famous for its futuristic "cake box" wall punched with thousands of light-filtering holes, and the Ishikawa Prefectural Library, styled like a grand, multi-tiered amphitheater. They are vibrant community living rooms that completely transform the traditional library concept.

见证阅读空间与颠覆性设计的震撼碰撞,颠覆您对传统图书馆的想象。此行将探访被誉为全球最美阅读空间之一的金泽海未来图书馆,其科幻感十足的“蛋糕盒”外墙镶嵌着数千个圆形采光孔;以及气势磅礴、宛如罗马斗兽场般多层环绕的石川县立图书馆。它们不仅是知识的宝库,更是让人灵感迸发的先锋视觉艺术空间。

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Three Great Gardens of Japan
日本三名园

Immerse yourself in centuries of landscape perfection. Kenrokuen Garden is universally celebrated as one of Japan's "Three Great Gardens" (Nihon Sanmeien). Developed over generations during the Edo period, it is designed to showcase visual perfection across all four seasons. Walking its paths lets you experience the delicate harmony between human artistry and wild nature, featuring rolling ponds, historic teahouses, and ancient pine trees.

漫步于跨越数百年的景观之巅,体会东方美学的极致留白与平衡。 作为日本公认的“三大名园”之一,兼六园凝聚了江户时代历代加贺藩主的匠心。庭园设计精妙绝伦,完美体现了宏大、幽邃、人力、苍古、水泉、眺望等六种景观意境。四季美景轮转,古松幽池错落,每一步皆是流动的东方山水画卷。

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Modules
单元

01

​SANAA
妹岛和世 + 西泽立卫

Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art / 金泽21世纪美术馆  

Founded in 1995 by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, the Tokyo-based studio SANAA is celebrated globally for its ethereal, lightweight, and ultra-minimalist architecture. Winners of the prestigious 2010 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the duo is famous for erasing the boundaries between inside and outside, using glass and steel to create structures that feel almost weightless and completely democratic.

 

This module centers on the Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, a low-slung, circular glass pavilion designed without a fixed front or back entry. By eliminating physical hierarchies, SANAA's architecture allows natural light and the surrounding public park to flow through the galleries. Travelers will analyze how their signature use of slim steel pillars, flat white surfaces, and expansive glass panels breaks down the traditional fortress-like museum archetype to foster community interaction.

SANAA建筑设计事务所由妹岛和世与西泽立卫于1995年在东京创立。他们凭借空灵、轻盈、极致极简的建筑风格享誉全球,并于2010年荣获建筑界最高荣誉——普利兹克建筑奖。SANAA擅长模糊建筑内外的界限,通过对玻璃和钢材的绝妙运用,创造出仿佛没有重量、且对所有人完全开放的民主化建筑空间。

 

作为SANAA的代表作之一的金泽21世纪美术馆是一座低矮、扁平且完美的圆形玻璃晶体建筑,设计上彻底打破了传统建筑“正门与后门”的固有观念。通过消除空间的等级制度,SANAA让自然光线和周围的公共公园绿地自由地穿透展厅。参与者将在这里深入解析他们标志性的细钢柱、纯白墙面与大面积弧形玻璃,看它们如何瓦解传统博物馆“堡垒式”的封闭感,从而促进人与人、人与艺术之间的流动与社交。

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Yoshio Taniguchi
谷口吉生

Nagano Prefectural Art Museum Higashiyama Kaii Gallery / 长野县立美术馆东山魁夷馆

Kaga Katayamazu City Spa / 加贺片山津温泉总汤

Yoshiro and Yoshio Taniguchi Museum of Architecture / 谷口吉郎/吉生纪念金泽建筑馆 

D. T. Suzuki Museum​ / 铃木大拙馆

Yoshio Taniguchi is a master of museum architecture, best known internationally for his stunning 2004 redesign of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. The son of legendary architect Yoshiro Taniguchi, Yoshio refined a signature style that fuses the crisp, geometric lines of Western mid-century modernism with the profound stillness and spatial awareness of traditional Japanese Zen philosophy.

 

This module takes you deep into his refined design language at the D.T. Suzuki Museum, where you will study his iconic "Water Mirror Garden" to observe how flat water canvases generate spatial reflection and spiritual silence. The exploration continues at the Yoshiro and Yoshio Taniguchi Museum of Architecture, which honors his family's multi-generational design legacy. Travelers will focus on the framing of negative space (ma) and the seamless connection between pristine interior pathways and external natural elements.

谷口吉生是当代博物馆建筑领域的殿堂级大师,其最瞩目的国际代表作便是纽约现代艺术博物馆(MoMA)的扩建设计。作为日本一代建筑巨匠谷口吉郎之子,谷口吉生将西方中世纪现代主义的利落几何线条,与日本传统禅宗哲学中对静谧、空间意识的追求完美融合,形成了其大巧若拙、冷峻而深邃的个人风格。

 

本行程将带您深入研习他精妙的建筑语言。在铃木大拙馆,您将凝视其标志性的“水镜庭园”,切身感受平静的水面如何延伸空间、折射光影并营造出绝对的精神静谧。随后,行程将前往谷口吉郎/吉生纪念金泽建筑馆,这座建于其家族故居之上的建筑记录了两代大师的结构传承。

03

​Hiroshi Naito
内藤广

Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art & Design / 富山县立美术馆

Yamashiro Onsen / 山代温泉

Hiroshi Naito is an influential architect and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo, renowned for his philosophy of "tectonic reality." Rather than chasing fleeting design trends, Naito focuses on the honest, muscular expression of materials and engineering. His buildings are deeply respected for their structural resilience, climate responsiveness, and powerful harmony with surrounding natural landscapes.

 

In this module, you will tour the Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art & Design, evaluating how Naito handles structural scale along the Kansui Park waterfront. You will examine the building's expansive wood-paneled interior staircases and its open, public rooftop layout. The curriculum focuses on how his material-driven architecture, utilizing exposed beams, timber, and glass, can remain light, airy, and deeply sensitive to a region's sweeping topography and unique environment.

内藤广是日本极具影响力的建筑师,同时也是东京大学的名誉教授。他毕生践行“构造现实”的建筑哲学,不盲目追逐转瞬即逝的设计潮流,而是专注于材料和工程学最诚实、最具有肌肉感的表达。他的建筑作品因对材料的敬畏、强大的抗灾韧性以及与周围严苛自然环境的深刻共鸣而备受业界推崇。

 

在本行程中,您将造访坐落于环水公园畔的富山县立美术馆,评估内藤广如何在水岸边驾驭宏大的结构体量。您将近距离观察建筑内部由大量木质格栅包裹的宏伟楼梯,以及完全向公众开放、能够将远方立山连峰的绵延山线尽收眼底的屋顶花园。

04

​Kengo Kuma and Associates
​隈研吾

Toyama Glass Art Museum / 富山玻璃美术馆

Kengo Kuma is one of Japan's most prolific and famous contemporary architects, globally recognized for designing the Tokyo National Stadium for the 2020 Olympics. Kuma advocates for what he calls "weak architecture"—structures that deliberately avoid imposing concrete mass. Instead, he utilizes intricate, repeating screens of natural timber, stone, and bamboo to dissolve buildings into their organic environments.

 

This module highlights TOYAMA Kirari (Toyama Glass Art Museum), where you will step into a breathtaking, diagonal interior canyon constructed of local cedar planks, glass, and aluminum that dynamically plays with shadows and light. 

隈研吾是当今日本最多产且最具国际知名度的建筑大师之一,曾担纲设计了2020年东京奥运会主场馆——国立竞技场。隈研吾强烈反对用庞大、冰冷的混凝土块去支配环境,而是主张“负建筑”。他擅长将木材、石材、竹子等天然材料转化为精密的、重复的格栅与百叶,让建筑在视觉上溶解于有机的自然环境中。

 

本行程中的富山玻璃美术馆即是他的作品。步入其中,您将置身于一个由当地杉木板、玻璃和铝板交错排列而成的巨大对角线中庭斜谷,体验光影与材质的动态嬉戏。

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Proposed Itinerary
暂定行程
Essential Information
基本信息

Dates

7th December 2026 ~ 16th December 2026

1st February 2027 ~ 10th February 2027

7th June 2027 ~ 16th June 2027

20th December 2027 ~ 29th December 2027

Maximum number of participants 13 people (including one team leader)

Minimum number of participants 4 people (excluding team leader)

Time and Venue of Assembly Day 1 09:00 Narita International Airport

Time and Venue of Dismissal Day 10 08:00 Kansai International Airport

Basic Plan (excluding flights) 

JPY 230000/pax or RM 5999/pax or CNY 9990/pax or SGD 1910/pax

Application deadline 30 days before date of departure

Please note that people with poor physical condition, those who use wheelchairs or other equipment, those with mental or physical disabilities, pregnant women, those who may become pregnant, those who are accompanied by assistance dogs for the physically handicapped (guide dogs, hearing dogs, service dogs), and other people who need special consideration may not participate.

Besides, participants under the age of 18 are required to submit a written consent from their parent or guardian. Parent or guardian for participants under the age of 15 are required to appoint an adult companion for the journey. Please download, print, fill in, and submit the consent here.

WRITTEN CONSENT FOR MINOR TRAVELING WITH ONLY ONE PARENT OR GUARDIAN OR WITHOUT EITHER PARENT OR GUARDIAN

日期

2026年12月7日~2026年12月16日

2027年2月1日~2027年2月10日

2027年6月7日~2027年6月16日

2027年12月20日~2027年12月29日

人数 1名带队人员,含带队人员总共不超过13人

最低成团人数 不含带队人员4人

集合时间和地点 第一天9时于成田国际机场

解散时间和地点 第十天8时于关西国际机场

基础套餐(不含往返机票) 

日元 230000/人 或 5999令吉/人 或 人民币9990元/人 或 1910新元/人

报名截止日期 行程首日30天前

本次行程运动强度较大,因此身体状况不佳者、使用轮椅或其他设备者、精神或身体残疾者、孕妇、可能怀孕者、由肢体残疾人协助犬(导盲犬、助听犬、服务犬)陪同者以及其他需要特殊考虑的人员,不予参加,望您谅解。

另外,18岁以下的出行者须提交亲权人的书面同意。15 岁以下出行者的亲权人必须指定一名成人陪同出行者一同参加旅程。请在此下载、打印、填写并提交未成年人旅行亲权人同意书及委托书。

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