Kendo
Hold the sword in a shrine dōjō under a hanshi. 100 minutes.
KAIDO JOURNEY · For companies and groups
Corporate Team Building & Private Group Experiences on the Old Tōkaidō, Shizuoka
Bring your team together on the old Tōkaidō. Kendo, calligraphy, wagashi and machiya stays for groups of 8 to 30.
Bring your team together
The conversations that never happen in a meeting room.
Hold a bamboo sword in a shrine dōjō. Grind ink in the hall of a four-hundred-year-old temple. Make sweets with a fifth-generation confectioner. KAIDO opens the real places and people of the old Tōkaidō to your team, privately.
From a single half-day experience to a two-day retreat. As a registered travel agency, KAIDO arranges experiences, lodging, meals and transport under one contract.
Corporate event details
What we offer companies and groups
- Groups of 8 to 30 people
- Team building, incentive groups, executive retreats, visits by overseas teams
- Half day (one experience, about 100 minutes), full day, or a two-day retreat
- Completely private. No other guests
- Bilingual hosting in English and Japanese
- Work alongside the practitioners: a kendo hanshi, a calligrapher, a fifth-generation confectioner, a master onishi
- Photos taken throughout the day and sent to the organiser afterwards
- Lodging, meals and transport arranged by KAIDO as a registered travel agency
- Please enquire for pricing
Combine
The experiences, and the houses.
One on its own, or several in a row. We shape it around your dates and your group.
Calligraphy
Write your own word in a four-hundred-year-old temple. 100 minutes.
Wagashi
Make this month's sweet with a fifth-generation confectioner. 100 minutes.
Onishi
Two days making a guardian roof tile. Delivered about a month later.
Lodging in our whole houses on the old Tōkaidō (Soku-an, Seisei-an momen and anco, TENMA Ejiri), combined with hotels for larger groups. See the houses
Let's create your perfect event
Tell us about your team. We will shape the rest.
Send us your dates, group size and purpose: team building, training, an executive retreat, a visit from an overseas office. We reply with a proposal and a quote, usually within two business days.
KAIDO Inc. is a region-limited travel agency registered with the Governor of Shizuoka Prefecture (No. 地-48, registered 9 July 2026). Travel Services Manager: Hideko Makita.
Special plan
Festival Edition 2027
Four days on the old Tōkaidō ending at the Fujisan Cup, the week after the World Kendo Championships. Private departures run year-round.
— KAIDO JOURNEY —
Festival Edition — June 1–4, 2027 · ends at the Fujisan Cup
Mt. Fuji to Fujieda.
Four days on the old Tōkaidō — private coach, interpreter-guide, morning keiko in a real dōjō, tea country and the post towns.
June 1 (Tue) – June 4 (Fri), 2027 | 4 nights | private coach
How the week fits together.
About an hour from Tokyo by shinkansen. The Festival Edition begins at Shin-Fuji Station and delivers you to the taikai hall in Fujieda — entry included, hotel included through the festival.
01
20th World Kendo Championship
May 27–30
Nippon Budokan, Tokyo
02
This journey (Festival Edition)
June 1–4, plus the festival night (check-out June 5)
Fujinomiya → Shizuoka → Fujieda
03
Fujisan Cup 2027 — entry included
June 4–5
Fujieda, Shizuoka Prefecture
Not sightseeing. A journey.
The Tōkaidō is the old road that joined Edo and Kyoto. We follow its middle stretch — from the foot of Mt. Fuji to Fujieda — over four days, by private coach — a chartered bus — with an interpreter-guide the whole way.
Pay respects at Sengen Taisha, step into a sake brewery, and come down to Okitsu — a post town on the old road — to sleep in a hundred-year-old machiya we brought back ourselves. Next morning: zazen before breakfast, then the street outside your door with a sealed letter in hand. Print an ukiyo-e, train with local kenshi, take tea where gyokuro is grown. On the fourth day you arrive at the hall — and the festival is yours: entry to the Fujisan Cup is part of the journey.
Itinerary — Festival Edition
Venues and lodgings are confirmed in the final itinerary sent before departure. Machiya nights are limited by the number of houses; larger parties are split between the machiya and a nearby ryokan.
Day 1
June 1 (Tue)
Mt. Fuji, then the old post town
- 12:50 meet at Shin-Fuji Station (please have lunch beforehand)
- Mt. Fuji World Heritage Centre
- Fujisan Hongū Sengen Taisha — worship and temple-front streets
- Fuji Takasago sake brewery — tour and tasting
- Shiraito Falls
- Evening: down to Okitsu, a post town on the old Tōkaidō — check in at Seisei-an
Seisei-an — a hundred-year-old machiya we restored, two minutes from the station
Day 2
June 2 (Wed)
A morning in Okitsu, then the sea
- Spiritual Morning — zazen or sutra-copying before breakfast, at a temple in Okitsu (optional)
- The Daimyō Walk — an old-road map, a sealed letter and one gold ryō, spent on the post-town street
- Tōkaidō Hiroshige Museum of Art, Yui — ukiyo-e printing workshop
- Lunch at Kashi-no-Ichi fish market, Shimizu port
- Nihondaira Yume Terrace
Hotel, Shizuoka City
Day 3
June 3 (Thu)
Morning keiko, tea country
- Morning keiko at Yōkōkan dōjō, Shizuoka Gokoku Shrine (join the practice, or watch)
- Gyokuro-no-Sato, Asahina — lunch and a bowl of tea
- Ōhatago Kashibaya, Okabe-juku — an inn that served travellers for three centuries
- Evening: into Fujieda, walking distance from the hall
Hotel, Fujieda (walking distance to the hall)
Day 4
June 4 (Fri)
Fujieda — the festival is yours
- Slow morning; luggage goes ahead by coach
- Around noon: check-in at Fujieda City Gymnasium — your festival entry is already covered
- Afternoon: the Fujisan Cup 2027 opens — compete or cheer
- Festival day two (June 5) — finals and farewells
Hotel, Fujieda — festival night included (check-out June 5)
— The First Night —
You sleep in a house we brought back.
Okitsu was a post town on the old Tōkaidō, and Seisei-an is a merchant house there, a hundred years old, empty for years until we restored it room by room. Black-lacquered beams, tatami, a garden you can see from the floor. Futons made by a craftsman with a ten-year waiting list. In the morning, zazen before breakfast if you wish — and the street outside the door is the same street the map in your hand was drawn for.
Machiya nights are limited by the number of houses. Larger parties are split between Seisei-an and a ryokan a short walk away — tell us your preference when you apply.
The nights that follow
The remaining three nights are hotels — one in Shizuoka City, two in Fujieda within walking distance of the hall. Single rooms, quiet, with a desk and a window. Nothing grand, and deliberately so: after a morning of keiko and two days of taikai, what matters is a room where you sleep well and wake up ready.
— The Experiences —
Small hours you will not forget
Three moments woven into the four days — filmed and photographed on the road, with guests who walked it before you.
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Morning keiko at Yōkōkan
A dōjō in the woods of Shizuoka Gokoku Shrine, on the morning of day three. Local kenshi arrive early, and you join them. Your bōgu travels with us on the bus — and if you would rather watch from the wall, that is a fine way to spend a morning too.
Keiko with local kenshi — every level welcome
02
The Daimyō Walk
On the morning of day two you step straight out of the machiya into Okitsu, and you are handed an old-road map, a sealed letter, and a single gold ryō struck with Mt. Fuji. Spend it as travellers did four hundred years ago — the sweet-shop on the post-town street knows exactly what it is worth. A small game, played on a real road.
One gold ryō, a sealed letter, and manjū from the post town
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Spiritual Morning
Before breakfast on day two, in the machiya where you slept: zazen, or sutra-copying with a brush, in the quiet of the morning. Optional, unhurried, and — guests keep telling us — the part of the journey that stays longest.
Sutra-copying before breakfast — one line at a time
— The Festival Nights —
Then, the hall fills.
On June 4 the hall fills. Two days of matches, keiko with 7th and 8th dan sensei, and a floor full of people who crossed borders to be there. An evening programme for competitors is under discussion — the festival will announce it once confirmed. Your entry is already in your pocket.
Keiko alongside 7th and 8th dan sensei
Two days of taikai in Fujieda
Price — Festival Edition
To be announcedper person · festival entry included
The price is announced in autumn 2026, when booking opens together with the terms and conditions of travel.
Included
- Entry to the Fujisan Cup 2027 (June 4–5) — compete or watch, no extra fee
- 4 nights — a night in our restored machiya, then hotels, and the festival night in Fujieda
- Private coach throughout (with bōgu space)
- 8 meals (3 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 3 dinners)
- All listed experiences and entries, morning keiko arrangement
- Interpreter-guide for the whole journey
Not included
- Travel between Tokyo and Shin-Fuji (arrange your own)
- Accommodation from the night of June 5 onward
- Meals and drinks not listed
- Travel insurance (please arrange cover)
- ・Capacity 40 — one 55-seat coach, never filled to the last seat, for bōgu and luggage
- ・Minimum 15 participants to operate
- ・Booking deadline: end of February 2027 (planned)
Formal booking opens in autumn 2026, together with the terms and conditions of travel. This page is provided as information. Planned and operated by KAIDO Inc. — Travel Agency registered with the Governor of Shizuoka, No. Chi-48 (regional) · Certified Travel Services Manager: Hideko Makita.
A machiya morning on the old Tōkaidō — private departures can include stays in our restored houses
The same road, on your own dates
This journey does not need a tournament. For dōjō groups, families and friends we arrange the same four days — morning keiko included — as a private departure, in any season. Tell us your dates and your party, and we will build the itinerary around you. The price differs from the Festival Edition: transport is chartered for your party alone, so the cost per person depends on how many of you travel.
Shizuoka International Kendo Festival
Fujisan Cup 2027
Where the Festival Edition ends — an international kendo taikai in Fujieda, the week after the World Championships. Friendly matches, and keiko alongside 7th and 8th dan sensei. Your entry is included in this journey; tournament details are on the official site.
June 4 (Fri) – 5 (Sat), 2027｜Fujieda, Shizuoka Prefecture
Take your place.
Places are held in the order applications arrive. Nothing is binding at this stage — the travel contract is concluded in autumn 2026, once you have received the full terms in writing.
KAIDO WALK · SHOGUN · Satta Pass
Coming as a small party? This way.
A four-day walk for 2 to 5 people: receive the Shogun's letter at the house in Okitsu, cross Satta Pass as the Shogun's envoy and deliver it to Kanbara.
Tour Operator ／ 旅行企画・実施
- Company ／ 会社名
- KAIDO Inc.株式会社KAI堂
- Address ／ 所在地
- 341 Oba, Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka, Japan静岡県静岡市清水区尾羽341
- Registration ／ 登録番号
- Region-Limited Travel Agency, registered with the Governor of Shizuoka Prefecture, No. 地-48静岡県知事登録旅行業 第 地-48 号
- Travel Services Manager ／ 旅行業務取扱管理者
- Hideko Makita牧田 秀子
- Contact ／ 連絡先
- info@kaido-japan.com
Before any contract is concluded, we provide a written statement of travel conditions and, upon conclusion, a contract document. With your consent these are sent by email as PDF; paper copies are available on request at any time. If you ask, the Travel Services Manager named above will explain the conditions to you directly.ご契約の前に取引条件説明書面を、ご契約後に契約書面をお渡しします。ご承諾をいただいた場合は電子メール（PDF）でお送りし、ご希望があればいつでも書面でお送りします。お求めがあれば、上記の旅行業務取扱管理者が最終的な説明を行います。
Watch the films of kendo practitioners in Europe (Way of Life)
June 4–5, 2027 · Fujieda, Shizuoka
Fujisan Cup — Shizuoka International Kendo Festival
The week after the World Kendo Championships in Tokyo. Early-interest registration is open.
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