It is near the Yoshino river, a 2-minute walk from the Big Smile Awakawaguchi meeting place.
If you come to the meeting place, our staff will guide you.
If you are lost, please call our direct phone.
Yoshinogawa half-day course: 080-9161-8959
From our meeting place, proceed along the river.
Go under the railroad tracks.
Parking lot for about 100 cars.
Q. Can I park a bus? A. Medium-sized buses (those without an outdoor unit or antenna for air conditioning) can be parked. Large buses cannot be parked.
For large buses, please contact Oboke Michi no Eki (Roadside Station) (Tel. 0883-84-1489).
However, parking may be difficult during the high tourist season.
If you are refused, please contact Yoshino River Half-Day Course (080-9161-8959).
People can be dropped off and picked up not in front of the base, but on the roadside strip (Route 319) near Super Market Frutani.
For each boat, the guide will take photos of the rafting trip, and a screening will be held after the trip.If you like the photos, you can buy them as data for each boat.
Prices are different for half-day rafting and full-day rafting.
【Half-day Rafting and Family rafting】
The rafting guide takes about 30~40 photos per boat.
All photo data is be sold for ¥2,000.
【Full-Day Rafting 】
The rafting guide takes about 40 pictures per boat.
A photographer on land takes about 20 photos per boat with a single-lens reflex camera, which is about 60 photos.
All photo data is sold for ¥3,000.
【How to share data】
We put the data into your iPhone via a lightning cable.
Please share it with someone else in your group.
For those who want the data on an SD card instead of on an Android phone or smartphone, we can sell the data on an SD card.
The half-day and family courses are ¥3,000 and the full-day course is ¥4,000 (tax included), including SD card fee.
For security reasons, we do not allow your own SD cards.
We do not recommend that you bring a camera to the river as you may lose it. It is also a cause of injury, so it is recommended that you do not bring anything with you.
[About bringing cameras or GoPro]
You can bring your own, but you will surely get wet because there is a torrent that will cover your head with water.
We have had many guests who have lost theirs, so we do not recommend it.
Any malfunction or loss is your own responsibility. Please understand this in advance.
Our rafting guides take pictures of you on the boat.
The photos are for sale, but we hope you will consider purchasing them as they will be a memorable experience.
If you have a photo you would like to have taken, please feel free to make a request to the guide!
We will try to satisfy your wishes as much as possible! LOL!
This is an 8-passenger boat including 7 guests and one of our guides.
Small groups of guests will share a boat with other small groups of guests.
Usually, you are in the same group, and we try not to keep the boats separated as much as possible. But for these reasons, we cannot guarantee that the same group may be together.
(1) Percentage of guests on the day of the event
(2) Adjustment of boat weight when the water level rises
(3) Availability of seats when jumped-in reservations are made on-site on the day of the event
For reservations of 8 or more people, we will split up the boat.
The available seats may be shared with other guests in a smaller group.
♦Yoshino Half-day rafting and One-day rafting minimum age
Yoshinogawa river rafting course is open to those between the ages of 18 and 65.
However, for safety reasons, people who have been drinking alcohol, are pregnant, or have any other obstacles to rafting are not allowed to participate.
♦Yoshino Family rafting minimum age
The Yoshinogawa River Family Course is open to participants 7 years of age and older.
For safety reasons, this course is also not open to those who have been drinking alcohol, are pregnant, or have any other obstacles that would interfere with rafting.
♦White Water Rafting Rules
1．Please be sure to follow the guide’s instructions during the tour.
2．If you are injured or feel unwell, please notify our staff.
3．Please listen carefully to the safety instructions.
4．Please be sure to read and fill out the Pre-tour Participation Authorization Form before the tour.
Both the morning and afternoon courses take about 3 hours and 30 minutes.
From the time of meeting to the time of breaking up, it takes about 3 hours and 30 minutes including the time to change clothes.
約It takes 1 hour to 1 hour and 30 minutes to raft the 4km course.
The end time sometimes changes depending on the season, water volume.
Q．Is the course the same in the morning and afternoon?
A． No, they are different.
The morning course takes about 15 minutes from the meeting place to the starting point by our minibus, and returns to our meeting place by minibus from the finishing point.
In the afternoon course, we will take a microbus from the same meeting place as the morning course to the starting point, which is about 5 minutes away, and return to our meeting place after about a 3 minute walk from the finishing point.
Both the morning and afternoon courses have the same number of the wildest rapids points.
This is a detail about Yoshinogawa River.
♦ About the morning course
In the morning course, you can enjoy the huge rapids where the waves are large and go over big waves.
The thrilling motion of the boat rising up out of the water is unique to rafting!
Also, compared to the afternoon course, some points are shallower and gentler, so you can spot river fish and feel the crystal clear water.
This morning course is recommended for those who want to enjoy the scenery of the Yoshino River on the way down, and for those who want to relax on the river!
♦About the afternoon course
In the afternoon, you can enjoy the wildest rapids with a drop-off.
Depending on the rapids, the drop is 2~3 meters!
It is sure to be very exciting!
Compared to the morning course, this course has more depth, so you can play many games using a boat.
This afternoon course is recommended for those who want to play hard and powerful.
Please choose the course you want to take depends on your schedule and preference.
