



Discover the journey.
The story of the land you can meet at a hotel






While being casual
The journey gets deeper.
"Local Discovery" in Grand Mercure / Mercure delivers such experiences only to guests at the hotel.
In every region, there are stories that the people living there have been carefully spinning. I want you to make your trip even richer with the sparkle scattered in everyday life. From such a thought, we have prepared a selection of activities.
For example, make crafts yourself and experience traditional culture.
Try to taste the specialty products in the same style as the locals.
Take your mind and body in nature and feel the air of the land.
There are discoveries and excitement that can only be encountered by approaching the "people who travel", one step further from the "people who live".
With a comfortable stay style of all-inclusive that can be enjoyed together with meals, lounges, and hot springs, the story unique to the area where you can enjoy without special preparation.
The warmth that is passed down over time and connects people and breathes together, will be a memory that will deeply permeate the heart, never ending with fun memories alone.
Discover the journey.
Please go out on a journey where "Local Discovery" awaits you to touch, taste, and feel.
Make and touch
- ・Pendant assembly experience with Ainu patterns (Sapporo Odori Park)
- ・Nature Craft Experience (Miyagi Zao)
- ・Red Beko Painting Experience Red Beko Painting (Urabandai)
- ・Digital Painting (Nasu Kogen)
- ・Craft experience made from Minami Boso materials (Minami Boso)
- ・Making Kanei era tsuho bracelet with a six-monsen motif (Matsushiro Nagano)
- ・Hokuriku Mizuhiki experience plum knot (Tonami Toyama)
- ・Experience making silk braided misanga (Miyazu, Kyoto)
- ・Made with Yoshino handmade Japanese paper! Original Bookmarks (Nara Kashihara)
- ・Experience making tatami coaster (Nara Kashihara)
- ・Experience of crafting wood from Nara Prefecture (Nara Kashihara)
- ・Lease craft experience made from trees in Yoshino, Nara Prefecture (Kashihara, Nara)
- ・Experience making a blowback (Awajishima)
- ・Making Karatsu-kunchi original arrangements (Saga Karatsu)
Let's taste it.
- ・Shizuoka tea tasting experience at Shibukawa Garden (Hamanako)
- ・Toyama folk song Sasara (Japanese musical instrument) and knitted hat try-on experience (Tonami Toyama)
- ・A faucet with yuzu drink (Tosa Kochi)
- ・Okuyama's Wash Coffee Hand Drip Experience (Tottori Oyama)
- ・Mercure Fukuoka Munakata Blend Coffee Hand Drip Experience (Fukuoka Munakata)
- ・Experience with Karatsu-yaki tea utensils (Sagaratsu)
I can feel it
- ・Starry sky viewing (Yatsugatake)
- ・The sound of the wind chimes of Takaoka copperware (Tonami Toyama)
- ・Road to solve the mystery of Hideyoshi and Hidenaga (Lake Biwa)
- ・Shakyo Experience (Nara Kashihara)
- ・Footbath (Wakayama Minabe)
- ・Tosa Benkaruta (Tosa, Kochi)
- ・Narikiri Ryoma Photo Spot (Tosa Kochi)
- ・Pilgrimage experience (white costume try on) (Tosa Kochi)
- ・Ryukyu Bira Tiss (Okinawa Cape Zanpa)
Make and touch


Activities to move your hands, touch local culture, and create crafts.
The warmth of handwork and the thoughts passed down from generation to generation are deeply engraved in your heart.
Pendant assembly experience with Ainu patterns
Sapporo
Pendant assembly experience with Ainu patterns in collaboration with the Ainu Traditional Crafts Museum "Ureshipa" in Hiratori-cho, Hokkaido.
You can create your own original pendant by combining strings and beads with a laser-processed pendant top with Ainu patterns as you like.
The pendant top uses wood from Hokkaido such as Ezo pine and wig.
Please enjoy the experience that you can bring back as a memory of your trip while touching the Ainu culture.
Nature Craft Experience
Zao
Nature craft experience that inflates images from pine cones and acorns in nature to make things that make use of their shapes and materials.
While strolling around the hotel, you can collect natural materials and make your own original work.
Red Beko Painting Experience Red Beko Painting
Urabandai
Aizu's traditional red beko painting experience.
"Akabeko" is a local toy of Aizu and is widely known as a charm and lucky charm for evil.
Let's draw your own red beko while inheriting that tradition!
Digital drawing
Nasu Kogen
You can enjoy free expression while painting a large screen or drawing a line. The sketch with motifs of animals popular in the Nasu Animal Kingdom, such as Manurneko, Snake, and Alpaca, is a composition that leaves a margin, and a single picture is completed by adding a child.
Craft experience made with materials from Minami Boso
Minami Boso
At Cape Obo, where the hotel is located, there is a forest of "Matebashii" that grows like acorns fall in the fall, and the beautiful scenery of the sea and forests is attractive.
You can enjoy making original works such as woodworking crafts and photo frames using pruned materials, acorns, and shells. A special experience unique to this land.
※Items are changed daily
Making Kanei era tsuho bracelets with six-monsen motifs
Matsushiro
Matsuyo is a land related to Nobuyuki Sanada, the first lord of Matsuyo Domain.
With the motif of the family crest "Rokubunsen" that remains everywhere in the town, you can experience making a bracelet for Kanei era treasure.
Please enjoy your own original bracelet while thinking about history.
Hokuriku Mizuhiki experience plum knot
Tonami
Experience making plum knots using the auspicious traditional craft "Mizuhiki".
Plum knots are said to be "hardly tied" and "opening luck" and are popular as gifts and amulets.
Please enjoy only one Mizuhiki work in the world while touching the culture of Hokuriku.
Experience making silk braided misanga
Miyazu
Experience making silk braided misanga realized in collaboration with Yosano Town Tourism Association.
Using 100% silk thread unique to the birthplace of Tango Chirimen, we knit it with four wishes.
Please enjoy making only one Misanga in the world.
Made with Yoshino handmade Japanese paper! Original bookmark
Kashihara
Craft experience using traditional handmade Japanese paper from Yoshinocho and Fukunishi Washi Honpo.
You can make only one original bookmark in the world while touching Yoshino handmade Japanese paper, which is also used for the restoration of cultural properties.
Tatami Coaster Making Experience
Kashihara
Experience making coasters using tatami mats in collaboration with Kashihara City and Fukumoto Tatami Store.
Why don't you make an original tatami coaster in the ancient city of Nara while touching the history of tatami born in the Nara era?
Experience of making wood from Nara Prefecture
Kashihara
Woodworking experience to enjoy with free ideas using scrap wood from Nara Prefecture.
Please enjoy making only one work in the world where both ADULTS and children can be absorbed in.
Lease craft experience made from trees in Yoshino, Nara Prefecture
Kashihara
Lease craft experience using trees in Yoshino, Nara Prefecture.
Let's make a wonderful original wreath while enjoying the scent of cypress and cedar.
Blowback making experience
Awajishima
Experience where Awajishima can hand-craft a traditional toy "blowback" that boasts 80% of domestic production.
You can freely choose colors and patterns to make original blowbacks.
Please spend a time with the whole family, from children to ADULTS.
Making Karatsu-kunchi original arrangements
Karatsu
Experience of making arrangements for the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage "Karatsu-kunchi".
Why don't you make your own arrangements used in the festival where 14 Hikiyama and Hikikos travel around the castle town?
It is a perfect experience for memories of Karatsu's trip.
Let's taste it.


Experience of enjoying local specialties in traditional works and local styles.
There is a time waiting for a different taste and lid taste, not just delicious.
Shizuoka tea tasting experience of "Shibukawa Garden"
Hamanako
"Shizuoka" is one of Japan's leading tea spots.
Please try Shizuoka tea with a fragrant and refreshing taste of Shibukawa-en, which has been making tea for generations in Mizumiiro, the famous production area of Motoyama tea, when staying.
Toyama folk song Sasara (Japanese musical instrument) and knitted hat try-on experience
Tonami
Experience touching folk songs and Japanese musical instruments "Sasara" transmitted to Toyama, and knitted hat culture.
While enjoying the sound of Sasara and actually wearing a knitted hat, experience the traditions and world of dance rooted in the community.
Please enjoy watching, listening, and feeling the culture unique to Toyama.
A faucet with yuzu drink
Tosa
A unique experience with refreshing citron drinks when twisting the faucet.
It is a device that you can enjoy from children to adults and want to take pictures unintentionally.
Okuyama's flush coffee hand drip experience
Daisen
Slowly taste with hand drip, local roasted coffee moment.
"Oku Oyama's flush coffee", which is roasted at the foot of Oyama and washed fresh beans with Okuyama's water, has a refreshing taste without miscellaneous taste.
Mercure Fukuoka Munakata Blend Coffee Hand Drip Experience
Munakata
Original "Mercure Fukuoka Munakata Blend" supervised by local Withcoffee barista.
It is characterized by an elegant bitter taste like dark chocolate and a subtle sweetness of citrus that spreads at the back mouth.
Please enjoy the beans selected by Honduras, Brazil with a hand drip.
Experience with Karatsu-yaki tea utensils
Karatsu
Karatsu ware, a traditional craft that has been loved by tea masters since ancient times.
Why don't you enjoy the world of tea while touching specialty products with Karatsu ware that Saga boasts and Ureshino tea, one of the five major production areas?
I can feel it


The scenery, culture, and climate unique to the land that you can enjoy with your five senses. You can experience the charm of the area while holding your mind and body in a quiet air.
Starry sky viewing
Yatsugatake
You can see countless stars in the Milky Way in summer and the clear night sky from autumn to winter.
You can also encounter multiple shooting stars in one night, such as when you are in a meteor shower.
Please enjoy the spectacular view of the excitement in making memories of the whole family.
The sound of wind chimes of Takaoka copperware
Tonami
Takaoka copperware with a history of more than 400 years.
The sound of the clear and beautiful wind chimes created by the craftsmanship creates a comfortable moment.
The Mystery Solving Road of Hideyoshi and Hidenaga
Lake Biwa
The historical mystery begins in the hotel building that reproduces Kitaoumi.
You become Hidenaga and go on a journey with Hideyoshi and Sakichi Ishida to pursue the secret treasures of the Asai family.
Please enjoy the experience-based mystery solving that solves mysteries while walking and immerses in the world of Sengoku.
Shakyo Experience
Kashihara
In Grand Mercure Nara Kashihara, experience the sutra of Kofuku-ji Temple, the ruins of Kawahara-ji Temple in Asukamura Village, which is said to be the first place in Japan.
Please use the brush and ink of the long-established brush maker "Akashiya" to enjoy a moment of touching the history and culture of Nara through sutras.
Footbath
Minabe
With the footbath drawn from the hot water of Chiri-hama Beach Onsen, you can spend a relaxing time both physically and mentally while watching the sea and the sunset.
Tosa Benkaruta
Tosa
"Tosa Ben Karuta" where you can enjoy learning about Tosa Ben unique to Kochi.
It is an experience that touches dialects and culture while playing, and is exciting regardless of generation.
Please enjoy it with your family and friends to make memories of your trip.
Narikiri Ryoma photo spot
Tosa
A photo spot where you can take a commemorative photo by becoming a hero at the end of the Tokugawa period, Ryoma Sakamoto.
Why don't you take a picture with Ryoma as a memory of your trip to Kochi?
Pilgrimage experience (white costume try on)
Tosa
Dressed in white costumes and experienced the costume of a pilgrim.
This is an experience where you can feel the pilgrimage feeling casually while touching the culture of pilgrimage.
Ryukyu Bira Tiss
Okinawa Cape Zanpa
An original morning program that incorporates music that feels Ryukyu culture and the movements of Acer and Kachassi.
Under the supervision of Bira Tss instructor, even beginners can easily participate and start the day comfortably.
Choose by Purpose
Choose by purpose
According to the purpose of the trip and how to spend
You can choose your stay experience.


















































































































