Go To Travel: Combine Your Stay at Kokusai with a Guided Tour

As Nagano City’s most established international hotel, we are happy to partner with Kokusai 21 in offering travel packages including guided tours with your accommodation.

We can combine your stay at Kokusai 21 with one of our group tours in and around Nagano, or arrange a private tour for you to any of the region’s many great attractions and destinations. Here are some possible combinations:

Go To Travel: Snows Monkeys, Zenko-ji & Sake Tour + Kokusai 21

Awarded the 2019 TripAdvisor Traveler’s Choice Award our 1-Day Snow Monkeys, Zenko-ji Temple & Sake Tasting Tour has been recognized as one of the Top 10 Experiences in Japan.

Take in some of the highlights of Nagano with this engaging tour starting with a visit to Zenko-ji Temple – one of the oldest and most important Buddhist temples in Japan – followed by sake tasting and lunch at a nearby restaurant.

It’s then time to head to the Snow Monkey Park and its world-famous hot spring-bathing monkeys! All led by a locally-based English-speaking guide, this tour is a great way to see the best that Nagano has to offer.

Residents of Japan can take advantage of the national ‘Go To Travel’ campaign by packaging this tour with your stay at Hotel Kokusai 21 – package, book and save more now!

For visitors in winter, we are happy to offer the following:

Go To Travel: Snow Monkeys & Zenko-ji Winter Illumination Tour + Kokusai 21

Combine your visit the Snow Monkeys of Jigokudani with a multi-course dinner a Monzen Terrace Enya, followed by evening exploration of Nagano’s famous temple brought to light in the crisp winter night.

Enjoy Nagano in winter on our 1-Day Snow Monkeys & Zenko-ji Winter Illumination Tour, starting with an early afternoon visit to the Jigokudani Monkey Park.

Home to Nagano’s famous hot spring-loving monkeys, your local guide will accompany you to and from the park – pointing-out just what makes the monkeys so unique while also giving you plenty of time to yourself – before heading back to Nagano City for the Zenko-ji Omotesando Illumination Festival and a multi-course dinner at nearby Monzen Terrace Enya.

One of the city’s most popular restaurants, you’ll be treated to a multi-course dinner before your guide accompanies you into the temple and explains the history and legends of Zenko-ji, in the illuminated beauty of winter. Residents of Japan can take advantage of the national ‘Go To Travel’ campaign by packaging this tour with your stay at Hotel Kokusai 21 – package, book and save more now!

Go To Travel: Snow Monkeys & Snow Fun in Shiga Kogen Tour + Kokusai 21

This exciting one-day tour combines a visit to the world-famous Snow Monkeys of Jigokudani with morning of fun in the deep powder snow of Shiga Kogen – Japan’s largest ski resort!

On our 1-Day Snow Monkeys & Snow Fun in Shiga Kogen Tour you will be transported to Japan’s largest ski resort, Shiga Kogen, for a morning of snow fun activities including sleds, tubes, snowscoots and snowdrives.

While there, you can enjoy lunch at a local restaurant overlooking the ski field before heading down from the mountains and onto the Jigokudani Monkey Park. Known for their hot spring-loving antics of winter, the monkeys are truly unique – an experience which is at its most popular during winter.

Residents of Japan can take advantage of the national ‘Go To Travel’ campaign by packaging this tour with your stay at Hotel Kokusai 21 – package, book and save more now!

These are just three of the options available and with big discounts on offer through the ‘Go To Travel’ campaign, there’s never been a better time to plan, package and save on your next trip to Nagano. For further details including the option of private tours and ski packages, please see our ‘Offers & Deals’ page.