・One night stay at a Shingon temple on Mt. Koya, with morning meditation service and two traditional vegan shojin-ryori purification meals

・Rare meeting and education session with a Japanese Buddhist nun

・Visits to important temple sites throughout the country, including the famous stone garden at Ryoanji in Kyoto, the ancient Daibutsu (“grand Buddha statue”) at Todaiji in Nara, the forest temples and shrines in Nikko, and the giant straw sandals and lantern at Sensoji in Tokyo

・Participation in a traditional tea ceremony, an important Zen aesthetic tradition, at Jo-an, located in the gardens next to Inuyama Castle

・Visit to Mt. Fuji, the spiritual birthplace of the Japanese people according to legend

・One night stay at a traditional Japanese inn in Takayama

・Visit to Kenrokuen, one of the three most important landscape gardens in Japan

・All transportation, site admission, overnight stay, and luggage shipping costs within Japan

・English-Japanese and Spanish-Japanese language interpreting

・Airfare to Japan

・One to two meals per day (7 days two meals included, 6 days one meal included)