Easy Day Trip from Osaka: MIKIMOTO PEARL ISLAND | 1-Day Japan Travel Itinerary 🇯🇵

Today we’re escaping the Osaka crowds by taking a scenic train ride out to a place where you can see Japanese female pearl divers—Mikimoto Pearl Island. It makes for a great day trip from Osaka, and this video will give you a one-day Japan travel itinerary you can follow. I hope you enjoy it!

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 ➡️ What makes Mikimoto Pearl Island so special?
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 ➡️ Mikimoto Pearl Island History
 ➡️ What you will see and learn at the Mikimoto Pearl Island Museum
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 ➡️ Can you purchase pearls on the island?
 ➡️ Who are the “ama” female Japanese divers?

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Today we’re escaping the Osaka crowds by taking a scenic train ride out to a place where you can see Japanese female Pearl divers Mickey Moto Pearl Island after spending time in both Tokyo and Osaka I wanted to take my parents out to a less CR Ed area of Japan and

Somewhere that all of us myself included had never been before Mickey Moto Pearl island is the birth place of modern Pearl cultivation and the Japanese Pearl industry the area came onto my radar when I saw a video about female divers in Japan and how the island is one of

The only places where they demonstrate these traditional diving practices for visitors to get to the island you get to ride the kintetsu limited Express line from Osaka to Toba station you can purchase tickets either in person at the station or online we opted to purchase our tickets and choose our

Seats online the night before I’ll leave a link to the website where you can purchase tickets in the video description box for our journey we’ll be catching the limited Express from Sashi station which is one of the stops on the main Osaka Loop line that links the central

Osaka stations the ride from Sashi Station to to TOA station takes about an hour and a half making it long enough to be able to relax a bit and take in the beautiful aesthetic Countryside a one-way standard limited express Ticket is 1,640 Yen on the right Toba we decided

To upgrade to sit in the deluxe car since it was only 420 Yen extra per seat once you arrived at Toba station it’s a short walk from the station to the island yay relaxing train ride very relaxing 2 hours really quick we at tobba station right now and then we are walking 11

Minutes to Pearl Island Toba is a coastal city located in central Japan that has many local attractions like the Toba aquarium and is known for its Seafood he forgot someone but like look at how Lush this place is so we’re going need to walk down that path

Mickey Moto Pearl Island is located in Toba Bay you can reach the island and museum by walking from Toba station tickets for the museum can be purchased online in advance or you can purchase them at the ticket office which is what we did adult entry is

1,650 Yen and children 6 to 15 years is 820 yen the museum provides information and history about pearls Pearl cultivation and Mikimoto kichi himself Mikimoto built the Japanese Pearl industry and was the first to succeed in Pearl cultivation in 1893 so quiet here it’s definitely a nice

Break from Osaka and Tokyo where there’s just so many people nice and quiet weather is beautiful today I’m so glad we added this to our itinerary last minute is there really stamp yeah oh there’s one for all over the island hold on what’s this one okay

So so even though I have my stamp book I’ll do well the ones you like put in your book yeah exactly all right unoa wait okay ready oh oh that’s a cute cute it’s Mr mold himself cute oh so there’s a bunch of so that’s the goal right here

The main building has sections about Pearl farming and about the modern uses of pearls for jewelry and cosmetics then there’s a whole other building focused solely on Mickey Moto kokichi’s Journey as a successful businessman in Japan thankfully the Museum’s information is in English and Japanese there is a

Restaurant on site where you can have lunch while looking out at the beautiful too bay you can also purchase Mickey Moto and Mickey Moto Pearl Island pearls from the store located in the main building overall it took a little over 4 hours for us to go through the museum

Eat and watch the alma pearl diver demonstration that’s cute do that one huh only put one in your book yeah or I could do two maybe I’ll do two I like this one yeah these two that makes sense maybe I’ll put it with this there you go ha

Perfect okay this is the test did it bleed through no no this is so cool only in Japan can you leave open pearls out and just just know if this is like asking you to please don’t takee but try it this is harder than it looks this is

Hard can you tell the difference one is a so interesting so rub your pearls guys that’s how you know all right next stamp ooh it’s red oh so then it must be that way see oh okay I’m putting it in there too then okay I’m

Scared oh you got do it harder in your book oh no that’s good yeah that’s a good one okay okay okay your book all right same page no on this page fresh page m m now we are heading down to watch the Pearl diving demonstration the biggest reason for us visiting the

Island was to see the alma divers in action Alma are Japanese female divers also known as sea women the alma traditionally not only Pearl Dive but also Dove for farming and Aquatic foods such as sea urchin and Abalone there are still some local markets in mi prefecture where you can purchase items

Harvested by Amma Mickey Moto hired the Amma for their diving skills to help cultivate the oysters for their pearls however due to the development of aquaculture technology the need for the alma Pearl divers disappeared to commemorate their efforts the museum offers hourly performances where you can

See the Arma dive for oysters in their traditional white attire which by the way does not include modern scuba gear it was amazing to see in person got a pearl from the Pearl chop here to see of my mom and Randall got to work the pad a little bit okay

Complete we are on our way back we are at topa station again and our train is going to be here in 15 minutes but I think we’re going to pick up some drinks and stuff so yeah really good day I hope you enjoyed this video so far for the

Ride back we purchased only standard limited Express tickets but reserved a very cool private booth so we get this whole downstair wow wow this thing is cool W nice what are you do R all right so I’m going to show you our train here’s up Lev upper levels up

Here and then we have the entire low area which is really cool we pre-book this online fits 3 to five people yeah wow this is so cool all right well first of all did you guys have fun lots of fun that you Randall yes we’re going to head back and

I’m going to end this video here so I hope you guys enjoyed this video I’ll see you next time bye okay light I’m going to do a food haul really quick what we brought I got some nauy chips then these look like like the bugles the Japanese version of bugles I got some

Water and then we have one cup sakeet for Mom oh this actually feels kind of cold okay and then I got an Oni gitty my favorite the salmon one and I got to try a lemon sour yeah this is the spread for our trip back