“Kakegawa Interactive Tourism” recognizes not only conventional tourist attractions but also all industries, activities, and daily life rooted in the Kakegawa area as community resources and cultural heritage, with the aim of establishing tourism guided by real locals who provide information that cannot be found in any pamphlet.

The most distinguishing feature of interactive tourism, and the most appealing aspect of Kakegawa as seen from other communities, is “the opportunity to meet with locals from the community” that lies within tours. Guides by residents and encounters with people from the community are a few of the reasons for participants from communities with different terrain and ways of life to have a novel and exciting experience so that will make them want to visit Kakegawa again.

We asked guests who have visited Kakegawa from all across Japan to contribute in writing, so as to communicate not only the appeal of exploring this area, but also the appeal of living here and meeting people here. It is our hope that the voices of previous visitors to Kakegawa will be your motivation to visit Kakegawa for the first time, or a chance for you to encounter our city once again.

Kakegawa is developing tourism in which the people who live here convey to visitors how to use and enjoy local cultural resources, enjoy these resources together, make these resources more appealing, and make people even more interested and attached to these resources than before. Come and experience “a trip to Kakegawa”, where locals and visitors can interact.

In “Kakegawa Interactive Tourism”, which aims to establish tourism guided by real locals, we invited speakers actively engaged in various aspects of guided tourism in order to develop skills for making original guide programs and training guide personnel who offer not only simple guided tours, but have their own perspectives, and can give convincing explanations backed up by their real actions.