Tokyo Half-Day Canyoning Adventure

What a wonderful experience! Our family of 4 adults (2 x 56 year olds and including 2 adult children), travelled from Akasaka to do the Big Mononoke experience with pick up from the Okayama station at about 1pm. They transported us to their base where we were briefed, and given our clothing/equipment. We chose option A- which was a slightly longer walk, in order to do the higher abseils. Our 2 guides: Tomo, and Tapan were experienced and instilled confidence in us . They were friendly, and mixed jokes with the serious instructions. Our equipment was in amazing condition. Full wetsuits (tops and bottoms), gloves, wetsuit socks and then canyon shoes (with fantastic grip), and helmets/harnesses. We travelled in their van for about 20 min to the start of the trails. Tomo was a great driver, especially during the extremely narrow road up the canyon. We then hiked into the canyon to a small stop, just to practice jumping into a small waterfall pool. Then it was onwards and upwards. Be warned that the trail up is often quite slippery and very narrow, with drop off to your side. However, Tomo and Tapan warned us where to walk eg the left side, where the rocks/trees are slippery etc. you need to have a reasonable level of fitness to climb/walk up. But our guides walked so that it fitted with our pace. The entire experience consisted of about 3 abseils (and they also asked if anyone wanted to be lowered instead, which I chose to do (Mum).). We also had about 3 water slides, where you could also go down backwards, and in pairs! Then we got to jump into the waterfall pool. We ended with a zipline across the river, Then it was a short walk back to the van to travel back to base. Hot showers/cold tea drink awaited us, and then we gave feedback via their website,,which once you logged into, gave you access to all the photos and videos (at no extra cost). A wonderful experience and great value for money.

Incredible experience, amazing staff who went above and beyond to make sure we had an amazing experience. I did the level 2 this time but will 100% be back to conquer the next level as I had so much fun!

This was such a fun experience! The hike was pretty challenging but worth the views. It was the perfect amount of thrill and excitement.