Gay Japan Travel Tour
From Oscar Wilde Tours
Oct 27 to Nov 5. 2024. Save $100 when you mention The Men Event
LGBTQ+ Japan: Samurai, Kabuki, Manga, and More! Oct 27 – Nov 5, 2024
SAVE $100 when you mention “The Men Event”
Full tour details here: https://www.oscarwildetours.com/lgbtq-japan-samurai-kabuki-manga-and-more/
To learn more, contact Oscar Wilde Tours at info@oscarwildetours.com or (646) 560-3205.
Gay history tours of
well-known sights, including:
Gaze at the Golden Temple,
Enjoy a geisha performance
Experience a Japanese tea ceremony
Feed the deer in Nara Park
Soak in a hot spring-fed bath in a traditional Japanese country inn
Whizz along in the Shinkansen bullet train
WHILE ALSOVisiting the legendary birthplace of Shudo (Japan’s gay tradition)
And following the stories of the 17th century book, “The Great Mirror of Male Love”
Exploring the great penis shrine of Nagoya
Discovering Tokyo’s Shinjuku ni-chome, with its 300 gay bars
And much more!
People are fascinated by Japan: by its refined arts and crafts, from calligraphy to kimonos: its exotic (to us) cultural traditions, such as geishas and tea ceremonies, and by its contrasting, almost futuristic modernity, as in the Shinkansen bullet trains and anime.
But did you know that Japan also has one of the world’s most interesting LGBTQ+ histories? Until Westernization took over in the 19th century, Japan had very different sexual customs from the West—including *male* geishas, to start with—and some claim this is still reflected in today’s worlds of manga and Japanese TV.
So come on Oscar Wilde Tours and Out Asia’s LGBTQ+ history and art tour of Japan. See the beautiful temples of Kyoto, relax in a traditional hot spring spa by Mount Fuji, experience a Japanese tea ceremony, ride on a bullet train—and learn about Japan’s LGBTQ+ side while doing it, from the time when (supposedly) monks brought same-sex love from China to Japan’s Buddhist monasteries and Samurai warriors to the elegant “pleasure quarters” of the 17th and 18th centuries to today’s Shinjuku Ni-chome gay town and its 300 bars.