There is a category of travelers who prefer to travel on water - smooth motion and rest, visiting the countries, seas and oceans with living in a cozy room cruise ship. If this is about you and you love the sea and river walks, the planning sea cruises in a route which Japan is sure to relax on yakatabune .

Japan - a state in a large number of large and small islands, and inhabitants of this country always had somewhere to swim: a visit to neighboring islands, to fish - feed your family, or even picaroon to residents of neighboring China and Korea. Japanese pirates and robbers, for their own purposes, used a small flat-bottomed boat - fune. And when the Japanese men were going to go on river trips in the company of beautiful concubines to drink sake and eat, they used another type of vessel - yakatabune .

word yakata "in Japanese means" roof ", and yakatabune as easy to guess - something like a cafe-boats under the roof. Covered yakatabune can accommodate from 20 to 100 customers-passengers. The owner tried to craft his richly decorated and transformed swimming in this ritual - the holiday gatherings, which are generally very characteristic of Japanese and Japanese culture. It is with the board their boats Japanese aristocrats preferred to admire the fireworks during the traditional July fireworks festival on the Sumida River.

Yakatabune and currently serve as entertainment. True, the old boats often provided with modern electronic equipment and engines. But the essence remained - a floating restaurant, differing national flavor with traditional tatami mats, karaoke, sake, tempura (seafood in batter) and, of course, beautiful Japanese scenery along the banks.