Second Clown Tour in Japan!

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November 14 – 22nd, 2026 | Tokyo & Okinawa Japan

We plan to arrive at Tokyo Haneda Airport November 14 and depart from Naha Okinawa, November 22, 2026. 

Group Photo by Makoto Ishizuka

Don’t miss the chance to be part of the joyful clown team bringing Gesundheit! humanitarian clowning to Japan. Patch Adams will be joining us on a zoom call while we are in Tokyo!!

The Experience

Join us in beautiful Japan with the Gesundheit Institute. We will plan  for daily clown visits to a variety of institutions. These include senior care facilities, disabled support centers, children’s hospitals and a workshop. 

Itinerary:

• Arrive in Tokyo Welcome Dinner November 14th
• Clowning in Tokyo 14th -17th
• Travel to Okinawa by airplane on 17th
• Clowning and exploring in Okinawa
• Clowning Sharing Circle and Farewell dinner November 21st
• Depart Okinawa: Clowns go home, hugs and kisses! November 22nd

We will spend 9 days CLOWNING every day. We are sure to make many new Japanese friends through our shared journey of service clowning and  travel. Our group will transform into a community… a clown family connected through our work, play and laughter. 

Clowning will open doors unlike any other travel experience. Gesundheit! Global Outreach has clowned across the world with different groups. Our experiences has taught us that clowning is an incredible tool for connecting with people and that anyone is able to do it. The only criteria for participation in the Japan Tour is that you come as a clown with a joyful spirit of compassion, flexibility and interest.

 

Travel

The Tour Package Includes:  

Meals, hotel accommodation with a roommate (unless notified that you are requesting a single room with the added cost), transfer to and from the airports, transportation within and between cities by tour bus or air plane and cultural activities. 

Participants are responsible for booking and paying for their own flights to Tokyo international Airport (Haneda Airport) and your return flight is from Kansai International Airport in Osaka. 

Arrive: Sunday, November 9, 2025  

Depart: Sunday, November 16, 2025

Cost: $2000. Space on this trip is limited. 

Inspired by Patch Adams

Patch Adams – enter medical school in 1967 to use medicine as a vehicle for social change. Promotes and practice living a life of public joy a revolutionary act; fount of ideals for avoiding burn-out in long-term social justice and health. Enthusiator.

 

Hosts

Mariko Kanemoto — I lives in Tokyo, my first clown tour was in Russia  2003. Since then, I have been to Italy, Morocco, China, Tibet, Ecuador and  Georgia. In Japan, I am the leader of a team called Clown One Japan. I am  very excited to host a clown tour to Japan for the first time!  Please come and experience the spirit of hospitality that Japan has to  offer.

Atsumasa Kubota — a occupational therapist and personal assistant.

Motoaki Kimura — head Minister of Tenrikyo Waichi Branch Church. 

Ginevra Sanguigno — clown and actress. Since 1990 she has been using theater as a vehicle for social change. Ginevra. Founder of Clown One Italia Npo, in 2000. She has been organizing humanitarian clown missions worldwide since 2003.

Sharon “Shar-Shar” Stein — started volunteering in 1996, worked for a non-profit affiliated with the United Nations and has traveled to 76 countries…so far. Because I had worked as a flight attendant for too many years I had the privilege of spending time with many children and bringing  humanitarian aid to orphanages and natural disaster area’s. Lucky for me  24 years ago I met Patch and started coordinating clown tours.