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(Private )Kyoto: Local Home Visit Tea Ceremony

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14 reviews
Activity provider:SAKURA Experience Japanese Culture
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(Private )Kyoto: Local Home Visit Tea Ceremony

Activity provider:SAKURA Experience Japanese Culture
5  / 5
14 reviews

From US$ 201.27 per group up to 4

Enjoy Japanese tea ceremony from a licensed master in traditional tea room.We serve you high quality matcha from Kyoto and you can touch (The Way Of Tea) by watching tea ritual and making matcha.

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Duration 1 hour
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English, Japanese
Wheelchair accessible
Private group

Experience

Highlights
  • Taste Japanese traditional dried sweets called Higashi, which are made from wasanbon sugar
  • Learn how to make matcha and how to handle the tea-making tools
  • Experience a traditional Japanese tea ceremony with a licensed teacher
Full description
Take part in a traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony. Meet at in nearby Nijo Castle, Nakagyo Ward of Kyoto. Tea culture has brought from China by Buddhist monk. Nowadays Japanese tea ceremony places are very popular even among Japanese young people. Japanese tea ceremony has established by Mr Sen No Rikyu. Tea ceremony, is a ritual which explores the Zen Buddhist principles of hospitality, simplicity, and harmony in the imperfect. But it’s only a part of long events is called as (Chaji). It’s too hard to sit on the tatami mat in traditional tea room even for Japanese people. We prepare Japanese style cushions (zabuton) for you , and you can come with casual wear. You can feel the peace and it heals you when you taste the tea and watching tea ritual. Let’s try and begin your ceremony by admiring a hanging scroll. You can watch rare hanging scroll even wrote or drown in Edo era(about 400 years ago.) We show you our culture and history as you want to know. As you enter the very Japanese style local home, your tea teacher from Kyoto of Omotesenke Ryu will guide you through the steps of the ceremony. Admire the gentleness and grace of the Omotesenke as the hot water is slowly poured into the green tea powder. Slowly sip your green tea. Taste adorable small Japanese sweets representing the 4 seasons. Appreciate the traditional flower arrangements. Learn about the significance of each step from your Omotsenke as you take part in a meaningful ritual.
Includes
  • You can enjoy 2 cups of matcha, one made by teacher and another one made by you.
  • Our tea is from Kyoto of course, we have variety and it is all from Kyoto.
  • Also you can get small booklet with details about The Way Of Tea.
  • We prepare for you specifically Japanese sweets for tea ceremony, it is adorable and beautiful, changes according to the season or the month.Each Japanese sweets are all from Kyoto made in historical shop and made in specific style for tea ceremony.
  • We always takes the time for asking your questions, so you can ask for the teacher anything.
  • You can attend our tea ceremony with casual wear but please bring your socks if you are barefoot on the class day.
  • Wearing kimono(we temporarily stopped because of Covid-19)
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Not suitable for
  • Children under 7 years

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さくら日本文化体験 SAKURA Experience Japanese Culture 3min from Nijo Castle and Kyoto subway line [Nijojomae]station by walk 15 min from Hankyu line[Shijo]station by walk 3 min from Kyoto city bus[Nijojomae]station by walk 10min from JR kyoto station by taxi

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What to bring

  • Socks

Not allowed

  • Bare feet

Know before you go

  • We aim to let to people know our tea culture more deeper in correct way.
  • So we do not offering kimono.Because it is better to talk about The Way Of Tea instead of wasting time for changing your clothes.
  • But we can introduce rental kimono shop a lot nearby our location.You can also search it on your map app.
  • We also can offer you;
  • * If your children can not drink matcha, water or orange juice can be provided instead
  • * This class is accessible to wheelchair users and baby strollers
  • * You can use the chair or cussions
  • * Our house is traditional style Japanese house also has authentic tea room and tiny tea garden.
  • *We prepare wider room in our house if you have 5 or more guest (8 people or less)
  • *We can offer big space in near location such a historical Machiya Townhouse or Temple if you have big groups.Please ask us in Advance.(100 people in maximum)

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From upon entrance, the hosts were welcoming and very kind. Taught us about the Japanese culture of the tea ceremony and what each step meant. Loved how engaging they were and they also assist you dressing up in a kimono! For the millennials out there, they take many pictures for you during the ceremony and send them across before leaving! (: Adored the whole experience and would recommend it to all. I would like to personally thank the Hosts for such a splendid morning.

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Both Aya and her husband give us a marvelous impression during this Sado(Tea ceremony). Finished this acitivity, we are feeling that we had been purified by these elegant body language. To escape stress and anxiety, we decide to do this interesting event. Both the couple have advanced and chic lexical expression. Aya also told me some historic periods in Japanese last dynasties. I had wonderful experience in this SAKURA.

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