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[Kyoto] Private Tour to Arashiyama Tea Ceremony and Arashiyama Highlights
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Overview
  • Experience the rare opportunity to step inside a traditional Kyoto townhouse, a wooden Japanese style, and immerse yourself in the uniquely Japanese culture of the tea ceremony. In a small group of no more than 4 people, learn the basic concepts and ideas of tea ceremony, as well as the required etiquette. Your instructor guides you in how to drink it and also serve you a traditional Japanese cake.
  • ※We will present you with one calligraphy paper by a famous Zen monk (Daitokuji Temple: Kobayashi Taigen).Please see photography.
What to expect

Tenryuji Temple, the head temple of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism, is a representative Zen temple in Arashiyama, Kyoto, famous for its beautiful garden and ceiling paintings. It was registered as a World Heritage Site in 1994 along with Kiyomizu Temple, Kinkakuji Temple, Toji Temple, and Nijo Castle, and is a popular destination for tourists from Japan and abroad. The first is the world-famous Sogen-ike Garden.The garden is a pond garden with Sogen Pond in the center, and is also a borrowed landscape garden incorporating Arashiyama and Kameyama, which spread out behind the garden. The garden was created about 700 years ago.The garden was created by the founder of the temple, Muso Kokushi, and still retains the appearance of those days.Furthermore, the garden is the first nationally designated historical site and special place of scenic beauty.This is like a national treasure of scenery, and there are only 36 such places in Japan.

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