Tea Ceremony Every month in Kyoto Nashinoki shrine
Tea Ceremony in Nashinoki shrine Kyoto Nashinoki shrine is a small shrine just beside the imperial palace in Kyoto. Walking the path of Nashinoki shrine in the ...
Tea Ceremony under the plum blossoms in Kitano Tenmangu shrine
The big tea ceremony is held under the full blooming plum blossoms in February 25th every year in Kitano Tenmangu shrine. The beautiful Geiko and Maiko serve us...
Which powdered green tea do you like best? The taste will be changed by how you whisk!
The taste of Matcha tea in Japan. It’s delicate. I’ve heard from my guest it’s popular to drink Japanese matcha among young people in Australia. In additi...
The handmade soy sauce in Takagamine Kyoto
Takagaminne is the north area of Kyoto city where we have 3 temples famous with red maple leaves and flower festival. Matsuno Soy sauce is the shop of long stan...
Delicious Japanese cookies in Teramachi Oike, Kyoto
Delicious Japanese handmade cookies! Kameyayoshinaga is famous and popular with Japanese cookie called “Oike-senbei”. It’s on Oike Street, and the entrance of T...
The gold patched on Kinkakuji temple
Gold leaf in Kyoto Japan. Walking Oike street opposite side of Kyoto city hall, there is a small shop of Gold, Horikinpakuko.co. It has 300 years’ history since...
The scenery of “plum blossoms and a nightingale” has been loved by Japanese since over 1000 years ago!
It was warm winter this year, so plum blossoms in Kitano tenmangu shrine in Kyoto have started blooming earlier than usual. The friend of plum blossoms is a bir...
Hina doll’s (Girl’s festival) Tea Ceremony
Tea Ceremony Koto starts special seasonal tea ceremony from February 17th to March 20th. It’s Tea Ceremony for Hina doll’s festival, which is an occasion to pra...
The healthy home cuisine in the Japanese house
Healthy Japanese home cuisine Kyosendo is a Japanese lunch restaurant in Aneyakoji Kyoto. Its buildings remains the old Japanese style and their home cuisine is...
Cafés near Kyoto station where we can have Matcha tea
Matcha Cafe around Kyoto station There are some cafes I’d like to drop in when I go to Kyoto station. Not only matcha ice cream, we can enjoy parfaits, matcha s...
Valentine’s Tea Ceremony
Artistic Valentine’s Tea Ceremony It’s Valentine’s day in February 14th. It’s popular to give chocolates from girls to her boy friends in Japan. But how a...
Tea Ceremony for table and chair style “Chitose-bon”
Chitose-bon way of tea, we can perform on the table as well! “Chitose-bon” plate is the way of tea created by a wife of 14th grand master of Urasenke tea school...