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Option B: Experience Kyoto’s Traditional Culture Half-day (approx. 7,000 yen)
Option B: Experience Kyoto’s Traditional Culture
Half-day (approx. 7,000 yen)
[Kyoto Station]
↓ Board the Kyoto City Subway Karasuma Line bound for Kokusaikaikan
↓ Transfer at Karasuma Oike to the Tozai Line bound for Roku Jizo
↓ Ride three stops to Higashiyama
↓ Time taken: approx. 17 minutes (260 yen)
[1. Wa Experience KAFU: Obanzai Cooking Workshop] 150 minutes (6,500 yen)
↓ Walk 10 minutes
[2. Sightseeing at Heian Jingu Shrine] 20 minutes (Free)
↓ Walk 20 minutes
[3. Sightseeing at Nanzen-ji Temple] 20 minutes (500 yen)
1. Wa Experience KAFU: Obanzai Cooking Workshop
150 minutes (6,500 yen)
Obanzai is the name given to Kyoto’s distinctive tradition of home cooking. Local, seasonal ingredients are prepared simply, with minimal waste, to produce a range of dishes that are eaten on a daily basis by Kyoto residents.
English website:
http://kafu.co/cooking/
2. Sightseeing at Heian Jingu Shrine
20 minutes (Free)
Although Heian Jingu Shrine is a relatively recent addition to Kyoto’s array of sacred places, it is a highly impressive complex, with lavishly coloured structures surrounded by expansive gardens.
Built in 1895 to commemorate the 1100th anniversary of the founding of Kyoto (under its original name of Heian Kyo), the site is dedicated to Kammu and Komei, the first and last emperors to rule Japan from this city. The buildings were conceived as a partial replica of the Imperial Palace of the Heian Period (794–1185), and particular highlights include the vermillion-lacquered Otenmon Gate and Daigoku-den, the main hall. The shrine’s gardens, with their rich variety of flowers that change with the four seasons, are typical of the Meiji era (1868–1912).
English website:
http://kyoto.travel/en/shrine_temple/154
3. Sightseeing at Nanzen-ji Temple
20 minutes (Admission: Free; entrance fees for certain parts of the temple complex)
As signaled by its imposing front gate, Nanzen-ji, head temple of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism, is one of the city's most important religious sites.
Located amid the foothills of the Higashiyama mountains, the complex, which developed from an imperial villa built in 1264, is famous for its sublime array of gardens, including the dry landscape rock garden of the main hall and the moss and rock garden of the sub-temple Nanzen-in. The temple and its twelve sub-temples also contain numerous precious artefacts, most notably the sliding screens of the main hall, which bear lavish paintings by artists of the 17th century Kano School. A visit to Nanzen-ji Temple is one of the best ways to let your own spirit be touched by the sublime aesthetic of Japanese Zen, and to witness how it can blend seemingly disparate elements into a unified whole.
English website:
http://www.nanzen.net/english/index.html
Options
Start at Kyoto Station↓ Board the Kyoto City Subway Karasuma Line bound for Kokusaikaikan
↓ Ride five stops to Imadegawa
↓ Time taken: approx. 10 minutes (260 yen)
↓ Walk 15 minutes
Yokoyama Bamboo Products Co., Ltd.
For more than a hundred years, this local business has offered a range of bamboo products, from household ornaments to timber for the construction of Kyoto’s traditional townhouses and tearooms. The store also supplies numerous traditional lanterns for the popular Hanatoro light-up events that are held around the city each March and December.
Bamboo Workshops:
1. Teaspoon making
120 minutes (3,500 yen)
2. Chopstick making
120 minutes (3,500 yen)
3. Basket making
120 minutes (3,500 yen)
English website:
http://www.yokotake.co.jp/e_pages/products.htm
