Kyoto: Table-Style Tea Ceremony at a Kyo-Machiya

About This Experience

Experience a tea ceremony comfortably using tables and chairs in a traditional Machiya house in Kyoto. Discover the Japanese culture surrounding the tea ceremony.

Highlights

• Experience tea ceremony while sitting on a chair instead of on the floor.
• Relax with a welcome drink, sake, juice, Japanese tea, etc.
• Enjoy taking photos and videos using umbrellas, folding fans and Katana. sword..
• Make your own creamy, frothy matcha using a bamboo whisk.
• Write your name in kanji or hiragana and enjoy calligraphy.

What's Included

• ✓ Tea ceremony experience
• ✓ Traditional tea ceremony mini-Kaiseki meal and Japanese sweets
• ✓ Welcome drinks (sake or juice)
• ✓ Latte art using thick tea
• ✓ Calligraphy experience
• ✓ Miini hanging scroll or a traditional paper board with your name written in Japanese kanji or Hiragana
• ✓ Kimono rental (if option selected)

Not Included

• Hotel pickup and drop-off

Good to Know

• Kimono option can be reserved by clicking "View Availability" twice.
• If you select the kimono option, please arrive 30 minutes before the experience begins.
• The location of this experience is in the southern part of Kyoto, a famous tourist destination known as a sake town, with many casual restaurants and shopping streets nearby.
• It takes about 20 minutes by train from Keihan Gion-Shijo Station, and about 25 minutes from Kintetsu Kyoto Station. On the way, you can also visit Fushimi Inari Shrine.(about 15 minutes from Keihan Fushimi Inari Station). Or Uji City, a town famous for its tea, its takes about 20 minutes by train.
• Osaka,it takes about 40 minutes by express train,Nara, about 50 minutes.
• This is a historic town built by Shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi and is well-connected.
• For guests who are pregnant, we kindly ask that you refrain from wearing a kimono, in consideration of your health and safety.

Meeting Point

Our location is on the outskirts of Kyoto, about 20 minutes by train. From Kintetsu Kyoto Station, take the express train for about 15 minutes and get off at Kintetsu Momoyama-Goryo-mae Station. From Keihan Gion-Shijo Station, get off at Fushimi-Momoyama Station. Head west on Otesuji shopping arcade. Walk down about 3 minutes. and turn right at the Mizuho Bank or mobile shop"Rakuten" . From Momoyama Station (JR) : Head north west. Go straight and pass by Gokogu (shrine) on the right in 300 meters. Continue on Otesuji Arcade and turn right at the Mizuho Bank or mobile shop"Rakuten" . Continue to walk for about 2 minutes, you will see an old Kyoto townhouse with a blue curtain on your right. Some guides wearing kimono will be waiting for you!