Course and Price – Japanese culture activity and workshops

*Courses are basecally on weekdays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.   Please apply at least 3 days in advance. (If your preferable date is within 3 days, please contact us)

Minimum from 2 persons.

Due to COVID-19, all courses are not available right now, we are sorry!!

 

  • Japanese traditional calligraphy “Shodo” and Tea Ceremony experience course (Course SHO) – ¥7,000 +VAT (10%)

Class Duration 10:00-12:30

2.5 hour course (including snack time)

Meeting time 9:50

Meeting point – JR Meguro Station “Central Gate”

Place – at Japan Cross Bridge (one of twin sisters’s homes in Meguro)

Instructors – Twin sisters (both experienced shodo writers).  Please go to About us for more.

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Menu –

  • Shodo (traditional calligraphy) writing – Choice of your words.  Special paper to write on.
  • Maccha green tea –
  • Japanese sweets
  • Japanese snacks

Course includes –

  • Rental Samue (Japanese traditional uniform),
  • Shodo experience
  • Your art work on special paper to bring home
  • Maccha green tea making experience
  • Tips and information about maccha green tea
  • Certificate
  • Pictures

Course explanation – If you are in Japan, you cannot miss Japanese cultural experience, as Japan has its long history, about 2,000 years!!  Shodo (Japanese traditional calligraphy) is an important part of Japanese culture.  Tea Ceremony (maccha green tea making) is also another important part of Japanese culture.  In this course, you get to experience both in one day.  You can learn some Japanese history related to Japanese culture as well!  You have no experience of Calligraphy?  Don’t worry!!  We will guide you through it!  At Tea ceremony experience, you get to try making maccha green tea casually, so just relax and have fun!  Enjoy its unique taste too!   At snack time, you can try the unique Japanese snacks as well as Japanese sweets!

Let’s bring home the wonderful memories with your incredible calligraphy work, picutre and certificate!  You can decorate your art work at home as an unforgettable souvenir!

To apply for this course, please click here.

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  • Origami (Japanese traditional paper craft) and Tea Ceremony experience course (Course OR) – ¥6,000 + VAT (10%)

Class Duration 10:00-12:30

2.5 hour course (including snack time)

Meeting time 9:50

Meeting point – JR Meguro Station “Central Gate”

Place – at Japan Cross Bridge (one of twin sisters’s homes in Meguro)

Instructors – Twin sisters (both are Japanese origami artist and accessories designers ).  Please go to About us for more.

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tea ceremonyMenu –

  • Origami making – cranes and Japanese traditional fan “sensu”, special board and easel for decoration
  • Maccha green tea
  • Japanese sweets
  • Japanese snacks

Course includes –

  • Rental Samue (Japanese traditional uniform),
  • Origami making
  • Your art work with special board and easel for decoration to bring home
  • Maccha green tea making experience
  • Tips and information about maccha green tea
  • Certificate
  • Pictures

Course explanation – Interested in Japanese culture?  Looking for a unique experience and memory in Japan?  Looking for a unique Japanese souvenir?  Then you should try this course!  In this course, you experience Japanese origami and Tea ceremony.  You get to make a beautiful decoration with origami.  Special board and easel make it a gorgeous souvenir!  Let’s make a unique Japanese souvenir and bring it home!  Once you learn how to do origami, you can make accessories or toys too!!  At Tea ceremony experience, you get to try making maccha green tea casually, so just relax and have fun!  Enjoy its unique taste too!   At snack time, you can try the unique Japanese snacks as well as Japanese sweets!

Let’s bring home the wonderful memories with your incredible art work, picutre and certificate!  You can decorate your art work at home as an unforgettable souvenir!

To apply for this course, please click here.

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  • Japanese Tea Tasting & learning and Tea Ceremony experience course (course T) – ¥5,000 +VAT(10%)

Class Duration – 10:00-12:00

2 hour course

meeting time 9:50

Meeting point – JR Meguro Station “Central Gate”

Place – at Japn Cross Bridge (one of twin sisters’s homes in Meguro)

Instructors – Twin sisters (both are Japanese origami artist and accessories designers ).  Please go to About us for more.

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menu –

  • Green tea
  • Roasted green tea (hoji cha)
  • Tea with roasted rice (genmai cha)
  • Tea made of powdered kelp and pickled plum (ume kobu cha) or Barley tea (mugi cha)
  • Burdock tea (gobo cha)
  • Buckwheat tea (soba cha)
  • Mccha green tea (tea ceremony experience)
  • Japanese sweets
  • Japanese snacks

Course includes –

  • rental Samue (Japanese traditional uniform) – optional
  • 6 different kinds of Japanese tea and Japanese snacks
  • Health benefits of each tea
  • History of Japanese tea
  • Tips and information about tea ceremony
  • Maccha green tea making (tea ceremony experience) with Japanese sweets
  • Certificate with Picture

Course explanation – Do you have interest in Japanese healthy life?  Do you like to drink tea? Then join this course and enjoy the unique flavours and colors of Japanese teas!  You can learn the health benefits of each tea and the history of Japanese tea while tasting teas.  Enjoy the interesting flavour of Japanese snacks as well!!  At Tea ceremony exprience, you get to experience making maccha green tea casually, so just relax and have fun!  Enjoy the unique taste of authentic maccha green tea as well as Japanese sweets!

Let’s bring home the wonderful experience, picture and certificate!  After this course, you will be a Japanese tea lover and a connoisseur of Japanese tea!

To apply for this course, please click here.

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