Things to do in Nara

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The Daigokuden has been restored to its large appearance in the capital of Nara Year and the ruins of the central palace [Heijo Palace]. If you go northwest from the Taikyokuden, you will find "Cafe Kyoan". Experience the tea ceremony here and explore the various tea rooms. First of all, decide the seating order of the customer. If there are four people, it will be a regular customer, a second customer, a third customer, and a last customer. When you enter the tea room, you will be given a signal by a gong. After that, you will enter the room after cleaning your hands and mouth with the Tsukubai in front of the tea room. The entrance of the tea room is less than 1m square! Enter one by one from the regular customer to the last customer through the entrance (small rectangular entrance). The tea room is a different space. First, you will see (appreciate) tea utensils (everything has a name and meaning) such as hanging scrolls, and then sit down at your own seat. The owner (the person who makes tea according to the fixed method <pointing>) comes into the tea room with tools. The tea party is about to begin! During the tea ceremony, the instructor will teach you how to do it in the tea room. At the end of the ceremony, there is a <seeing> of the light tea bowl (Natsume) and chashaku (Chashaku) used by the host. You will be asked to place the tools in front of you in order from the regular customers. The way of <seeing> is surprisingly careful to handle the tools! This may also be my first experience. Let's listen to the "sound" in the tea room! The sound of boiling water, the sound of pouring and rinsing the cassotte and chasen water, and the indescribable impression! At the end of the tea ceremony, as well as when entering the room, after seeing the tools in the tea room, we will leave from the regular customers through the entrance. I'm used to returning home, so it may be easier to get out! Thank you for your hard work! Originally, it is not possible to take pictures in the tea room, but there is a shooting time after the end. There is no doubt that it will look good on Instagram, as it is in front of you, as a customer!

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• Age 6～Age 100
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This is a course where you can participate as a customer in a tea ceremony in which the owner of this hermit is in a full-scale tea room. Enjoy the tea party while watching the gift! You can fully learn the basic manners such as walking in the tea room and drinking tea ♪

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This is a course where you can participate as a customer in a tea ceremony in which the owner of this hermit is in a full-scale tea room. Enjoy the tea party while watching the gift! You can fully learn the basic manners such as walking in the tea room and drinking tea ♪

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• Age 3～Age 100
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• 09:30 / 12:30 / 14:30

Waplus Nara is a 2-minute walk from JR Nara Station and a 10-minute walk from Kintetsu Nara Station. It is in a very convenient location. Come empty-handed ♪ We offer a special time to enjoy traditional Japanese beauty to your heart's content. Experience the traditional beauty of Japan in a kimono tea ceremony. Wear a kimono and experience a tea ceremony in a tea room. While learning the spirit of tea ceremony, you will savor the depth of Japanese culture. You can spend an elegant time with Japanese sweets. There is also a plan where you can go out in a kimono after the tea ceremony experience. (Additional charge of 1,100 yen including tax) ~Experience process~ Arrival → Choose a kimono → Dressing and hair styling → Guidance to a Japanese-style room → History talk → Tea talk → Tea making → Japanese sweets and tea

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• Age 3～Age 100
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• 10:00 / 13:00 / 15:00

Waplus Nara is a 2-minute walk from JR Nara Station and a 10-minute walk from Kintetsu Nara Station. It is in a very convenient location. Come empty-handed ♪ We offer a special time to enjoy traditional Japanese beauty to your heart's content. Experience the traditional beauty of Japan through the tea ceremony. While learning the spirit of tea ceremony, you will also savor the depth of Japanese culture. You can spend an elegant time with Japanese sweets. ~Experience flow~ History talk → Tea talk → Tea making → Japanese sweets and tea

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• Age 3～Age 100
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• 09:30 / 12:30 / 14:30

Waplus Nara is a 2-minute walk from JR Nara Station and a 10-minute walk from Kintetsu Nara Station. It is located in a very convenient location. Come empty-handed ♪ We offer a special time to enjoy traditional Japanese beauty to your heart's content. Experience the traditional beauty of Japan in a kimono tea ceremony. Souvenir included. Wear a kimono and experience tea ceremony in a tea room. While learning the spirit of tea ceremony, you will savor the depth of Japanese culture. You can spend an elegant time with Japanese sweets. There is also a plan where you can go out in a kimono after the tea ceremony experience. (Additional charge of 1,100 yen including tax) ~Experience process~ Arrival → Choose a kimono → Dressing and hair styling → Guidance to a Japanese-style room → History talk → Tea talk → Tea making → Japanese sweets and tea

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• Age 3～Age 100
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• 10:00 / 13:00 / 15:00

Waplus Nara is a 2-minute walk from JR Nara Station and a 10-minute walk from Kintetsu Nara Station. It is in a very convenient location. Come empty-handed ♪ We offer a special time to enjoy traditional Japanese beauty to your heart's content. Experience the traditional beauty of Japan through the tea ceremony. While learning the spirit of tea ceremony, you will also savor the depth of Japanese culture. You can spend an elegant time with Japanese sweets. ~Experience process~ History talk → Tea talk → Tea making → Japanese sweets and tea *Souvenirs available

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• Age 3～Age 100
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• 10:30 / 13:30 / 15:30

Waplus Nara is a 2-minute walk from JR Nara Station and a 10-minute walk from Kintetsu Nara Station. It is in a very convenient location. Come empty-handed ♪ We offer a special time to enjoy traditional Japanese beauty to your heart's content. Experience calligraphy to incorporate Japanese beauty into characters. A skilled calligrapher will give you graceful instruction. Create your own unique art with the harmony of ink and brush. You can experience calligraphy casually. The experience will be done wearing a kimono. This plan includes a souvenir of a deer brush rest.

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• Age 6～Age 100
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In a full-fledged tea room, a course for customers to participate in a tea ceremony held by the owner of our hermitage. Under the guidance of the staff, a set of courses where you can make matcha yourself. At the tea ceremony, you can enjoy the tea ceremony while watching the tea ceremony! After that, try making your own tea using tea utensils (chasen, chashaku, natsume, bowl). You can learn how to walk in the tea room, how to greet, basic tea ceremony, and how to make delicious matcha ♪

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"Otemae" is the formal way to prepare tea when entertaining guests at a tea ceremony. It's not just about preparing tea, but also about cleaning (wiping and washing) the tools you will be using in a set way and manner, and then preparing the tea in front of the guests. This plan allows anyone to experience the introductory lessons to the tea ceremony. ♪This experience is difficult for foreigners, so please avoid it.

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• Age 3～Age 100
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• 11:00 / 14:00 / 16:00

Waplus Nara is a 2-minute walk from JR Nara Station and a 10-minute walk from Kintetsu Nara Station. It is located in a very convenient location. Come empty-handed ♪ We offer a special time to enjoy traditional Japanese beauty to your heart's content. Experience calligraphy, which incorporates Japanese beauty into characters. A skilled calligrapher will give you graceful instruction. Create your own unique art with the harmony of ink and brush. You can experience calligraphy in a casual atmosphere.

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• Age 3～Age 100
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• 11:00 / 14:00 / 16:00

Waplus Nara is a 2-minute walk from JR Nara Station and a 10-minute walk from Kintetsu Nara Station. It is in a very convenient location. Come empty-handed ♪ We offer a special time to enjoy traditional Japanese beauty to your heart's content. Experience calligraphy, which incorporates Japanese beauty into characters. A skilled calligrapher will give you graceful instruction. Create your own unique art with the harmony of ink and brush. You can experience calligraphy casually. This plan includes a souvenir of a deer-shaped brush rest.

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• Age 3～Age 100
• Within 1 hour /1～2 hours
• 10:30 / 13:30 / 15:30

Waplus Nara is a 2-minute walk from JR Nara Station and a 10-minute walk from Kintetsu Nara Station. It is located in a very convenient location. Come empty-handed ♪ We offer a special time to enjoy traditional Japanese beauty to your heart's content. Calligraphy experience that captures the beauty of Japan in characters + elegant instruction from a skilled calligrapher in kimono. Create your own unique art with the harmony of ink and brush. You can experience calligraphy casually. The experience will be done wearing a kimono.

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• Age 13～Age 65
• 5～6 hours
• 09:30

This tour is an adventure tour that combines the mysterious world of Shugendo with the thrill of cave exploration. There are many caves and waterfalls in the Yoshino region of Nara Prefecture, and it has long been considered a sacred place for people who practice asceticism in the mountains. You can experience the beauty of nature and the depth of history by visiting the waterfalls and caves where ancient ascetics practiced. In particular, by exploring inside a cave, you can experience the sensation of entering the womb of the earth with all five senses, touch the mysteries of nature, and refresh your mind and body while being surrounded by a ``silent and mysterious'' atmosphere. **What is Shugendo? **Shugendo is a unique religious culture that incorporates elements of Buddhism and Shintoism into traditional Japanese ascetic practices, and values a sense of unity with nature. Mountains are considered sacred places, and asceticism is carried out in nature. Ascetics are called ``Yamabushi'' and aim for spiritual growth through meditation, waterfall training (asceticism where you are hit by a waterfall), asceticism in caves, etc. Shugendo, born from gratitude for being alive amidst the blessings of nature, is based on the idea that one can be reborn once again through rigorous training in nature. Caves have also been used as training sites. 1. **Arrival at Yoiyoi Nishikawa Base and Briefing**: - After arriving at Yoiyoi Nishikawa Base, you will receive a briefing on the tour overview, safety, and the cultural significance of the places you will visit. 2. **Introduction to Dragonfly Falls Hike**: - Visit Dragonfly Falls, which was also a training site for Shugendo, located a one-minute drive from Yoiyoi Nishikawa Base. Here, you will experience the training of Shugendo and how to face nature, including waterfalls. 3. **Lunch Break**: Have lunch at the park below Dragonfly Falls 4. **Preparing for Expedition**: - Return to Yoiyoi Nishikawa Base and prepare your exploration gear. Once you are ready, you will drive in your guide's car for about 15 minutes to the parking lot near the cave. 5. **Start of cave exploration**: - After arriving at the parking lot, the cave exploration will begin. The exploration begins by searching for the entrance of the cave. Please discover the cave with your own hands. In order to enjoy the cave exploration empty-handed, your luggage will be left in the car and your guide will take care of your valuables other than your smartphone. 6. **Cave exploration**:7. **Response after cave exploration**: - Return to the same parking lot and change from your dirty equipment. 8. **Hot spring bath**: - After the cave exploration, you can enjoy a hot spring bath. We will provide face towels. Please spend some time relaxing and soothing your tired body in the hot spring. 9. **Pick-up and disbandment**:

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• Age 13～Age 100
• 5～6 hours
• 09:30

Annually, trekking the ice-water for midwinter only! An ice waterfall unusual in the Kansai area. I will visit "Otomine Ice Garden" to know people. A wide waterfall that spreads like a screen is worth a visit!

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• Age 0～Age 100
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• 09:00 / 10:00 / 11:00 / 13:00 / 14:00 / 15:00 / 16:00 / 17:00

Why don't you make one of you in the world, Nigiri! At Shokoen, you can experience the creation of "Nigiri Ink", which is made by holding raw ink with your hand, in an old-fashioned workshop. Please try to feel the "scent", "softness" and "warmth" of the moment you hold the raw ink. Your hands are easy and dirty Nara You can make ink, put it in a box and take it home. How about memory of Yamatoji by all means? With this plan, you can also experience calligraphy. Use the brush to write the name of the wooden box into which you will put the ink mark to make later.

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• Age 0～Age 100
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• 09:00 / 10:00 / 11:00 / 13:00 / 14:00 / 15:00 / 16:00 / 17:00

Why do not you make one in your world, just yours! In Kinkoen garden, you can experience the production of "Nigiri ink", which is made by grasping raw ink with hands, at the workshop drifting old fragrance. Please feel the "fragrance", "softness" and "warmth" at the moment of grabbing raw ink. Easily, you can make your own tasty Nara ink, do not pollute your hands, you can make it, you can take it home in a paulownia box on the spot. Why do not you indulge in Yamato's memories?

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• Age 0～Age 100
• 1～2 hours
• 11:30 / 12:00

Nara Let's enjoy a delicious lunch at the prefecture's first Kotori cafe! The rice you eat while looking at the cute birds should be delicious! ~ Lunch contents ~ ・ Lunch plate A plate where you can enjoy 4 kinds of side dishes that change every week ・ Nara Prefectural “Hinohikari” rice ·soup ・ Selectable drinks ① Coco Nana Coffee ② Hakuchan's Hakupis ③ 100% peach chan juice You can choose more (On the day Please tell us) ・ Mini dessert What happens On the day I'm looking forward to it.

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• Age 0～Age 100
• 1～2 hours
• 09:00 / 10:00 / 11:00 / 12:00 / 13:00 / 14:00 / 15:00 / 16:00 / 17:00

It is the first narrative cafe in Nara Prefecture, a plan that you can enjoy 'Okame-chan Ice' with motif of store's cockatiel. In addition there are abundant menus, so please order on site locally.

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• Age 11～Age 80
• 3～4 hours
• 09:00 / 13:30

◆ Handmade Japanese Paper Experience In this experience, you will make handmade Japanese paper using fibers from the bark of the paper tree (kozo), which is the raw material for Japanese paper. You will be able to use a blind, which is an authentic tool for handmade Japanese paper. We will explain how to make paper in an easy-to-understand manner for beginners, so please feel free to participate. You can experience learning papermaking techniques directly from a craftsman. You will learn how to process kozo, a traditional paper material, and hand-make about two sheets of Japanese paper in half a day to take home. ~Experience Flow~ 9:00 (13:30) Orientation An introduction to the types of Yoshino handmade Japanese paper, the experience procedure, and precautions. 9:20 (13:50) Workshop tour The papermaking process of kozo will be explained while looking at actual tools. 9:40 (14:10) Papermaking experience We will prepare the materials together, and each participant will take turns making paper. First, we will learn how to move the paper. Then, after making one sheet, we will take turns. 11:00 (15:30) Visit to the kozo field While the water is drained from the paper, you can take a short break and visit the nearby kozo field or enjoy the view of the Yoshino River bank. 11:30 (16:00) Drying the paper Your paper that has been drained of water is stuck to the dryer and dried. When it is completely dry, you can peel it off and roll it up into a tube to take home. *For those who want to learn the techniques of authentic handmade Japanese paper, we also offer a 3-night, 4-day course (all accommodation and meals included) called "4-day apprenticeship with a handmade Japanese paper craftsman in Yoshino, Nara." Please feel free to contact us.

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• Age 7～Age 80
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• 10:00 / 11:30 / 13:00 / 14:30 / 16:00

A special kimono experience delivered by a long-established rental costume store that has been supporting the kimono culture of the ancient city of Nara for 103 years. You will see, touch, and actually wear gorgeous and vibrant kimonos (uchikake) that you cannot wear in a general kimono experience. Uchikake is a costume that you only have the opportunity to wear on important days in life such as weddings, and is a costume that Japanese women long for. It is also very expensive and has high artistic value compared to normal kimonos, and our company has uchikake worth more than 1 million yen. As we have been involved in weddings for many years, we have more than 60 such precious uchikake. It is rare in the country to see and actually try on so many uchikake in one experience, and this was made possible by a long-established rental costume store. This experience, where you can experience traditional Japanese beauty by wearing an uchikake that has long expressed the dignity and elegance of Japanese women, will surely make you feel happy and will be a memory that you will cherish for a lifetime. [Terminology explanation] Uchikake: A costume with a history of more than 450 years. In modern times, it is a formal attire that is generally only worn at weddings. There are two types of uchikake: the pure white Shiromuku, which is worn at wedding ceremonies such as Shinto weddings, and the colorful Iro-uchikake, which is worn when gathering with relatives and friends after the wedding.

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• Age 1～Age 100
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• 10:00 / 11:00 / 12:00 / 13:00 / 14:00 / 15:00

Experience the essence of Japanese culture and create a one-of-a-kind piece of calligraphy with a master. Discover a new form of calligraphy that anyone can enjoy with this creative experience led by professional calligrapher, Ms. Akiko. Enjoy an authentic calligraphy experience using Nara brushes and Nara ink, traditional crafts of Nara. This unique method of expression will make for a deeper, more memorable experience. It will vividly color your travel memories in a unique way.

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• Age 13～Age 85
• 1～2 hours /2～3 hours
• 10:00 / 11:00 / 12:00 / 13:00 / 14:00 / 15:00 / 16:00 / 17:00 / 18:00

It's not just an armor experience that you can just shoot while wearing armor, it's an armor experience unique to a transformation studio that pursues coolness! * Plan contents *-Armor dressing-Studio shot (approx. 15 cuts)-Free shooting-2 2L format photos (with original photo mount)-2 smartphone photos (same as 2L format photos) -----ー ー ー ー ー ー ー ー ー ー *Other plans * * If you wish to change the plan, please be sure to fill out the form when applying. ○ Yu Makeup Plan (15,950 yen) [Female only] A plan that includes men's makeup and hair arrangement! It is recommended for Female customers who want to wear armor coolly! ○ Glossy Makeup Plan (17,050 yen) [Female only] A plan that combines bewitching makeup and hair arrangement in a flower-like style! Its beautiful and dignified figure is exactly a female swordsman! * Advance reservation option* * If you would like an option, please be sure to fill in at the time of application. ○ Simple makeup (2,750 yen) [Male only] For Male customers who want to make a more dramatic transformation! Apply clean makeup.

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• Age 3～Age 80
• Within 1 hour
• 11:30 / 13:30

<What you can experience> ▼Experience contents-1 hour sushi making experience using ZOOM- ① Instructor self-introduction ② Explanation of precautions, goals and points for sushi making experience ③ Sushi ingredients Let's study Japanese! ④ Start making sushi 8 pieces of sushi (7 nigiri sushi and 1 gunkan) ⑤ Take a picture of the finished sushi and send it to the teacher! It's OK to share on Instagram! ⑥Graduation Ceremony *Participants from overseas must prepare the ingredients for making sushi in advance. *Regarding the preparation of material and shari We will contact you directly from the day you make a reservation until the day of the experience. *For those who participate from Japan, we have a pattern that you prepare yourself above and a separate delivery service for Sushi Kid from the official website, so you can purchase it from there. <Ingredients for making sushi> Shari 200g per person *How to make sushi rice: Add vinegar to freshly cooked rice. (1kg=70ml) After that, use a rice paddle to cut and mix. Mix well and let cool for 20-30 minutes.

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• Age 3～
• 2～3 hours
• 10:00

Take Japanese traditional fermented food “miso” from ingredients and take it home! The handmade miso is delicious and delicious! Since we will ferment at home, we will also tell you how to save. Children and adult can enjoy! Homemade miso soup and freshly cooked rice are delicious and popular!

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• Age 6～Age 100
• 2～3 hours
• 09:30

海のない奈良でも「魚は美味しい」を実感していただきたい！！ 当店は魚屋の息子として、肉類を一切使用せず、 奈良の水産市場から、目利き・仕入・下処理・調理・提供まで、シェフが一貫して行っております。 地場野菜も、奈良県桜井市の農家「ルーラル・ヴィレッジ」の下で、 土作り・種まき・定植・水やり・収穫・出荷などの農作業を教わり、 野菜ができるまでの過程を把握し、料理に反映しております。 「美味しく」「楽しく」をモットーに、季節のコース料理を中心としたメニューとなっております。

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• Age 6～Age 100
• 2～3 hours
• 09:30

海のない奈良でも「魚は美味しい」を実感していただきたい！！ 当店は魚屋の息子として、肉類を一切使用せず、 奈良の水産市場から、目利き・仕入・下処理・調理・提供まで、シェフが一貫して行っております。 地場野菜も、奈良県桜井市の農家「ルーラル・ヴィレッジ」の下で、 土作り・種まき・定植・水やり・収穫・出荷などの農作業を教わり、 野菜ができるまでの過程を把握し、料理に反映しております。 「美味しく」「楽しく」をモットーに、季節のコース料理を中心としたメニューとなっております。

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