Thank you for staying at TGK!
As a part of attraction during your stay in Yamashina, we offer some must-do experiences you may interested in.
Walking Tour
The first thing you are doing is to get to know your neighbor!
TGK is surrounded by amazing local attractions, which you may not feel in city center.
TGK tour
Walk around TGK to find out local attractions :
A cafe, a pastry shop, a Tofu shop, Japanese confectionary shop, a custard pudding shop, Zuishin-in temple where a famous poetess Ono-no Komachi once lived. Let's found out her story at the closest attraction from your room.
Time: 60 minutes
Price: 4,000 yen/group
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Daigoji quick tour
Daigoji is an iconic temple of Yamashina where you can enjoy vast grounds with many historical structures. Combined with TGK tour, stretch your legs to Daigoji and have a look at its ground and Nagao tenmangu shrine. Visit free area only.
Time: 2 hours
Price: 7,000 yen/group
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Daigoji full tour
Daigoji has paid areas of Sanpo-in, main temple with the old pagoda and a museum that stores buddha statues. Walk to the temple from your room and enjoy its inside in addition to free area. **Tickets are not included. 1,500-2,000yen depending on the season.
Time: 3 hours
Price: 10,000 yen/group
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Kyoto Traditional Painting
Coloring experience combining two traditional techniques of Kyoto: Yuzen-zome and Tarashikomi.
Yuzen-zome, or Yuzen-dying was invented by a fun painter Miyazaki Yuzen. His technique features drawing starch frames on silk fabric. The line prevents the color from going over another lines, which allows you to color directly in those lines. TARASHIKOMI is another style used for Japanese painting. The inventor is Tawaraya Sotatsu who lived in around 15th to 16th century. His famous piece is Fujin-Raijin-zu byobu, translated into wind god and thunder god on the screen. He used his style depicting the clouds under Rraijin. Doing this he presented the natural gradations and intensity of colors.
In this experience, you are provided with a pre-drawn shikishi paper board and color it with pigment produced by Kissho, a long loved Japanese art material company.
The workshop takes 3 hours in your room. It feels a lot of time and work, but it’s surely a satisfying procedure to complete your own piece: Choose colors that fit a maiko girl, make beautiful gradation for Sakura petals. Bring back home this special souvenir from Kyoto!
Time: 3 hours per group (up to 4 people)
Price: 6,000 yen/person
Location: Your room at TGK
Kimono Wearing
Today, the term of kimono is referred to Japanese traditional clothes, but it originally meant just "clothing," something to wear.
In this experience, you are going to enjoy wearing a casual kimono called "Yukata," and this is relatively easy to wear.
You have two options:
Dressing service
Kimono-dresser will help dress you with your yukata and teach how to fold it back so you can take it with you nice and neat back to your country.
Bring or prepare your favorite yukata you like to wear.
Time: 30-40 minutes
Price: 5,000 yen/person
Location: Your room at TGK
*Yukata shopping tour is optional for 10,000yen.
Dress-yourself Lesson
A lesson of how to dress yourself with your own yukata set. You will learn how to wear it by yourself. With a set of yukata, you can enjoy dressing yourself anytime, anywhere.
Bring or prepare your favorite yukata you like to wear.
Time: 60-120 minutes
Price: 10,000 yen/person
Location: Your room at TGK
*Yukata shopping tour is optional for 10,000yen.
Contact & Payment
Contact me here.
Payment will be cash or credit card by stripe service on the day.
Hello! I’m Minori
I’ve lived in Yamashina for more than 15 years. Yamashina is a great area and can be hidden options if you are already familiar with main attractions in Kyoto.
I teach English to kids so I would like to show them how rewarding and proud it is to show people around our beautiful country, and English would be helpful in many ways.
I like wearing kimono, cooking, and watching moves. Kimono may look difficult to wear but once you remember how to wear it, you can take it back to your country and enjoy dressing yourself. Why don’t you start with yukata, a casual kimono for summer time? For this, I can be a great help for you!
Let’s go and see beautiful Kyoto and experience some of the best attractions here with me.