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Today’s Kyoto was hot! I remember the terrible weather in summer here. Rainy season will start soon. It’s just now to enjoy good weather actually. Green Tour Kyoto had a nice event of hiking last Sunday. The route was from very famous shrine, Fushimi-inari-taisha to Sennyu-ji which is well-known as the temple related to Imperial [...]

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Today is the middle day of the Japanese long(!?) holidays, GW. I went to Ohara, countryside of north part of Kyoto City. This is one of my favorite areas where I can visit easily and enjoy atmosphere and fresh air of countryside. I’d like to introduce one temple that is my best in Ohara. This [...]

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This spring is unusually cold, especially now, during big holidays called “Golden Week”. I have a coat and scarf actually. In the beginning of GW, I was invited to the Japanese drum performance of the Noh tradition. This was for the anniversary of the oldest Noh drum player, Mr. Hiroshi Sowa (曽和博朗, 88 yrs), organized [...]

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GTK decided to go hiking on Mt. Inari which is famous for Fushimi-Inari Taisha Shrine on the foot of the mountain. Fushimi-Inari Taisha Shrine is, as you know, a popular site for tourists because of thousand of red Shinto gate in the Shrine ground. But almost tourists don’t go up to the top of the [...]

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Hello everyone, Almost cherry blossoms are finished. The season is going to for the new leaves. Finally my favorite season will come! I really love fresh green color of new leaves. But, please wait! I’d like to introduce a nice place to see late cherry blossoms near my office. These blossoms are awfully and breathtakingly [...]

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Hello hikers! Kyoto is getting warm day by day. Spring is almost here! Let us tell you about our next event for hiking! Upper photo is Daigo-ji Temple taken yesterday. Lower is the same temple site which will be expected on the hiking day. (20 days later from today) Yes! The mountain for the next [...]

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What are people in photo above doing? Do you know it? They are playing karuta to know about the Way of Tea, named Chanoyu Karuta in Japanese. This karuta is bilingual in English and Japanese, so it would be nice not only for learning the Way of Tea but also for learning Japanese for non-Japanese [...]

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I took part in Tea ceremony yesterday. This was the first time for me, actually. To tell the truth, I had not been interested in such Japanese culture, which feels like some strict and old, but sometimes like a show.. Above all I can’t keep the seiza style for long time.(This seems to be shameful [...]

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Happy New Year everyone! How was your New Year’s holiday? Did you see the first sunrise of the year on the mountain? I was in Kyoto on the New Year days and on the 2nd, January, I went up on Mt.Daiomonji which is the most popular mountain in Kyoto. (altitude 466m) On two days of [...]

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I visit Koto-in Temple (高桐院) which is the sub temple of Daitoku-ji Temple (大徳寺) last weekend. The reason to choose this temple was that Koto-in is well-know as a beautiful carpet with fallen red momiji maple leaves. Actually the best season to see momiji was almost finished at the end of the month. So I [...]

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