10 Lessons & Workshops in Kanazawa That You Shouldn't Miss

Samurai Yakata is a culture house in Kanazawa’s historic area where we aim at promoting traditional Japanese arts in a lighthearted, fun manner. Here you can experience traditional music and dances, and even wear traditional costumes, like Samurai, Ninja and Oiran (female entertainers) costumes. We perform a show everyday many times during the day, in which we have taiko, shamisen, traditional dances and stage combat performances. For the costume experience, you can either purchase a selfie plan or a photo shoot plan, in which our professional photographer will make you look even more fantastic. Other than this, you can experience the culture closely by trying to play the shamisen, fight with the sword using the kenjutsu technique and so on. Also, if you are organizing and event in Kanazawa, you can book our artists to prepare an opening performance for your event.

Teaceremony experience chado the way of tea pawderd green tea matcha tea gathering traditional procedure for making tea

Would you like to experience making Japanese food? Kyara ben (Cartoon )character Bento Lunch box or Takoyaki making experience at Kanazawa house. Do you love eating Japanese food and would like to learn how to make your own? In this class you will experience our culture first hand by making a famous Japanese cartoon lunch box!!! Our classes are small groups of up to 4 people, so you can relax and enjoy cooking like your at a friend's or relative's house. Let's turn Bento boxes or takoyaki into fun Japanese cartoon characters We also support vegetarian, please let us know at the time of reservation When it is all set, let's take a picture then eat and enjoy!!! Make them for your friends or family when you return home.

Please refer to HP. We are sorry that we are not good at speaking English, but we have simple instructions in English. We don't have staffs who can speak English well. If you are fine with it, then, we don’t mind it. we’ll give it our all !! It costs ￥1,000(tax inc) per person and takes about 1 hour to join our workshop. As soon as possible, Please make your reservations. I'm looking forward to seeing you on the day.

Watch artists painting designs on silk at this fascinating silk dyeing studio, converted from a Taisho-era home.

Shijimaya-honpo is founded in the year of Meiji 8(1875) as a soy sauce shop at Izumino Village, where the beautiful underground water coming from Hakusan gushes out. Ever since, we have been making fermented food deeply rooted in local culture including soy sause, Miso, Koji, Kabura-zushi, Daikon-zushi, etc. One of our main products Kabura-zushi is a traditional winter delicacy of Kanazawa. These days we do not only to sell the delicacies, also having workshop to learn how to make the Kabura-zushi, Japanese swords guide or small cafe to enjoy the fermented food. Please feel free to visit us and enjoy the fermented food and food culture in Kanazawa.

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