Kyoto"Cultural Center"1: Tea Ceremony (茶会)

You can also say that Kyoto is Japan's cultural center. You can watch the Japanese traditiona theatre, such as "Kabuki (歌舞伎), Nou (能)and Geisha performance (芸者). In addition to it, there are a number of famouos handcrafts such as traditional clothing techniques, "Kyo Orimono (京織物), Kyo Yuzen (京友禅・染物）" and ceramics ( 陶磁器) etc. There is many places you can enjoy the Japanese Tea Ceremony(茶会).
For more than 1000 years, Uji tea producers (near Kyoto city) have provided exclusively tea to the capital. We went to one of prestageous Tea retailing shop to experience tea celemony. It is very interesting to learn a little bit of techniques to make "Maccha (抹茶)".







Further information on the shop and tea celemony
Name : Bikoen Tea shop: 宇治茶の美好園（びこうえん）
Address: 京都市下京区油小路通花屋町下る仏具屋町235
Access: not far from Kyoto Station, very close to Nishi Honganji temple
TEL: 075-371-1013
http://www.bikouen.com