Edo Culture Tour: Tokyo's Kagurazaka
Experience Tokyo's Kagurazaka with a new immersive tour. Explore samurai history, traditional sweets, tea ceremonies, and kokyu music in one morning.
Discover Kagurazaka, a charming Tokyo neighborhood with Edo-era connections, through a unique cultural experience. Offered on select Sundays in June and July, the 'Shogun Cultural Experiences' tour immerses you in traditional Japanese culture through all five senses.
The 2.5-hour tour includes a guided walk through Kagurazaka, a wagashi-making workshop and tea ceremony, and a kokyu performance with hands-on session. The tour is led by experts, including a fourth-generation sweets maker and a professional kokyu musician who contributed to the 'Shogun' television series soundtrack.
Tickets are available for 17,000 yen (US$108.57) per person. The tour wraps up at 10 a.m., leaving you ample time to further explore Kagurazaka's tea houses and French-influenced bakeries.
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