Inuyama Castle & Karakuri Doll Museum Experience 1-night tour Inuyama Karakuri Doll in SHUKU「Coming soon」
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The word of mechanical dolls that create the festival floats
The word of mechanical dolls that create the festival floats
The origins of Japanese
manufacturing
special experience
What is a Karakuri Doll?
What is a Karakuri Doll?
- Karakuri dolls are dolls that move automatically without electricity, using mechanisms such as strings, springs, and other mechanisms.
- Dashi Karakuri are puppets used in float festivals all over Japan, performing acrobatics and transformations on floats.
- Zashiki Karakuri are puppets used for indoor entertainment in the rooms of nobles and feudal lords, or at teahouse banquets.
Aichi's Float Festival : history and culture
- Aichi Prefecture has the most floats used in its festivals, with 422, the most in Japan.
- The mechanical dolls used in festival floats such as the Gion Festival in Kyoto, the Takayama Festival in Gifu, and the Inuyama Festival in Aichi are made in Aichi.
- It is said that Japan's advanced manufacturing techniques were inherited from Karakuri dolls.
9th Generation Karakuri Puppet Master : Tamaya shobei
- The first generation came to be known as Tamaya Shobei, after he invited a mechanical puppeteer from Kyoto by Tokugawa Muneharu in 1733 and had him live in Tamaya-cho, Owari, at the time.
- Currently, the ninth generation Tamaya Shobei creates and repairs floats and karakuri in his workshop in Kita-ku, Nagoya, and at the Inuyama City Cultural Museum workshop.
Experience Karakuri Dolls at the Traditional Japanese Inn SYUKU
- Tamaya Shobei will use the actual doll to explain how Karakuri dolls work in an easy-to-understand manner.
- Furthermore, Tamaya Shobei will teach you how to make a puppet using a kit that allows you to experience making a mechanical puppet.
- The doll-making experience will take place at SHUKU, a traditional Japanese inn in Inuyama.
An impressive marriage of exquisite Japanese cuisine and sake
- You can rent the traditional Japanese inn "SHUKU" exclusively for the day and enjoy an impressive marriage of exquisite Japanese cuisine and sake carefully selected by a professional sommelier to pair perfectly with the food.
- After your meal, you will enjoy a comfortable night in one of SHUKU's special guest rooms.
Special program details
- Contents：
- ①Visit Inuyama Castle and the National Treasure Tea House, and experience tea ceremony
- ②Stroll around the castle town
- ③Viewing Karakuri Dolls
- ④Karakuri doll making experience（Directly taught by Master Tamaya Shobei IX）
- ⑤The Pairing of Japanese Food and Sake
- ⑥Commemorative photo
- ⑦Stay at the traditional Japanese inn "SHUKU"
- ⑧Visit to the National Treasure Tea House "Joan"
- ⑨Matcha tea is served
- Time：A two-day, one-night trip departing from the hotel at 9:00 and returning to the hotel at 15:00 the next day
- Capacity：Maximum of 8 people, with guided interpretation throughout the tour
tour schedule
| 9 am. | Pick-up from hotels in Nagoya city |
|---|---|
| 9 am.~10 am. | Head to Inuyama Castle by hire car |
| 10 am.~11:30 am. | Inuyama Castle tour |
| 11:30 am.~1 pm. | Lunch (Hotel Indigo) |
| 1 pm.~1:30 pm. | Stroll around the castle town |
| 1:30 pm.~2 pm. | Visit to the Karakuri Museum |
| 2 pm.~2:10 pm. | Take a hire car to SHUKU |
| 2:30 pm.~3 pm. | Karakuri Doll Explanation(Master Tamaya Shobei) |
| 3 pm.~5 pm. | Karakuri doll making experience |
| 5 pm.~5:30 pm. | Commemorative photo |
| 5:30 pm.~9 pm. | The Pairing of Japanese Food and Sake(SHUKU's private room) |
stay(SHUKU Neriya Building available for exclusive use)
| 9 am.~9:10 am. | Head to Inuyama Castle by hire car |
|---|---|
| 9:10 am.~10:30 am. | Stroll around Yurakuen and enjoy tea |
| 10:30 am.~12 pm. | free time |
| 12 pm.~12:15 pm. | Take a hire car to La Maison Cachee |
| 12:30 pm.~2 pm. | Lunch (La Maison Cachee) |
| 2 pm.~3 pm. | Travel to your hotel in Nagoya by hire car |
| 3 pm. | See you off at the hotel |
Sales price:
Number of participants: 2 to 4 people
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For this tour, a foreign language interpreter guide will accompany you from departure to return to your hotel in Nagoya.
This travel product is operated under contract by the following travel agency.
Act U-Travel Co., Ltd.
Japan Tourism Agency Registered Travel Agency No. 1102
