National Treasure Inuyama Castle Tour & Karakuri Doll Making Experience (6 hours) - Registration Opening Soon
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Directing a float festivalThe secret of the karakuridoll
Directing a float festivalThe secret of the karakuridoll
The origin of Japanese manufacturing
Special Experiences
What is a karakuri doll?
What is a karakuri doll?
- A karakuri doll is a doll that moves automatically without the use of electricity by means of a mechanism such as a thread, mainspring, or spring
- Some can not only move, but also fly, transform instantly, and perform advanced movements
Aichi float festival
History and culture
- Aichi Prefecture has the largest number of floats used for float festivals with 422 floats, the largest in Japan.
•Many of the float festival karakuri dolls are made in Aichi, including the Inuyama Festival in Aichi, the Gion Festival in Kyoto, and the Takayama Festival in Gifu.
•It is said that Japan's advanced manufacturing technology was inherited from karakuri dolls
Karakuri puppeteerNinth generation Tamaya Shobei
- The first generation was in the 18th year of Kyoho (1733), when Soji Tokugawa had a puppeteer live in Tamaya-cho in Owari, so it came to be called Tamaya Shobei
- Currently, the ninth generation Tamaya Shobei is working on production and restoration work in the workshop in Nagoya City and the workshop of the Inuyama City Cultural Museum
Shobei TamayaRevealing the secret only to you
- The ninth generation Tamaya Shobei master will directly reveal the secret of the karakuri doll only to you
- You can make a model that will be the prototype of a karakuri doll by receiving hands directly from your master
Karakuri doll preludeExperience the history and culture of Inuyama Castle
- We will guide you to the castle tower of the national treasure "Inuyama Castle" built by Oda Nobuyasu in 1537
•We will prepare a French course lunch at Hotel Indigo Inuyama
•You will see the tea room built by Oda Yurakusai in 1618, the national treasure "Ruan“
•At the tea room "Koan" with the Suikoto Cave, you will experience tea presentation with Inuyama ware tea utensils
•We will guide you to a walk in Inuyama Castle Town, which retains traces of the Edo period
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program details
- Contents：
- (1) Admission to the National Treasure "Inuyama Castle"
- (2) Lunch at Hotel Indigo Inuyama
- (3) Visiting the National Treasure Tea Room "Ruan"
- (4) Tea presentation experience at the tea room "Koan"
- (5) Walking around Inuyama Castle Castle Town
- (6) Learn the secret of karakuri dolls
- (7) Experience the prototype of a karakuri doll(Direct transmission of the ninth generation Tamaya Shobei master)
- Time: Meet at Hotel Indigo Inuyama at 10 o'clock16 o'clock Hotel Indigo Inuyama disbanded
Participation fee: 100,000 yen per person (lunch, admission fee, tea presentation, prototype ingredients included, foreign language guide included, tax included)(Minimum number of participants: 2 people, maximum 8 people)
Organizer
Aichi Inbound Association
29-11 Higashi-Osone-cho, Higashi-ku, Nagoya City Kyoei Building 5A Bell Air Co., Ltd.
Telephone：052-930-5778
Number of participants: 2 to 8 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
