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Half Day Meditation Tour - Eiheiji Zen Head Temple, Fukui
Fukui
4 hours 30 min
Zazen is silent meditation of Zen Buddhism and it is performed in sitting. This tour is to have an experience of Zazen at Eiheiji Zen Head Temple where it was founded by Zen Master Dogen who first taught Zen in Japan. The Temple has been filled with the bracing and serene atmosphere of Zen practitioners. Let’s try Zazen to see inside yourself and/or relax in the deep mountains during busy travelling.
FROM$200/ per group
Yoshie K.
5.00 / 5
(39 reviews)
Mochi (rice cake) Making and Visiting Crafts Making Villages With The History of 1500 Years
Fukui
7 hours
Mochi is a rice cake that is chewy, soft and delicious. This tour provides you a highly amusing experience where you can make the mochi on your own from steamed rice to round-shaped mochi filled with sweet red beans and one with toppings by a pestle and mortar in the old Echizen classic farmer's house. Echizen is a major crafts town so you can learn how artisans produce crafts very closely including washi paper using bark of a tree, lacquerware and knives derived from a Japanese sword.
FROM$261/ per group
Yoshie K.
5.00 / 5
(39 reviews)
Traditional Mochi (rice cake) Making by Pestle & Mortar - Half Day Tour
Fukui
4 hours 50 min
Mochi is a Japanese rice cake that is chewy, very soft and delicious. This tour provides you a highly amusing experience where you can make the mochi on your own from steamed rice to round-shaped mochi filled with sweet red beans by a pestle and mortar in the Echizen classic farmer's house. You can make an intricate Chinkin pattern by carving with a knife and then gold/silver powder is inlaid into the surface to fix the design w/artisan. It will be quite a unique experience and such fun!
FROM$211/ per group
Yoshie K.
5.00 / 5
(39 reviews)