What is the Kyoto Guide Club?
A volunteer group that organizes a variety of tours for foreign residents of Kyoto. Its purpose is to show those attractions that are hard to find in guide books.
One day tour
An opportunity to get insight into Kyoto in a tour for one day.
Examples
Factory Visit - breweries, companies in the hi-tech industry
Hike - Hozukyo, Mt.Hiei
Cultural Heritages - townhouses, temples and
shrines
Experience - traditional Japanese dance lesson, Zen meditation and Soybean harvest etc.
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◆Previous one day tours
MM/DD shows Month / Dates
The number is participants excluding volunteers
◆ 2000
10/27 Kyoto Shinbun (newspaper) Company 19
11/04 Zen meditation at Nanzenji temple 10
◆ 2001
02/25 Kyoto Disaster Prevention Center
05/20 Hike at Mt. Daimonji
09/15 Zen meditation at Daitoku-temple 32
11/16 Visit to Horiba
Ltd. 9
12/09 Okura Sake Museum and the brewery called Kinshimasamune
27
◆ 2002
05/18 Fushimi Inari Shrine and a hike the mountains behind 30
07/21 Zen meditation in Tofukuji-temple 32
10/26 Climbing Mt. Hiei 23
12/15 Gekkeikan Okura Sake Museum
◆ 2003
02/28
Excavating relics at a historical site 14
05/24 Hike and Whisky
Factory Visit 18
07/20
Zen Meditation at Tofukuji-temple 33
10/19 Hike around Uji –Amagase hike 33
12/13
Visit to Fushimi sake breweries 20
◆ 2004
02/28 Disaster Prevention Center
05/23 Hike to Nishiyama
19
07/17 Zen meditation at Tofukuji-temple 19
08/07 Lesson of traditional
Japanese dance
08/26 Guided tour to
Kyoto Univ. Museum 13
12/18 Fushimi Sake breweries 43
◆ 2005
01/16 Disaster Prevention Center 57
05/29 Hike to the world
heritage temple, Daigoji
07/16 Zen meditation
practice at Tofukuji-temple
09/04 Visit to
townhouses at the center of the city
10/01 Hike around Yaki
and Edamame Harvesting
12/18 Okura Sake Museum & Sake plant
◆ 2006
05/21 Kiyotaki Hiking tour
07/15 Zen meditation at Tofukuji Temple 9
09/18 Town houses at the center of Kyoto city 22
10/14 Hike around Yagi and Edamame Harvesting
12/02 Okura Sake Museum and taste Sake 30
◆ 2007
05/26
Craftmen of Nishijin-brocade
10/14 Kurama-Kibune Hiking 16
12/09 Okura Sake Museum & Sake Plant tour 30
◆ 2008
04/13 「Kyoto Imperial Palace's Cherry Blossom-Viewing & Traditional Cha no yu (Tea Ceremony) - viewing tour 」33人
05/31 「Hike up to the world heritage temple, Daigoji 」Cancelled by rain
◆Previous mini tours◆
2006/11/03 Hike to Shogunzuka and Chioin temple
2007/07/12&14 Vist to Hoshoyama, one of the Gion Festival floats 14
2007/09/30 Experience the Spirit of Zen Meditation at the
Temple of Spring Ray in Myoshinji 20
2007/11/03 Awata-Sanso and 7 misteries in Chioin Temple 7
2008/2/3 Sanjyo Mochi Pounding Experience 12
◆What's new?◆
◆ 2008
04/13
Kyoto Imperial Palace Cherry Blossoms & Tea Ceremony
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