Tea-ceremony room of Ikegami Hyakuchikutei (Photo: Akira Matsuo)

Matsumoto Castle's Tea Ceremony

A tea ceremony in the castle garden and tea room

Tea-ceremony room of Ikegami Hyakuchikutei (Photo: Akira Matsuo)
Akira Matsuo   - 1 min read

In the Matsumoto Castle garden, a tea ceremony is held several times a year.

This summer, it’s being held on August 6th and 7th, at the beginning of the free admission period for visitors wearing kimono, and also the extension period of entrance hours (8:00 till door closes at 17:30 , normally 8:30-16:30) (until August 16).

Members of the youth group of the Urasenke tea ceremony school wearing yukata will serve you cold green tea with Japanese cake for 500 yen. The leader of the group speaks English.

Also, there is a full-scale tea-ceremony room with a tea garden in Ikegami Hyakuchikutei, a historical Japanese house with gardens, located just a few minutes walk northward from the castle. It is used as a community center (kominkan), but also is a perfect place to feel Japanese traditional culture, including the tea ceremony, and to enjoy Japanese gardens. The fall foliage of the garden is especially beautiful. You can look inside the tea room and garden freely without charge when it is not used.

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Akira Matsuo

Akira Matsuo @akira.matsuo

Nice to see you in this useful and cool website! I was born in Osaka and moved to Nagoya, then, Tokyo. After I founded my company MT Laboratories and work all day and night, I moved both my residence and company to a beautiful castle town, Matsumoto in Nagano Prefecture. Living in this area sur...