https://kdtour.qloba.com/ Transit tour near HND airport. we provide cultural activities and lessons. English guided tour. Here is off the beaten track. ja qloba PAGE Thu, 16 Dec 2021 22:37:23 GMT Let's learn about the motif of Kimono!!A fan The fan a popular item in east Asian regions, can be found in Korea, China, and so on.Upon opening, the fan spreads out.In Japan,the shape of an item which spreads out widely towards the end is a symbol of luck.Hence you can see a lot of fan-motive designs in Japanese fabrics.At the same time, the action of fanning is considered an invitation for luck to come your way.2021.12.17Mikiho https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/11654 https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/11654 Thu, 16 Dec 2021 22:37:23 GMT The pattern of motives is "peony".The peony is a flower with big petals and is called the most gorgeous flower. It is referred to as "the king of a hundred of flowers". The bud is small and hard, But once it blooms, it displays its gorgeous face every year. The growth process and gorgeousness of peony blossoms are seen asa symbol of the “fully grown woman”.Because of this, the peony is the most popular motif for Furisode, the kimono for the coming-of-age ceremony for women.many mothers want t... https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/11338 https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/11338 Thu, 21 Oct 2021 02:27:22 GMT The pattern of motives is cloud. Cloudpattern is also loved by people for centuries.*Have you felt something special when you see the colorful cloud such as sunset and sunset clouds and sunrises?In the past days, people believed that cloud is the place where the god or dragons; something which beyond human power, live in. Peoplethose days though that colorful cloud is a good sign and it makes people feel special. https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/11218 https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/11218 Mon, 27 Sep 2021 07:38:21 GMT (日本語は以下）About KD tourHello from Japan, KD Tour!!We are the service provider for everyone who arrives on or departs from HND Haneda Tokyo Airport, such as a cultural program or local half-day tour.Before covid-19, we provided the cultural experience program with photo sessions and kimono itself for tourists, students, and so on.But under this covid-19 circumstance, everyone loses the chance to travel abroad. We can not accept any customers from abroad.So for now, for all the people who live in... https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/10975 https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/10975 Tue, 24 Aug 2021 07:21:34 GMT The List of Furisode as for #inkimonowithflowerLength of #kimono 153cm Model 166cmAll silk made and above 40-year-old vintage furisode.The pattern of flower of peony is one of the long-loved in Japan since around 900 D.C.Peony is called the greatest flower because of its volume of petal face.The gorgeous face is suitable for furisode.This Furisode has embroideries with silver threads.Price for the experience (studio photo + dressing + Kimono itself) 50,000 JPYThe price Furisode itself Inclu... https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/10863 https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/10863 Tue, 03 Aug 2021 00:56:40 GMT Welcome back!! Windchime market (a.k.a Fruin-ichi, Whindchime festival)2021 started at 20th July - 22 August 2021!!風鈴市2021、復活の巻Last year this event is canceled.　昨年はコロナの影響で中止となった風鈴市、今年は別の形になって開催します！ Before Covid-19, this is 5 days event inside of Heikenji temple. 　これまでは川崎大師平間寺の境内で行っていましたが、今年は仲見世通りの各店舗が風鈴を飾って販売しています。About 300,000 people from the greater Tokyo area visit and enjoy 30,000 wind chimes among 900 varieties from all over Japan. The windchime market is one of the big events in the Ka... https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/10816 https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/10816 Fri, 23 Jul 2021 01:12:09 GMT When do Japanese ladies wear Furisode kimonos?It is Coming of Age Day when a lady is celebrated as being 20 years old. Coming of Age Day is every year on the 2nd Monday of January and is a Japanese national holiday to celebrate people who have reached the age of twenty.⁠⁠My coming of age day celebration party was in 2007. The photo above is the one taken in 2007.Those days, about 80% of girls who attended the celebration party wore a Furisode kimono. ⁠⁠⁠⁠And most of them had book the Furisode... https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/10070 https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/10070 Wed, 14 Apr 2021 05:21:26 GMT Kanayama shrine, the organizer of Kanayama (Utamaro) Fesitival, announced that the scale down of kanamara festival 2021 and no showing performance for tourist, over concern about the COVID-19 pandemic. Mikiho asked to organizer and she answered by facebook massanger. And they announced via their twitter account also.It will be hold on 4th April 2021.This year also, any penis mikoshi parades , the performing, nor penis ravish carving will not be conducted. All event for tourist is NOT held a... https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/9883 https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/9883 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 07:54:37 GMT Now Mikiho’s kimono-dressing is completed!If we finish here, it is just the dressing Kimono. Nothing differs from other Kimono-rental shops.What KD tour is special is, from here!Next, we go to the studio which is connected with a fresh flower shop by taxi. The name of the studio is Atelier Warahana.Hundreds of flowers welcomed me and Masae-san.At first, Mikiho is wrapped by a skarf.Next!It is not hair styling. she put the seeds on my head. Do you wonder?Wow, greens leave pop up!They are not p... https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/9756 https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/9756 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 07:46:14 GMT Today I will show the process of dressing !!At first I take of the uppers and be naked ... braless....⁠No photo of it😅110kimonosoan prepares all the thing I need to wear Kimono.⁠Put the decorative collar for Wafuku (Japanese clothes).And she wrapped with under-belt obi and keep tight."Are you OK?"she ask.⁠"Yes,,, I can stand...more...OK"⁠ All I can say is like that.What's the Furisode?⁠Furisode is one of the style of Wafuku.Wafuku means Japanese Clothse.⁠Furisode is worn by women outside the ... https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/9755 https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/9755 Thu, 11 Mar 2021 12:53:19 GMT Before be in Kimono, We choose a Kimono to wear at first.Usually some kimono rental shops displays Kimones like this.Photo from　https://furisode.info/%E2%98%86%E6%88%90%E4%BA%BA%...But here, Soan..every Kimono is wrapped in the paper! Now shown like the showrooms.As a kimonodresser master Matsumoto-san says,⁠"Our Kimono is so good that we don't diplay like showroom."⁠⁠From her words, I wonder how special the Kiminoes are?"⁠Published by 2021.02.27 ,Mikihonext article related article https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/9730 https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/9730 Tue, 02 Mar 2021 04:00:00 GMT At first I would like to introduce Kimono rental and dressing shop, 110kimonosoan.⁠In Japan, not so many people can not wear a Kimono by themselves.Mikiho is also one of them.⁠So, people ask kimono dressers to help wearing a Kimono.⁠⁠@110kimonosoan is one of the #Kimonoshops with #kimonodresser .They sell Kimono and kimono related things, and provide rentalkimono services.⁠⁠There are many things to wear when you are in #Kimono.⁠⁠Actually, I can not tell Furisode from Tsukesage, Yukata.⁠Publi... https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/9729 https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/9729 Thu, 25 Feb 2021 08:05:13 GMT Good morning from Nezu station, Tokyo. Not from Kawasaki, in Tokyo!!⁠Today I am going try ”hananingen” in Kimono.⁠I am planning packeged tour for honeymoontrippers or privatetour as kimonoe dressing xperience.⁠What is hananingen?humanflower ?⁠Later you will know it!⁠⁠Published by 2021.02.25 ,MikihoNext article... https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/9728 https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/9728 Thu, 25 Feb 2021 08:01:24 GMT 川崎大師駅の北口と、表参道商店街の薬局「タカハシ薬局」まえに、ツバメの巣ができています！You can see 2 nests of swallow at Kawasaki Daishi.Swallows come to Japan at the end of spring, and they spend a summer and raise chicks.It is "summer bird" for Japanese.At winter season, they are in Taiwan, and south east asia country.They usually build a nest of mud and grasses around human habitation, such as eaves and beams. .Japanese regard the swallow as beneficial bird, because they eat pests.Many Japanese love their cute appearance, and look... https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/7617 https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/7617 Fri, 05 Jun 2020 04:12:45 GMT Praying for an end to covid-19, Wakamiya Hachimangu shrine installed the "Chinowa Kuguri" gate."Chinowa kuguri," the tradition of walking through and around a large grass "chinowa" hoop in a figure eight, is a part of summer purification rituals.It’s meant to cleanse any impurities from the first half of the year and pray for sound health through the second half.However, the recent pandemic is now sometimes referred to as "World War C", so Wakayama shrine installed the gate so that people can... https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/7398 https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/7398 Mon, 11 May 2020 08:48:41 GMT photo courtesy of Heikenji temple3rd:Feb Bean Scattering ceremony,Setsubun-e,2020At Heikenji: There is 3 times, from, 11:30AM from 2 PM, from4PM.At Wakamiya Shrine, starts from 4 PM"Setsubun"originally means division of seasons. It is used to mark the end of spring, summer, autumn and winter. However "setsubun" has now come to mean the day before the first day of spring only in particular. It occurs on 3rd February 3rd every year.On this day, in a custom called "mame-maki", people throw and s... https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/6687 https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/6687 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 02:18:18 GMT [3,000yen/ 35USD Per person]Starts from 9:30am~ every day.   Accept on upon request until 10.Feb.2020.Walking time: 40min /Walking distance: about 2.5kmHatsumode is Japanese Newyear customs to visit temple and shrine on the first, second, or third day of the year as most are off work on those days. Generally, wishes for the new year are made, new omamori (charms or amulets) are bought, and the old ones are returned to the shrine so they can be burned. There are often long lines at major shrin... https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/6611 https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/6611 Thu, 16 Jan 2020 04:42:27 GMT The end of September to November: 7.5.3 Season7.5.3 is traditional rite of passage and festival day in Japan for three- and seven-year-old girls and three- and five-year-old boys, held annually on November 15 to celebrate the growth and well-being of young children.As it is not a national holiday, parents and family will visit Heikenji Temple or Wakamiya Shirine around September to November.You can see the parents and children wearing formal wear (usually children wear Kimono)and praying.phot... https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/3882 https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/3882 Thu, 22 Aug 2019 04:25:28 GMT photo courtesy of local neighborhood communityLocal Mikoshi Parade (20 mikoshi!) Summer festivalDate: 4th Aug 2019Time: From 10 AM until 5 PMDeparted Place: Wakamiya Shrine, to Kawasaki Daishi Temple HeikenjiNo enter fee , watching or following parade only.It is outdoor parade festival.This mikoshi parade is annual event by Wakamiya shirin and local neighborhood association of KD area. The parade starts from Wakamiya shirine and to Heikenji temple.■What is Mikoshi?A mikoshi (Japanese: 神輿) is ... https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/5113 https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/5113 Wed, 21 Aug 2019 07:38:19 GMT This is article from website of baria free style and translated by Mikiho(CEO of KD tour)He visited Kawasaki Daishi Heikenji temple at 2016.Kawasaki Daishi--It is famous for exorcism fire ceremony.I went their without doing any pre-research but i heard by someone who is known to me that in that temple entry is accessible by wheelchair.but when i went there than i get to know that it's a accessible spot for tourists and wheelchair users can also take entry.However , it was a weekday when i w... https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/5622 https://kdtour.qloba.com/activities/5622 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 06:08:11 GMT