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Kyoto-Style Kasumi Sudare Bamboo Mat Making Experience
Kyoto-Style Kasumi Sudare Bamboo Mat Making Experience
Kyoto style Kasumi Bamboo Mat Making
Woman preparing to make Kyoto style Kasumi Bamboo Mats
View of a man on the Kyoto style Kasumi Bamboo Mat Making tour

Kyoto-Style Kasumi Sudare Bamboo Mat Making Experience

By Travel Kyoto
3.7 out of 5
Free cancellation available
Price is S$44 per traveller
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 1h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
Overview
  • Chance to try a traditional craft that's rarely practised
  • Beautiful kasumi-style sudare with graduated colours
  • 2 lovely matching bamboo mats created by your own hand
  • Insights into an ancient art form & its historic uses
  • One-of-a-kind souvenirs that are easily rolled for transport

Activity location

  • Kawasaki Sudare
    • 14-3 Katahoko, Chihara Chiyokawa-cho
    • Kameoka, Kyoto, Japan

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Kawasaki Sudare
    • 14-3 Katahoko, Chihara Chiyokawa-cho
    • Kameoka, Kyoto, Japan

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Small Mat-Making Experience
  • Activity duration is 1 hour and 30 minutes1h 30m1h 30m
  • English

Select this option to make 2 small size mats. Each mat is approximately 11.5 inches by 7.8 inches (29 by 20 cm).

Language options: English
Price details
S$43.59 x 1 TravellerS$43.59

Total
Price is S$43.59
Large Mat-Making Experience
  • Activity duration is 1 hour and 30 minutes1h 30m1h 30m
  • English

Select this option to make 2 large size mats. Each mat is approximately 15.75 inches by 11.8 inches (40 by 30 cm).

Language options: English
Price details
S$61.75 x 1 TravellerS$61.75

Total
Price is S$61.75

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedGuided sudare mat making experience
  • What's includedWhat's includedMaterials to make 2 bamboo mats
  • What's includedWhat's includedEnglish instructions
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedHotel pickup and drop-off

Know before you book

  • Children 9 and younger are not allowed.
  • Maximum group size is 5 people.
  • Options for hotel pickup and drop-off and an English-speaking guide are available for an additional surcharge and can be arranged with Travel Kyoto when you call to confirm your reservation.
  • An additional surcharge for making extra mats is payable on the day of your activity.
  • This activity begins in Kameoka at Kawasaki Sudare, which is approximately 1 hour from central Kyoto by a combination of train and walking. You must make your own way to the meeting point.
  • Hours of operation are from 10 AM–noon and 1 PM–5 PM. You will be able to arrange your preferred activity start time when you call to confirm your reservation.
  • Check-in is 10 minutes prior to the booked tour start time.

What you can expect

Get the chance to handcraft your own sudare bamboo mats in the graduated kasumi style during this hands-on experience. Join professionals in a sudare factory and learn the techniques behind the traditional Japanese art before making your own set of 2 to take home.

Head to Kawasaki Sudare, one of the few remaining sudare factories in Japan, to learn the craft of mat-making from an expert. Sudare are screens or blinds woven from bamboo slats and braided yarn–though the art dates back 1,400 years in Kyoto, it is a rare form of traditional art now. A professional shows you how to braid the yarn before weaving the bamboo together with it.

As you watch, learn about the different styles of sudare, which create different visual effects. After your demonstration, get the chance to make your own mats in the graduated kasumi style. Choose your preferred colours for bamboo and yarn, then get to braiding and weaving. At the end of your session, you can take your mats, which roll up for easy transport, home with you as one-of-a-kind souvenirs.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESKawasaki Sudare
    • 14-3 Katahoko, Chihara Chiyokawa-cho
    • Kameoka, Kyoto, Japan

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEKawasaki Sudare
    • 14-3 Katahoko, Chihara Chiyokawa-cho
    • Kameoka, Kyoto, Japan