Muchan Tour

05/07/2025

This building is Zenbo-seinei, which is not a temple also not a restaurant and an accommodation.
But we breathed spiritual air in this beautiful wooden building surrounded by the verdant forest.
We made a tea for ourselves individuality, and had traditional Japanese Buddhist cuisine seasoned by fermented ways. This place provides accommodations but their style is very simple. The way of ”Simple“ is not simple. What is our own meaning of “Symple”?

Shigeru Ban designed this place.
He is the best archtect in Japan for me.

30/06/2025

The beautiful tour in May 2025:
The aisle streches to the main room where Buddhist statue housed.
The sunlight comes from the lattice in vermilion red wall.
Surprisingly this place spreads just under the circular pond filled with lotus flowers.
We visited the place looking exactly the Buddhist paradise under ground on the 3rd morning in this tour.
Not only under ground, Tadao Ando created entire garden around the lotus pond above this aisle.
The garden and architecture have his features, yes! They are like a maze to be easy to get lost!

Honpukuji Temple in Awajishima Island, Hyogo.

26/06/2025

The 1st morning of the beautiful tour in May 2025:
This cemetery lays in the place surrounded by mountains stretching from Hyogo preference, where is filled with shining green forest. The building for a chapel was designed by David Chipperfield in .
The main concept was pland on thd long and straight stairs at the center. This peacefull garden with flowers and trees blows the barrier coming from the difference of religion.

05/06/2025

Finished all the jobs as a tour guide this spring, I'm having an experience for making “Tsumami Kanzashi”, which is one of traditional craftworks originated in the 17th-18th century , as just a visitor hanging around Sumida City in Tokyo.
Tsumami means picking up small fabrics with tools and fingers. Kanzashi is the entire name of hair accessories.
First, I chose 5 favorit fabrics in 3 square centimeters and made petals by folding each of them to triangles.
Then arranged them according to my favorit color order on the board glued in advance.
After each petal absorbed glue enough, put each petal on to an accessory-shaped stand carefully.

It was a lot of fun! Choosing pretty fabrics excited me.

My friend took me such a fun workshop at an old Kanzashi Craftshop named Kanzashi Sugino in Sumida.
After the workshop she introduced nice photo spots!
Enjoyed a peaceful and beautiful day, thanks a lot, my friend!

04/05/2025

My dream has come true this spring!
My favorite customer in the US made a tour for Japan, and assigned me as a guide in Tokyo for 3 days.
The destinations are Fukagawa, Asakusa, Kyojima, Aoyama, Shibuya.
Kyojima was the highlight!!
Not like usual tours we had flexble schedule and experiences to interact local artists' activities.
All of customers are artists and art lovers, they enjoy arts and talking to artists in real life in Tokyo locals.
They looked enjoyed so much.
I'm very happy and appreciate everyone concerning the event.

14/02/2025

Went to Yoshino Kumano traditional pilgrimage path visiting three places where are all close to each other. Still I took a train and a bus.
But finally I ended up climb up precipitous path with various sizes of rocks and stones.
Hard to climb up, I had to use my entire body then barely got to the place where I took the photo.

The first visual is Nachi Waterfall, I could see the rainbow on it, which would surely make my dream come true.
The third photo is the scary shrine named Kamikura-jinja Shrine which is a branch shrine of Kumano Hayatama-jinja shrine.
The huge rock seemed to be rolling down in any second even though it is tied with ropes.
This rock was the object of the worship in ancient Japan before the pilgrimage to Kumano in the 10th-11th century.

Tremendous number of people who were from common forks to Emperor walked up to this religious area all the way from the capital Kyoto. They wanted to hang on to gods in Shinto, from a something uneasy everyday.

Japan was beginning to change to the Samurai Period continuing for next 700 years.

31/12/2024

20/11/2024

Photoshooting with my favorite person!
Somehow I feel having a slite memory that I designed a fashionable book for her and her friends several years ago. That is my commemorative work, and so happy to see her in this place, my favorite town Kyojima.

21/09/2024

【Announcement of Muchan Tour in Sumida Mukojima EXPO 2024 】　
https://sumidaexpo.com/

【Muchan tour's schedule】
★October 14 (Mon,holiday)/
10:00am ～noon
1:00pm ～3:00pm
★October 20 (Sun)/ 1 : 00 pm ～ 3 : 00 pm
★October 27 (Sun)/ 1 : 00 pm ～ 3 : 00 pm

★Language/ English

Dear ladies and gentlemen,

I'm very excited as an official guide that Sumida Mukojima EXPO 2024 will start from October 5th continuing until November 3rd.
Sumida Mukojima EXPO has been held as an art festival in the city with the community  since 2020 in Kyojima and Mukojima area in Sumida City, Tokyo.  Various modern arts and events will show up in front of you. No need to have any academic interpretation, please just come feel and talk to each other.
Arts themselves are asking you what's going on in your mind or how and why you are feeling and having such interesting questions.
Let's feel the flow of “time” , otherwise thinking the relationship between arts and yourself through the range of your psychological “presence” altogether.
And talk a lot to each other about anything interesting!

【Muchan tour's schedule】
★October 14 (Mon,holiday)/�
10:00am ～noon
1:00pm ～3:00pm
★October 20 (Sun)/ 1 : 00 pm ～ 3 : 00 pm
★October 27 (Sun)/ 1 : 00 pm ～ 3 : 00 pm

★Language/ English

from your guide Muchan❤

21/09/2024

【Announcement fomr Muchan Tour in Sumida Mukojima EXPO 2024 】
http://sumidaexpo.com
Dear ladies and gentlemen,

I'm very excited as an official guide that Sumida Mukojima EXPO 2024 will start from October 5th continuing until November 3rd.
Sumida Mukojima EXPO has been held as an art festival in the city with the community since 2020 in Kyojima and Mukojima area in Sumida City, Tokyo. Various modern arts and events will show up in front of you. No need to have any academic interpretation, please just come feel and talk to each other.
Arts themselves are asking you what's going on in your mind or how and why you are feeling and having such interesting questions.
Let's feel the flow of “time” , otherwise thinking the relationship between arts and yourself through the range of your psychological “presence” altogether.
And talk a lot to each other about anything interesting!

【Muchan tour's schedule】
★October 14 (Mon,holiday)/
10:00am ～noon
1:00pm ～3:00pm
★October 20 (Sun)/ 1 : 00 pm ～ 3 : 00 pm
★October 27 (Sun)/ 1 : 00 pm ～ 3 : 00 pm

★Language/ English

from your guide Muchan❤

19/09/2024

NANZO is a splendid shop dealing with mainly products related to a pottery in the small town named Kyojima in Tokyo Japan. The owner is also an artist renovating an old futon shop into this comfortable space by himself with products he chose in an old quaint town at foot of Tokyo Sky Tree. Each product is displayed on the shelves made of bare woods in a previous futon shop being almost abandoned for a long long time. Kyojima is not a toristy town, but Kyojima always allows me to realize the word “human” as a key word for our happy life we cannot find in this present Tokyo. NANZO is the shop like a shining star.
Why don't you visit NANZO and take products in your hands? Taking a walk in the old manufacturing town is also unforgettable experiences in Tokyo.