Tokyo Grand Tea Ceremony 2020 will be held to encourage visitors to experience and become more familiar with Japanese traditional culture and performing arts.
An “Indoor Tea Gathering” will be held for authentic tea ceremony (prior application is necessary), as well as an “Nodate (Outdoor Tea Gathering)” to casually enjoy the fun of tea ceremony outdoors in greenery, and a “Tea Ceremony Workshop for Beginners”, designed for beginners and foreigners to learn the basics of tea ceremony while making tea with two pairs.
Programs provided in Hama-rikyu Gardens will include “Nodate (Outdoor Tea Gathering) in English,” where manners of ceremony will be explained in English, and with the cooperation of the Tokyo Metropolitan High School Cultural Federation; Tea Ceremony Department, “Nodate (Outdoor tea ceremony) by high school students”, where high school students will serve tea.