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New Year's at Shirotori Garden

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Spending the New Year at one of Nagoya's top Japanese gardens

Shirotori Garden hosts another lavish New Year holiday with loads of events.
Come to the garden wearing a kimono during the Kimono Days event; Saturday, January 11–Monday, January 13 (national holiday); for free admission. Enjoy the Japanese New Year in traditional Japanese kimono style with friends and family.

Kimono photo service

Receive a picture to remember your visit in a kimono in front of trees with their branches artistically held up by ropes as support for heavy snow. The first 50 can have their picture taken for free. (Canceled in rainy weather.)

• Date and time: 10:00 am–2:00 pm; Sat, Jan 11–Mon, Jan 13 (national holiday), 2025
• Location: Miya no Watashi Plaza (plaza outside Shioiri-tei Tea House)
• Support by: Shirotori Garden Photo Friends

New Year Tea Ceremony

Enjoy a Senrikyu tea ceremony style with the original etiquette of entering the authentic Choro Room through a small entrance and another serving tea in the Ryureiseki Room (using chairs) as thought up by the 11th descendent of the Urasenke school of tea ceremony's master Gengensai in the Meiji period.
Take in the tradition of these two tea ceremonies celebrating the arrival of the new year.

• Dates and times:
　Sat, Jan 11: Tatehajime Session
　Sun, Jan 12: Kotohogi Session
　Mon, Jan 13 (national holiday): Shoshun Session
　Ryureiseki Room Session (weaker tea): 10:00 am–3:45 pm (11 seats with each given up to the next participant after the first has finished their tea)
　Choro Room Session (stronger tea): 10:00 am–3:15 pm (7 seats with each given up to the next participant after the first has finished their tea)
• Location: Ryureiseki and Choro Rooms, Suiu-tei Tea House; Shirotori Garden
• Price: JPY 800 for the Ryureiseki Room Session (weaker tea) / JPY 1,500 for the Choro Room Session (stronger tea)

Note:
• Information on advance tickets and box offices available from the New Year's at Shirotori Garden details page on the Shirotori Garden's official site (Japanese).

Obara Japanese paper exhibit: Paris's Moonflowers, Bordeaux's Moonflowers

Many years ago, Shirotori Garden held a Japanese paper exhibit with storytelling of The Tale of Genji by narrator Kei Shido. With that event as a base for this exhibit, event planners created Japanese paper illustrating the moonflowers of The Tale of Genji.

• Date and time: 9:30 am–4:00 pm; Sat, Jan 11–Mon, Jan 13 (national holiday), 2025
• Location: Suiu-tei Tea House Hall, Shirotori Garden

Unit introduction (Kano Tomomihisashi)
Begins career at a workshop during the Hanover World Expo in 2000. Tomomi and Hisashi Kano combine their two names to create "Kano Tomomihisashi" with the last name first as in the Japanese order.
The duo beings a career in France with an exhibition during the Gallery‐Grand-Paris event held around 14 districts in Paris, September 2003 while also holding other Japanese paper making workshops in and outside of Japan. The unit works to pass along education, welfare, and international exchange, and in that spirit, begins to hold Japanese paper exhibitions every year from 2010 at Suiu-tei Tea House in Shirotori Garden.
Kano Tomomihisashi continues to hold workshops at Kamaishi Elementary School since the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 and sends out Japanese paper diplomas.

Otoshidama New Year's money from Shirotori Garden

The first 50 people on each day can receive an original Shirotori Garden desktop calendar, using entries to the garden gallery.

• Date and time: From 9:30 am; Sat, Jan 11–Mon, Jan 13 (national holiday), 2025
• Location: Miya no Watashi Plaza (plaza outside Shioiri-tei Tea House)

Notes:
• One item per person.
• Calendars available while supplies last.

New Year's at Shirotori Garden flyer (Japanese)（4.21MB）

Shirotori Garden

: Enjoy a leisurely stroll in a traditional Japanese garden. In the center of the garden is a pond that replicates the Kiso River, originating from the Kiso-Ontakesan flowing into the large sea of Ise Bay. A Japanese tea ceremony house Seiutei is available in the garden to try green tea with Japanese confectionery.

Details

Schedule	Sat, Jan 11–Mon, Jan 13 (national holiday), 2025
Regular Holiday	• Sun, Dec 29, 2024–Fri, Jan 3, 2025 • Mon (the following weekday should Mon coincide with a national or make-up holiday)
Time	9:00 am–5:00 pm (admission until 4:30 pm)
Venue	Shirotori Garden
Cost	Requires a fee
Price Details	• Adults: JPY 300 • Junior high school ages and younger: Free of charge • Seniors ages 65 and older residing in Nagoya (with a Senior Citizens' Handbook): JPY 100 Note: • Free admission for those who arrive wearing a kimono during the event period.
TEL	+81-52-681-8928(Inquiries in English not accepted)
Access	10-min. walk from Exit 4 of Jingu Nishi Station on the Meijo Subway Line.

New Year's at Shirotori Garden