Kanazawa: Private Koicha Ceremony with a Samurai Tea Master

• Receive koicha — thick tea, rarely offered to visitors to Japan• Prepare usucha (thin tea) with your own hands, under the guidance of a tea master of 19 years• Spend 90 minutes as the sole guests in a 1923 machiya — the home where your host Yuta lives and practices• Learn Enshu-ryu, the samurai lineage of tea founded by Kobori Enshu, tea advisor to the Tokugawa shoguns• Taste seasonal jounamagashi, handcrafted the morning of your ceremony by a Kanazawa artisan• Speak openly about tea, aesthetics, or the philosophy of a life devoted to the way — as much as you wish