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Kyoto, Japan
5 customs and traditions in Kyoto — what they are, and how to take part without causing offence.
Chado taught in short visitor sessions at several temples and machiya.
Multi-course seasonal cuisine developed from tea ceremony, and Kyoto's greatest culinary export.
A July festival with enormous wheeled floats, running in some form since 869.
Rental kimono are ubiquitous; the wooden townhouses they are worn in are being lost at pace.
Ryoan-ji's fifteen rocks and Daitoku-ji's sub-temples — dry landscape as a contemplative form.
