The City of Kyoto has launchedthe Stay Home, Feel Kyoto initiative to inspire the travel industry
While it is hard to experience the marvels of the ancient city at the moment, agents can discover Kyoto, while staying at home, through their YouTube shannel Stay Home Feel Kyoto, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_3TlumK6tWKLdrt3TyynNA/videos, which includes messages from artisans, landscape artists, traditional ryokan owners and restaurateurs. Their official blog https://kyoto.travel/en/see-and-do/index.html, with details on everything - from places to see and food and drink and which street to take - to a route planner, which helps you plan itineraries for your clients who are keen to book ahead.
For now, you can try some authentic Japanese recipes, taught by the leading chefs from Kyoto, such as the Japanese style scrambled eggs with freeze-dried tofu and vegetables by Yoshihiro Takahashi, 15th generation chef and owner of the Hyotei restaurant, or Tofu & hijiki seaweed burgers by Hideki Ofude, executive chef of Nanzen-ji Sando Kikusui.
Hyotei has a 400-year old history, and a tradition of culinary excellence, coming down through generations, and preserved over the centuries. Its speciality is the signature egg dishes and Kaiseki, a trarditional Japanese cuisine. Hyotei used to be a tea ceremony house near the Nanzen-ji temple in the Higashiyama area, and to this day, a thatched-roof tea room, referred to as kuzuya, welcomes guests to dine. Decorative relics commemorate the restaurant's rich history.
Nanzen-ji Sando Kikusui was a villa originally built around 1868, for Teramura Suke-emon, a former kimono merchant. The property today comprises five beautifully furnished rooms, and an exquisite Japanese-style garden. This place will suit those, who plan to stay in a ryokan (traditional Japanese inn), and visit Nanzen-ji Temple, Heian Shrine and Eikan-do Temple. Kikusui serves Japanese Kaiseki and Kyoto-style western cuisine, using seasonal ingredients. Hideaki Matsuo, the proprietor of three-star Michelin Japanese cuisine Kashiwaya, supervises the menu.
If the Japanese culture interests you more, then you can look up a tutorial on Zazen meditation, demonstrated by the deputy head-priest of Taizo-in, within Moyoshin-Ji temple.
?As a global community, we are now beginning to understand how much we need and miss human connections. Zazen is a therapeutic connection and a literal mind vacation, which is combined with a small taste of Kyoto,? a spokesperson said.
