Tokyo ‘museum hotel’ invites you to step back to the Taisho era with retro kimono afternoon tea

As stunning and as elegant as they are often, full-on formal kimono aren’t actually essentially the most sensible clothes for day-to-day attire. Rigorously arranging the assorted layers, ties, and sashes takes time and talent. The costly embroidered material is most undoubtedly not mechanically cleanable, and so probably not the type of factor you wish to threat sporting in crowded locations or public transportation, should you can keep away from doing so.

The result’s that formal kimono are typically reserved for particular occasions and locations, and a brand new package deal from Resort Gajoen Tokyo offers simply that.

Positioned in Tokyo’s Meguro neighborhood, Gajoen payments itself as a “museum resort.” Along with a lovely and expansive backyard, the constructing homes quite a few items of superb artwork and its historic Hundred-Step Staircase, adorned with painted ceilings and pictured above, has been designated a tangible cultural property by the town. In different phrases, it’s an ideal venue during which to put on a kimono.

The resort is now providing a Retro Kimono Plan, which features a kimono rental and becoming, hairstyling, admission to the Hundred-Step Staircase, and lunch or afternoon tea at one of many resort’s eating places. You’ll be able to select from 50 completely different kimono and 50 completely different obi (kimono sashes), all of that are consultant of the Taisho interval (1912-1926), which was characterised by daring designs extra advanced than what present-day designers are producing. The package deal additionally consists of sandals, hair ornaments, and a bag to finish your retro look, with the full variety of kimono/obi/accent combos numbering over 2,500.

Getting so photogenically dolled up is an concerned course of, so to allow you to benefit from the outcomes as leisurely as potential the Retro Kimono Plan is a day-long exercise. Kimono choice and becoming begins at 11:30 a.m., and also you don’t have to return the clothes till 8 that evening. The resort will maintain any baggage you don’t wish to lug round with you and also you’re allowed, and even inspired, to depart the premises and discover close by websites such because the Megurogawa River and native artwork galleries whereas wearing your Taisho finery.

The plan is priced at 17,000 yen for afternoon tea or 18,000 yen for a full lunch. Taking tons of pictures is predicted, and should you’d like some skilled assist, skilled pictures service might be added for an extra 5,500 yen.

The Retro Kimono Plan is on the market till June 12, with reservations obtainable on the resort web site right here.

Supply: Resort Gajoen Tokyo, PR Instances

Insert photographs: PR Instances, Resort Gajoen Tokyo

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