Get Ready Before the for the Jan 2(Tue.)-3(Wed.), 2018 Show Opens Stamp Rally! Spend Your New Year’s Theme Park on January 2nd New Year’s The Theme Park lets you experience traditional Japanese culture such as festive mochi- Time 11:00am – 6:00pm at Tokyo making, tasting of o-z¯oni mochi soup from different regions, kaku-uchi style sake Opening International drinking, and games at carnival stalls. Come visit the Tokyo International Forum to fully Venue Tokyo International Forum Furumai Zake appreciate Japanese New Year’s and its culture. Scan the above for Forum! Free (celebratory sake) details regarding Free Admission - Separate charge for events at “Zone 4: Carnivals”, and URL exhibitors,their booths, will be served. venue maps and more. Japan Cultural Experience in the Lobby Gallery. j-cf.jp/2018/en Admission Separate charge for events at “Zone 4: Carnivals”, and Japan Cultural Experience in the Lobby Gallery.
Zone Zone Iwai Mochitsuki O-z¯oni New Year Zone 1 Experience 3 New Year Treats (Festive Mochi-making) Mochi Soups from 5 Staging Navigator: Fuku Suzuki The festive mochi- Throughout Japan This zone will let you experience traditional This is one of the most popular zones in the New Year’s making performance is a A very popular event, Be sure to catch the many traditional entertainment Japanese culture, performing arts, and entertainment, Theme Park. Once again, we will be serving visitors o-z¯oni must-see. Performed at where visitors can taste pieces that will be performed at the Staging Zone, including traditional Japanese musical instruments, New Year Mochi soups from different regions throughout Zone 3: New Year Treats o-zōni soups from including Ikebana (flower arrangement) Live Ikebana(the Japanese art of flower arrangement), Japan and celebratory mochi (rice cakes). Kyoto-style and the Staging zone. different regions in Japan. Performance during the opening ceremony, Sado(tea ceremony), Japanese confectionery making, Chankonabe-stew with quail meatball dumplings (1,500- This year, you can taste Mochitsuki by Sum¯o wrestlers, and a Koto competition Noh performance, kimono, and more. yen), Pot-au-feu-style o-z¯oni soup, and lobster-broth based o-zōni from Fukushima, by young and energetic performers. Public viewing of Toyama, Kyoto and Oita o-z¯oni soup (both 1,100-yen) will be sold at the Imperial prefectures. a live video feed from FORM II also available. Exhibits ◉ Virtual Kimono Fitting Experiences
Zone Zone 2 Traditional Japanese Crafts 4 Carnivals Courtly Culture: Venue: Lobby Gallery New ◆ Tales from the Past Dates: Jan. 2 – 15, 2018 Marvel at various traditional crafts that put you in touch with the beauty Year Marking the 150th of Japan, including skills and techniques unique to each region that have Treats been handed down over many generations. In addition to items on exhibit Lounge space anniversary of the Meiji (Kaku-uchi- Restoration, a special and available for purchase, the zone will also feature demonstrations and Zone style sake workshops. exhibition of valuable 4 Carnivals drinking) materials from Japanese Exhibits ◉ Traditional crafts: EDO-CORÉ!, Wooden mosaic works: Tsuyuki Woodcraft, Edo OUT IN courtly culture will be woodblock prints (Ukiyo-e): Tokyo Takahashi Kobo, Shibukusa ware pottery & Porcelain: Shibukusa Ryuzo Pottery · 4293(r), Washi(Japanese Paper):Kincho Specialty Paper Come to the Carnivals Zone and experience stall held. In addition to a Manufacturing Company / Sanwaseishi Co.,LTD., Japanese Ceramic and Porcelain: Tokodo shops like the ones you would find at a shrine model of the Enthrone- during new year’s. There will be a number of ment of the Emperor Wooden Edo Washi family-fun stalls such as ring-tossing, bouncy Taisho and exhibit of life- Mosaic Works Woodblock Prints Japanese Papers superball scooping, etc. Traditional Japanese toys sized court-costumes, Exhibit, sales, Exhibit and sales of Exhibit and sales of will be on sale as well. exhibits and performances include a replication of demonstration, and original Edo handmade washi paper, Playground Square Rokujouin, the home of Hikaru Genji in the Tale of making of coasters of woodblock prints products made from ◆ Genji during the Heian-period, and showing juni- Hakone wooden mosaic (Ukiyo-e) including washi paper with This dedicated space allows you to experience hitoe (twelve-layer robe) and other historical outfits works, known as products such as small threads, scroll books, various activities in the zashiki (Tatami (on Jan. 2nd and 3rd). Hakone Yosegi Zaiku. coin purses and gift and small kites. Also matted) room. The following mini-events The exhibit will show envelopes, as well as scheduled to perform the wonders of life, insoles with Ukiyo-e hands-on papermaking. will also be performed. Edo and the Castle surrounded by these motif. ◆
Sorry, no credit cards or foreign currencies please. We only accept cash in Japanese Yen at New Year’s Theme Park and performances.
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