Traditional crafts to welcome new year

Guests staying at either the Shiba Park Hotel 151 or the Shiba Park Hotel next door in Shiba Koen, Minato Ward, can enjoy New Year's workshops and events at Japanese Culture Salon Sakura on the second floor of the Shiba Park Hotel 151 throughout January.

The workshops range from tea ceremonies, furoshiki (traditional cloth wrapping) and Japanese calligraphy to preparing sushi, sake tasting and manekineko (Japanese good luck cat figurine) painting. There is a morning and late afternoon session every day, and the workshop contents rotate on a daily basis, while the schedule may change in some instances.