The city of Kyoto, visited by over 50 million tourists each year, is making a greater effort to attract wealthy foreign travelers by offering cultural workshops to satisfy their appetite for deeper engagement with their destinations.

With visitors already at record-high levels, the ancient capital is shifting focus from quantity to quality, targeting the higher spending associated with high-end tourism.

According to city data, Japanese travelers, excluding those on day trips, spent about ¥47,000 ($420) per person in 2016, about half the ¥100,000 spent by foreign tourists.