Kimono Dressing & City Walk

There is a particular confidence that comes from wearing a kimono correctly. The hairdresser's pins, the layered obi tie, the small deliberate steps — each detail transforms the wearer long before they leave the studio. Your specialist dresser will select a seasonal kimono and coordinating accessories from a curated collection, tailoring the look to your proportions and colour preferences.

From the dressing studio, your guide will lead you into Kyoto's Higashiyama district, where stone-paved lanes and low wooden shopfronts have barely changed in two centuries. You will move at the pace the kimono demands — unhurried and present — pausing for photographs beneath the vermillion gates of Fushimi Inari or along the mossy stone walls of Ninen-zaka.

Highlights

• —Professional kimono fitting and dressing by a specialist, including obi and accessories
• —Guided walk through Higashiyama's stone-paved lanes and historic shopfronts
• —Photo stops at Fushimi Inari's vermillion gates and Ninen-zaka's mossy stone walls
• —Seasonal kimono selection curated to your colouring and proportions