Month: December 2019

Kyoto, JAPAN Part II

Posted on by Cole
Samurai

After we said goodbye to our cousins, we went to our new house in Kyoto where we were going to be for the next two weeks.  We got to our new house and were so happy. We had two Japanese toilets that had heated seats and a lot of fun features.  There was also a tatami room. A tatami room had mats on the floor called tatami mats. They are made of rush straw grown in a certain part of Japan.  A tatami room is peaceful and quiet and is used for calm activities like tea ceremony or relaxing, sleeping, or meditating. You sleep on a futon mattress on top of the tatami floor.  It is very simple with hardly any objects or furniture. The windows are made out of shoji. They are wooden sliding windows with paper covering the wood. It was really nice. I slept in that room for two weeks and loved it.

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