Japan
Sho Nakamura
Kyoto-born, ten years arranging the workshop appointments nobody else can.
- Regions
- Kyoto and the Nakasendo
- Languages
- Japanese, English
- Planning since
- 2014
- Journeys written
- 2
Sho grew up in Nishijin, the weaving district, and spent six years working for a textile wholesaler before joining us. The four workshop appointments on the Kyoto journeys are his relationships, built one at a time.
He walks the Kiso section of the Nakasendo twice a year and revises the notes every time. He also books the trains, which sounds dull and is the difference between a good week and a fraught one.
Talking travellers out of a fifth temple and into a second visit to the one they liked.
Written by this advisor
Sho's journeys
8 days · Private
Kyoto Craft Season
A week in Kyoto built around makers rather than sights: looms, knives, indigo and bamboo, with an interpreter and a great deal of walking.
Culture and craft€5,600from, per person
11 days · Small group
The Nakasendo on Foot
Three days in Kyoto, then the surviving stretch of the inland post road through cedar forest and wooden post towns, walked uphill.
Walking and trailsCulture and craft€5,200from, per person
The rest of the house
