Create Your Own Kanji T-Shirt or Lantern near Tokyo Skytree
Recommended by 96% of travelers
Tokyo, Japan
- 1 hour (approx.)
- Mobile ticket
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Overview
Create your own handmade souvenir while learning a new skill and gaining greater insight into Japanese culture during a private calligraphy session. Choose whether you want to paint your Japanese kanji character onto a t-shirt, a lantern, or a traditional folding umbrella. Your private instructor tells you all you need to know to create beautiful calligraphy, plus enjoy Japanese sweets and green tea while you work.
- Receive personalized attention during a private experience
- All necessary art and craft supplies are provided
- Choose from a range of morning, afternoon, and early evening sessions
- Skip the mass-produced souvenirs and create your own
What's Included
- T-shirts, brushes, special inks, paper/ wet tisues , special origami paper
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting point
- Tokyo EdoHakuyo203 2-chōme-19-4 Narihira, Sumida City, Tokyo 130-0002, Japan
The meeting point is in front of the Tokyo Sky Tree , 2-19-4 apartment 203 (second floor) Narhira Sumida Ku Tokyo, just next to the Oyster restaurant .
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.What To Expect
Additional Info
- Confirmation will be received at time of booking
- Not wheelchair accessible
- Near public transportation
- Most travelers can participate
- People with allergies please specify it
- This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
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Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.
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Featured review
Great experience. The host was so sweet and friendly. Would highly recommend doing this experience. We all had a great time.
Reviews
4.8
based on 46 reviews
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Was a wonderful family experience and the host went over and above to ensure we had an excellent experience with an amazing momento to take home. Host was very kind and shared a lot about the craft as well as about the local area.
It was a little difficult to find the studio but once there, it was fun experience. I highly recommend this class.
She takes the time to teach you and answers questions respectfully. She was very friendly to talk to!
Out of all the activities my partner and I did on our trip, this one felt the most personable and fun! Truthfully I wasn’t the best at handwriting Kanji 😅 but our instructor didn’t belittle us for it. She even gave us snacks and her own additional handmade art work as presents! If you have time in your itinerary, definitely try to fit this in!
Yoko was an amazing, kind and patient teacher. you choose a Kanji and paint on a shirt. recommend gold paint if using black shirt. learn a lot about balance in calligraphy. she is very generous. loved it!!!
Response from Host, Nov 2025
Thank you for visiting my workshop and im very happy that you enjoyed the activity. Many thanks for your review. I also learned from your culture a lot of new things. Arigatou gozaimasu.
Wonderful experience. It was amazing and filled with happiness and it’s perfect for kids. The hostess is amazing, nice and friendly.
Yoko was very nice and accommodating. It was a pleasure to learn more about her. I wish that there had been more of a focus on instruction...I was hoping to learn a little about technique, but it was actually just a tracing activity.
Response from Host, Jul 2025
Hello Heather, to me was good to have you here, and i am sorry that it wasn't what you might expected. This is a fun activity of writing the Japanese Kanji on a t-shirt or a lantern, it is not a calligraphy lesson in particular, which supposedly to teach you the Japanese characters. This a fun activity for 1 hour. Anyway i was glad to show you a bit of a larger, much larger work, of a Japanese art.
We enjoyed our time with the calligraphy teacher, who was very patient and accommodating of our group. We had plenty of options for writing Japanese characters (including a custom request) and had clear instructions in English on the steps we were to take. Everyone in our group had a great time and walked away with a little personalized piece of Japan!
The host was so kind and accommodating! Place is easy to find and recommend this activity for anyone especially traveling with kids.
Great experience. The host was so sweet and friendly. Would highly recommend doing this experience. We all had a great time.
I visited this class on a solo day I had in the Skytree area. Yoko was a great teacher and fun to talk to about the calligraphy and just in general. Spending an hour working on my shirt was a nice break from a day in the city and made a great souvenir! Would definitely recommend!
Excellent!!! Great time, very personal and she was very patient. Willing to do whatever it took for us to have a great time. Will definitely recommend If you love art
Yoko was a lovely teacher. Extremely knowledgeable and very patient with us! Really fun activity to do in Tokyo, especially on a rainy day!
Yoko is just the very best teacher!!!! We had a great time doing our t-shirts and talking with Yoko was the icing on the cake. It was very easy to find her studio from the directions she gave. I highly recommend this class!!!
There isn't enough stars to say how amazing this was. The sweet lady who hosted the event was one of the nicest people I've met in my life, let alone Japan. She was very accommodating and hand made a Kanji I wanted to do for me on the spot. She was a fantastic conversationalist, insightful and funny, made it even better. She served little homemade snacks and tea, then to top it off, gave me some extra hand made gifts she made herself. The activity was a LOT of fun and she was very helpful. I can't stress enough how much you should do this activity while in Japan. You genuinely will not regret it.
Response from Host, Sep 2024
It was a great pleasure to have had you as my guest. I was also amazed to see the work of art with leather you made .
Warmth from your work
of art still keeps me feeling warm.
With great appreciation you have chosen Japan to visit as the first country
outside USA, let me be a little help to support your study Japanese . Do remember my email address is the only way to contact me since I am no good at modern technology.
Thank you again for the great review much more than I deserve.
Looking forward to the day we start studying Japanese.
What a wonderful host and experience. I had such a beautiful time creating my very own t shirt as well as learning about calligraphy.
I would recommend this experience to anyone looking to meet such a lovely host and have a unique and personalised experience.
Response from Host, Aug 2024
Konichiwa and greetings from Tokyo, I'm honored and very happy to see you in my workshop, and i really appreciate the time you've been here. Was a pleasant experience for me too, and i hope to see you again here. Thank you for your beautiful words here. I'll pray for you and your family. Best wishes!
Yoko was amazing! Not only did she do a wonderful job of helping us with the calligraphy, she also provided sweet treats and a take home souvenir fan project. She was so warm and welcoming! Don't miss out on this adventure while you're in the Skytree tower area!
Response from Host, Jul 2024
Arigatou gozaimasu Lynda san, for your kindness, really glad that you enjoyed our calligraphy experience. Wishing you all my best I'll pray for you here in old Tokyo .
Yoko was the star of the experience. She was patient and kind and made us feel at home.
My 12 year old nephew loved the experience and is wearing his shirt right now!!
Response from Host, Jun 2024
konichiwa ! very glad to her from you all again, it was my real pleasure to have you all among us here in Tokyo. All my best to you and your nephew too, very happy experience for me tool. Thanks again for your review. Will pray for you all.
Had so much fun , very lovely lady . Didn’t rush us into finishing our calligraphy. We had a lovely morning tea too 👏👏
Response from Host, May 2024
Hello Elaine, very happy to see you here, was a nice and pleasant experience for me too. Ill pray her for you, glad to know you liked my company in Tokyo at our workshop. my best to you, and thaks again for you choose and for your review.
Arigatou gozaimasu.
We absolutely loved this experience!! Yoko and Marian are both so sweet and welcoming. After we finished with our shirts they brought out traditional Japanese appetizers, desserts and tea for us to try. Marian even helped me fine tune my chopstick skills. Of all the experiences we had in Japan this was my favorite. I would recommend Yoko and Marian a thousand times.
This activity was such a unique experience and we are very glad to have signed up. By the end, we learned a little about Japanese culture, ate some food we might not have tried otherwise, and had two t-shirts we can wear when we get home.
Prior to our activity, we got a message telling us where to meet (at the base of the Skytree) and we were able to explore that area before meeting. When we got to the bridge, we were promptly met and walked over to the studio, which was very close by and up a flight of stairs. Upon entering, we changed from our shoes to slippers and hung up our pesky coats, and then we got right into some art.
To begin, my wife and I were each given t-shirt options to select from - different sizes and either black or white colors. We both chose black shirts. We then selected the paint colors; my wife chose lime green and I chose blue. And finally, we were shown different designs to select from that we could paint on our shirts.
After making all the choices, we then used wax pencils to draw the designs out on our shirts. We each did this a little differently, but at the end, we had nicely sketched designs. We then go to paint these. My wife did hers very neat and added the word Tokyo under it. Mine was a little messier, and I accidentally dripped paint, so I added several more drips on purpose so it had some chaos. After dabbing up extra paint, we then hung these to dry.
While drying, we then were treated to traditional Japanese foods and treats. If you do this, make sure you try them all. There was only one my wife didn’t like, and I different one I didn’t like, so it was neat to compare. I probably wouldn’t have tried some of these treats and sweets in another environment, and now I also learned some about that as well. We also had some tea with the snacks, and I think we might be adding this to our shopping list to bring home.
After our snacks, we packed up the now dry shirts carefully. And then were given some neat takeaways to try when we get home with our nieces - a lantern and fan with some tools to draw designs on them. As well as a notecards and a slip of paper to write our names on for her to pray for us in future.
This was a truly one of a kind experience and we met a couple of nice people and have great memories to take home.
The woman was excellent. I was the only booking so I also got a 1:1 experience. I’d recommend this to anyone on the fence.
A fabulous moment! Our host and teacher was adorable, really amazing kindness for 1 hour.
We wrote about pretty lanterns and discuss our cultural differences. It was one of our favorite moments during our trip to Japan.
Thank you very much!
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War eine super nette Erfahrung mit leckeren Essen und ganz süßen give aways.
Ich wurde ganz lieb vor dem Eingang mit meinem Namen auf dem Schild
Empfangen. Das Essen hat sehr lecker geschmeckt welches für mich zubereitet wurde. Ich freue mich sehr diese Erfahrung gemacht zu haben.
Response from Host, Sep 2024
Thank you for your nice review. I am so happy you liked the sushi prepared for you. Since we found out the ferry you had planned to take to Pusan was not in service until the end of October, I am wondering if you could book the plane ticket all right as you hoped.
Danke and waiting for you to study Japanese together.
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