Kimono centre

 We took a bus, the loop bus, to the gardens. Brilliant concept. There are two buses, a red and a green bus, they each do a loop of the city, stopping at different points along the way. One goes left and the other the red, goes to the right. First day we bought an all day pass for 600yen,otherwise each trip was 200 yen. Alight in the middle of the bus and get off at the front either showing the driver the all day pass ticket or money to go into the slot.

Amazing that payment isn't until the end. But I digress, we got off at the gardens and using my GPS on the phone, we walked the 140m to the kimono centre. We could have just gone downstairs with the things for sale, that was free, we wanted to see the actual outfits so 310 yen it was.

These were on display and could have been rented for photos.

Four panels that had be painted and drying on bamboo canes. There was 12 metres in a kimono

The pots of paint  and brushes used.

The autumn leaves had some of them outlined in gold thread.

There are usually ten procedures and can take up to three months to make a kimono, heaven's knows what the price would be.