Tondaya offers the opportunity to Enjoy traditional taste of New Year. Nanakusagayu is the traditional rice porridge with the seven herbs of the spring. We eat the porridge on wishing for good health throughout the year. We provide Special healthy lunch box including the rice porridge on the day (reservation needed).

The fifteenth day of the new year is called Minor New Year, Koshougatu. It is a custom to eat red bean porridge in the morning of the day. Also, in visiting the shrine, the New Year’s decorations are burned to wish our health and wealth in the year; this event is called Dontoyaki.

We provide the opportunity to taste the traditional style of rice porridge on the day and wish for your good health throughout the year(reservation needed).

Tondaya has tons of collection of Hina Dolls which has been preserved till when the girls born in the family or the women married into the family. We display all the collections in the guest room. The dolls are dressed in gorgeous kimono in the way of women in the ancient Heian Court. Empress, Hina, and Emper, Dairi, sit on the top, followed by three ladies of the court, five court musicians, an escort and a gourd. Also, Diamond –shaped rice cakes, and sweets and white sake are displayed.

In begging of the April is the time to enjoy cherry blossom. We enjoy drinking and eating under the beautiful trees. You will have an opportunity to observe or enjoy crazy “Cherry Blossom Viewing Party” in Japanese style.

Boy’s day also called Children’s day is the day to celebrate the health and wealth of children. We display the samurai dolls and helmet replicas.

We prepared special Bento for the day. Chimaki, a rice dumpling wrapped in bamboo leaves and Kashiwamochi, rice cakes sweet adzuki beans inside with wrapped in oak leaf ate the special treat on this day.

You can see another special sight only in for the day that a bunch of Shobu, Japanese Iris, is hanged from the roof. Iris has always associated with the Boy’s Festival because it means striving for success in Chinese Character. Also, we enjoyed Shobu-yu , the leaves in bath tab since the iris bath has been believed to have medication effects, against all kinds of sickness.

We display tons of antique kimono collections from Meji Period, about 120 years old. You have an opportunity to observe their wearing style and their life style at that age.

The summer setting appear from begging of June to the end of the September. The curtains made of bamboo trees provide adequate vitalization to the room. This is the wisdom to absorb coolness in the room in the days that there are no electric devices.

Traditional dessert, made in the shape of the ice, is served with Japanese Green Tea on the day, in very middle of the year. We follows the custom to wish our health for lest of the year.

The Star Festival is driven from a Chinese legend in which Altair and Vega, which is separated on opposite sides of Milky Way, meet once a year on this day. You write your wishes on strips of the paper, hang them on the bamboo trees with other decorations made by cloth and wish to give your will.

We have tons of treasured photo collections that depict Tondaya’s successive owner and their family’s lifestyle. You will explore old Japanese lifestyle from them.

A Buddhist Event, Lantern Festival is to hold a memorial service to the spirits of ancestors on August 13 to 16. The spirits of the ancestor are welcomed on 13^th and seen off on 16^th with a bonfire. During the Bon period, vegetables and fruits are offered at bon shelves. The spectacle event at that period in Kyoto is Gozan Okuribi held last day of lantern Festival for the purpose of sending off the spirits back to the nether world from where they have been visiting this world since August 13.

You will have chance to see the Bon display and also offered special lunch box, which is a vegetarian diet of soybean products, vegetables, seaweed, and rice (reservation needed).

In autumn, the moon looks clear and especially beautiful in the sky. We have a custom to enjoy viewing the full moon on Moon Viewing Night, called Jyugo-Ya. It held at full moon someday in September or in the beginning of October (August 15 by the lunar calendar). We display dumplings to the moon. The the seven flowers of autumn, eulalia, and vegetables are added for the decoration. The ingredients, shape, size of the dumplings, and the number of the dumplings offered, depend on the region. At Tondaya, we display the dumplings made of taros with eulalia and enjoy the moon viewing from hole of taros that made by a chopstick.

The day was known as Ninamesai ,the Harvest Festival, the Emperor makes the season's first offering to the gods of freshly harvested rice and sake (rice wine), and then partakes of them himself. This celebration of the harvest has also observed among the private citizen. We offered the ears of rice in front of the storehouse that is the place for the spirit of the guardian of the house.