samurai armor experience

<<Jesse's Experience Report!!>>

The “samurai armor experience” is a once and a life time thing, that if you have the opportunity to do, you should seize it at once! You get the extremely lucky opportunity to work with professional photographer; Yoshinori Hayasaka or Photo Deniro, who will guide you through the basics of photo shoots, modeling and of course, samurai armor.

Immediately when you enter the studio, you are greeted by Yoshinori and his assistant. It is a very warm and pleasant environment and not once do you feel out of place or out of your depth. I know personally, I have zero experience with modeling, posing for anything let alone enjoy getting my photo taken, however not one of those issues becomes a factor at this event. Yoshinori and his assistant do such a great job of making you comfortable and guiding you through what needs to be done so well that I felt like a seasoned veteran of photo shoots!

After making acquaintance with one another, you are guided to a area to begin putting on the traditional samurai clothing and armor. Be prepared to be heavily clothed as all the clothing is very warm and heavy. So I would recommend not wearing a long sleeved shirt and multiple layers! Yoshinori and the assistant basically dress you layer after layer until finally they attach the armor to you and hand you a katana for the first photos. Yoshinori then will guide you over about one hour of doing various poses with the katana, helmet on and off. It gets very tiring having to make many squatting poses, even for me who regularly is active playing sports. It is like going to the gym! SO be ready for a light work out. 

After all of the photos, Yoshinori thanks your for all your hard work and leaves you with some really great gifts! This one of the coolest experiences I have had in Japan so far! if you have this same opportunity, book it now!

if you would like to have this experience, you can reserve through Samurai Experience in Armors!