I've tried doing "paper making" using Airbnb's "Experience" which allows you to experience it as a traveling experience, such as "Meet local cats" "I feel daily life with Cuban scholars"

Airbnb, a travel platform that allows local people to lend a room to a hotel rather than a hotel, will be able to experience the local experience as well as accommodation as well as accommodation in November 2016 as "Experience"We are starting a service called. "Feel the daily life with Cuban scholars"Teach reality program business from professional"There is an" experience "that can not be enjoyed in everyday life, but from March 2017 it is said that services have started in Osaka following Tokyo as well, so" What kind of things can actually be experienced? " "I saw that it was.

You can see what kind of content is in "experience" from Airbnb's website.

Home borrowed from the local people, experience & amp; Spot - Airbnb
https://www.airbnb.jp/


On the upper left of the page is a tab called "Recommended" "Accommodation" "Experience" "Spot" When you press this "Experience", the contents of the experience being held in 12 cities around the world will be displayed. Thumbnail images are made by imagining a movie poster, and when you see it stimulate imagination.


The contents that are actually registered as experiences are as follows. For example, Barcelona had a nude drawing experience. Graphic designer & photographer Bennett taught me how to write nude and drawing while drinking, the whole process is 2.5 hours and the price is 1934 yen.

Nude Life Drawing Session - Airbnb
https://www.airbnb.jp/experiences/53622


If you have a short experience that will be completed within a day as described above, there are experiences to be held in a few days. Below are the experiences of spending time with Martin photographer living in Los Angeles. 1 meal, 2 snacks, drinks, utensils, transfer and transfer included was 20,226 yen.

Shooting Stars - Airbnb
https://www.airbnb.jp/experiences/639


This is an experience that will be held over three days, but on the first day Martin's studio will show you special equipment etc. 3 hours, the second day will camp fire and eat with Mr. Martin and mountain The contents of seven hours of taking pictures at the top, the contents of processing photos taken while drinking tea on the third day is 3 hours, which is a total of 3 days of experience.


Besides this, various experiences such as "Tour meeting local cats" are registered, but it is not "acts and things" but anything centered on them is "people", just doing workshops There is a "story" instead of a point, it is a point to share experiences with the host and view of life and passion.

GOOOD Cat Experience - Airbnb
https://www.airbnb.jp/experiences/53347


It is also possible to specify the location and search for experiences. When I search Osaka, I seem to have about 20 experiences with this feeling. When I looked at it, there were such things as "enjoying Sanuki Udon made by myself in two different ways of eating" and "taking a good picture showing the local life in Japan".


And this time I will experience "paper making". There are other workshops to make Japanese paper but in addition to doing the paper making, the overseas people who visited learn Japanese, write a letter to the Japanese paper made, and take it to the post office It is a unique place to do until you post your own.

Postcard making & amp; posting - Airbnb
https://www.airbnb.jp/experiences/41090


So, what I came was like a warehouse in Higashi Osaka.


Luggage is loaded on the first floor of the building and where do you paper it? And I am a bit worried ... ...


I found an entrance written "Paper TO sum".


As I went up the stairs, this kind of space spread out.


Ms. Miwako of a host experiencing women in the photo. Ms. Miwako went to the "paper" business world that grandparents started 85 years ago after going through occupations such as cabin attendant and interpreter. Starting February 2017, he started a studio called "Paper TO sum", "Paper Making", "Washi Paper Making", "Creating Japanese through Paper", and registered for Airbnb's experience.


Since the company that performs from paper design to manufacture is based, various washi were placed also in the space to experience.



Even in this experience, we chat with Miwako-san while enjoying Matcha and sweets at first, not going into paper-making.


As there are many travelers from overseas, in the corner of the Japanese-style room, a note of "Please take off your shoes!" By the way, the tatami that is used in this Japanese room is also made of Japanese paper rather than Iseji. So, you can take it home without getting into the quarantine.


Matcha is made by myself.


And, how to make Japanese paper by the projector is described as "KozoI will learn from watching movies explaining from reaping the plant called 'Plant'.


Where knowledge is attached, it is time to practice. This is a workplace where paper is on.


I actually asked them to show off.


The grown mackerel is cut from the root and steamed and peeled skin is used as a raw material for Japanese paper.


After drying, the skin of the manta rain is frozen by applying it to the cold air, removing the black skin of the surface, arranging it on the snow, bleaching it with the ultraviolet ray of the sun, boiling it in a pot and unraveling the fiber ... After work that took time and labor, go to the following state.


Dissolve this in water ...


Trolloa oiAdd mucus called.


Stir using wooden sticks. By the way, many devices in the workplace are created with DIY. It seems that the following containers containing washi stock are also made by combining sink and wooden boards.


This is a lot of paper "dents". Put the petal so that it is perpendicular to the water surface ... ...


Scoop up, move up and down, left and right to drop water. I do the work of the paper as much as 3 times.


The state of paper can be checked from the following movie.

I tried playing paper in Airbnb's "experience" - YouTube


Next, dehydration work. What is reflected in the photograph is a dehydration device, but this is also made with DIY ... ...


There was a vacuum cleaner in the wooden box. The paper is dehydrated by the suction power of the vacuum cleaner.


When I look at the state of dehydration actually in the movie, I can understand that "it is really a vacuum cleaner ......"!

A dehydrator that remodeled a vacuum cleaner looks something like this - YouTube


Once the dewatering is completed, stick it to the dryer.


When I actually did a paper finishing, it is difficult to move the girders, and wrinkles and wrinkles will be made on paper even if the timing is late or early. It seems that customers from overseas are having trouble here as well, so if you return the paper to water, you will be able to redo, so some people will re-do until you are satisfied.


After finishing my favorite work, I peel off the extra paper on the part of the digit ... ...


You can tear here if the momentum is too good. It will be difficult to go through trial and error, it will depend on the person himself / herself whether to reopen as "whether it tears!


When it is over, decorations made with Japanese paper are placed, so please arrange it as you like.



Attach the decoration from over the stock solution of Japanese paper.


After dehydration ......


I will stay in the dryer and wait for a while.


The finished one is kore.


Because the Japanese paper we made is A4 size, we fold it and put water on the fold.


The rest is complete if it cuts to four.


It is a peculiar point that postcards made from Japanese paper have fibers visible from the edge.


In the actual experience of Airbnb, write a letter to a family member, a lover or a self when returning to the Japanese paper, take it to the post office and issue a letter. Open a Japanese classroom and teach such words as "Please ask the US" and customers from abroad will hand over postcards to postal staff members themselves, so not just a "workshop" but a "Japanese paper Making "" to write a letter "" Go to a post office and write a letter yourself "is a" story "that can not be experienced simply by going around the sightseeing spot.


As a result, when "Experience" went on a journey, we talked with the local people and Deep, and we were able to experience daily life by looking at the city with the local people's eyes. Although it is said that 500 experiences exist in 28 cities or more at the time of article creation, it is planned to be deployed in 51 cities around the world in 2017. You can also become an experiential host from the following page.

Let's be an experiencing host
https://www.airbnb.jp/host/experiences