In Gifu Prefecture, the Maze River is famous for its natural beauty and high-quality freshwater filled with ayu (local sweetfish). The sweetfish are caught using a traditional hiburi fishing technique. The ayu here are known for their delicious flavor and distinct aroma. It’s sweet and said to smell like watermelon!
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Our ambassadors @bunnytokyo and @donnyjkimball learned about Japanese culture through cooking udon and creating their own calligraphy artwork! We think they did an amazing job! What do you think? 🤩
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Nara Prefecture is famous for producing high-quality sake and a variety of traditional fermented foods. On our stay at a local home in Nara, we learned how to use fermented foods for cooking and made some delicious local dishes!
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Idyllic Yamaura Village in Nagano Prefecture is a perfect place for an authentic farm stay in Japan. During our stay, we learned how to make frozen tofu and kanten (agar-agar) and later use these traditional ingredients to cook authentic recipes with locals. It was a wonderful experience!
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In Tochigi Prefecture, you can experience what life is like in rural Japan for a night! Stay at a beautiful restored kominka (Japanese folk house) and share a delicious meal with local farmers!
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Have you heard of Hanazushi? It is a beautiful flower designed pressed sushi. Both delicious and pleasing to the eye!
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Best known for its unique style of boathouses, Ine is a famous coastal town on the edge of Kyoto Prefecture. Here you can learn how to prepare sashimi. You will be able to choose from a variety of freshly caught fish and prepare it under the guidance of an expert sashimi instructor. At the end of the lesson, you can enjoy your very own sashimi! Exciting!
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Enjoying environmentally-conscious cooking with zero waste in Kamakura!We learned how to use all parts of the ingredient soybean to cook delicious, sustainable zero waste food!
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Thanks to the biodiversity of the densely-forested Kochi prefecture, the local sushi here, known as “inaka sushi” (countryside sushi), is flavorful, colorful, and mainly plant-based. This cooking class offers a lesson in making Kochi prefecture’s traditional countryside sushi, but with a flavorful twist: tomato miso. An original product, this innovative flavor combination adds a sweet, bright, and subtly spicy heat to the area’s homegrown inaka sushi.
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Bounty of Nagara River Tour With Multi-Course Ayu Sweetfish Meal
One of Japan’s “Three Clear-Flowing Rivers,” the Nagara River is a treasured natural resource for the communities it flows through. The precious Ayu sweetfish are one species that can only dwell in the clearest of waters, and they thrive in the waters of Nagaragawa. During this eco-tour, guests can paddle down the river with a local fisherman as he demonstrates a couple of his fishing techniques, marveling at the native species that are hauled on board. Dinner takes place back on land, a five-course meal at an Italian restaurant that showcases Ayu sweetfish in three of its courses.
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Okinawa Tour: Awamori Cave Expedition
Descend down into the only awamori cave in existence, where the potent Okinawan distilled alcohol is aged. Kin Town’s limestone caves happen to have the ideal conditions for maturing awamori, and they are also used to store tofuyo, an Okinawan fermented tofu delicacy. This Okinawa tour also includes a tour of an awamori distillery that’s housed in a renovated U.S. military aircraft hangar. You’ll also get to meet Asamu Toyokawa, whose entrepreneurial mother had the idea to use the limestone caves as a place to mature awamori, creating an attraction in the town that was once only known for its U.S. military presence. The tour also includes a tofuyo tasting and a lunch that highlights other Okinawan specialties.
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Become a Sake Brewer with Kurabito Stay
Step into the shoes -- or rather, rubber boots -- of a sake brewer during this sake brewing experience in Saku, Nagano. Saku is a village that’s home to 13 different sake breweries, including some very historic sites which date back 300 years. Stay at a guesthouse adjacent to one of these sake breweries and work side-by-side with sake brewers, not only learning about the sake brewing process but also participating in tasks such as washing the rice and massaging the cooked rice with koji. A rare opportunity, this experience will change the way you think about sake.
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Frank, a Tokyo local who devours 300-400 bowls per year, guides this Tokyo ramen tour. Featuring six mini bowls of ramen at three award-winning ramen shops, this ramen tour will expand your perspective on everyone’s favorite Japanese noodle soup. Each ramen shop offers a special tasting menu, so you can have a customized tour that suits your taste!
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Sail the vast waters of Miyagi Prefecture and join the Marine Sake Storage Voyage and Brewery Tour in Kesennuma! Hosted by Otokoyama Head Office Co., Ltd., visitors will have the opportunity to retrieve Japanese sake that has been fermenting under the deep blue sea.
Located in the port town of Kesennuma lies Otokoyama Sake Brewery, the first sake brewery to age sake underwater. Breweries at Otokoyama have been experimenting for years to find the perfect conditions for the nihonshu stored in the sea. For 6-12 months at about 15 meters deep, they found the nihonshu had the perfect balance while having subtle variations in its flavor. Each time there is a new haul of sake, excitement fills the air to try this type of rare aged sake.
This sake storage expedition starts at the Otokoyama Main Store. Here, visitors will have a chance to tour the brewery and prepare a bottle with a hand written message for sake storage. The bottle is given to the retrieval crew before visitors board a local fisherman’s boat and sail past oyster farms.
Once the treasure trove’s location is reached, the fisherman will haul up the last group’s batch of sake bottles located 15 meters below the sea level. After, the boat returns and a celebration commences at the Otokoyama Main Store. Enjoy a nice meal with Kesennuma specialities while tasting the aged sake!
Hike Scared Mountain with Yamabushi Mountain Ascetic and Try Ryori Shojin Cuisine
Meet bronze winner Dewa Shonai Area Co., Ltd. with their experience on the spiritual mountain culture of Japan. Explore the beauty of nature while hiking a sacred mountain with a Yamabushi (mountain ascetic) and try Shojin Ryori cuisine.
Dewa Sanzan, the “Three Mountains of Dewa” is a sacred site of Shugendo, Japanese nature worship. The “Journey of Rebirth” involves climbing all three mountains, which symbolize a different stage: Mt. Haguro represents the present; Mt. Gassan, the past; and Mt. Yudono, the future. For over 1,400 years, people from all over have tread the same path while completing the rituals along the way.
During the tour, you will join a Yamabushi monk on a hike up Mt. Haguro, the shortest and most accessible mountain of the three, consisting of 2,446 stone steps. Awarded three stars from the Michelin Green Guide, grasp the mountain’s beauty and admire the hundreds of cedar trees along with the brilliant five-story pagoda. Remember to take in the little subtleties, such as the carvings engraved onto the stones.
Taste the cuisine of Japanese monks, known as Shojin Ryori. This meal is a traditional Japanese vegetarian cuisine associated with Buddhism. It includes local vegetables, both from Dewa Sanzan and the surrounding region. Shojin Ryori has a wide variety of dishes, including “goma tofu”, known for its creamy and nutty flavor.
Take on this Journey to connect with nature and feel invigorated. The Shojin cuisine will not only replenish hikers from the day, but also allow them to experience the practices of Shugendo nature worship.
Discover more of the sacred hike and Shojin Ryori cuisine: https://www.byfood.com/experiences/hike-sacred-mountain-with-yamabushi-includes-shojin-ryori-383
Market to Table: Tsukiji Outer Market Tour and Cooking Class
Heading to Tokyo, meet Eat! Meet! Japan 2019 winner Share Pro Inc. with their market-to-table experience, the Tsukiji Outer Market Tour and Cooking Class.
Tsukiji Outer Market is bustling with shops and restaurants, where you can find essential Japanese ingredients, kitchenware, and street food. After browsing around the market, you will return to the cooking studio where you will learn how to make classic Japanese dishes.
The class is conducted in both Japanese and English, so foreign guests can enjoy a cooking lesson catered to them. Enjoy your meal around a table with friends, or get some fresh air and dine on the terrace.
This experience is great to learn classic Japanese recipes, which can be replicated at home.
Book the experience:
https://www.byfood.com/experiences/tsukiji-outer-market-tour-and-cooking-class-377
