Japanese Home Cooking Lesson with Local Hosts in Peaceful Kyoto Suburb Otsu

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Inclusions / Exclusions

Mobile ticket
Offered in: Japanese, English
All taxes, fees and handling charges
Lunch
Gratuities
Beverages
Private cooking class + meal with your hosts Hisako and Atsuo
Alcoholic Beverages

Hotel pickup and drop-off

Overview

Your host Hisako learned to cook from her mother and sister and is passionate about sharing Japanese home cooking with travelers using fresh and seasonal ingredients. Her other passion is music - Hisako studied classical music at the Guild Hall School of Music in London for two years. Her husband Atsuo has a tech consulting office in Kyoto and is a match maker between high tech companies in USA and Japan. Your cooking class will begin with a short introduction to miso, a fundamental element of Japanese cooking. There are many kinds of miso and Hisako's introduction will help to demystify the varieties and their usage. You will learn to make 2-3 authentic Japanese dishes with Hisako in her kitchen that you will later share at the dining table in their modern Japanese home. Your experience will end on a musical note, with Hisako playing and singing one of her favorite songs.

Meeting points

Ono Station
1 Chome Kosei, Otsu, Shiga 520-0532, Japan

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Please meet Atsuo-san at the only exit of Ono Station on the JR Kosei line. It is located in the North Otsu prefecture and is a 30-minute train ride from Kyoto main station. From Kyoto main station, take the JR Kosei line (going towards Omi Maiko) from platform 3 and get off at Ono. Here is the location of Ono Station on Google maps: https://goo.gl/maps/bAbV95S8WEF2, Atsuo-san will be waiting for you here at the exit. Please do NOT go to the Ono Station in Kyoto. Meet your host at the Ono station on the JR Kosei line located in the Otsu prefecture, outside Kyoto.

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Itinerary

Hisako and Atsuo’s home is located in the residential and suburban Otsu prefecture – a local and peaceful town right outside of Kyoto. Hisako and Atsuo will welcome you into their beautiful home, decorated with flowers from their garden and photographs of their family taken throughout the years they have lived there. The living and kitchen area have an open-plan, are bright and feature a western-style dining table used in summer and a sunken, kotatsu – a traditional, low, heated table that they use in winter. The special flooring around the kotatsu opens up, allowing visitors to hang their legs beneath it instead of having to cross them. Dishes that you may cook together are miso soup, egg roll and octopus nuta salad or tempura. You can expect the cooking portion of the experience to last about an hour and a half.

Additional Info

Menu may vary depending on the season
If any travelers in your party have any allergies, dietary restrictions or cooking preferences please advise at time of booking
Private, personalized experience
Please note, this is not a commercial cooking class, rather this experience is a visit into an Otsu home to meet locals who are expert cooks, and share Japanese culture and cuisine together.

Partially Refundable

April 25100% refund

April 27No refund

You can cancel up to 2 days in advance of the experience for a full refund.

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Any changes made less than 2 full days before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.

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A wonderful lesson and lunch with Michiyo and her husband

Published on Mar, 2019

We had a wonderful time cooking and eating several Japanese dishes. The best thing is that we all agreed we felt confident to take these recipes home and make the meal for friends and family. Michiyo is an excellent teacher and her husband a wonderful lunch companion.

Hisako-san and Atsuo-san are very...

Published on Dec, 2017

Hisako-san and Atsuo-san are very welcoming, so kind, we enjoyed our cooking lesson and share a moment with theses great hosts.
Highly recommended !