Private Sushi Roll & Japanese Cooking Class with Chef Shiori

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Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.

Reviews

Ratings come from 44 reviews collected by our booking partner. They are travellers' own words, in the order they were written — never reordered to flatter the experience.

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• 5We had a wonderful...

  We had a wonderful cooking experience with Shiori-san in Sapporo! It was much more than just a cooking class. We enjoyed her warm hospitality, the cultural exchange, and the opportunity to learn more about Japanese traditions. Shiori-san was very welcoming, friendly, and an excellent communicator. A truly memorable experience that we highly recommend!

  Alexander_FOctober 2026via Viator

• 5This wasn't just a sushi...

  This wasn't just a sushi class. It was an evening in a real Japanese home. Shiori welcomed us into her private house, where we made sushi at her own table and met her family, who were warm and genuinely happy to have us. Shiori is a wonderful guide: patient, funny, and easy to talk with. She explained each step clearly, and the conversation flowed as naturally as it would with a new friend, covering food, daily life, and Japanese culture. Trying on a kimono was a lovely surprise and made the night feel even more special. By the end, Shiori had invited us back to explore other parts of Hokkaido with her, which says everything about how welcoming she is.If you want something authentic and personal instead of a standard tourist class, book this. Highly recommended!

  Anne_SSeptember 2026via Viator

• 5Perfect Expert Sushi making and Japanese cooking experience

  Perfect class. I took the class with my 24 year old daughter. I’m a home cook who loves Japanese cuisine. Shiori is a professional chef with lots of teaching experience. She genuinely wants you to be successful and has adapted her recipes with tricks that make it easier while maintaining top notch taste and presentation. My daughter and I can’t wait to try her home style sushi approach at a family gathering we’re having in a week. Aside from the lesson, she prepared a once in a lifetime meal fit for an emperor. It was quite unbelievable, everything was so good and plentiful that I don’t think I’ll have to eat for a week. Ingredients were top rate, which is a basic requirement for a top chef. On top of all this, she was so kind that she made us feel like close family/friends even sharing some family history and showing Japanese cultural “treasures” that my daughter and I showed interest in. She has significant international experience and her English is great. As a foodie and serious home chef, I have been to many cooking classes around the world and if I could, I would rate this a perfect experience. Learn and enjoy with confidence, if you are lucky enough to be able to book Shiori’s class!

  billtT5252WVJuly 2026via Tripadvisor

• 5Shiori is the best

  From start to finish Shiori was so friendly, it was like an aunty picking us up from the station. We learnt how to make sushi from scratch and she explains all the ingredients and then she served us an absolute banquet too! I think we had about 7/8 courses in the end. We even briefly met her family as it was in her home. She offered for me to try on her grandmothers kimono and it was really special. The day was just great, highlight of our trip to Hokkaido. Would recommend for all abilities too. Shiori is the best!

  Kieran_CJuly 2026via Viator

• 5Wonderful day

  Can not recommend this experience highly enough!!!!! I learnt a lot about Japanese food and culture - Shiori is lovely - very easy to talk to and perfect English

  Susie_RJune 2026via Viator

• 5A Lovely Mix of Cooking and Dining Experience

  I always like taking a cooking lesson if I can when I travel. It was around a 2.5 hour long class and dinner inside Shiroi's home. From my understanding of Japanese culture and what I was taught by my teachers, getting an opportunity to go into a Japanese person's home is a rarity. So in that regard, it is a very unique and special opportunity in of itself. Since I went during golden week, I got to see how she decorates for Children's Day. For the cooking portion itself, I learned how to make a homestyle maki-zushi. She was very informative of how to make it and even why she chose this style of sushi. Food culture is a great way to peak into the lives and minds of people when we cook for others. On top of that she shared a lot about things in Hokkaido, herself, and of course, her knowledge in food. She makes quite a lot of food for you too. Since this is in her home, it is a small kitchen and hard to do a lot of cooking with groups or solo travellers, so keep it in mind when booking a lesson. I can't make too much comment on English language ability because she quickly realized I can speak Japanese, but from the English she used with me, it sounds like she is proficient and I think, uses it regularly with a host-son from America. At the end of the lesson, she surprised me with the same ingredients we used to make the sushi (minus the shiso and fish) so you can test what you learned at home. One part of the gift I was worried about was the soy sauce because I travel light with no checked luggage, but as long as you fly domestically the TSA won't take your liquids over 100ML. （昆布醤油は安全でした！). Overall, I think this is a good course to take if you have a night with no plans and want to do a mix of cooking, get a unique meal, and experience a deeper look into the life of a local resident in Hokkaido.

  jamessN1206VNMay 2026via Tripadvisor

Know before you go

How it compares in Sapporo

• Its from-price is 18% below the median of the 381 experiences we list in Sapporo.
• It is shorter than most of them.
• By number of reviews it ranks 14 of 381.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Sapporo

Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido, is a grid-planned city of wide parks, an annual snow festival, miso ramen and mountains close behind.

Sapporo was laid out as a grid in the 1870s, when Japan's government developed the northern island, so its streets are wide and straight, split by Odori Park, a long green strip through the middle. The red-brick former Hokkaido government building and the white clock tower, both from the Meiji period, recall that era, and the Hokkaido Shrine lies in a wooded park in the west.

Top-ranked sights in Sapporo: Odori Park (Odori Koen), Susukino, Sapporo TV Tower.

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