Traditional Obentou Cooking Class in a Kyoto Café with Masayo
- 2 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- 2 languages
- Private tour
Highlights
Your local host Masayo, a professional chef who attended one of the most famous culinary schools in Japan and has been teaching cooking for over two decades, will welcome you into her beautiful cafe with a warm smile and a cup of freshly brewed Japanese tea. Hear about your menu for the day as you enter her cafe kitchen for your hands-on Japanese cooking class! Your homemade Japanese feast may include traditional meat dishes such as chicken meatballs with teriyaki sauce, ginger karaage, or ginger pork, Japanese egg rolls, an organic vegetable salad, miso soup, rice and dessert. Masayo harvests almost all her vegetables from a close friend's an organic farm in Kyoto. She takes prides in using the freshest, highest quality ingredients from seaweed to bonito sourced from local producers. Don't miss out on this wonderful opportunity to experience traditional Japanese food, culture and way of life with a professional cook in her cafe!
Inclusions
What's included
- Immersive Japanese culinary and cultural experience
- Lunch
- Traditional Japanese cooking class with a local chef
What's not
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
5.0
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Know before you go
- Meeting point
- Meet your host at her cafe. Exact address and contact details can be found in the "Before you go" section in your ticket confirmation.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- Traveling Spoon
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- If any travelers in your party have any allergies, dietary restrictions or cooking preferences please advise at time of booking
- Menu may vary depending on the season
- Private, personalized experience
- Our host Masayo used to host in her home but now offers this new experience in her cafe.
How it compares in Kyoto
- Its from-price is 46% above the median of the 1713 experiences we list in Kyoto.
- It is shorter than most of them.
- By number of reviews it ranks 993 of 1713.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Kyoto
Kyoto, Japan's imperial capital for over a thousand years, is a city of temples, gardens, wooden townhouses and refined traditions.
The city holds many of Japan's most treasured sites. Fushimi Inari Taisha's thousands of vermilion torii gates climb a wooded mountain, Kinkaku-ji's Golden Pavilion shimmers over its pond, and Kiyomizu-dera's wooden stage juts from the hillside above the city. The rock garden of Ryoan-ji and the mossy grounds of Ginkaku-ji invite quiet contemplation.
Top-ranked sights in Kyoto: Fushimi Inari Shrine (Fushimi Inari Taisha), Kinkaku-ji (Golden Pavilion), Kiyomizu-dera Temple.
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