Food Experiences(846)

The old town of Takayama in the Hida region of Gifu Prefecture perfectly captures the charm of rural Japan. In this walking tour, you’ll explore a food and craft market, learn the city’s history, and taste sake and foods guided by a local.

Hida Furukawa is known as Gifu’s little Kyoto due to its traditional townhouses and charming canals with colorful carp. Delve into the town’s local gastronomy in a fun, family-friendly cooking class and enjoy a delicious meal in a repurposed machiya!

Taste the flavors that have made Osaka food famous in this custom food tour of the city where you’ll explore Kuromon Market, Dotonbori district, and the Hozenji Yokocho alley with a knowledgeable local guide and interpreter.

Tour Tokyo’s side streets and experience the flavors and faces that define dinner for millions of locals. This custom private tour includes several Japanese foods, dessert, and drinks, picked according to your preferences and dietary needs.

Enjoy the thrilling atmosphere of a tuna auction show in an izakaya restaurant in Asakusa! Bid on your preferred tuna cuts, which will be prepared and served to you on the spot, and enjoy them with ramen, yakitori skewers, drinks, and more.

This family-friendly tour is an exploration of Kyoto’s cuisine, history, and culture! Taste Kyoto street foods at Nishiki Market, visit a local shrine, and discover Japanese history through fun, immersive activities at the Ninja Samurai Museum.

Only an hour from Nagoya is the coastal town of Nishio, famous for its artisanal miso-making. Here, you’ll explore a brewery with over 100 years of history as you learn all about miso, a key ingredient in Japanese cuisine.

In this leaf-to-cup tour in Nishio, Aichi, a leading tea producing area with hundreds of years of history, you’ll visit a tea farm, dress up in traditional tea picking clothes, taste several kinds of Japanese tea, and take part in a tea ceremony!

Explore Asakusa at your own pace in this private foodie bike tour. See the Sensoji Temple and the Ryogoku Sumo Stadium, and stroll along a shopping street, stopping for traditional snacks along the way. Gluten-free and pescatarian options available.

Learn the traditional way to make Japanese miso, a fermented paste used in everything from ramen to desserts, in this workshop in Hiyoshi, Yokohama, where you’ll also taste different kinds of miso and enjoy a delicious homemade lunch.

Meet contemporary Japanese lacquerware master Naoya Takayama in his Hiroshima studio for an insider’s view of the craft. Discover his original techniques, paint lacquer under his personalized instruction, and take home a souvenir by the artist.

Step into a 50-year-old sushi restaurant in Shizuoka, where you will learn to transform fresh fish into nigiri sushi and maki rolls with a chef specialized in the centuries-old tradition of Edomae sushi.

Uotake Sushi restaurant in Shizuoka elevates the classic combination of sushi and tea with this pairing of fresh Edomae sushi and Shizuoka’s famous teas blended by a chashi tea master.

Feel right at home in this home cooking lesson with a Tokyo local specializing in hospitality. Tour a local market, learn to make miso ramen from scratch, and prepare a homemade Japanese mochi sweet (fruit daifuku) for dessert.

Enjoy Tokyo’s lively nightlife in this sake-themed outing that includes touring sake-related shrines and temples while learning about their history and customs, then clinking cups of sake with locals in two izakaya restaurants.

Indulge in a four-dish omakase dinner expertly paired with sake in this Shibuya dining experience. Enjoy four different dishes, each paired with a specific type of Japanese sake, while learning about Japanese cuisine and history from a sommelier.

Recreate classic Osaka street foods in this cooking class taught by sisters Arisa and Maya less than 15 minutes by train from Osaka Station! Learn to make okonomiyaki, Osaka’s soul food, and yakisoba, a popular stir-fried noodle dish.

Learn to cook a Japanese deep-fried pork cutlet dish (tonkatsu) with a side of miso soup, and a juicy fruit-filled daifuku mochi for dessert in this fun cooking class hosted by Arisa and Maya only a short train ride from Osaka Station.

Feast on tempura, wagyu beef, and other izakaya dishes and wash it down with refreshing sake as you explore the hidden eateries led by a local guide in this food tour exploring Nakano, an entertainment hub west of Shinjuku in central Tokyo.

In this private cooking class in Fukuoka, you can choose to make either maki sushi, temari sushi or masu sushi, learn to fry tempura, and enjoy different kinds of Japanese sake with your homemade meal, along with matcha green tea.

Make your own Japanese home cooked meal in this private cooking class in Fukuoka. Choose between temari, maki, or masu sushi, learn how to arrange hot pot ingredients to look like a bouquet, make spring rolls, and enjoy different kinds of sake.

Chef Minagawa will teach you his sushi-making secrets in this family-friendly class in his sushi restaurant near Hiroo Station. Enjoy the chef’s fresh nigiri before learning to make — and enjoying — your own.

Learn to make a classic Japanese noodle dish with a pro chef in his Shibuya sushi restaurant. You’ll mix, knead, shape, and cut soba noodles and learn about Japanese food culture, then enjoy noodles made by you and by the chef.

Enjoy a healthy, sugar-free Japanese meal in this home cooking class in central Tokyo that can accommodate vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free and halal-friendly options. Make rolled omelet, onigiri rice balls, soup, mochi, and more!

Chefs Akahori and Suguro put their culinary skills on full display in this dining experience in Kakuya Bessho Restaurant in Shizuoka. Watch the chefs filet fish and prepare dashi, and feast on a kaiseki dinner with wine, Japanese sake and tea.

Discover the tantalizing world of Japanese sweets in this fun class. Join Yuko in her cozy home near Waseda and the Kanda River to make taiyaki fish-shaped sweets and a Japanese-style parfait with seasonal fruits, all gluten-free and vegan!

Make your own takoyaki, okonomiyaki and kabuto-shaped spring rolls in this private cooking class in Fukuoka. Obtain new culinary skills, taste different kinds of Japanese sake and experience the unique flavors of Japan with local experts.

Join a friendly local guide as they show you around the magical Myoban Onsen. In this private tour, you’ll visit a world heritage site, bathe in an open-air hot spring, steam foods using hot spring water and try Beppu’s famous hell-steamed pudding.