Bento Box
Bento Box Cooking Class
It’s hard to get more traditional than the Japanese bento box. In a way, it’s the perfect meal: it might include an egg roll, rice, pickled vegetables, breaded chicken and even nourishing miso soup, each in its own section of the bento box. The word is derived from an old Japanese word for convenience, and convenient this boxed meal certainly is. In this 3-hour cooking class in the center of Kyoto, learn the art of cooking up a bento box meal. Master chefs demonstrate and then turn the kitchen over to you. In the end, eat what you cook.
Waikiki Sunset Cocktail Cruise Including Drinks and Appetizers
Experience a Hawaiian sunset like no other on a cocktail cruise along Oahu's coast. Departing from Waikiki and heading toward Diamond Head, this catamaran journey offers breathtaking views as the sun sets over the horizon. Enjoy two complimentary alcoholic drinks and a pupu platter of appetizers, with unlimited non-alcoholic beverages available.
Note: Shuttle pick-up is included only with specific pricing options. Please make sure to select the appropriate options if you require pickup.
Sumo show experience in Osaka Namba: THE SUMO HALL HIRAKUZA OSAKA
【Notice Regarding Performance Times】
・Please enter at least 30 minutes prior to the start of the performance.
【Important notice】
・Limited time campaign is underway!
Customers who book performances from Dec. 1, 2024 to Mar. 31, 2025 will include an original gift!
・After February 2025, the 1:30 p.m. performance will be a different program. In this program you can attend a KEIKO (training) experience. (70min, unreserved seats. Instead of a Bento you receive a Chanko Hot Pot. *one serving per person)
Experience the thrill of sumo, a traditional Japanese sport with a 1,500-year history, at THE SUMO HALL HIRAKUZA OSAKA! This entertainment venue, dedicated to the ancient Japanese sport, offers a unique opportunity to witness intense demonstration matches between former sumo wrestlers. Enjoy a delicious food box (room temperature bento) and a drink while you watch the action unfold on the elevated ring.
You can find us on Google Maps as: THE SUMO HALL HIRAKUZA OSAKA
Tokyo Guided Small-Group Biking Tour
Bike around Tokyo like a local as you explore the city’s highlights on this 6.5-hour/20miles(32km) tour. In a small group of no more than five, explore the city's bustling main streets, quiet backstreets, snaking alleys, and attractive hidden paths. Admire the Meiji-jingu shrine, Zōjō-ji temple, and Aoyama cemetery, as well as more modern landmarks including Roppongi Hills and the designer shops of Ginza. After a riverside lunch (own expense) conclude your tour at the top of a skyscraper.
Well-balanced BENTO (lunch box) Cooking Class
At the beginning of this class, choose your favorite lunch box and wear an apron.
Cooking starts from making traditional Japanese broth 'Dashi'. After that, you make seven basic Japanese dishes often eaten at home, using Wagyu (Japanese beef), shrimp, salmon, egg, squash and mushroom, green vegetable, also make triangular rice balls.
In this experience, you acquire various cooking techniques such as frying, grilling, simmering and marinade. In addition, after practicing to make triangular shapes using plastic molds, you complete two rice balls.
When all the dishes are completed, please try packing in a lunch box with fresh vegetables! Your instructor advises on an attractive pack way.
At the end, place the dishes, along with chopsticks and let's say “Itadakimasu”! Please enjoy the meal you made served with the complimentary Miso soup.
Private 1 Day Tour to Mt Fuji and Hakone: Onsen, Arts and Nature
Experience Japan like a local, far from the crowded and usually frequented places. Focus on relaxation and well-being without neglecting scenery and culture. We will pick you up from your hotel and drive you to Hakone, one of Japan's most beautiful hot-spring towns. From there we will take scenic roads only, bringing you to magnificent panoramas of Mt Fuji, Hakone, the Sea of Japan, lakes, and temples.
Once the hunger settles in, we will reach a special place where you will be able to experience delicious authentic Japanese cuisine (no bento box on a plastic table, except if you want to, of course) and indulge in some of the region's best onsen.
After this relaxing time, we will once again take the road and finish our day at an incredible nearby museum, open air with a beautiful garden if the weather permits, or mesmerizing architecture if it rains.
As this is a private tour (with a private guide), you can tailor every step and detail to your preferences, or leave it up to us.
Day Tour to Arraial do Cabo from Rio
Pool blue. Green water. Turquoise. Baby blue. The Arraial do Cabo sea has crayon box colors. In this part of the coast of Rio de Janeiro, we find Caribbean stunt beaches, with white sands and very gentle waves.
Cape Town Boat Trip ⛵
Meet one of the most beautiful cities in the lakes region!
Includes:
Executive Transportation (round trip)
Boat ride
Free buffet lunch
Tour guide
Script:
Visit: Praia dos Anjos, Farol Beach, Pontal do Atalaia Prainhas, Forno Beach, Zul Cave and Our Lady's Slit
Stop for a swim: Farol Beach and Prainhas do Pontal do Atalaia
Lunch Stop: Deck dos Anjos Restaurant
Private/ YANAKA home cooking experience, homely and local style.
Shall we start preparation with madam Yajima, She instruct you with easy way in her experience and knowledge. also, we teach you fish dishes(fillet-it-yourself), how to grilled Teriyaki, how to arrange Okonomi-yaki !!
Basic preparation of homely style cooking. We are using Japanese original foodstuff. you can find your new cooking idea and method.
Also,You can try Japanese lunch box "BENTO"= lunch box, which is very balanced lunch style, each items are so nice colored, when it will be opened, healthy and so yummy.
At Yanaka small home, you will be able to cooking with Tokyo local style.also, you can eat yours cooking items.
*Special menu request is available, please fill up when you make the reservation. some requests are needed additional fee.
Classic Style Bento Box Experience
You can learn cooking methods by professional that can be easily replicated at home. Masami has a lot of knowledge about cooking so feel free to ask any questions you have.
Room and kitchen is a small Japanese-style, so we recommend for private such as friends and families to enjoy together. And it has Tatami room, children can also relax and enjoy themselves.
Our BENTO BOX is very filling,
so please come hungry!
Horto Waterfalls Circuit Adventure Tour in Tijuca National Park
Enjoy the Horto waterfalls tour with a specialist guide. The hike begins at Jequitibá Waterfall and ends at Shower Waterfall, also known as Box Waterfall. All waterfalls in the tour are permitted for bathing and shower.
Making a bento box with cute character look in Japan
Experience Japan's unique food culture in our class with our experienced cooking instructor, who can speak English well!
Hands-on support for your Chara-ben cooking experience in friendly manner.
Making your own Bento Box meal in Tokyo
Japanese dishes can be tricky to master but bento box isn't one of them! Join our 3-hour cooking class to learn how to make a bento box from scratch. Our expert Japanese chef will guide on choosing the best ingredients and the traditional method for making bento, so you can easily recreate this dish in your home kitchen.
Japanese home cooking class in Osaka Umeda
Using ingredients and seasonings that you can easily make at home, you will make a typical Japanese home-cooked meal together. (partial demonstration)
You can also choose from a menu of specialty dishes unique to Osaka.
I will also give advice on how to shop at Japanese supermarkets.
All materials used are those that can be purchased at Japanese supermarkets and we have recipes that are easy to make.
You can choose from 5 different menus.
menu
① Ginger-grilled pork, Rice ball, Rolled egg omelette and Miso soup
② Japanese stewed meat and potatoes, Miso soup, Rolled egg omlette and Rice ball
③ Takoyaki and Japanese dessert
④ Bento(lunch box) and Miso soup
⑤ Japanese style hamburg, Miso soup, Spinach(leafy vegetables) with sesame dressing and Rice ball
※ Each menu comes with water and Japanese tea.
Tokyo Sakura Cherry Blossom Viewing w/Sake Tasting Hanami Bento
Experience the cherry blossom season in a truly unforgettable way—away from the crowds, in a serene, private riverside park reserved exclusively for our guests.
Just a 12 minute train ride from Ueno Park, this hidden gem offers a peaceful setting where you can admire the beauty of Sakura. The park, leased privately to our tour company with the support of the local government, features a light-up display at night.
Enjoy a guided stroll through historic Oji Shirine and Asukayama hill where the 8th Shogun planted cherry trees. Then, step into 120-year-old Former National Research Institute of Brewing No.1 Plant. The history of modern sake brewing began with this very brewery. Inside this beautifully preserved red brick brewery, you’ll be treated to a curated tasting of five premium sakes led by a professional sake sommelier.
Complete your experience with a traditional Hanami bento—filled with seasonal Japanese delicacies—served in your private riverside seating area under the blossoms.
Tea Gathering with Bento Box and Sake Experience
In Japanese tea ceremony, the most formal tea gathering is called “Chaji”. Chaji starts with the building of fire with charcoal in front of the guests and a Japanese course meal, and finishes with two types of tea, thick and thin Matcha tea. The hosts put heart into accommodating the guests and the guests enjoy while expressing the gratitude towards everything that the hosts prepare for them. One of the most enjoyable part in tea ceremony is where the menu of the meal and the tea utensils always change depending on the purpose of welcoming the guests or on the season.
In this Experience , you can experience the meal part (we will make the course meal into a Bento box) and the thin Matcha tea with the tea procedure.
Japanese Cooking Class
If you are looking to get a deeper insight into Japanese food (washoku), there is no better way to do it than cooking it. So here we are at a small cooking studio in which you can experience a Japanese home style cooking. This is a great chance for you and your travel mate to escape from the travelling crowd and make a delicious meal together.
Create Totoro Bento in Osaka Cooking Class
Try the unique experience of cooking real Japanese cuisine with an experienced chef. An opportunity to learn how Japanese moms prepare bentos for their children!
And it's not just a bento! With basic ingredients, you'll learn how to recreate the famous Totoro character, something kids love to discover when they open their bento boxes at lunchtime. A combination of aesthetics and taste.
You'll enjoy cooking, and then you'll have the chance to taste what you've cooked and take photos!
By offering more than 300 Japanese and Japanese-made Western dishes to foreign visitors to Japan, we convey the wonders of Japan through the experience of taste and cooking.
Let's Lunch / YANAKA MADAME HOME / Local Dish & Rice ball Making.
Let's design and shape Kawaii Onigiri(rice balls) with our friendly cooking sensei(teacher) in the down-to-earth & friendly neighborhood of Yanaka.
It is a perfect experience for couples, families with kids, and solo travelers!
After making your original Onigiris, you will enjoy carefully selected popular homely dishes sold in the Yanaka, including Japanese-style egg omelets, teriyaki chicken, Japanese-style salad, and more!
You will plate all Orinigi on a plate with a bento box, and voila! You have your lunch right here!
At Yanaka House, you will enjoy eating like Tokyo's locals do.
We offer Miso Soup made from scratch, and it is undoubtedly comforting!
*If you are on a special diet or have food-related issues, please inform us when booking.
Chara-ben (Character Lunch Box) Making
Japanese "Bento" is popular as "BENTO" overseas. "Chara-ben", a kind of bento which shapes rice and side dishes into manga and anime characters, is a unique culture of animation advanced country Japan, attracting attitudes all over the world In this plan, we gonna introduce you how to make a Chara-ben into popular characters among foreigners such as Kumamon and Totoro in English.
This will be an experience of making a very cute chara-ben decorated with seaweed and cheese easily. It will be too cute to be ate.
It is a new attempt to let foreigners get connections with Japanese culture through Japanese-style food.
Japanese food Cooking at Home
In this cooking class, you can experience Japanese people's normal life in the local area of Japan and also feel the traditional atmosphere by visiting a local shrine in a solemn forest. I can be flexible with the menu, but recommend you to choose either Sushi and Tempura Course or Bento Lunch Box Course. Matcha Green Tea experience is included in any course. Vegan menu is also available. This is exclusively private activity.