Nagoya Super Market Tour & Home Cooking Class with a Local, Akiko
Please note that the market tour here means a local supermarket tour, which is typically where locals shop. After you meet your host Akiko at the station, she will accompany you to a local supermarket located near the JR station where she will introduce you to the different ingredients used in Japanese cooking. If you like, Akiko can help you purchase local ingredients to take home.
After the tour, join Akiko in her kitchen to make classic Nagoya dishes such as red miso stew, shrimp tempura in a rice ball or fried chicken, Nagoya style. You will also learn to make dashi, the foundation of Japanese cooking. Your cooking class will last about an hour before you sit down to share the Nagoyan style Japanese meal you helped prepare.
Akiko is thrilled about the opportunity to share specialties from Nagoya as a lot of people don’t know how to cook Nagoya-style food. Because of this, many Nagoyans themselves eat their local specialities at restaurants!
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Market, cooking and dinner
What's included in Nagoya Super Market Tour & Home Cooking Class with a Local, Akiko
(Subject to Option Inclusions)This market tour involves a tour of the local supermarket where locals generally shop. Akiko will accompany you to a local supermarket located near the JR station. After you meet Akiko at the station she will take you the local supermarket, where she will show and describe the different ingredients used in Japanese cooking and seasoning. If you like, Akiko can help you purchase local ingredients that you can take back home from Japan. After Akiko picks you up from JR Kasugai station, 20 minutes from Nagoya. You will join her in her homer kitchen to make classic Nagoya dishes. In your hands-on cooking class in Nagoya learn to make shrimp tempura in a rice ball or fried chicken Nagoya style and miso pork cutlet sandwich. You will also learn how to make dashi stock from scratch for the miso soup. Your cooking class will last about an hour before you sit down to share the Nagoyan style Japanese meal you helped prepare.
Food Menu
STARTER - Tebasaki (fried chicken Nagoya style)
STARTER - Misokatsu (miso pork cutlet sandwich)
MAIN - Tenmusu (shrimp tempura in a rice ball)
Inclusions
- Private local supermarket tour with your host Akiko O
- Private cooking class + meal
- Local alcohol
- Pick up from JR Kasugai station
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- 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
- Vegetarian option is available, please advise at time of booking if required
- Private, personalized experience
- Please note, this is not a commercial cooking class, rather this experience is a visit into a Nagoya home to meet a local who is an expert cook, and share Japanese culture and cuisine together.
- Please not that the "market tour" is a tour of the local supermarket, not an actual outdoor market!
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Pickup and Dropoff
You will make your own way to the meeting points
Meeting / End Points
- Akiko will be waiting at the general car waiting area (Toyota van) of the north exit of JR Kasugai station. Further instructions will be indicated on the ticket confirmation.
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Ticket Redemption
Local contact information: If you need assistance, please contact your host Akiko at +81 (0) 9087371655, or by email at [email protected] Meeting Instructions: Meet your host Akiko at the car parking area of the north exit of JR Kasugai station (Address: 1 Chome Jojocho, Kasugai, Aichi 486-0833, Japan). Please take the JR Chuo Line, track 7 or 8 from Nagoya station bound for Kozoji, Tajimi, Mizunami or Nakatsugawa. It takes about 20mins from Nagoya. The stations are as follows: Nagoya→Kanayama→Tsurumai→Chikusa→Ozone→Shinmoriyama→Kachigawa→Kasugai. Please get off Kasugai station. Akiko will be waiting at the general car parking area of the north exit of JR Kasugai station - from the north exit of JR Kasugai station please go to the first floor, you will see a bakery Vie de France, after that you will see a police box, then you will see parking lots ahead, Akiko will be waiting in a white Toyota van 330. Please call her in case you're unable to find her: +81 908 737 1655 Notes: If you have any specific dietary requirements and have not provided this information upon checkout, please contact and inform your Traveling Spoon host at least 48 hours in advance via their email or phone listed above in your voucher. -- Traveling Spoon is a supplier of Viator and TripAdvisor. We offer travelers authentic food experiences with locals, in their homes. Founded by two travelers and food lovers, Traveling Spoon helps others make meaningful cultural connections through food. Contact us at [email protected] if you have general questions about our services. For specific questions related to your booking please contact your host directly with the contact information provided above. We hope you have a meaningful experience and look forward to hearing about it!