VISIT KANAZAWA, JAPAN - Official Travel Guide

Outline

This experience includes a tour of Omicho market, casual talk with the market workers, and a cooking class with local fresh ingredients. A local food researcher and expert in Kanazawa food culture will guide you through the market and teach you how to cook local food (soup and three kinds of dishes) using local seasonal ingredients.  

Highlights

 delicious ways to eat them from professional connoisseurs in the market shops, which have been open for 300 years.

➢ At a fish shop, greengrocer's (fruits and vegetables) shop and dry goods shop, visitors are introduced to recommended seasonal ingredients and ways to eat them by shopkeepers, and at the fish sh
➢ Introduction of seasonal ingredients andop, visitors can see how fish are sliced. 

➢ Cooking local dishes using the ingredients introduced at the market. 

➢ A local cookery expert, who knows the market inside out, guides visitors through the market and shows them how to cook. 

➢ Cooking and tasting in a kitchen studio in a renovated 100-year-old townhouse.

Program 

9:50 Meet at the front of Mister Donuts at Omicho Market (50 Kamiomi-cho, Kanazawa) 

10:00–10:40 Orientation and Omicho market tour 

10:40–10:50 Walk to “In Kanazawa House” (1-4-28 Hosai, Kanazawa) 

10:50–11:50 Cooking experience at In Kanazawa House 

11:50–12:20 Lunch (the menu may differ, depending on the season) 

12:30 Break up at In Kanazawa House

 ( Duration: approx. 2.5 hr )

Number of people required for a private reservation 2–10

Available languages English 

Allergies (e.g., gluten-free) and vegetarian menus can be accommodated. *If you wish your request to be accommodated, please contact us at least 3 days in advance (in some cases, we may not be able to meet your request).