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Japanese Cooking Class: Authentic Home Experience
5.0
103 Ratings
Kyoto
Immerse yourself in Japanese culinary culture with Iroha Cooking Class in Kyoto. Learn to cook traditional dishes in a traditional home, explore a local supermarket, and take home recipes to impress your loved ones.
Immerse yourself in Japanese culinary culture with Iroha Cooking Class in Kyoto. Learn to cook traditional dishes in a traditional home, explore a local supermarket, and take home recipes to impress your loved ones.
Duration:
4 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- 38-4 Fukakusa Watamorich - You can have an interesting Japanese cooking experience with us in a very authentic Japanese house.\nFirst, you will discover the various DASHI, Japanese soup stock, which are found in nearly all Japanese cuisine. Second, you will prepare about 5 dishes by yourself or with your partner. Our instructors will demonstrate…
- 38-4 Fukakusa Watamorich - You can have an interesting Japanese cooking experience with us in a very authentic Japanese house.\nFirst, you will discover the various DASHI, Japanese soup stock, which are found in nearly all Japanese cuisine. Second, you will prepare about 5 dishes by yourself or with your partner. Our instructors will demonstrate how to cook some dishes in front of you before you start preparing on your own. After cooking your own dishes, you and other participants will sit together and enjoy your lovely dishes in the very traditional Japanese room with a fantastic garden view. After finishing your meal, we will go and explore a local supermarket together finding the ingredients we used in the class. If you like, you can buy the ingredients to prepare the dishes for your family and friends. The classes are conducted entirely in English. All of our instructors are licensed guide interpreters, so all the participants will be able to clearly understand all the information covered in the class. This class allows for English and non-English speakers as well. We look forward to seeing all of you soon!
What's Included
- All seasonings and ingredients for cooking
- Lunch
- All Fees and Taxes
- English-Speaking instructor
- Tour to the local supermarket for about 30 mins
- All seasonings and ingredients for cooking
- Lunch
- All Fees and Taxes
- English-Speaking instructor
- Tour to the local supermarket for about 30 mins
What's Not Included
- drinks
- Gratuity
- Hotel pick-up and drop-off service
- drinks
- Gratuity
- Hotel pick-up and drop-off service
Meal Options
- Spinach salad with sesame doressing -
- Miso soup -
- 2 kinds of Seasonal vegetables Tempra -
- INARI SUSHI and MAKI SUSHI -
- Japanese style rolled Omelet
- Mochi Ice
- Spinach salad with sesame doressing -
- Miso soup -
- 2 kinds of Seasonal vegetables Tempra -
- INARI SUSHI and MAKI SUSHI -
- Japanese style rolled Omelet
- Mochi Ice
Additional Information
Our cooking lessons are held in an authentic Japanese style house. You will experience the feeling of being invited over for lunch by a friend in Japanese culture. This is a great opportunity for all tourists coming to Japan.
Our group lessons have a maximum of 6 people. Our instructors are all very friendly and want you to have a memorable time with…
Our cooking lessons are held in an authentic Japanese style house. You will experience the feeling of being invited over for lunch by a friend in Japanese culture. This is a great opportunity for all tourists coming to Japan.
Our group lessons have a maximum of 6 people. Our instructors are all very friendly and want you to have a memorable time with us. Even if you came alone, you would have a great time.
After finishing lunch, all the participants will go and explore a local supermarket with our instructors. Together we will help you find all the ingredients we used in the lesson.
We will introduce you to some of basic Japanese seasonings and some great tips on preparing some Japanese dishes.
You will get all the recipes of the dishes we prepare together. You will be able to make some great Japanese dishes for your family and friends back home. We look forward to meeting all of you soon!
Location
38-4 Fukakusa Watamorichō
Our studio is a 15 min walk from the Fushimiinari shrine. Only two stops from Kyoto station by JR.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
5.0
(103 Ratings)
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Friends_phanatic
Dec 27, 2025
Cooking in Kyoto - It was our first time to Japan and this cooking experience was absolutely amazing. Having Miho as our teacher was perfect. To have this cooking experience at a home made it more intimate. Not only did she teach us how to cook, but she explained the significance of some of the ingredients. From miso soup, sushi, to mochi ice cream for dessert, everything we made was delicious! After making our delicious meal, we were able to enjoy it in a traditional way. Miho also took us to the market and showed us many types of food and ingredients. This cooking experience is a must! Truly a memorable time! Thank you Miho for opening up your place to us and teaching us some Japanese dishes.
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Paigeeey
Dec 1, 2025
Splendid! - I had the most wonderful experience in my cooking class with Milo! She was so lovely and taught me so much about the different ingredients and techniques to make a variety of traditional Japanese foods. I am so glad we made so many different items. Now I can brag that I can make tamagoyaki! Making it in a local home made it even more special. I highly recommend for other solo travelers and groups! Cannot wait to introduce her teachings to family and friends back home.
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P9389dsemmal
Nov 30, 2025
Highlight of our trip to Kyoto! - Experiencing the daily lives of Japanese locals is something that is easily missed in simple travel. This opportunity not only teaches you the foundation of Japanese cooking, but it also exposes you to the Japanese home life! Our cooking instructor provided us with surprising and insightful answers to all our curious questions. This was by far the best part of our trip in Kyoto.
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Katharinae422
Nov 29, 2025
Look no further, this is the one! - One of the highlights of our trip! We always like to do cooking classes when we travel and this one is a stand-out. Miho is a wonderful, knowledgeable host and we had such a lovely time learning from and chatting with her. The class was very well-organized and ran smoothly, but never felt rushed.
We really liked that we made a variety of dishes to create a delicious, filling lunch set which we got to enjoy in Miho’s traditional Japanese room with tatami flooring. And the supermarket trip at the end was the icing on top!
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388arieb
Nov 12, 2025
Amazing experience - Amazing expericence! The food we made ourselves was delicious and learned alot about Japanse food! You make 5 different dishes.
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Catherine
Oct 31, 2025
Delicious food and great knowledge - It was such a great experience! The food was amazing, the host was really friendly and helpful, answered our questions. We did some side dishes, sushi, eggroll omlete (it was difficult to flip it but I always wanted to learn it :D )
And we did our mochi! Turns out it’s not so difficult and is delicious! We will do our own at home for sure! Thank you Miho for the great classes
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550jakuba
Oct 31, 2025
Amazing Kyoto Cooking Experience - We had so much joy cooking traditional Kyoto food with Miho and definitely would recommend that to anyone who would like to both try eating and cooking with an amazing teacher. It was great!
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Matank
Oct 26, 2025
Awesome cooking lesson with Miho - I was traveling in Kyoto for 2 days on my own this week, and I really wanted to learn some Japanese home cooking since my family back home loves Japanese food. My teacher was Miho - we met at Iroha cooking studio which is in a really pretty Japanese home near Fushimi Inari. We've made the following dishes:
1. Dashi Tamagoyaki (Japanese rolled omlette with Dashi)
2. Spinach with sesame dressing - came out amazing! Really surprised me by how good this side dish was.
3. Inari Sushi
4. Maki Sushi with egg and vegetagles.
5. Tempura vegetables (which it turned out are easier to make than I expected and in my opinion came out really great and much tastier than the ones I usually eat at restaurants in the US)
6. Miso soup
7. Mochi ice cream for dessert
When I got in I told Miho I have very little experience with cooking, and she explained everything really patiently while we were cooking. I now feel confident I can repeat this process by myself, and can't wait to make this meal for my family!
After we were done, I sat down to eat. It was a LOT of food, and everything came out incredible. I also had a lot of maki rolls left over which were enough for me for dinner as well. After eating, Miho took me to the local supermarket, where she showed me where to buy the different ingredients we used, and also gave recommendations for things that could be good souvenirs.
The location of this class is also really good for combining with a trip to Fushimi Inari (it's around 10 minutes walk from where the class is held).
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Ryan
Oct 22, 2025
Excellent Traditional Japanese Cooking Experience! - Miho was an amazing instructor that allowed us to get very hands on with traditional, delicious Japanese dishes. She was very prepared, and English was excellent. We’ve done several different cooking classes throughout the world and this one was one of the best.
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Alessiads4956cj
Oct 20, 2025
Lovely time! Glad we came - We are so glad we choose this experience! Excellent teacher with education and technique. Not to mention the food was delicious! Highly recommend :-)
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