Excursion

Course 1

Sources of Japanese Cuisine - Experience of Fermented food cultures

(Capacity : 20 participants)

Experiencing fermented food cultures unique to Japan in the town of Tawaramoto, the place of "origin" of many food ingredients. After learning about miso from the owner of the long-established miso brewery, guests will enjoy original dishes using various types of soy sauce with locally produced ingredients in the soy sauce brewery which used to produce the sauce for the Imperial household and was reopened after being closed for 70 years.

ITINERARY

09:00

Nara City

09:0010:10

10:1011:55

Michi-no-eki Resti Karako/Kagi(Lecture on miso production by the owner of Shimada Miso and observation of a farmers' market)

11:5512:10

12:1014:10

NIPPONIA TawaramotoMarutoShoyu(Lunch)

14:10

15:30

Nara City

15:30

Michi-no-eki Resti Karako/Kagi
Lecture on miso production
NIPPONIA TawaramotoMarutoShoyu

Course 2

One of Three Great Gardens in Yamato - Buddhist Vegetarian Dishes at Jikoin Temple and Walking Tour of Naramachi Area, Nice Old Nara

(Capacity : 20 participants)

The most significant feature of Jikoin, one of 3 great gardens in Yamato, is that the entire precinct was created as one big tea ceremony site. This is a place of unique value in that even 300 years after its establishment, visitors can find the Sekishu tea ceremony school's style of hospitality. Eating Buddhist vegetarian dishes in this temple will be a great opportunity to enhance visitors' interest and appreciation of the foods.

ITINERARY

09:30

Nara City

09:3009:45

09:4511:15

Todaiji Temple

11:5512:00

12:0014:00

Jikoin(Lunch / Sekishu style dishes)

14:0014:35

14:3515:35

Walking around Naramachi

15:35

16:15

Nara City

16:15

Todaiji Temple
©Nara visitors Bureau
Jikoin
Naramachi

Course 3

A taste of traditional French cuisine in Nara nurtured by more than 100 years of history

(Capacity : 20 participants)

Mikasa is the main dining room at Nara Hotel. This is a major hotel built in Nara Park as a "Guest Palace in Kansai" with a history of over 100 years. All five senses will be stimulated by the traditional French dishes based on recipes successive chefs have inherited from their predecessors.
Nara is home to many historical buildings and Buddhist statues that are national treasures and important cultural assets. Among them, Horyuji Temple is especially significant as it is the oldest wooden building in the world and is world heritage listed.

ITINERARY

09:45

Nara City

09:4510:25

10:2511:55

Horyuji Temple

11:5512:35

12:3513:15

Nara Nagomikan

13:1513:30

13:3015:00

Nara Hotel MainRestaurant "Mikasa"(Lunch)

15:00

15:40

Nara City

16:15

Nara Nagomikan
Nara Hotel Main Restaurant "Mikasa"

Course 4

Tasting winter dishes and a special dessert which is best eaten within 10 minutes

(Capacity : 10 participants)

NakaiShunpu-do provides kuzukiri, which is made from one of the specialty foods in the Yoshino region, "kuzu" (arrowroot). Guests will make and then eat the ultimate kuzukiri whose "best eaten within" time is a mere 10 minutes.
At Gojo Genbei, a refurbished 250-year-old merchant's house, guests will have kaiseki ryori (tea-ceremony dishes) with local vegetables carefully picked by the chef that very morning. At Nishiuchi Shuzo, a sake brewery with a long history, guests will observe the traditional way of manufacturing sake with locally produced raw ingredients.