Tohoku in Food making

• Age 0～Age 100
• Within 1 hour
• 09:05 / 11:35 / 14:05 / 16:35 / 19:05 / 21:35

In the tea ceremony experience, after a brief lecture, you will make your own matcha and enjoy it casually. You can also take photos! How about having a cup of matcha in between sightseeing in Sendai or on your way home from work? Come experience tea and enjoy Japanese culture at An!

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• Autumn Campaign Sale 2025

• Age 0～Age 100
• 1～2 hours
• 08:00 / 10:30 / 13:00 / 15:30 / 18:00

Nerikiri is a type of high-grade fresh confectionery. You can use colorful bean paste to create seasonal flowers, fruits, and more. The color scheme and balance are a testament to your sense of style. You can use bean paste from a long-established Kyoto store to create authentic sweets. After that, you will be asked to make matcha tea, and the refined sweetness of the bean paste goes perfectly with the matcha. Experience tea at An and enjoy Japanese culture!

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• Autumn Campaign Sale 2025

• Age 0～Age 100
• 1～2 hours
• 08:00 / 10:30 / 13:00 / 15:30 / 18:00

Experience making Japanese sweets using real ingredients! Arrange the finished sweets on a plate and you'll have a work of art! Come and try making Japanese sweets at An An, where you can enjoy making two seasonal Japanese sweets per person. You can make authentic Japanese sweets using white bean paste made from white kidney beans from a long-established Kyoto bean paste shop and smooth bean paste made from domestically grown red beans!

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• For Groups
• For Family
• Autumn Campaign Sale 2025

• Age 6～Age 100
• 1～2 hours
• 07:30 / 10:30 / 12:30

[Cook rice in a rice cooker and compare different rice varieties] 60-90 minutes - Cook rice in a rice cooker! It turns out surprisingly delicious! - Choose one cup per person and compare the different flavors from different producers! They're all delicious! (Up to 3 types) - Try a variety of local rice accompaniments that are unique to Akita Prefecture! - Enjoy a leisurely, leisurely, and lively breakfast/lunch, something you don't usually have time for!

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• In Door Activity

• Age 1～Age 100
• 2～3 hours
• 11:00

Daichan Farm is a farm in Nishimurayama-gun, Yamagata Prefecture. Local cuisine cooking ♪ You can make the following local dishes. Sasamaki, squid soup, chilled soup, imoni, natto soup, ozoni, frozen rice cakes★Sasamaki rice soaked in urukashi overnight, drained, wrapped in bamboo leaves, boiled, preserved food (sprinkled with soybean flour containing sugar) ★Frozen rice cake A local dish made by mashing rice mixed with non-glutinous rice during the cold weather, freezing and drying it, cutting it into rice crackers, drying it for three months, then frying it and seasoning it with salty-sweet soy sauce. ★Yamagata beef, tofu, konnyaku, and plenty of vegetables are used to make this local soy sauce-flavored local dish. ★Natto soup In Yamagata in winter, natto soup is often served to warm the body. "Imogara" (dried taro stems) is an essential ingredient, and miso-flavored soup with taro, natto, tofu, boiled rice parsley (traditional vegetables), carrots, and more!

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• Age 1～Age 100
• 1～2 hours
• 10:00 / 11:00 / 12:00 / 13:00 / 14:00 / 15:00 / 16:00

"Daichan Farm" runs a farm with abundant nature in Nishimurayama District, Yamagata Prefecture. With this plan, you can experience making authentic local cuisine in Yamagata Prefecture!・ You can choose your favorite from the menu such as Imoni, Natto-jiru, Sashimi Konnyaku, Miso (Miso Dama), Mochitsuki, Akebii Cuisine, Konbu Maki, Hiyajiru, Sasamaki, and Okowa. increase. Enjoy making local dishes using seasonal vegetables and fruits with your family and friends.

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• Age 1～Age 100
• 1～2 hours
• 10:00 / 11:00 / 12:00 / 13:00 / 14:00 / 15:00 / 16:00

"Daichan Farm" runs a farm with abundant nature in Nishimurayama District, Yamagata Prefecture. With this plan, you can experience making vegetarian (vegan) dishes that are kind to your body using organic vegetables!・ You can choose your favorite from the menu of 4 kinds of Indian curry, vegan pizza, vegan ramen, vegan apple cake, etc. * When making curry, use Daichan Farm special rice. Just make pizza and ramen with a junky image vegan and it will be healthy ♪ Wouldn't it be beautiful from the inside of the body?

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• For Groups

• Age 6～Age 100
• 2～3 hours
• 11:00 / 17:00

[Making Akita's local dish, Kiritanpo Nabe, with Halal ingredients] 120 minutes (estimated) This authentic Kiritanpo Nabe experience starts with mashing rice to make "tanpo." We also encourage Muslims to try Akita's local cuisine! We use Halal-certified chicken, seasonings, and cooking utensils, all of which are separate from those for general use, so you can enjoy Akita home cooking with peace of mind.

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• Age 6～Age 100
• 2～3 hours
• 11:00 / 17:00

[Make Akita's local dish, Kiritanpo hotpot] 120 minutes (estimated) Experience an authentic Kiritanpo hotpot experience, starting with mashing rice to make "tanpo." Using local ingredients such as water parsley and Hinai chicken, you can enjoy a homemade Kiritanpo hotpot packed with the delicious flavors of Akita, leaving you feeling warm and satisfied in both your heart and your stomach.

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• In Door Activity

• Age 6～Age 85
• 3～4 hours
• 09:00 / 13:00

★Local time to experience nature, food, and people in Shirakami The Shirakami-Sanchi Mountains straddle Akita and Aomori prefectures, and the center was Japan's first registered World Natural Heritage Site. Fujisato Town is the base on the Akita side. Why not visit Fujisato to escape the hustle and bustle of the city and spend some local time interacting with nature, food, and people in Shirakami? With this plan, you can easily experience the lives of local people who have lived closely with nature in the Shirakami-Sanchi Mountains since the Jomon period. You can rest assured that the area is close to the village and will be guided by someone who was born and raised in the area. First, you will visit a waterfall that is loved by locals. It is easy to get to, but it is full of a hidden feeling and is worth seeing. Next, you will experience picking wild vegetables. You will pick the most popular wild vegetable in the area, "mizu," while listening to a lecture from a wild vegetable picking expert. When you return to Mori no Eki, you will learn how to peel the wild vegetables you picked and cook them in the local way. Finally, you will have "gakko chakko" around a bonfire. In Akita, this is the term used to describe chatting with close friends over snacks such as gakko (pickles) and tea. Enjoy cooking your own wild plants and tea made with spring water from the Shirakami Mountains around a campfire. Ask about life in this area. [Schedule] 9:00 Shirakami-Sanchi Mori no Eki (Meeting) 9:00-10:30 Choshi Falls & Wild Plant Picking 10:30-11:30 Wild Plant Cooking Experience 11:30-12:30 Gakko Chakko 12:30 (Disband) *You can also choose to start at 13:00 [Accommodation Information] Search for "Staying in Fujisato" *Accommodations within walking distance are "Hotel Yutoria Fujisato", "Minshuku Damakkoya", "Kaizen Center (Room only/from 2 people)", and "Yumoto Nagomi no Yu (Room only)".

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• Age 6～Age 100
• 2～3 hours
• 10:00

[Akita Winter Fun Discount] Get up to 50% off during our campaign! (Until February 28, 2026) Be sure to enter the four-character coupon code ATK1 (for weekdays) or AKT2 (for weekends) at time of purchase. Please note that this campaign may end without notice depending on budget usage. The displayed price is before the discount. Apply the coupon at time of purchase to receive a discount (up to 50% off the total purchase amount *Maximum discount of ¥6,000 per person per purchase). [Experience Shirakami's Nature, Food, and People: Experience Local Experiences] The Shirakami-Sanchi Mountains straddle Akita and Aomori prefectures, and its center was Japan's first designated World Heritage Site. Fujisato Town is its base on the Akita side. Escape the hustle and bustle of the city and visit Fujisato to experience Shirakami's nature, food, and people. ★Onigiri Workshop This is an experience where you can chat and enjoy using delicious Akita rice and local ingredients together with Ako, the owner of the guesthouse Damakkoya, who is an expert in making onigiri and picking wild vegetables and mushrooms. ★Onigiri Lunch After the workshop, enjoy lunch in a bento box of onigiri wrapped in bamboo bark. It also comes with side dishes and soup made with local ingredients. Opening times: 10:00-13:00 each day

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• In Door Activity
• For Groups

• Age 2～Age 100
• 1～2 hours
• 11:00 / 12:00 / 13:00

Experience the traditional techniques that have been passed down for 300 years of Inaniwa Udon! "Manufacturing and Cooking Experience Course (60 minutes) - Learn how to hand-spin and boil delicious udon noodles." After registering at the Sato Yosuke Main Store, you will experience the experience at the nearest workshop. After the experience, you can enjoy a meal, shopping, and a factory tour at the Sato Yosuke Main Store. *The factory tour course is closed on Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, and the New Year holidays.

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• In Door Activity
• For Groups

• Age 2～Age 100
• Within 1 hour
• 11:00 / 12:00 / 13:00

Experience the traditional techniques that have been passed down for 300 years of Inaniwa Udon! "Hand-weaving Experience Course (30 minutes)" After registering at the Sato Yosuke Main Store, you will experience the experience at the nearest workshop. After the experience, you can enjoy a meal, shopping, and a factory tour at the Sato Yosuke Main Store. *The factory tour course is closed on Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, and the New Year holidays.

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• In Door Activity
• For Groups

• Age 0～Age 100
• Within 1 hour

Including Tsukuehama, you can once experience the salt development that has been carried out in the Sanriku coast zone. Experience the old-fashioned work, why not try thinking of the lives of the time?

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• Age 6～Age 90
• 2～3 hours
• 10:00

Join a local chef to create traditional dishes from the Noshiro area of Akita Prefecture. The dishes are three representative dishes of the region: damakomochi, mugimaki, and natazuke. Master chef Shigeko-san will show you how to make each dish, and then everyone will eat to their heart's content. Even beginners can enjoy cooking with confidence, cutting vegetables, mashing rice, and rolling damakomochi.

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• In Door Activity
• For Groups

• Age 10～Age 100
• Within 1 hour
• 10:00 / 13:30

Using daikon radish, carrots, and cucumbers, carve them into leaves and other shapes, put them in a bottle, pickle them, and bring them home.

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• In Door Activity

• Age 10～Age 100
• 1～2 hours
• 10:00 / 13:30

Why don't you enjoy making "Flower Jelly", a decorated sweet that originated in Peru, South America?

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• In Door Activity

• Age 6～Age 100
• 1～2 hours
• 10:00 / 13:30 / 19:00

Why don't you enjoy making "Flower Jelly", a decorated sweet that originated in Peru, South America?

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• In Door Activity

• Age 0～Age 100
• Within 1 hour

At the factory of "Takeda's Sasa Kamaboko" in Shiogama City, Miyagi Prefecture, everyone will grill the skewered Sasa Kamaboko. Enjoy freshly baked sasa-kamaboko that you can't taste at home! It takes about 15 minutes. Comes with an assortment of mini bamboo baskets as a souvenir!

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• In Door Activity
• For Family

• Age 6～Age 100
• 2～3 hours
• 10:30 / 11:00 / 11:30 / 12:00 / 12:30 / 13:00

"Kamabuku" is made from rice flour and potatoes, and can only be found in the local Odate area. Come make this simple, nostalgic taste with the cheerful mothers! Each person will make one. The instructor's mother will also join in the cooking. You can take home what you make. Everyone will sample the kamabuku made by the instructor's mother.

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• In Door Activity

• Age 6～Age 100
• 2～3 hours
• 10:30 / 11:00 / 11:30 / 12:00 / 12:30 / 13:00

This is an experience of hand-making "Nakayama Soba," a local specialty. "Nakayama Soba" is a New Year's Eve soba in Odate, Akita, and its production is broadcast on television every year, making it a seasonal tradition at the end of the year. Your instructor will be a cheerful mother from the direct sales store "Cheerful Mother's Store," who also makes the soba! The taste of soba you make yourself is exceptional. You will be able to eat the "Nakayama Soba" you make on the spot. You will be able to taste both cold and hot soba.

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• In Door Activity

• Age 6～Age 100
• 2～3 hours
• 10:30 / 11:00 / 11:30 / 12:00 / 12:30 / 13:00

Experience making "decorative sushi rolls" where you can draw beautiful designs using vinegared rice ♪ "Cheerful Mother" will give you a thorough lesson on how to make decorative sushi rolls, one of Akita's hospitality dishes. Leave the design to "Cheerful Mother"! Enjoy it with a side dish selected by Cheerful Mother. You can take home one decorative sushi roll that you made yourself. ~Experience flow~ ① Gathering and check-in ② Experience begins, explanation of the process, making decorative sushi rolls, tasting what the teacher has made. ・You can take home the decorative sushi roll that you made yourself. ③ End After the experience is over, the experience ends.

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• Age 6～Age 100
• 2～3 hours
• 10:30 / 11:00 / 11:30 / 12:00 / 12:30 / 13:00

Experience making miso tanpo (rice balls) with special miso paste and kiritanpo hotpot. ♪ A cheerful mother will give a detailed lecture on how to make Akita's local dish, kiritanpo, in Odate, the birthplace of kiritanpo. The freshly made, piping hot kiritanpo hotpot is exceptionally delicious! Enjoy one skewered with special miso as miso tanpo and the other as kiritanpo hotpot. ♪ ~Experience Process~ ① Gathering and Check-in ② Experience begins, explanation of the process, making tanpo (mash rice → divide into portions → put on skewers and shape → grill over charcoal), making kiritanpo hotpot, and enjoying the finished dish. ③ Ending: After the experience is over, the session ends.

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• Age 6～Age 99
• 1～2 hours
• 11:00

This luxurious experience includes making your own Akita specialty, "Kiritanpo," and grilling it until fragrant. Then, enjoy it in a specially prepared sweetfish broth hotpot, made with a generous amount of premium sweetfish (ayu). The venue is set in a traditional Japanese hearth-style space, reminiscent of a folktale, surrounded by mountains and rivers. Relax and unwind in the warmth of the charcoal fire. The experience begins with watching local women "half-mash" freshly cooked, homemade Akita Komachi rice. Then, you'll experience everything from shaping the kiritanpo to grilling it over the hearth and finishing it off in the sweetfish broth hotpot. Our staff will provide attentive support, so even first-timers can enjoy the experience with ease. Families, friends, and international visitors alike can enjoy this experience. On snowy days, you can even play on the handmade snow slide in front of the store! Surrounded by a warm hearth and smiles, this is a unique winter experience you won't soon forget.

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• In Door Activity

• Age 3～Age 100
• Within 1 hour
• 12:00

Let's make and eat "onigiri", a traditional Japanese home-cooked food! We will explain the key points of how to make onigiri, such as grilled salmon, pickled plum, tuna mayo, kelp, and bonito flakes, so try making onigiri with your favorite ingredients. You can eat the completed onigiri on the spot. For hygiene reasons, you cannot take them home. You can learn about Japanese soul food in a fun and delicious way. ~Schedule~ ① Wash your hands and prepare We will prepare your hands while explaining the flow of the experience. ② Sit down and explain the ingredients and how to make them ③ Taste the ingredients Each person will make onigiri. ④ Enjoy the onigiri you made Make onigiri with 5 different ingredients. In addition to the traditional ingredients of "onigiri", such as pickled plum, salmon, and kelp, you will make simple rice balls with popular ingredients at convenience stores such as tuna mayo. It's perfect for a lunchtime experience!

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• Age 10～Age 70
• Over 6 hours on the day

This is a food culture experience in Yurihonjo City, Akita Prefecture, and a walking tour of the Ushu Kameda Domain and Kameda Castle Town. In the morning, you will make traditional Hina mochi (rice cakes) at a community center in Kameda Town. Knead rice flour and wrap it in red bean paste, then stamp the mochi with Domyoji powder colored with food coloring. Put the Hina mochi you made in a steamer and once it's complete, enjoy it during your lunch break. You can bring your own lunch or order a bento. In the afternoon, you will take a walking tour of the town under Kameda Castle. The course is from Amasagi Village to Kameda Castle Ruins to Amasagi Shrine to Myokeiji Temple to Mogami Town to Ryumonji Temple to Amasagi Village. Walk with a guide through the streets built in the Edo period and enjoy the history and seasonal scenery!

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• Age 0～Age 100
• Over 6 hours on the day
• 10:30

A special tour where you can enjoy the biennial "Reborn-Art Festival" even outside the festival period! Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture is an area that was strongly affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake. In this region, in the wake of the earthquake, the Reborn-Art Festival, a comprehensive festival of contemporary art, food, and music, was born. This festival brings together creators from all over the world to create art, pop-up restaurants, live music, and more. Artists convey Ishinomaki's rich nature and traditions, and the wisdom of its people, including the beautiful nature and scenery of Sanriku Fukko National Park, the rich food culture that grows off the coast of Mt. Kinka, one of the world's three largest fishing grounds, and the remains of the Great East Japan Earthquake. Through the cooperation of , we have created high-level experiential content from creative angles and new perspectives. ～Experience schedule～ [10:30] Gather and travel by jumbo taxi [11:50] Fishing experience (Momonoura Port) [12:50] Cooking experience (Momonoura Village) [14:00] Special lunch (Momonoura Village) [15:00] Rest/walk around the area [16:00] Travel by jumbo taxi [17:30] Disband

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• Age 6～Age 100
• Within 1 hour /1～2 hours
• 10:00 / 14:00

Using a miso-making kit (vacuum-packed boiled soybeans, salt, koji, and process instructions), everyone from children to adults can easily complete miso preparation in an hour at a workshop in Fujisato-machi using the tools of the workshop. To do! Please take home the miso you prepared and let it mature until it is ready to eat. Miso prepared by yourself is exceptional!

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• In Door Activity
• For Groups

• Age 1～Age 100
• Within 1 hour /1～2 hours

Kiritanpo-nabe and damakko-nabe are traditional dishes unique to rice-producing Akita Prefecture. In this plan, you can enjoy kiritanpo hot pot and damakko hot pot from a restaurant in Fujisato town at the foot of the Shirakami Mountains. What's more, the place where you can enjoy it is in the great outdoors at the foot of the World Heritage Shirakami Mountains! Enjoy an extraordinary meal outside with your family, friends, or work colleagues. A warm hot pot that can be used as a lunch for a drive to the Shirakami Mountains, as a setting for dinner at a camp, or during a relaxing river fishing trip. Perfect! We will prepare a hot pot + kiritanpo ingredients set (or a damakko hot pot ingredients set), a tabletop stove, a serving plate, and an instruction manual. Please choose A) Kiritanpo hot pot or (B) Damakko hot pot. Both are possible (for example, 1 pot for 2-3 servings of kiritanpo + 1 pot for 2-3 servings of damakko nabe) If you do not have a table or chair, you can rent them separately for a fee. is

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• Age 0～Age 99
• Over 6 hours on the day
• 14:00

Experience harvesting vegetables, etc. in the field, and using the harvested vegetables, etc. at the old folk house “Zushi no Azume Kame Kare”, experience cooking local cuisine with local residents and stay in the old folk house! ~On the day Flow of ~ ①15: 00-16: 00 Harvest experience in the field (60 minutes) ②16: 00-17: 00 Local residents and local cooking experience using harvested vegetables etc. (60 minutes) ③17: 30-19: 00 Dinner with everyone (90 minutes) ④19: 00-11: 00 Stay in an old private house * Please enjoy the old private house and full starry sky until 11am the next day after checkout.

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