Gifu

“Any Time New Year” program

[caption id="attachment_3767" align="alignleft" width="300"]osechi Let's have an interesting Japanese culture! “Osechi” is one of “Washoku” traditional Japanese cuisine. “Washoku” was added to UNESCO’s Intangilbe Cultural Heritage list in 2013. “Osechi” is the special traditional cuisine for the New Year’s Day. We also call it “osechi-ryori”. Its dishes are packed beautifully in layers of lacquer boxes called “jubako”. The kinds of osechi-ryori dishes prepared at Japanese homes vary from region to region. Each dish that makes up osechi-ryori has a special meaning such as good luck, happiness , health, wealthy, long life, good harvest, prosperity, and so on. For example, prawns represent long life, kuromame(cooked sweet black beans) mean health, tazukuri(sweet fried sardines) to a good harvest and kurikinton(sweet chestnuts and mashed sweet potato) to happiness. Traditionally people finish preparing osechi dishes by New Year’s Eve so that they have food for a couple of days.[/caption]  
[caption id="attachment_3771" align="alignnone" width="300"]TV clues came to my house! Washokuju-Sakura was introduced by Tokai TV program"News One". Famous TV anchor came to experience "Any Time New Year Program". Thankfully he and I enjoyed a lot[/caption]
Start - 15 min
Introduction of today’s recipes and preparation
1 hour 15 min
Demonstration and cooking lesson
45 min (Total 2 hours)
Tasting Party.

There's nothing special to prepare. Please come with casual clothes.

  • Who love Japanese Cuisine
  • Who are interested in Japanese Home Cooking
  • Who want to make more Japanese friends
  1. Please read participation condition carefully and make sure the class schedule!
  2. Please click on the schedule you want to join and make the reservation.
  3. Please enter necessary items and complete the application.
  4. Continue, please complete payment on the payment page.
  5. Confirmation of the contents of the application, email for participation will be sent.
  6. Please gather at the classroom place on the day before the start time. Cooking class begins.
Cancellation policy

You can cancel the class at any time by following and with NOT violating our cancellation policy.

Day you cancel
(prior to departure)
CHARGE
More than 11 days:
No charge
10-8 days prior:
20% of full payment
7-2 days prior:
30% of full payment
1 day prior:
50% of full payment
On the activity day or No Show:
100% of full payment

Yayoi Sakurai

Teachers profile
Experience innermost Japan through our original “Any Time New Year” program ~Cooking Osechi (Washoku) & Homestay!~ What’s “Any Time New Year” program?  As Japanese every day lives are westernizing, New years’ celebration is one of the most traditional Japanese ways that still remain.  Join our “Any Time New Year” program which you can experience the Japanese traditional New Year celebration with cooking and lecture throughout the year! I was born and raised in Seki, Gifu Prefecture. I love English and would like to know the world outside of Japan. When I was a student in my 20s, I studied abroad in Los Angeles, USA and Toronto, Canada. I really appreciated the people who took care of me at the homestay. I was able to touch on the warmth of the people I met on the site and live a fulfilling overseas life. I returned to Japan with a feeling to welcome foreign people here. Currently in local Seki city, ECC English conversation classroom opened. I am also accepting homestay. From June 2017, I obtained a certificate from the Cooking Association for Foreigners. I'd love to bring more tourists to Seki city and to show the region that I am from.
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