Things to do in Kanazawa, Chubu: The Best Classes & Workshops

Our Salon offers an enjoyable cooking class in English for the visitors from abroad in Kanazawa machiya (historical town house). As we focus on kouji and its products, you can learn about the secrets of healthy Japanese cooking as well as having a fun lunch with locally produced alcohol/soft drinks.

【Unique Japanese experiences in KANAZAWA, JAPAN】From Market Tour + Culinary experiences, to Geisha/Geiko Performances + Traditional dinners! Kanazawa is a city famous for their unbelievable seafood, samurai culture, historical neighborhoods, geiko (geisha) performers, gold leafing, and more. Make your time in Kanazawa memorable by experiencing your way through history in Japan!

Samurai Yakata is a culture house in Kanazawa’s historic area where we aim at promoting traditional Japanese arts in a lighthearted, fun manner. Here you can experience traditional music and dances, and even wear traditional costumes, like Samurai, Ninja and Oiran (female entertainers) costumes. We perform a show everyday many times during the day, in which we have taiko, shamisen, traditional dances and stage combat performances. For the costume experience, you can either purchase a selfie plan or a photo shoot plan, in which our professional photographer will make you look even more fantastic. Other than this, you can experience the culture closely by trying to play the shamisen, fight with the sword using the kenjutsu technique and so on. Also, if you are organizing and event in Kanazawa, you can book our artists to prepare an opening performance for your event.

Jointly operated by Japanese and international students, “Reach KANAZAWA” is an international guide service to bring the brilliance of Kanazawa City to you. You can have a pair of Reach KANAZAWA members guide you around the city and translate for you! Since all of our guided tours and activities are designed by locals, an original and authentic Japanese experience is guaranteed. Let Reach KANAZAWA assist you in making your Kanazawa trip extraordinary!

Teaceremony experience chado the way of tea pawderd green tea matcha tea gathering traditional procedure for making tea

Would you like to experience making Japanese food? Kyara ben (Cartoon )character Bento Lunch box or Takoyaki making experience at Kanazawa house. Do you love eating Japanese food and would like to learn how to make your own? In this class you will experience our culture first hand by making a famous Japanese cartoon lunch box!!! Our classes are small groups of up to 4 people, so you can relax and enjoy cooking like your at a friend's or relative's house. Let's turn Bento boxes or takoyaki into fun Japanese cartoon characters We also support vegetarian, please let us know at the time of reservation When it is all set, let's take a picture then eat and enjoy!!! Make them for your friends or family when you return home.

Focusing on great mixture of traditional and modern art! Recently specializing in making accessories to let more people have a chance to touch and experience this beautiful Japanese tradition I'm Chieko. I have been teaching only Japanese people but I am so passionate about sharing this culture with people from all over the world !! I'm not fluent in English but I will do my best for your best experience !!

Please refer to HP. We are sorry that we are not good at speaking English, but we have simple instructions in English. We don't have staffs who can speak English well. If you are fine with it, then, we don’t mind it. we’ll give it our all !! It costs ￥1,000(tax inc) per person and takes about 1 hour to join our workshop. As soon as possible, Please make your reservations. I'm looking forward to seeing you on the day.

Watch artists painting designs on silk at this fascinating silk dyeing studio, converted from a Taisho-era home.