The hands-on guide to Japanese food experiences — written by the people who actually run them.
Washoku Guide is a hands-on guide to Japanese food experiences for visitors to Japan. We focus specifically on activities where you make something yourself — sushi, matcha, chopsticks, ramen, sake tasting, and more — rather than covering restaurants or general dining in Japan.
Our articles compare and recommend real, bookable experiences in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto, so you can choose the right class before you travel.
Washoku Guide is operated by Food Activity Japan, a company based in Tokyo and Osaka that runs hands-on Japanese food experiences for international visitors. We are not an outside observer writing about classes we've never taught — we are the people running them, day in and day out.
Because we operate these experiences ourselves, we write from first-hand operating experience: what guests actually ask, what confuses first-timers, what a class really feels like from booking to bowing goodbye.
| Brand | Experience | Where |
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| Sushi Making Japan | Sushi making experience | Tokyo & Osaka |
| Matcha Making Japan | Matcha making experience | Tokyo & Osaka |
| Chopstick Making Japan | Chopstick making experience | Tokyo |
Every year, our instructors welcome visitors from all over the world into these classes. We don't publish that number here because it changes constantly — but it's the reason our sushi and matcha guides come from real operating experience rather than desk research.
Because we run our own experiences, we hold ourselves to specific rules so that our content stays useful and honest — not just a shop window for our own brands.
| Comparison articles | Every comparison article (e.g. "Best Sushi Making Classes in Tokyo") states its evaluation criteria up front — price, group size, English support, location, and so on — and applies the same criteria to every option, including our own experiences. |
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| Disclosure | When an article includes one of our own experiences (Sushi Making Japan, Matcha Making Japan, or Chopstick Making Japan), we say so plainly. We don't hide the fact that we operate it. |
| No fake urgency or numbers | We do not publish fabricated review counts, ratings, or "people viewing this now" style messaging. Any number we publish (reviews, pricing, availability) reflects real, current data. |
| Real operating experience | Articles are based on how these classes actually run — guest questions we hear, mistakes first-timers make, what to expect minute by minute — not generic travel-blog copy. |
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