Japan Gourmet 2014 Christmas tour

La Via del Sake - Associazione Culturale - Via Vespri Siciliani, 9 - 20146 Milano - http://www.laviadelsake.it [email protected]

“Japan Gourmet”: your 10 days immersion in Japanese food culture.

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Our travel philosophy: savour your time. And Japan’s best delicacies.

During our tour you will be free everyday to take your time and set

your agenda to visit Japan and alle the places you are interested in.

You will be free because all logistics, trains, hotels checkin/

checkout are taken care of.

We will just engage you once per day, for 2 hours to give you a

special opportunity to experience japanese culture through its most

powerful expression: food.

We’ll meet producers and masters, try unimagined foods, learn

traditions and recipes. Japan will open its doors to you, you will

choose your steps.

A short tea ceremony is served

after Zen meditation in Kyoto.




Our encounters: discover a great food culture through its masters.

Nobuaki Fushiki, the Master of Miso in

his lab, preparing one of his private, hard

to book miso classes and dinners.

Kobe and Matsusaka beef and their

history, secrets, flavours presented by

Osaka most passionate chef





Gen is a world class master in Sake

cocktails, creating unique masterpieces

with japanese seasonal fruits and

vegetables.

Japanese grill (Yaki) secrets live in front of ur

eyes. Hige san spreads precious salt to enhance

the flavour of premium yakitori.





Kamata san is one of Tokyo most renowned

knife artisans “signing” a piece for us.

Yukiko is the perfect Tea Ceremony

evangelist, leading us in a world of

traditions, elegance and rules.




A hands-on travel.

…and meeting the masters. Katsuo san is

one of the nation top ceramic artist, his

handcrafts cost more than a luxury car a

piece.

We will learn to eat, drink, and cheer like

a japanese. Through individual practice…




A hands-on travel.

Ono san is the unsurpassed Tempura king.

Extracting favour through heat is the art he

developed creating daily masterpieces.

Fresh soba has the same roots, tradition

and earthiness of pasta. We’ll learn.




The flavour of unusual.

Basashi: raw meat is precious

and tasty in Japan.

Natto: ferment soy beans that

drive crazy the japanese and

disgusted the gaijin.

Ika no Shiokara: squind

fermented in its own interiors. A

delicacy for the acquired taste

palate.




The flavour of unusual.

Eel bone chips .

Need to say more?

Shirako . You do

look that on the

dictionary. But hold

your prejudice: IT

IS GOOD!

F r e s h w a s a b i .

Doesn’t come in

tube but in tuber.

M a t c h a b e e r .

Greenlicious.




Entering the “sancta sanctorum” or food heaven.

The mystery of Kuro Tamago:

the black eggs brewed in

Mount Fuji.

Inside Tsukiji: the world’s largest fish

market, getting up, close and seasonal.

A Kura: we will see sake and

Umeshu in the making.




Entering the “sancta sanctorum” or food heaven.

Ukai fishing: only 18 men in Japan

master the technique of fishing with fire

and cormorants the delicious Aju.

Shoji ryori:we’ll get inside the most secret core of a Zen

temple: it’s cuisine. We’ll learn and try the rules of Zen monks

for their cooks. And savour the most delicate, elegant, refined

cuisine you can imagine.




Nature: in Japan it comes at you.

Arashiyama monkeys crave for

food: don’t we also?

Nara deers give us a good lesson

when it comes to food manners.




Our tour leaders: we can find the secret spots. Needless to say any other thing you need.

Looking for a bathroom: we know it’s hiding behind that wall of sake. Japan has

its own world of rules and signs. We’ll decode them together and open your way.




What’s included?

10 nights in central,

elegant, fully serviced

hotels. And (japanese or

continental) breakfasts.




What’s included?

1 week Shinkansen (high

speed “bullet” train) pass

to travel free all over

Japan. And 1 day Tokyo

metro card.




What’s included?

11 u n i q u e g o u r m e t

experiences.




I want to come!

From 27/12/2014 to 5/1/2015

5 nights in Tokyo (Nikko, Kamakura, Hakone)

4 nights in Kyoto (Nara, Osaka, Hiroshima)

1 final night in Tokyo

Individual quota: €1.625 (excluded flight)

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Salute - 乾杯 - Kanpai.

La Via del Sake - 酒道イタリアイタリア⽇日本酒協会

Non profit cultural association for the

promotion and exchange of enogastronomic

culture between Japan and Italy.


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