Japan Food Trips

Japan Food Trips

Are you visiting Tokyo soon? Make sure to to check out Japan Food Trips for a fun and educational food tour!

If you are dreaming of visiting Japan, or plan on traveling there soon, it's safe to assume that you are most likely dying to try all the amazing food Japan has to offer. From sushi and ramen, to wagyu beef, Japanese cuisine has many unique and delicious dishes. Japan has a plethora of restaurants serving dishes from every corner of the world. In fact, Tokyo alone has over 160,000 restaurants, so you can see that Japan can be a bit overwhelming to navigate, especially if you don't know the language. But luckily for you there is an easy solution. Book an experienced personal guide to take you around and show you the best of the best for an ultimate eating experience. By doing so you will take all the stress and thinking out of the way and you will be able to focus more on enjoying your amazing trip.

If you are interested in such a culinary adventure and want to find an experienced and reliable guide, we recommend you take a look at Japan Food Trips. Japan Food Trips is lead by Stephanie Haddad, a food passionate expat that has been living in Tokyo for many years. You can rely on her to plan a perfect food tour and show you all the best places to eat, both hidden gems and famous ones. She provides guided afternoon and evening food tours for small intimate groups throughout the local streets of Japan. 

These trips will provide you with a unique opportunity to learn about Japanese food and the culture surrounding it.

On the Japan Food Trips website you will find a variety of tours that you can book. You can even have Stephanie custom curate your own private tour, by telling Stephanie your food preferences where she will then do the rest of the work to make your tour a spectacular experience. Anther great option is extending your food adventure by adding on an Exclusive “Members Only” Sake Trip once you've concluded your delicious food trip. This unforgettable experience will take you to an almost otherworldly sake experience that feels like you are in the middle of an art exhibition. On this leg of the tour, you will experience three different craft sakes from small batch producers all over Japan.

If you are interested in booking a tour with Japan Food Trips here is a bit more information for you. The trips are usually limited to small groups of one to six, but all custom trips are private and Stephanie can organize private trips for larger groups as well. Kids are welcome on the tours, but won't be able to drink alcohol so the afternoon trip is more suitable for children as there is more to do and see. Also, if you have any special requests, please let Stephanie know in advance, so she can make proper arrangements. She is able to accommodate a gluten-free tour or a trip without pork, or a vegetarian trip. We guarantee you will have an incredible time!

Samurai Lesson Osaka

Samurai Lesson Osaka

Would you like to experience what was it like to be a samurai in medieval Japan? You can now get a taste of what that is like thanks to Last Samurai Osaka. They offer an authentic batto course using real swords and comprehensive instruction in the art of swordsmanship. Not only can you take part in a real target blade-testing (goza-kiri) experience with an authentic Japanese sword, but you can also develop your spiritually by cultivating the samurai’s creed of “oneness of spirit and technique” through traditional etiquette. You can also learn about the ethical code of the warrior, also known as bushido and learn about Zen practice.

Samurai (likewise bushi) were a class of warriors which emerged in the tenth century CE in medieval Japan and which endured until the seventeenth century CE. They have been romanticized since the eighteenth century CE as the exemplification of gallantry and honour. The samurai first became prominent in the Warring States time period (467-1573). Around then, there were numerous independent territories in Japan. Those territories battled each other constantly, so the need for samurai in that war torn Japan was high. A significant number of the acclaimed samurai films by Akira Kurosawa were about this perilous time. On the off chance that a samurai was defeated or he shamed himself by not following the code of bushido, he needed to commit seppuku, a ritual suicide. Portion of the seppuku custom is cutting the stomach or abdomen. That part of the custom is called hara-kiri. To a samurai, dying was better than having no honour or being captured by the enemy.



Katana is commonly characterized as the standard sized, moderately curved Japanese sword with an edge length of more than 60 cm. It is characterized by its particular appearance: a bended, slim, single-edged sharp edge with a round or squared guard and long grip to accommodate two hands. Historians from all around the world have said that katana were among the finest cutting weapons in world military history.



Samurai would in general live on the place where there is which they were overlords, keeping up their very own martial family conventions –, for example castle building, gunnery, cavalry and even a mixture of astronomy and astrology – while anticipating orders for war. The samurais' lords paid them with rice. Some samurai did not have rulers. These samurai were classified "Ronin". The "Ronin" caused a few issues for Japan in the early Edo time period. At the point when Japan modernized most samurai progressed toward becoming bureaucrats, teachers or artists.



If you decide to book a samurai class during your visit to Osaka, we strongly recommend you do it at Last Samurai Osaka. There you will get the whole package. A lecture about the history of samurai and traditional etiquette. You will learn what Zen and bushido mean for the samurai and you will experience what it is like to wield a real Japanese sword. Last Samurai will provide a video of you wielding a sword to cut the tameshigiri post and photos as well. So take your friends or family on this unforgettable experience and have a lot of fun!

Last Samurai Osaka

Last Samurai Osaka

Are you a fan of Japanese culture and history? If you are you have surely heard of the samurai, and like many, are probably fascinated by them. I bet that you at least once dreamed about how it would be like to be a samurai, to carry a sword and life by a code of honor. Well now you have the chance to try just that. In Osaka there is a dojo where you can take a samurai lesson, learn the art of swordsmanship, learn about bushido and zen, and have a lot of fun doing it. That place is called Last Samurai Osaka and I really recommend you chech it out.

 

As you all know the samurai (or bushi) were Japanese warriors. They were individuals from the imperative military class before Japanese society changed in 1868. The word samurai originates from the Japanese verb samurai, which means to serve somebody and look up to them. Samurai were a fascinating group of people and still today they inspire movies, books, games and even the way of life for many people. That is a testament of their importance and of the mark they left on both Japanese and world history. The samurai turned out to be extremely ground-breaking and imperative close to the finish of the Edo time frame (1603-1867) and in the Shinto time frame. In the Edo time frame, they were the most vital social standing. One of the facts you might not have heard of is that a samurai's belief was that his swords held his soul. That made the sword the most essential thing he had and because of that there is now wonder that the Japanese sword smiths were so devoted to making the best possible sword.
 

Katana were one of the generally made Japanese swords that were utilized by the samurai of old and medieval Japan. The katana is described by its particular appearance: a bended, single-edged cutting edge with a round or squared watchman and long hold to oblige two hands. Japanese swords were conveyed in a few distinctive ways, fluctuating all through Japanese history. The style most regularly found in "samurai" films is called buke-zukuri, with the katana (and wakizashi, if additionally present) carried edge up, with the sheath thrust through the obi (sash). Katana were utilized by samurai both in the front line and for rehearsing hand to hand fighting.

Samurai wore all kinds of armor and clothes and one of them is a Hakama. Hakama is customarily worn underneath the reinforcement and framed piece of an outfit called a kamishimo. Worn by samurai and squires amid the Edo time frame, the outfit incorporated a formal kimono, hakama, and a sleeveless coat with exaggerated shoulders called a kataginu. 

The bushido or shido, which means the 'way of the warrior,' is the acclaimed warrior code of the samurai but it was only compiled in the late seventeenth century CE, by which time the samurai were no longer militarily focused, but instead worked more as good aides and consultants. Bushido expanded and formalized the earlier known code of the samurai, and pointed out that sincerity, loyalty, frugality, mastery of martial arts, and honour were the important parts of the samurai life. It is famously known that under the bushido ideal, if a samurai failed his lord or failed to uphold his honor he could only regain it by performing seppuku (ritual suicide).

 

Now that you learned the basics about the Samurai you are ready to book the Last Samurai Osaka samurai lesson. These lessons are open for all ages and levels of experience, everyone is welcome.
This is a phenomenal opportunity for you to get a firsthand view of the samurai world, to get an insight into the Bushido code, to use a genuine Japanese sword, and to create some unforgettable memories. Last Samurai will provide a video of you wielding a sword to cut the tameshigiri post and photos as well. For more information check out the Last Samurai Osaka website. You will not regret it.