Day 1 – Appetiser
- You are welcomed at Ôsaka airport by your English-speaking tour guide (or in Ôsaka if you are already there)
- Stroll through the city’s largest shopping arcade
- Lunch: the best curry in Ôsaka
- Evening meal near the traditional guest house/hotel where you will stay throughout the tour
- Overnight stay at the traditional guest house/hotel
Raisin géant devant pachinko
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Day 2 – Immerse your taste buds
2012.12.29_Lumia_54 – Kuromon-Ichiba
2012.12.29_Lumia_53 – Kuromon-Ichiba
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Day 3 – Tour of flavours
- Foray into an old traditional district of south Ôsaka
- Lunch at a kissaten (Japanese tearoom/coffee shop)
- Visit to a wagashi-ya (maker of Japanese confectionery) including sampling
- Evening meal at a traditional restaurant famous for its sushi/sashimi
Wagashi prune, lapin et éponge
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Day 4 – Fill up with calamari, Buddha & Astro Boy
- Early start – visit to a fish market
- Then, journey to Takarazuka, city in the northern part of Ôsaka
- There you can choose between visiting religious sites or the museum of the famous manga artist Osamu Tezuka
- Lunch: popular specialities consisting of Ôsaka okonomiyaki (a kind of pizza with cabbage and meat/calamari) or takoyaki (ball-shaped snack filled with diced octopus)
- Visit to a district renowned for its small restaurants and craftsmen
- Evening meal in the centre of Ôsaka, in a Nabe restaurant (meat/fish stew)
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Takoyaki
Day 5 – Fiery food and sharp knives
- Visit to the Korean district near Tsuruhashi
- Spicy lunch at a local restaurant
- Journey to Sakai, a port south of Ôsaka, with a longstanding tradition of manufacturing firearms and quality knives. Visit to a knife workshop
- Evening meal at a yakitori restaurant
2012.12.29_Lumia_59 – Tsuruhashi – Korea-Town
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Day 6 – A touch of Scotland in the heart of the mountains, delicacies of the sea and tapas
- Visit to the Yamazaki whisky distillery between Ôsaka and Kyoto
- Short trek in the mountains around
- Lunch at a seafood restaurant
- Evening meal: Kushikatsu (delicious Japanese dish of skewered meat, seafood or vegetables) at an izakaya
At the Yamazaki destillery
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Day 7 – Culinary trip to China, postprandial walk and rice wine
- Journey to Kôbe
- Tour of the city and European district
- Lunch in the Chinese district
- Trek into the Rokko mountain range
- Stroll through an ancient merchant district and visit to a sake brewery
- Return to Ôsaka
- Evening meal near the guest house/hotel
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Semi gyoza
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Days 8 & 9 – Journey to the south and culinary farewell
- Journey to Kishiwada, former fortress city south from Ôsaka
- Visit to the castle, historical jewel of the city
- Evening meal at a traditional sushi restaurant in the middle of a zen garden
- Overnight stay at an hotel in center of Kishiwada
- Journey to the KIX airport
- Return flight (not included in the tour)
Kishiwadas Castle
Wagashi -Japanese Sweets
