Make your trip to Osaka more exciting by making Japanese food

Jul 20, 2020

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Make your trip to Osaka more exciting by making Japanese food

Sushi, tempura (deep-fried fish and vegetables in a light batter), kushikatsu (deep-fried skewers), okonomiyaki (Japanese pancake), and more. There are many delicious Japanese dishes, but simply eating is not satisfying enough. Next time, why don’t you try to make Japanese food? Check out the following restaurants in Namba, Osaka with convenient access. These fun activities will make your Japan trip even more memorable.

Index

1.Tachibana Sushi Experience

2.Fishing Restaurant Zauo

3.Kagura Shokudo Kushiya Monogatari

4.Sennichimae Hatsuse

Tachibana Sushi Experience

Feel like a sushi chef at a well-established sushi restaurant

Many people like sushi, but very few people have made sushi themselves. Instead of just eating, how about trying to work as a sushi chef?

Located in a quiet narrow alleyway, Tachibana lets you try your hand at making sushi. Although the restaurant is now exclusively for workshops, it was loved as a genuine sushi restaurant for about 60 years, so the ambience of a well-established sushi restaurant still remains.

At the start of the workshop, first wash your hands, and then put on a sushi chef uniform. Get an explanation of the ingredients of the day, make sushi rice, and then prepare the ingredients. Because the taste of fish changes by the way it is cut, carefully use the kitchen knife under the instruction of a master. The secret to making delicious sushi rice is molding it rhythmically without grasping too hard.

Sushi ingredients include Japanese tiger prawn, tuna, salmon, eel, and salmon roe. Kuromon Ichiba, also known as Osaka’s kitchen, is located nearby, so fresh seafood is always in stock, which certainly helps with the taste. Once the sushi is ready, arrange it in a ship-shaped bowl, and then it’s time to eat. Enjoy the sushi you made yourself to your heart’s content.

The standard course is ¥5,000 per person (six years and older), and the sushi-making workshop and meal time require one and a half hours. You can eat 10 pieces of hand‐rolled sushi (quantity changes according to the way the fish is cut), and a shopping experience at the market is also available as an option. Tachibana, with its range of high quality ingredients and pleasant atmosphere, is a spot that is naturally popular with couples and families from around the world, and even Italian and French food chefs have visited to try sushi making.”

Details

Address

1-16-16, Nippombashi, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 542-0073

TEL

090-3976-1671

Business hours

10 AM to 7:30 PM

Closed

Monday

Website (Japanese and English)

https://www.tachibana0501.com/

Reservations can be made from the website.

*Prices as of late January 2020. Consumption tax included.

Fishing Restaurant Zauo

Eat sashimi and sushi made from fish that you caught

Would you be surprised if you heard that you could fish in a city building? Fishing Restaurant Zauo makes it possible. There are many casual Japanese-style bars, known as “izakaya”, where you can enjoy alcohol and a meal, but there are very few izakaya where you can eat fish that you caught. This rare amusement Japanese-style bar is very popular with overseas tourists.

The izakaya has straw-mat rooms shaped like ships, table seats, and large and small private rooms, and you can enjoy fishing from any seat. Full course meals that come with tempura, sushi, or other dishes and fishing tickets are a convenient choice.

Get your fishing rod and bait, and then try your hand at sea bream fishing. If you managed to catch a sea bream, we will hang it on a hook for you so that you don’t have to hold it with your bare hand if you don’t want to, so don’t forget to take a commemorative photo with the fish in your hand.

Don’t worry if you don’t catch anything. We will exchange tickets for fish. Tickets can be purchased additionally. The fish pond also contains spiny lobster, flounder, horse mackerel, and shellfish, so you can have us cook your favorite fish or shellfish in addition to sea bream.

You can choose your favorite fish preparation style from sashimi, grilled fish, fish boiled in soy sauce, deep-fried fish, and sushi (processing fee required). Even choose a different preparation style for each half, and then taste and compare. A fish that you caught yourself probably tastes better.”