Today was somewhat of a slower day considering the first 3 were filled with walking miles throughout the entire day. Not that I'm complaining, my feet needed a rest. In the morning I packed together things I had picked up while in Akihabara and sent them home. Didn't need the extra couple of pounds and loss of space!
In the afternoon I went to Meguro on the way to my cooking class. It's somewhere I'm going to have to come back to on the last days I'll be in Japan when the blossoms are in bloom along the river (
). It will be quite pretty to see!
As you may have gathered by now I was on my way to a cooking class. I had been introduced to a blog written by a culinary expert in Japan, Ururu Kaigo. You can view this blog here:
http://team-foodies.blogspot.jp/
and her website here:
http://www.ururu-ururu.com/english.html
. In reading her blog I found that she offers a cooking class for tourists. So yes, that was something I had to do! After contacting Ururu Kaigo I made arrangements to have my class. It was held in a cool studio where she's done things for magazines and other publications!
During my time with her we cooked and prepared a variety of things including Sushi, Temarizushi, Kushiage, and Tempura. It was a really fun experience and I'm glad I was able to go. It'll be a wonderful thing to take home. Lucky for me it was all things I should be able to do on my own as well! Though there is no way I'll be able to get ingredients that are quite so good. The seafood in particular. Anyways, it was an incredible experience and the pictures don't do it justice. I'm excited to try some of these at home on my own!
Thanks so much to Ururu Kaigo and her manager for treating me to a good time and giving me such a unique experience. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested!
Tomorrow I'm off out of Tokyo to continue the journey. Now comes the hard part of deciding what to see and what I'll have to miss. It's going to be a busy two weeks before Okinawa.