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Sushi-making experience
Sushi-making experience popular with foreign tourists. Sushi training is said to take three years to cook rice, five years to make sushi and a lifetime to make nigiri. Naturally, the sushi you can make in less than an hour is far from authentic. Before I became a guide, I was negative about this kind of sushi-making experience, thinking it would misrepresent Japanese culture. However, the guests are fully aware that sushi is not something that can be easily made by amateurs, and they enjoy it as an attraction in itself. The staff also try their best to entertain the customers. I…
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Setsubun iwashi
Food culture changes as places change. In western Japan, including Kyoto, sardines are eaten on Setsubun. Setsubun means the division of the seasons. Setsubun in winter, in particular, is a time when people throw roasted soybeans while shouting ''Devils out! Fortune in!'’ (Oni wa soto, Fuku wa uchi), and eat as many beans as their age to ward off evil spirits.In Gifu, where I am from, there is no custom of eating sardines as far as I know.In western Japan, on the other hand, the heads of sardines are displayed at the entrance or grilled with salt. It seems that…
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