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Kyoto and Osaka are set to be Japan’s new hot gourmet destinations with the first edition of the Michelin Guide Kyoto Osaka to be released on 16th October 2009. UK gourmet travellers can sample Kyoto’s culinary delights on new gourmet tours from JTB.
JTB has launched a gourmet tour to allow travellers to sample some of Japan’s best-known dishes – and enjoy some “hands-on” experience of preparing them too! On the 9-day Tokyo and Kyoto food tour you dine at a wide range of restaurants including sushi, tempura, okonomiyaki and steak, as well as having the chance to learn to make Japanese sweets and visit a local home to experience making teriyaki chicken or tempura and sushi. It’s possible to extend the tour to visit Nagoya and see night fishing with cormorants on the Kiso River.
JTB’s food tours are now available for daily departures. Prices start from £1,457 and includes return economy class flights from London to Japan on Japan Airlines, airport taxes and other surcharges, 7 nights accommodation, 7 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 4 dinners half-day guided tour of Tokyo and Kyoto, class making Japanese sweets and tea, shinkansen train ticket from Tokyo to Kyoto and airport transfers in Japan.
Travel agents booking clients on the trips are eligible for a 7% commission.
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