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EXPERIENCE
JAPANESE FOOD CULTURE

Shichimi Seasoning Making Experience

Shichimi is a blend of spices and other seasoning ingredients, and is widely used in Japanese
home cooking. Most of the ingredients provided in this activity—chilli peppers, iwa-nori
and wakame seaweeds, Japanese pepper, ginger, fukugi spicebush and dried yuzu citrus—are
grown and harvested on Chiburijima Island. Visitors can make their own special blend,
bring it home with them and add a special Japanese twist to their home cooking!

Season: Year-round
Duration: 1 hr
Price: JPY 3,500 per person (2–5 persons)
Organiser: chibu.shichimi

Fishing and Dried Fish Making Experience Set

Try your hand at shing from a boat and making your own dried sh. Drying sh is an easy
and popular way of preserving sh in Japan. Both activities are beginner friendly. e sta
will instruct the visitors on shing and the sh-drying process, including cleaning and
seasoning the sh.
* e sta use a translation device to communicate with the participants.

Season: Apr–Nov
Duration: 3 hr (drying time not included)
Price: JPY 40,000 per boat (2 persons),
JPY 10,000 per each additional person (max. 6 persons)
Organiser: Oki Tabi Kōsha
ACTIVITIES