Ureshino Tea-Infused Home Cooking Class

Ureshino Tea Tourism, the same local operator behind the area's tea-ceremony experiences, runs the Ureshino tea-infused home cooking class from a kitchen location in Ureshino, with the exact pickup point provided after booking through en.ureshino88.jp. The 2.5-hour class is a single-location cooking session rather than a walking tour, focused on incorporating Ureshino's locally grown green tea into home-style Japanese dishes. Participants prepare three savoury dishes, tea-broth pork shabu-shabu, tea-leaf tempura, and green tea rice, meaning the menu is entirely savoury with no separate dessert course, and each participant leaves with an English-language recipe card to recreate the dishes at home. The ¥6,500 price includes all ingredients, kitchen use, instruction, and the recipe card, as well as the finished meal eaten at the end of class; transport to the kitchen location and any additional tea purchases are not included. Classes run in small groups, kept informal enough for hands-on participation at each cooking station, with instruction available in English alongside Japanese. Because the class centers on pork shabu-shabu, dietary substitutions such as a non-pork protein can typically be arranged if requested when booking, though the tea-based flavoring running through all three dishes is central to the format and not substitutable. The pace allows time for both hands-on preparation and eating the finished dishes together at the end of the session. The class doubles as an introduction to Ureshino's tea industry, since the instructor typically explains the grades and preparation of the green tea used in each dish.