Make your own hand-baked rice crackers and drink kelp tea

*In order to protect against potential spread of the coronavirus, the activity is not being held for the time being.

Experience for yourself the refined taste of this delicacy, served at a famous old shop in Edogawabashi.

Edogawabashi’s nostalgic Jizo Dori is a small shopping street that still retains the charm and ambience of an old-fashioned side street. It comprises a row of 60 or so shops including a butcher, fish shop, green grocer and Japanese confectionery shop. Among these, the long-standing Japanese confectionery store Teyaki Sembei Kisaku, or “Kisaku Hand-baked Rice Crackers”, has been in business for nearly 70 years. Here you can enjoy the rare experience of true hand-baked rice crackers, made through a careful process that shuns the modern emphasis on efficiency and automation.
You will also get to try kelp tea made by the century-old Gyokuroen, the largest domestic producer of this unique and delicious drink that was born of a passion to create “a new taste that cannot be experienced anywhere else.
We invite you to come and enjoy the unique surroundings and flavors on offer at this establishment steeped in tradition.

Date:
Weekdays Monday through Thursday until December 9th, 2021
Weekdays Monday through Thursday from January 17th to December 18th, 2022

Please note that this is only available for guests staying at the hotel. We thank you for your understanding.
For groups of 2 to 4 guests (5,000 yen per person). Please ask if you have any questions.
Please reserve at least 1 month in advance. We will confirm availability.

Price:
Please contact us for details.

Required time:
Approximately 2 hours

Please choose either of the following plans.

Plan 1: After check-in
3:00 p.m. Meet in the lobby. Travel by hotel car.

3:10 p.m. Arrive at Teyaki Sembei Kisaku
Make your own hand-baked rice crackers (about 10 per person)
(Instructions 10 minutes, baking time about 15 minutes each)
Taste the freshly baked rice crackers
We will drop by to collect the remaining rice crackers on our way back from Gyokuroen
Around 4:00 p.m. Arrive at Gyokuroen tearoom
Kombu tea (one drink included)
Chance to buy souvenirs
After making the rice crackers, the remaining crackers can be taken home.
Afterwards, please make your own way back to the hotel.

Plan 2: After check-out
10:00 a.m. Meet in the lobby. Travel by hotel car.

10:10 a.m. Arrive at Teyaki Sembei Kisaku
Make your own hand-baked rice crackers (about 10 per person)
(Instructions 10 minutes, baking time about 15 minutes each)
Taste the freshly baked rice-crackers
We will drop by to collect the remaining rice crackers on our way back from Gyokuroen
Around 11:00 a.m. Arrive at Gyokuroen tearoom
Kombu tea (one drink included)
Chance to buy souvenirs
After making the rice crackers, the remaining crackers can be taken home.
Afterwards, please make your own way back to the hotel.

*Hotel staff members do not accompany you. If you wish to arrange for a Japanese interpreter, please contact us (additional fee required).

Information:
For baking the rice crackers, traditional high-grade ubame oak charcoal is used, and the baking itself involves working with your hands over the grill. For safety reasons, only one guest at a time will be allowed into the grilling area together with a professional artisan. This means guests will take turns to experience the baking process.
*For safety, we will provide you with work gloves and an apron. However, please avoid clothing that exposes a lot of skin such as short-sleeved tops or shorts. Please be advised that the work area is usually very hot.
*We can offer this activity for children of 10 years or over, as long as they are accompanied by a guardian.
*Since the event involves cooking over an open flame, children under 10 years of age may not take part, even if accompanied by a guardian.
List of potential allergens: The ingredients include wheat and soy.
*Please feel free to buy any additional souvenirs or order whatever you wish. Additional orders/shopping will have to be paid for directly in the respective stores, however.

“Kisaku” Authentic Hand-baked Rice Crackers
Founded in 1948, Kisaku is a small shopping street store making and selling rice crackers the old-fashioned way. Since its founding, the shop has been producing its distinctive and much-loved flavor of rice crackers, rich in the fragrance of rice and soy sauce, and grilled by true craftsmen on high-grade oak charcoal. Their famous “deliberately cracked rice-crackers” are made using a special patented production process and have been featured on TV and in magazines.

Gyokuroen
Founded in 1918, Gyokuroen has been making kombu tea for almost 100 years.
Solely devoted to kombu tea, the quality of their tea has earned it great acclaim over the years. They make their brew from a special variety of kelp only grown in Hokkaido’s Rausu town. It is also used as a subtle accent in Japanese cuisine.

Reservations & Inquiries:
Phone: +81 3 3943-1111