Making wagashi with a confectioner

マイコヤ浅草

¥¥ · 90 min · English: yes

MAIKOYA runs its own dedicated tea house near Sensoji rather than booking guests into someone else's studio, combining wagashi-making with a tea ceremony and kimono wearing in one sitting. It bills itself as the only Tokyo facility offering kimono and tea ceremony together, which gives the wagashi portion a genuine cultural throughline rather than being an isolated cooking demo.

シンプリー・オイシイ 和菓子スクール

¥¥¥ · 120 min · English: yes

Run by an instructor who lived for years in the US and UK, the school teaches nerikiri and mochi with real cultural framing — seasonal motifs, why a sweet looks the way it does — rather than a copy-the-shape demo, and it is built around English speakers rather than translated on the fly.

谷根千観光文化情報センター

¥¥ · 75 min · English: yes

Run through Yanaka's own tourist information and culture center rather than a general events agency, this workshop is taught by an English-speaking local instructor in the low-rise, old-Tokyo streets the neighborhood is known for. It leans into Yanaka's identity as a shitamachi craft district, pairing sweet-making with a tea tasting rather than treating it as a stand-alone cooking class.