Our private bento cooking class was one of the highlights of our trip to Japan! Our instructor, Fujiko-san, was an excellent teacher: she was kind, cool, lovely to chat with, and struck a perfect balance between demonstrating techniques and having us do the hands-on cooking. We loved learning more about Japanese cooking tools, ingredients, and flavor profiles, and were amazed that we were able to recreate such delicious dishes ourselves (with Fujiko-san's coaching!). We also had one vegetarian in the group and appreciated that the class allowed everyone to cook to their dietary needs/preferences, with tasty options for both omnivores and non-omnivores. Thank you so much to Fujiko-san and Cooking Sun - we will be recreating these dishes at home often! :)

Welcoming and efficient instructors, with many useful tips. Clean, well-organized facilities and nicely prepared recipe printouts. Overall, an enjoyable experience.

I’m a Japanese-American from California and love to cook. I’ve wanted to make better tempura for a long time and this class gave me good tips and assistance. Additionally, I’ve never made a sushi roll and again, the teachers for our class were helpful and I was successful in meeting my goals. It was a fun and organized class, clean facility, and friendly group. I’d highly recommend this class. Even though I’ve helped family members and watched and cooked most of the recipes in the class for many years, I learned better ways of making three of the items in our cooking class. Thank you to the staff.

Efficient, informative, hands on bento box cooking. We covered sushi, miso soup and at least 3 other dishes. The women were helpful and fun. Highly recommend.

Mae and Tashi were wonderful hosts and teachers and the class was a lot of fun. Bento was tasty and we leaned a lot! Definitely recommend this!

Had an amazing private bento box cookery class as a family with my 14 and 11 year old sons. May, our teacher, was fantastic, very knowledgeable, patient and friendly. We all had a fantastic morning and surprised at how nice our lunch, that we made, turned out! One of the highlights of a fantastic trip and has motivated my boys to cook more.

3hrs well spent! It was calm and relaxing yet we made 4 dishes from scratch. it was really fun. My 11 and 13 year old boys really enjoyed it. They have 2 people in a family sharing equipment sometimes which is good or bad depends on the stage of the kids are in. Overall it's fantastic. And for the price you get a lot out of it.

We booked into a bento box cooking class with Cooking Sun in Kyoto. My culinary skills are fairly basic, so I wasn't expecting miracles. It was really well set up and organised. The instructors, great communicators who spoke fluent English, walk you through step by step on how to make each of the individual dishes that make up your bento box. The experience was so much fun and at the end you get to eat what you've made - which in my case was actually delicious. They catered for all dietary requirements and adapted the dishes accordingly. Would highly recommend if you enjoy cooking and want to learn some Japanese recipes and techniques!

Private visit of the Nishiki market followed by a donburi cooking class. The experience was fantastic ! Our guide, was extremely friendly, knowledgeable and attentive teacher. Her English was excellent. Do not miss this if you visit Kyoto and you have interest in Japanese cuisine.

We loved our morning cooking class and was surprised how good our Bento Boxes turned out! It was due to the great demonstrations and help by the staff. I enjoy doing cooking classes when visiting other countries and this one was no exception. A wonderful way to spend a morning and with a delicious lunch at the end.

This was a fun cooking class and a great introduction into some traditional Japanese cooking methods and the iconic bento box. The instructors were great and made sure everyone was having fun and following the steps in the cooking and were very helpful if anyone needed any help. Highly recommend for anyone looking to learn about Japanese cooking while in Kyoto!

I did this class with my 22 year old son and it was fantastic. They staff makes the cooking so fun and interesting, the time few by. A great thing to take home…knowledge of how to make some of the foods we loved in Japan! I can’t recommend this experience enough!

This class is very organized and you get to cook and eat a wide variety of Japanese foods. There were three people teaching our group of 10 and all spoke very good English and were friendly. We requested ahead of time to have vegan dishes and they were very responsive to our needs during the class. They even asked if dashi (fish based broth) was okay. Overall a wonderful experience.

A fantastic experience for me (an experienced cook) and my husband (a non-cook). We were very lucky to have a class to ourselves and learnt some lovely tricks from the chef, who was calm, gentle and absolutely delightful. Highly recommended.

Both instructors were excellent and even shared their grandmothers techniques (like washing vegetables in soy sauce). They were also very easy to understand - cooking was lots of fun. We made several dishes that we will make again at home.