Watch a confectioner's hands, then make two seasonal nerikiri sweets.
- English OK
Open nowToday 10:00–18:00
Days open for requests
- 9Mon
- 10Tue
- 11Wed
- 12Thu
- 13Fri
- 14Sat
- 15Sun
Ask anything before you book.
Cancellation policy
Cancellation is free until 17:00 the day before. After that, we charge 50% as the ingredients will have been prepared.
Your visit gives back
When you pay, ask staff for the HAKOBUNE QR code and scan it. This place pays us a fee for your visit, and part of it goes to social causes. You pay nothing extra.
Didn’t get the QR?About the class
What you can do here
- Make two nerikiri with a confectioner
- Make kinton with a fine sieve
- Whisk matcha and taste the sweets you made
- Box up the sweets you made and take them home
From the teacher
It's fine if your shape comes out lopsided at first. White bean paste softens with the warmth of your hands. Let's take our time and start together by rolling it in your palm.
Why this place supports social causes
In Kamigyo, a good many of the neighbourhood's confectioners have closed in the last ten years. We have taken on wooden moulds and triangular tools from shops that closed, and use them in our classes. We believe that keeping these tools in use, and letting people see a confectioner's hands at work, is one step towards keeping the craft alive.
From the place
Because, as the neighbourhood's confectioners close one by one, we are a shop that wants to keep showing people the tools and the movements of the hands.
What the class cares about
White bean paste, cooked every morning
The white bean paste in our classes is the same as in the shop's sweets. A confectioner cooks it in the morning.
Tools passed down to us
We keep using, in our classes, the wooden moulds and sieves entrusted to us by confectioners who closed.
Made it? Then a bowl of tea, right here
Before you leave, you taste one of your sweets with matcha you have whisked.
HAKOBUNE Spot offers
For first-time visitors
Offer
First-timers make one more sweet
Within the same session, you can make one more nerikiri.
First-timers; once
From your second visit
Offer
From your second visit, one of the shop's jōnamagashi
As you leave, we wrap one of the day's jōnamagashi (fine seasonal sweets) for you.
Second and later visits
Rates calendar
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Prices are per person. They may change with the plan you choose.
Works
Wisteria nerikiri
Nerikiri · By Morita (second generation) · ¥4,400
Small purple flowers on a soft pale-green gradient. The shape first-timers make most often.
Azalea kinton
Kinton · By Hayakawa · ¥6,600
White bean paste pushed through a sieve, placed strand by strand with chopsticks, as if planting it.
Three seasonal sweets
Nerikiri · By Morita (second generation) · ¥11,000
On the one-to-one course, three flowers of your choice. We start by talking through how to match the colours.
Kinton made by parent and child
Kinton · By Hayakawa · ¥7,700
As the white bean paste comes through the sieve, the child places it with chopsticks.
Staff
Morita (second generation)
Confectioner and teacher
Cooks the bean paste every morning in the shop his father started. Especially good at scoring lines with the triangular tool.
Next opening: 11/10 (Tue) 12:30
Hayakawa
Confectioner
Twelve years at the shop. Looks after kinton and the sessions where children make sweets.
Next opening: 11/12 (Thu) 10:00
More details
What you’ll make
What you can make
2 nerikiri (seasonal shapes). The kinton course makes 3
Getting your piece
Take home the same day
Time until ready
Please eat them the same day (they are fresh sweets)
Shipping fee
As these are fresh sweets, we do not post them
Ongoing course
Yes
Duration & group size
Duration
90 min
Start times
10:00 / 13:30 / 16:00
Minimum participants
1 people
Max participants per session
8 people
Ages
Primary-school age and up. Primary-school children with a parent or guardian (the parent-and-child course from age 5)
Suitable for
Beginners
What’s included
What’s included
Ingredients (white bean paste, gyūhi rice dough, food colouring), tool hire, a box to take home, one bowl of matcha
Extra costs
Extra sweets (¥550 each), sweets from the shop as souvenirs
On the day
Itinerary
Check in and wash your hands Watch a confectioner make one Knead in the colour Make two nerikiri Whisk matcha and taste one Box them up and take them home
Meeting point
The counter on the shop's ground floor. We will take you up to the workroom on the first floor
Meeting time
10 min before
What to bring
A hand towel. A hair tie if you have long hair
What to wear
Clothes you can move in easily. We lend aprons and headscarves
Booking rules
Booking deadline
By 17:00 the day before
Requirements
The ingredients include white kidney beans, sugar and glutinous rice (in the gyūhi). We do not use wheat, egg or dairy. If you have allergies, please tell us when you book. Please come with short nails.
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Class details
- Name
- Kotoha Wagashi Lessons, Kamigyo
- Name in Japanese
- 上京 ことは和菓子手習い
- Type
- Makers & workshops · Experiences · Craft workshop
- Address
- 京都府京都市上京区（架空）Shown in Japanese so you can show it to a taxi driver.
- Nearest station
- 今出川 Station · 8 min walk地下鉄烏丸線 今出川駅 徒歩 8 分
- Hours
MonToday 10:00–18:00 Tue 10:00–18:00 Wed Closed Thu 10:00–18:00 Fri 10:00–18:00 Sat 10:00–18:00 Sun 10:00–18:00 Three sessions: 10:00, 13:30 and 16:00 / Closed Wednesdays / Booking required
- Price guide
- ¥4,400–¥11,000
- Smoking
- No smoking
- Children
- Children welcome
- Parking
- No
- Payment
- Cash, Credit card, QR payments
- Languages
- Japanese, English
The place sent us this information. It may have changed — please check with the place before you go. Last updated Nov 4, 2026.
Map & access
京都府京都市上京区（架空）
Shown in Japanese so you can show it to a taxi driver.
Nearest station: 今出川 Station · 8 min walk地下鉄烏丸線 今出川駅 徒歩 8 分
