Our food-specialized support for foreign visitors
We offer a broad range of assistance in various languages for overseas media or
those who work in food-related industry coming to Japan. Our staff with specialized
knowledge in the Japanese food industry will help you with everything from touring
trendy restaurants in Japan and arranging interviews with people in the foodindustry.
With our assistance, your stay in Japan would be more organized and successful.

For people from the media , we would like to report trendy restaurants orwhatʼs happening in the Japanese food industry, we will help you:・ Making appointments with top-class chefs, patissiers, bartenders or any
specialists in the Japanese food industry.
・Visiting farmers or places of production for various Japanese ingredients, markets.
・Covering stories of renowned Japanese restaurants accompanying interpreters
who can explain traditional Japanese food culture.
・Making a list of places and people you would like to see for your coverage before
leaving for Japan.
・Making appointments to visit TV or radio stations, or publishers.
Case example：
Journalist from Norway who is also a jury of theworldʼs best 50 restaurants visited Japan in 2014. We
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service. The journalistʼs visit to the restaurant wasreported by Japanese media, too.

For restaurant companies or owners who would like to enter the Japanesemarket, we will help:
・Conducting a research on restaurants, department stores or shopping streets inpotential locations.
・Conducting a research on competing or benchmark restaurants/stores in Japan.
・Advertising your restaurants in Japan by having receptions or tasting events forJapanese media.
・Conducting a research on Japanese branches of worldʼs famous restaurant chainsand making reports by video and documents.
・Conducting a research on Japanese convenience stores, department stores ormarkets and making reports by video and documents.
Case example１：
A real-estate agent from Hong Kong came to Japan in 2014 who wanted to open
“JAPAN FOOD FLOOR” in his own commercial building there. Upon his request ofvisiting leading chain restaurants, we showed him to restaurants including shabushabu chain.

For tourists who would like to have an authentic Japanese experience, wewill help you organize your trip:
・Visiting sake breweries and learning and tasting about sake pairings.
・Wearing kimono while sightseeing or attending places you wish to go with staffs
in kimono.
・Conducting hands-on experiences such as sushi-making or soba-making.
・Attending Japanese cooking classes with interpreters.
・Taking you hottest and coolest restaurants in Japan.
・Offering information about Halal-, vegetarian- or vegan-friendly restaurants.

Tomoko Takiguchi：
Green Create CEO “I have been a writer in Japanese restaurant industry for 20years and writing articles not only about restaurants or food-related news, but also
about travel. I am knowledgeable about Japanese and Asian food trends as wellas Muslim culture, and also have strong connections to media and food industry
inside and outside Japan. I have mademany appearances on TV in Japan”.
Oto Furukawa：“I used to live in Malaysia for 4 year and I am very much familiar with where to eat,
what to see or what to do in many Asian countries. I have formed a group calledʻMalaysian food loversʼ here for communicating with people from outside Japan bysitting down around a dining table. I also publish a free newspapers called “WAU”
to report whatʼs happening in Malaysia.
Many of my friends are Muslim”.
Matsuno：“After graduating from college in U.S. and some experience in fashion magazine,Iʼve been a food writer for 20 years contributing to Japanese print and web
magazines specialized in food and to a magazine for pastry professionals called ʻsogoodʼ published in Spain. My interest is especially dedicated to pastry and bread. Ialso teach bread-baking and cooking. I have a good command of English”.