Small Japan in Australia

Magpie Up Style Markets
2024-11-17 09:00 - 13:30 (Australia/Sydney)
Hi everyone, we are planning to attend to the Magpie up style Markets in August again!We are planning to bring another (new) Japanese festival game, some smaller (cheaper) Japanese items and Japanese snacks with us!If you are coming there, please say hi to us We are looking forward to seeing you then ♡
Time: 9AM~1:30PM
Place: Lawson public school

Otsukimi event - "Let's make odango (mochi) tohether!"
2024-09-15 13:30 - 16:00

Anime & Disney market (garage sale) day
2024-09-07 11:00 - 14:00

Japanese picnic events “Let’s talk in Japanese together” 【Free event】
2024-08-24 11:00 - 14:00
Hi everyone, it’s time to have another Japanese picnic day!We made a small Japan (Japanese community) here, in the blue mountains. I know there are some Japanese communities here, however they are usually for Japanese people or people who have Japanese background.I also know some people here study Japanese at school etc., however they usually forget it as there is nowhere where they can use it. Therefore I decided to make a community for people who love Japan and anything about Japan, can practice / keep their language skill, and share your skills, acknowledges and interests with others.We welcome anyone who is interested in Japan (so from beginner to upper level, and of course Japanese people and people who have Japanese background too!). Even you can say only “Konnichiwa”, it’s amazing! And you can practice more here with us So please don’t hesitate to join us!We are planning to do a small quiz this time too! (around 2:30pm) We’ll make 2-3 groups (or just one group if not so many people are there) so I hope you can enjoy guessing them with others
About us:I’m Japanese and Andrew has JLPT2, and our daughter, Sakura (4 years old) is bilingual. Seiya (2 years old) started to speak some Japanese too! We hope we can support people and make a bridge between Japan and Australia here!♧ Date: 24th of August (Saturday)(if it’s rainy, we might be postpone or cancel it, OR we might change a place.)◇ Place: Gloria park, Hazelbrook, Blue mountains, NSW♤ Time: 11AM~2pm
Let’s eat lunch together!♡ Price: Free(If there is anything that you’d like to share with others, you can bring there. You can share anything, but it’s your responsibility. So please understand about it. )Donation:If you can support our community/ event, you can donate a gold coin to support and we’d really appreciate it. We’ll put our coin case (No face from Ghibli movie) there so you can put it there. However please don’t get stress.Please bring:Your own chair / picnic rug/ water bottle and lunch etc. for yourself.NOTE:If you want to bring your kids, it’s perfectly fine! However please keep an eye on them by yourself. And we can’t take any responsibility for any problems for this event, so please understand about it.Thank you for checking it!We are looking forward to seeing you then

Magpie Markets at Lawson public school
2024-08-18 09:00 - 13:30

Let's make your own miso!
2024-08-11 10:30 - 12:00
Have you ever made your own miso before?Have you ever thought you’d like to try to make your own miso?.As I got a license of a fermented Japanese food course last year, we decided to have a making our own miso day here!.As it’s my first attempt and challenge, I decided to get easy kits from Japan. It’s quite good quality one, and someone who I know makes these soy beans .And it’s a quite easy step so if you’d like to try to make it easily, it’ll be a great opportunity! If you also want to bring your kids, it’s totally fine too! My 3-year-old daughter made it before as well, so I believe if they can listen to you and can sit down properly, it’ll be no problem and it’ll be a good experience for them too .I’m planning to make it from scratch by myself in the future, however I heard that it’ll be a quite hard work (for preparation) so I’m not sure how much it would be then...• Date: 11th of August (Sunday)• Time: 10:30pm ~ 12pm• Place: Woodford(We’ll let you know our address once we get payment).• Price: $90/per misoIf you’d like to bring someone with you, please contact us before you book your seat, as our space is limited..• What you’ll need to bring:apron, container and a pen.• Payment: You can bring here (cash) Before the event or you can send us via bank transfer..• Cancellation fee:After the 5th of August, we’ll need to ask you 50% of Cancellation fee. If it’s a day before or on the day, we will need to ask you 100% as we already prepare for you..• Available number: Max 3 people..As we are worried about sickness around us now (so many people got sick including us), I decided to make only miso together and skip other dishes to be safe for everyone. However I’ll give you some recipes using miso! .We are looking forward to sharing a Japanese fermented food with you

“Let’s learn Japanese with Pokemon and make Onigiri together!”【Kid’s event】
2024-08-04 10:00 - 12:00
Hi everyone, we decided to have a kid’s event and second one is also a Pokemon cooking day!
If you missed the first one, it’ll be another opportunity for you!
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Do you like Pokemon?
Do you know that Pokemon names in Japanese are different from English ones?
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We’ll do a small Pokemon x Japanese quiz etc., and after that, we cook Poke ball onigiri (rice ball) together! We’ll prepare for some side for you to make obento (lunch box). So please bring your lunch box then 🙂 We are looking forward to seeing your creation here 😀
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As our renting place is quite small, we’ll need to ask one adult per kid(s).
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• Date: 4th of August (Saturday)
• Time: 10:00AM ~ 12PM (It can be longer.)
You can bring it back home or you can eat it at our place.
• Place: Woodford
(We’ll let you know our address once we get payment)
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• Price: $40/one kid bento (lunch box)
• Payment: You can bring here (cash) before the event or you can send us via bank transfer
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• Cancellation fee:
After the 12th, we’ll need to ask you 50% of Cancellation fee. If it’s a day before or on the day, we will need to ask you 100% as we already prepare for you.
• Available number: Max 4 kids (and 4 adults)
If you’d like to bring 2 kids or more, it’s ok. Please contact us then.
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• What you’ll need to bring:
apron, lunch box and a pen if you’d like to take a memo.
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Note: the photo is an image. We won’t make the exact same thing but we’ll make similar thing together.
We won’t use an oven / any heating for cooking on the day.
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If you have any food allergies, please let us know before you book it. We are looking forward to sharing a Japanese food and anime culture with you ♡

Let's make tempura teishoku & shio(salt)-koji together!
2024-07-20 10:30 - 14:00
Hi everyone, we have another cooking event, and this time we’ll make tempura teisyoku with shio(salt)-koji. .By the way, have you ever heard “shio(salt)-kōji” before? It’s a kind of Japanese fermented condiment. I’ll teach you how to make it, how to use it and why it’s good for your health. I’m so excited to be able to share Japanese food and Japanese fermented condiment etc. here, especially as I got a license of a fermented Japanese food course last year! (I learnt it in Japanese and it seems like no one did it in the group and it’s my challenging, so please forgive me if my explanation is not so smooth ).We are going to make tempura, rice, miso-soup and some vegetables for a side but we won’t make everything in this picture. And also, if there is something that you can’t eat, you can serve what you’d like to eat as well.).We are planning to make gluten-free tempura, and we’ll teach you how to make shio-kōji as well, as it’s healthier, easier and more delicious .• Date: 20th of July (Saturday)• Time: 10:30AM ~ 2PM (It can be longer.)• Place: Woodford(We’ll let you know our address once we get payment).• Price: ①$60　②$80① cooking the teishoku (only)② cooking the teishoku AND shio-koji (You’ll take back home your shio-koji.).As we’ll need to get ingredient (koji) from Sydney and it’s a bit pricey (if you’d like to attend with your partner but you’d like to make just one, please pm us.)• Payment: You can bring here (cash) before the event or you can send us via bank transfer• Cancellation fee:After the 16th, we’ll need to ask you 50% of Cancellation fee. If it’s a day before or on the day, we will need to ask you 100% as we already prepare for you.• Available number: Minimum 2 people, Max 4 people.• What you’ll need to bring:① apron and a pen if you’d like to take a memo.② salt (I’ll let you know how much and what kind of salt you’ll need to bring. If you can’t bring it, you can use our one, however we’ll need to ask you extra fee as we got them from Japan), medium size jar (clean one, with lid which can fit 300ml) and apron. If you want to take a memo, please bring a pen.If you have any food allergies, please let us know before you book it. We are looking forward to sharing a Japanese fermented food with you ♡

Let's watch Japanese movie together! 【 free event 】
2024-07-13 13:00 - 16:00
Movie: Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro
It is a 1979 Japanese animated action adventure comedy film co-written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
Place: our place

Tanabata event
2024-07-06 01:30 - 16:00

"Let's make your own Miso!"
2024-06-22 13:30 - 15:30
Have you ever made your own miso before?Have you ever thought you’d like to try to make your own miso?As I got a license of a fermented Japanese food course last year, we decided to have a making our own miso day here!As it’s my first attempt and challenge, I decided to get easy kits from Japan. It’s quite good quality one, and someone who I know makes these soy beans And it’s a quite easy step so if you’d like to try to make it easily, it’ll be a great opportunity! If you also want to bring your kids, it’s totally fine too! My 3-year-old daughter made it before as well, so I believe if they can listen to you and can sit down properly, it’ll be no problem and it’ll be a good experience for them too I’m planning to make it from scratch by myself in the future, however I heard that it’ll be a quite hard work (for preparation) so I’m not sure how much it would be then.• Date: 22nd of June (Saturday)• Time: 1:30pm ~ 4pm• Place: Woodford(We’ll let you know our address once we get payment)• Price: $100/per misoIf you’d like to bring someone with you, please contact us before you book your seat, as our space is limited.• What you’ll need to bring:apron, container and a pen• Payment: You can bring here (cash) Before the event or you can send us via bank transfer.• Cancellation fee:After the 10th of June, we’ll need to ask you 50% of Cancellation fee. If it’s a day before or on the day, we will need to ask you 100% as we already prepare for you.• Available number: Max 4 peopleI’m thinking to have another day if more people would like to join us. (I’ll need to get the kits from Japan so I’ll need to know it by middle of May.)We are planning to make a small dish to demonstrate how to use miso, so you can try to eat (taste) them too. If you have any food allergies, please let us know before you book it.We are looking forward to sharing a Japanese fermented food with you

“Let’s learn Japanese with Pokemon and make Onigiri together!”【Kid’s event】
2024-06-15 10:30 - 12:30
Hi everyone, we decided to have a kid’s event and our first one is a Pokemon cooking day!
.
Do you like Pokemon?
Do you know that Pokemon names in Japanese are different from English ones?
.
We’ll do a small Pokemon x Japanese quiz etc., and after that, we cook Poke ball onigiri (rice ball) together! We’ll prepare for some side for you to make obento (lunch box). So please bring your lunch box then 🙂 We are looking forward to seeing your creation here 😀
.
As our renting place is quite small, we’ll need to ask one adult per kid(s).
.
• Date: 15th of June (Saturday)
• Time: 10:00AM ~ 12PM (It can be longer.)
You can bring it back home or you can eat it at our place.
• Place: Woodford
(We’ll let you know our address once we get payment)
.
• Price: $40/one kid bento (lunch box)
• Payment: You can bring here (cash) before the event or you can send us via bank transfer
.
• Cancellation fee:
After the 12th, we’ll need to ask you 50% of Cancellation fee. If it’s a day before or on the day, we will need to ask you 100% as we already prepare for you.
• Available number: Max 4 kids (and 4 adults)
If you’d like to bring 2 kids or more, it’s ok. Please contact us then.
.
• What you’ll need to bring:
apron, lunch box and a pen if you’d like to take a memo.
.
Note: the photo is an image. We won’t make the exact same thing but we’ll make similar thing together.
We won’t use an oven / any heating for cooking on the day.
.
.
If you have any food allergies, please let us know before you book it. We are looking forward to sharing a Japanese food and anime culture with you ♡
.

Let's make karaage teisyoku & garlic-koji together!
2024-06-02 10:45 - 14:00
Hi everyone, we got some requests so I decided to have another cooking event! This time we’ll make karaage teisyoku with garlic koji. .By the way, have you ever heard “garlic-kōji” before? It’s a kind of Japanese fermented condiment.I’ll teach you how to make it, how to use it and why it’s good for your health. I’m so excited to be able to share Japanese food and Japanese fermented condiment etc. here, especially as I got a license of a fermented Japanese food course last year! (I learnt it in Japanese and it seems like no one did it in the group and it’s my challenging, so please forgive me if my explanation is not so smooth ).We are going to make karaage (chicken), rice, miso-soup and some vegetables for a side but we won’t make everything in this picture. And also, if there is something that you can’t eat, you can serve what you’d like to eat as well.).We are going to make gluten-free karaage, and we’ll teach you how to make garlic-kōji as well, as it’s healthier, easier and more delicious (I’ll teach you how to cook it without garlic-kōji as well.) .• Date: 2nd of June (Sunday)• Time: 10:45AM ~ 2PM (It can be longer.)• Place: Woodford(We’ll let you know our address once we get payment).• Price: ①$60　②$80① cooking the teishoku (only)② cooking the teishoku AND garlic-koji (You’ll take back home your garlic-koji.).As we’ll need to get ingredient (koji) from Sydney and it’s a bit pricey (if you’d like to attend with your partner but you’d like to make just one, please pm us.)• Payment: You can bring here (cash) before the event or you can send us via bank transfer• Cancellation fee:After the 29th, we’ll need to ask you 50% of Cancellation fee. If it’s a day before or on the day, we will need to ask you 100% as we already prepare for you.• Available number: Minimum 2 people, Max 4 people.• What you’ll need to bring:① apron and a pen if you’d like to take a memo.②garlic and salt (I’ll let you know how much and what kind of salt you’ll need to bring. If you can’t bring it, you can use our one, however we’ll need to ask you extra fee as we got them from Japan), medium size jar (clean one, with lid which can fit 300ml) and apron. If you want to take a memo, please bring a pen.If you have any food allergies, please let us know before you book it. We are looking forward to sharing a Japanese fermented food with you ♡

Japanese picnic events “Let’s talk in Japanese together” 【Free event】
2024-05-25 13:30 - 15:30
Hi everyone, it’s time to have another Japanese picnic day!We made a small Japan (Japanese community) here, in the blue mountains. I know there are some Japanese communities here, however they are usually for Japanese people or people who have Japanese background.I also know some people here study Japanese at school etc., however they usually forget it as there is nowhere where they can use it. Therefore I decided to make a community for people who love Japan and anything about Japan, can practice / keep their language skill, and share your skills, acknowledges and interests with others.We welcome anyone who is interested in Japan (so from beginner to upper level, and of course Japanese people and people who have Japanese background too!). Even you can say only “Konnichiwa”, it’s amazing! And you can practice more here with us So please don’t hesitate to join us!We are planning to do a small quiz this time too! (around 2:30pm) We’ll make 2 groups (or just one group if not so many people are there) so I hope you can enjoy guessing them with others
About us:I’m Japanese and Andrew has JLPT2, and our daughter, Sakura (3 years old) is bilingual. (Seiya started to speak some Japanese too!)We hope we can support people and make a bridge between Japan and Australia here!♧ Date: 25th of May (Saturday)(if it’s rainy, we might be postpone or cancel it, OR we might change a place like last time.)◇ Place: Gloria park, Hazelbrook, Blue mountains, NSW♤ Time: 1:30pm ~3:30pm♡ Price: Free(We discussed about it but as we are still concerned about COVID and insurance, we decided it to be free this time and no food & drink will be involved. So if you want anything for yourself, please bring it. You can share anything but it’s your responsibility. So please understand about it. )Donation:If you can support our community/ event, you can donate a gold coin to support and we’d really appreciate it. We’ll put our coin case (No face from Ghibli movie) there so you can put it there. However please don’t get stress.Please bring:Your own chair / picnic rug/ water bottle etc. for yourself.NOTE:If you want to bring your kids, it’s perfectly fine! However please keep an eye on them by yourself. And we can’t take any responsibility for any problems for this event, so please understand about it.Thank you for checking it!We are looking forward to seeing you then

Magpie Up Style Markets
2024-05-19 09:00 - 13:30
Hi everyone, we are planning to attend to the Magpie up style Markets in May again!We are planning to bring another (new) Japanese festival game this time too. We are also planning to bring some smaller (cheaper) Japanese items and snacks with us!If you are coming there, please say hi to us We are looking forward to seeing you then ♡
Time: 9AM~1:30PM
Place: Lawson public school

Let's make shio-kōji together!
2024-03-10 13:30 - 15:30
Hi everyone, we got some requests so I decided to have another Shio-kōji event in March! I’m so excited to be able to share Japanese food and Japanese fermented condiment etc. here, especially as I got a licence of a fermented Japanese food course last year!
If you never heard “shio-kōji”, this is a kind of Japanese fermented condiment. I’ll teach you how to make it, how to use it and why it’s good for your health. (I learnt it in Japanese and it seems like no one did it in the group and it’s my challenging, so please forgive me if my explanation is not so smooth )
• Price: $60
As we’ll need to get ingredient from Sydney and it’s a bit pricey
(if you’d like to attend with your partner but you’d like to make just one, please pm us.)
• What you’ll need to bring:
salt (I’ll let you know how much and what kind of salt you’ll need to bring. If you can’t bring it, you can use our one, however we’ll need to ask you extra fee), medium size jar (clean one, with lid) and apron. If you want to take a memo, please bring a pen
• Date: 10th of March (Sunday)
• Time: 1:30pm ~ 3:30pm
• Place: Woodford
(We’ll let you know our address once we get payment)
• Payment: You can bring here (cash) before the event or you can send us via bank transfer
• Cancellation fee:
After the 5th, we’ll need to ask you 50% of Cancellation fee. If it’s a day before or on the day, we will need to ask you 100% as we already prepare for you.
• Available number: Minimum 2 people, Max 4 people

We are planning to make a small dish to demonstrate how to use it so you can try to eat (taste) them too. If you have any food allergies, please let us know before you book it.
We are looking forward to sharing a Japanese fermented food with you!

Let's celebrate Hinamatsuri (girl's festival) together!
2024-03-03 10:30 - 14:00
Do you know Hinamatsuri?
Have you ever seen these special dolls in person?
We are planning to show you these special dolls this year. We also got my special big dolls from Japan last year so we are planning to display them here as well. It’s our first time to display them here so I’m so excited to be able to see my one finally here
We are also planning to make temarizushi together.
Date: 3rd of March (Sunday)
Price: $60
Place: Hazelbrook and Woodford
(We’ll let you know details once we get payment. )
Time: 10:30AM~2PM
【Schedule】
Please be here between at 10:30AM ~ 10:45AM as we are planning to start introduction at 10:45AM.
・11AM: introducing Hinamatsuri with seeing the special dolls (Hazelbrook)
11:30AM: moving to place (heading to our place in Woodford)
※if anyone needs a lift, please let us know by the 29th.
・12AM: making sushi together and eat them for lunch together (I’ll let you know what kind of sushi we make on the day)
※As we can’t get fresh sashimi quality fish on Sunday easily here, we are not planning to use sashimi for this time. However if you have any allergy etc., please let us know before you book, otherwise we can’t take any responsibility of it.
We got a small gift (Hinamatsuri snacks) for you from Japan to bring back home. (It’s on a way now)
【What to bring】
・Apron
・Pen (if you want to take a memo)
・Drink
If you want to wear kimono / yukata, we are welcome for you to wear them too!
Available number: Max 6 people
If you can’t join the cooking part, but if you’d like to see the dolls, please feel free to contact us. We might be able to do something before the 3rd.
If you are interested in this event, please let us know
Thank you!
