[ Foodie’s Bike Tour NASU – NIKKO]
Like a multi course ‘Kaiseki’ meal, this tour is not just about only the cycling and the food.
This is an immersive sensory experience in many elements: waking up in a ryokan at dawn to go sit in an outdoor onsen and listen to the chirping of the birds in the trees above, attending a local fire festival with accompanying drumming performance one evening where we were the only overseas visitors, discerning the multi dimensional textures of the meals and walking through a golden bamboo forest in the drizzling rain dispersing the soft light to a golden aura that cannot be captured by camera. Tetsuya-san is like a master chef bringing all these together with his team in an all too short tour.
I need not say that everything is super organised, even a rain storm on one of the days had a ‘Plan B’ and didn’t miss cycling on that day. So am glad to have chosen this tour just as anyone would choose an authentic restaurant run by locals.
