A future for sake
Sebastien has had a busy start of the year with Le Cordon Bleu in a series of events pairing 9 European Cheese with 9 Hiroshima sake, in Chinese, Japanese and English
Sake on Air Year 2
Mid January, the whole team producing and hosting the Sake On Air podcast was together for a special feature, a review of Year 2018 for sake and shochu, and a discussion about 2019. Sake On Air is the first English language podcast dedicated to sake and shochu, and is broadcasted from the information centre of Learn More …
Show me the way
Judo is much more than a sport. 7th dan judo sensei and buddhist monk MT is teaching the children of this European family keen on martial arts how to put their heart in control, and fight a more intuitive judo reading energy flows.
Kumanokodo, for body and soul …
The ancient Kumano region is located in the South of the Kii Peninsula, covering part of Nara and Wakayama Prefectures, touching on Mie with the route to Ise. For a thousand years, merchants, pilgrims, monks, and even emperors have been walking part its trails, today a twin route with Camino de Santiago. Walk the route, Learn More …
Line production for the shooting of a Documentary film
Over 27 days, Passerelle supported (“fixed” for) a truly international film crew shooting a documentary in a number of awe inspiring nature spots and shrines. We handled the relationship with the various locations as well as the logistics and translation. In addition, leveraging on our network, we actually added unique experiences and encounters to the Learn More …
Walking on elders’s footprints
530 km long Nakasendo was arguably the second most important route connecting Kyoto and Edo in feudal times. Unlike the Tokkaido which is following the coastline, the Nakasendo is crossing Japanese mountains. There were 69 stations where merchants, early tourists, samurais and feudal lords, princesses could rest. Passerelle implemented a monitor tour in a beautiful Learn More …
Total Art in Odawara, for humanity
Commuting between NY and Tokyo, Hiroshi Sugimoto is a great photographer, prolific and innovative, a collector, an architect, an artist … and more than many, he writes about what he thinks. His last project summarizes it all. The Enoura Observatory opened in fall 2017, near Odawara. There, Sugimoto is developing a plot of land en route Learn More …
Extracting the best from the environment: wasabi, tea, nihonshu
Early July 2018, Passerelle took a group of executives for an excursion. From all continents, they had gathered in Japan for a management meeting . The success of the products of this French cosmetics brand, and their great image with the public, are directly correlated with their highly selective sourcing of ingredients (such as essential Learn More …
Sake Excursion on French TV
At the heart of the sakura (cherry blossom) season, Sebastien took two French guests and a TV crew with him to Nara Prefecture, for a “field-visit”. (Sebastien, Mr. Sugiura, Mr. Yamamoto) The visit started at the foot of Mount Kongo in Katsuragi City, in this fertile area between peak and valley (or sea) that Japanese Learn More …
The Future of Sake
This month (March 2018), Sebastien was teaching the “Sake Basic Course” at Le Cordon Bleu Japan. He was responsible for writing the manual in 2016. Because sake is brewed to be paired with food, le Cordon Bleu has a competitive advantage in the field of sake education. The last of the four sake tastings during Learn More …