The day we went to Tokyo on the Saturday before Mother's Day, we stopped for a few hours in Yokohama for a sushi making class that Sachiyo had arranged for us. It was so much fun that I would highly recommend it to anyone visiting Japan. Our teacher was a professional sushi chef named Hidetomo Mizobe or "Hide", who teaches out of his home by appointment. To become a sushi chef requires nine months of classes and then you must pass seven exams. Hide works a day job but loves making sushi so much that he teaches on weekends and hopes to make a career out of it someday. He has wonderful teaching skills and used a very professional slide show throughout our class. He started out by giving us an exam and we had to raise our paddles with a green check or a red X to answer each question about sushi and Japan in general. It was a lot of fun and, of course, Nick won the contest with the most correct answers but he gave us all ...