Learn French Pastry & Patisserie in Tokyo / Osaka

Honest level: Intermediate -> Competition — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

Schools in Tokyo / Osaka

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• Tsuji Culinary Institute (Osaka)
  Patisserie / Confectionery Course with French campus study abroad
  Japan's oldest professional culinary institute, founded in Osaka in 1960, offering a two-year patisserie course that combines fundamentals in Western sweets, bread and wagashi with an optional study-abroad period at its French campus near Lyon.
  https://www.tsuji.ac.jp/en/college/osaka/
• Le Cordon Bleu Tokyo
  Pâtisserie Diploma (Basic, Intermediate, Superior)
  Tokyo branch of the French institute delivering the three-level Pâtisserie Diploma that adds Japanese elements such as entremets japonais and wagashi to classical French pastry technique.
  https://www.cordonbleu.edu/tokyo/home/en

The credential

CAP Pâtissier (State Diploma) — capped by the Meilleur Ouvrier de France title · Certifying body: CAP Pâtissier (French State Diploma) / MOF

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for French Pastry & Patisserie

What I check before I send you anywhere

I'm Arnaud. I cook for a living, and I've spent fifteen years on the water — so I know the difference between a real school and a good-looking website. I built the Atlas because I got tired of the second kind. Here is what a place has to clear before it goes on here, and what I'll tell you straight when it doesn't.

• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
• I tell you how sure I am. Most pages here are verified by hand. A few say "still checking" — I'd rather admit that than pretend.
• Nobody pays to be here. No commission, no selling the trip. The order on this map is the strength of the community, never the size of the wallet.
• If I wouldn't send a friend, it isn't on the map.