This special autumn route welcomes Ryohei Hayashi, owner and chef at Japanese restaurant Tenoshima in Aoyama, Tokyo, to serve a one-day-only special lunch menu. Hayashi trained at the venerable Kyoto restaurant Kikunoi before opening Tenoshima in 2018, and is passionate about promoting Japanese cuisine and passing down authentic culinary traditions. For the lunch excursion to Hayashi’s ancestral home of Teshima in Kagawa Prefecture, the chef drew inspiration from how ancient people likely lived on these shores, creating a meal that interprets and reimagines ancient ways of eating for the present. This geology-themed route was curated with the Seto Inland Sea Folk History Museum. Geology influenced how the abundant sea and islands of Setouchi formed, shaping distinct local food cultures. Enjoy a romantic voyage through time to Setouchi thousands of years ago.