Travel Japan by Scent | HONO-KA 11.14 – 11.15.26
Event Details
Date & Time: November 14–15, 2026 | 12PM – 6PM
Location: WAZA Shop @ JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles (Level 2)
Host: Kaz Uchiya, CEO of HONO-KA, visiting from Japan
Cost: Free to visit
Overview
For two days, WAZA turns its essential oil counter into a map of Japan. HONO-KA distills its oils from the country’s forests — largely from thinned wood, branches and leaves that would otherwise go unused.
For this occasion, HONO-KA has created three new blends, each named after a Japanese bird and the landscape it moves through.
Three New Blends
TANCHO — Dance of the Crane. Japanese mint and fir over Kitayama cedar: the cold, clear air of a Hokkaido winter, and the red-crowned crane dancing across the snow.
TOKI — Ibis’s Wing. Yuzu and hinoki leaf with Noto hiba, drawn from the satoyama (the lived-in countryside between village and mountain) of the Noto peninsula, where the crested ibis and these trees share the same hillsides.
UGUISU — Nightingale Song. Yoshino cypress and koyamaki — the wood held sacred at Nara’s temples — lifted with yuzu, for the bush warbler whose call announces spring.
At the Counter
Smell each blend in store, and take home a recipe card for your favorite — so you can recreate it at home with HONO-KA’s single oils. The journey continues to Yakushima, where cedars a thousand years old still stand, and ends at ONSEN — HONO-KA’s first blended oil, built on yuzu and hot-spring wood, and the only blend available for purchase.
A Gift from HONO-KA
Guests who purchase a HONO-KA essential oil during the two days receive a complimentary HONO-KA aroma mist — Kyoto Kitayama Sugi or Koyamaki — prepared by HONO-KA and carried from Japan for this occasion. While supplies last.
Can’t make it in person? The same gift is offered online with any HONO-KA purchase from November 14 through November 30 at waza-nyc.com, while supplies last.