
Tatsuya Kawagoe (7 March 1973-) is a Japanese celebrity chef. In 2012, while hosting his own traveling cooking show that brought him to Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, Sapporo, and Nagoya, he met the likes of Kazuma Kiryu, Haruka Sawamura, Taiga Saejima, Shun Akiyama, and Tatsuo Shinada and persuaded them to show him three local restaurants in each of their cities in exchange for teaching them tricks to make their food more delicious.