Regional cuisine of Koushinetsu/Hokuriku region

Fukui
Katsuyama oyaki

Katsuyama oyaki

“Oyaki” loved by Katsuyama citizens is a Japanese confectionary made by wrapping slightly sweet azuki bean paste in mochi kneaded with mugwort and baked unti...

Fukui
Sake manju

Sake manju

Sake manju is one of the sweets representing the Three Kingdoms. “Sake manju,” which many people from Fukui know, is a traditional Japanese confectionary, a...

Fukui
Deep-fried tofu

Deep-fried tofu

Fukui prefecture has the highest consumption of deep-fried tofu in Japan. It seems that in Fukui, where the belief in the Jodo Shinshu sect is popular, dish...

Fukui
Kuzu manju

Kuzu manju

Kuzumanju is a simple manju that has been made since long ago in Obama, and is a simple Japanese confectionary made with koshian wrapped in kneaded kudzu. T...

Fukui
Oda tofu

Oda tofu

“Oto tofu” is made in the former town of Oda (Otacho, now Echizen Town) in Fukui Prefecture, and is a staple tofu in Fukui. There used to be 3 Oda tofu, but...

Fukui
Sesame tofu

Sesame tofu

The head temple of the Soto sect “Eiheiji” in Eiheiji-cho, Fukui Prefecture, is a grand and beautiful temple with 800 years of history and many important cul...

Fukui
Hana Rakkyo

Hana Rakkyo

“Flower shallots” from Mirihama in Mikuni, Fukui Prefecture are cultivated in sand dunes stretching along the coast of the Sea of Japan. Since Mirihama's sa...

Fukui
Soy sauce katsudon
Fukui Don dish

Soy sauce katsudon

The biggest feature of Ono's new specialty, the soy sauce katsudon, is that it uses soy sauce-based sauce and is served with plenty of vegetables. This is o...

Fukui
Wakasa Guji
Fukui Seafood

Wakasa Guji

Wakasa (Fukui Prefecture) was once called the “Food Country)” as a country where food was allowed to be served to the emperor. Amadai caught in Wakasa Bay, ...

Fukui
Powdered seaweed

Powdered seaweed

“Peach seaweed” is a natural natural food made by drying the best natural seaweed from the sea near Tojinbo in Fukui prefecture, dried in the sun and loosene...

Fukui
Kumagawa waste

Kumagawa waste

As for Kumagawa kuzu, kudzu from Kumagawa has become so popular that the Confucian scholar Rai Sanyo from the Edo period commented in a letter that “Kumagawa...

Toyama
White shrimp burger
Toyama Local cuisine

White shrimp burger

Toyama's representative seafood, white shrimp, is designated as “Toyama Prefecture's fish” along with firefly squid and yellowtail. The meat is sweet and ha...