Japanese Cuisine - Sushi

Toyama
Masu no sushi
Toyama Sushi

Masu no sushi

Masu sushi is a local dish from Toyama Prefecture and is also known as ekiben. It is a type of pressed sushi that uses salted and seasoned trout, and is made by packing light r...

Tokushima
Boze no Sugata Sushi
Tokushima Sushi

Boze no Sugata Sushi

Boze is a warthog in Tokushima dialect, and it is a saltwater fish that has no peculiar flavor and has fatty white meat that is delicious. It is often popular in Tokushima pref...

Ishikawa
Kaburazushi
Ishikawa Sushi

Kaburazushi

Kaburazushi is a traditional fermented food from Ishikawa prefecture made by sandwiching “salted amberjack” between “salted turnips” and marinating them in rice malt. It's calle...

Wakayama
Mackerel nare sushi
Wakayama Sushi

Mackerel nare sushi

Nare-zushi, a local sushi representative of Wakayama, is fermented sushi made without using vinegar. It has a unique aroma like deep-pickled nukazuke, but it is a recommended di...

Wakayama
Sanmusushi
Wakayama Sushi

Sanmusushi

Sanma sushi is a familiar sushi that has been made in ordinary households for festivals and New Year dishes since ancient times, and is said to have evolved from preserved foods...

Wakayama
Wasabi sushi
Wakayama Sushi

Wasabi sushi

“Wasabi sushi” wrapped in wasabi leaves grown in the clear stream of the Arida River is a local dish of the Shimizu region. Wasabi sushi is sushi made by wrapping sushi rice wi...

Wakayama
Sparrow sushi
Wakayama Sushi

Sparrow sushi

“Small bream sparrow sushi” is a local sushi from Wakayama prefecture that has been eaten since ancient times, and is one of the famous souvenirs representing the prefecture. It...

Miyazaki
Lettuce roll
Miyazaki Sushi

Lettuce roll

“Lettuce roll” began when Shoji Muraoka, the founder of the long-established sushi restaurant “Ippei,” which opened in Showa 41 in Miyazaki City, thought about it for his friend...

Kagoshima
Sake sushi
Kagoshima Sushi

Sake sushi

When Yoshihiro Shimazu, who was the lord of the domain at that time, held a banquet for cherry blossom viewing in the Edo period, the maid put the remaining dishes and local sak...

Oita
Hitan-zushi
Oita Sushi

Hitan-zushi

It is sushi made from vegetables, pickles, and river fish from Hita. Natto, yam, and green onions are wrapped in vinegared rice at an exquisite ratio, and wrapped in mustard gre...

Saga
Suko-zushi
Saga Sushi

Suko-zushi

“Suko sushi” is a sushi made with vinegared rice added with glutinous rice topped with kinshi eggs, sasagaki burdock, Narazuke, kamaboko, pickled ginger, shiitake mushrooms, den...

Oita
Yukinko sushi
Oita Sushi

Yukinko sushi

The crispy daikon radish and the soft texture of thick shiitake mushrooms, a specialty of Oita, are unique, the sweetness of shiitake mushrooms and the sourness of daikon, and t...