Japanese Cuisine - Bento & Onigiri

Toyama
Tororo kelp onigiri
Toyama Bento & Onigiri

Tororo kelp onigiri

Toyama Prefecture is the highest amount of kelp per household in Japan. One of the most classic kombu dishes is “kelp onigiri”. Among the tororo, only the outer surface of the t...

Wakayama
Mehari sushi
Wakayama Bento & Onigiri

Mehari sushi

Mehari Sushi is a regional dish of the Yoshino region, mainly in the Kumano region that spans Wakayama and Mie prefectures, and Yoshino County, Nara Prefecture. It is a rice ba...

Miyazaki
Meat rolled onigiri
Miyazaki Bento & Onigiri

Meat rolled onigiri

Pork thinly sliced pork peach marinated in soy sauce-based sauce is rolled into rice and baked in the oven. The rice roll onigiri is an excellent combination of pork with a secr...

Oita
Yoshino chicken rice
Oita Bento & Onigiri

Yoshino chicken rice

Yoshino chicken rice is a home-cooked dish handed down in the Yoshino district in the southern part of Oita City, and is said to have originated from chicken meat made by hunter...

Niigata
Kensan-yaki (Kensan-yaki)
Niigata Bento & Onigiri

Kensan-yaki (Kensan-yaki)

It is a rice ball that is baked by applying miso mixed with ginger, yuzu skin, green onions, etc. to a disk-shaped rice with a hollow center, and is also called “Kenshin-yaki,” ...

Aichi
Tenmusu
Aichi Bento & Onigiri

Tenmusu

Tenmusu is an onigiri made with shrimp tempura and is one of Nagoya's rice balls. The onigiri that contains the small shrimp tempura, which is also the raw material of shrimp se...

Aomori
Noheji Station Traditional Ekiben
Aomori Bento & Onigiri

Noheji Station Traditional Ekiben

Noheji Station's specialty Torimeshi is an old-fashioned ekiben with a history of over 60 years in Noheji Station (Noheji Town) on the Aomori Railway. The rhombus container is c...

Kanagawa
Shiumai Bento
Kanagawa Bento & Onigiri

Shiumai Bento

Originally, there are few specialties in Yokohama, and it was inspired by Shumai, which is sold in Yokohama Chinatown. It is now a standard ekiben in Yokohama. It is often said ...

Tottori
Tottori Kanizushi
Tottori Bento & Onigiri

Tottori Kanizushi

Sushi using Tottori's winter taste “crab”. It looks similar to chirashi-zushi, but it does not mix ingredients in rice. Vinegared rice is a gorgeous feast with yellow tinseng e...