Japanese Cuisine - Local cuisine
Fukui plum
Fukui plum cultivation has a long history, and it is said that it originated in Wakasa Town (formerly Mikata Town Irazumi) during the Tenpo era (1830-1844) in the Edo period. P...
Firefly squid mixed with vinegar and miso
Firefly squid mixed with vinegar and miso is a typical spring dish in Toyama. Firefly squid live in deep water, but around March they gather along the Toyama Bay coast to lay e...
Kelp marinating
Kombuzaki is a dish created by combining kombu from Hokkaido brought by Kitamaebune in the Edo period with fish caught in Toyama Bay. Kombu is used as a means of preserving raw...
Kurehanashi
Kureha pears are a brand pear representing Toyama prefecture cultivated in the Kureha district. In order to protect the fruit from diseases and pests, a typical pear farmer per...
Fish paste
Toyama fish paste is represented by “swirling fish paste” such as kelp rolls, etc., and its origin also comes from cooking (cooking), and it has been devised so that people can ...
Crafted fish paste
Another thing that is attracting attention when it comes to Toyama fish paste is “zaiku fish paste.” It is colored surimi molded into sea bream, cranes, shochikubai, etc., and i...
Kurobe dam curry
Kurobe dam curry is a curry and rice with the motif of the nationally famous tourist site “Kurobe Dam” in Toyama prefecture. Curry, which was also a base for workers' hearts at...
Toyama dried persimmons
“Toyama dried persimmons” are dried persimmons cultivated in the former town of Fukumitsu and the former town of Johana in Toyama prefecture, made from varieties of persimmons u...
Amenooio meal
Amenoio rice (trout rice) is cooked rice using one whole loquat trout, which is an endemic species of Lake Biwa, which reaches spawning season in the fall, and was made in a lar...
Decchi Yokan
“Do-chi-yokan” is a yokan made by mixing flour with adzuki bean paste and sugar, which is a local specialty of Shiga Prefecture, and steaming it, and is characterized by being w...
Pickled Japanese vegetables
It has a long history, and it is said that it originated when Gamo Sadahide, the lord of Otowa Castle in the Muromachi period, discovered Japanese vegetables during a Gamo pilgr...