Japanese Cuisine - Local cuisine

Kagawa
Soft serve
Kagawa Local cuisine

Soft serve

Kagawa prefecture has an abundance of soft serve ice cream made with local specialties and seasonal fruits, etc., from those topped with colorful sweets to soft serve ice cream ...

Kagawa
Kohara Beniwasei
Kagawa Local cuisine

Kohara Beniwasei

Kagawa Obara Benihayasei oranges are an original variety of Kagawa prefecture that was registered as a variety registered in 1995 because the variety called “Miyagawa Wase,” whi...

Kagawa
Kagawa soy sauce beans
Kagawa Local cuisine

Kagawa soy sauce beans

Kagawa Prefecture is known to have many ponds because it rains little and there are few large rivers. Therefore, there are a lot of dry land patterns, dry rice fields, and the r...

Wakayama
Sasamaki anpu
Wakayama Local cuisine

Sasamaki anpu

The history of fu, which is famous as a souvenir from Mt. Koya, is old, and it is said that monks handed it down from China back to the Yamato Dynasty period. Koshian bean paste...

Wakayama
Sesame tofu
Wakayama Local cuisine

Sesame tofu

Sesame tofu, which was born as one of the vegetarian dishes in Koyasan, a sacred place for Japanese Buddhism that was opened more than 1,200 years ago in Koya-cho, Ito-gun, Waka...

Wakayama
Yakimochi
Wakayama Local cuisine

Yakimochi

It is said that “Kamikishiya,” which is said to be the origin of Koyasan's specialty yakimochi, became popular for its salt yakimochi baked by an old woman at the time of Koyasa...

Wakayama
Kinzanji miso
Wakayama Local cuisine

Kinzanji miso

Kinzanji miso is a mellow and soft edible miso produced in Wakayama prefecture where cucumber, eggplant, shiso, ginger and koji are prepared together, and fermented and aged. Si...

Wakayama
Umeboshi
Wakayama Local cuisine

Umeboshi

Plums in Wakayama prefecture rank first in Japan in terms of cultivation area (5,620 hectares (Heisei 21)) and shipment volume (68,800 tons (Heisei 21)), and are one of the pref...

Wakayama
Kushikaki
Wakayama Local cuisine

Kushikaki

Kushikaki making began in Shigo about 400 years ago, and the dry and cold wind blowing down from the foot of Mt. Izumi is ideal for making kushikaki, and kushikaki making has be...

Wakayama
Jabara
Wakayama Local cuisine

Jabara

Jabara is a phantom citrus that grew only one naturally in Kitayama-mura, Wakayama prefecture. Its major characteristics are its unique aroma and acidity, and that it contains a...

Saga
Ariake Sea Cuisine
Saga Local cuisine

Ariake Sea Cuisine

Countless rivers flow into the Ariake Sea, which straddles Kumamoto prefecture, Saga prefecture, Fukuoka prefecture, and Nagasaki prefecture, and is regarded as a nutritious sea...

Saga
Shoro manju
Saga Local cuisine

Shoro manju

Shoro manju is one of the sweets that represent Karatsu. It is said that it was named because it resembles the shape of truffle that grows naturally in Niji no Matsubara in Kara...