Japanese Cuisine - Local cuisine

Ehime
popo
Ehime Local cuisine

popo

Popo is a fruit of the Banreishi family native to North America. It is also called Akebigaki because its appearance resembles a persimmon and its flesh and seeds resemble persim...

Okayama
Kibidango
Okayama Local cuisine

Kibidango

Okayama prefecture is a peach producing area, so Okayama is famous as a place related to the Japanese folktale “Momotaro”. Kibidango became popular as an auspicious food that b...

Okinawa
Champloo
Okinawa Local cuisine

Champloo

Champloo is one of Okinawa's representative home-cooked meals, and is a simple yet nutritious dish made by frying tofu, vegetables, and sometimes pork and eggs together. In the ...

Ibaraki
Funa kanroni
Ibaraki Local cuisine

Funa kanroni

The local dish “funa kanroni” from Koga City, Ibaraki Prefecture, is a traditional dish that has continued since the Edo period, and is still loved by the local community. Koga ...

Tottori
Dondolish rice
Tottori Local cuisine

Dondolish rice

“Dondoroke rice” is a traditional local dish handed down from the eastern part of Tottori prefecture to the central region, and is cooked rice using tofu and locally grown veget...

Tottori
Ago chikuwa
Tottori Local cuisine

Ago chikuwa

“Ago chikuwa” is a local dish representing Tottori Prefecture, and as the name suggests, it is a flying fish (called “jaw” in Tottori) as the main ingredient. Whereas common wal...

Akita
Dutch ware
Akita Local cuisine

Dutch ware

The appearance of “Dutch yaki” is similar to oban-yaki or imagawa-yaki. However, it is not red bean paste or cream that is contained in a fluffy sweet dough like waffles, but ha...

Shizuoka
Shimada soup with lots of ingredients
Shizuoka Local cuisine

Shimada soup with lots of ingredients

“Shimada soup” is a soup made with plenty of local ingredients invented in Shimada City, Shizuoka Prefecture, as part of a dietary education promotion plan. This dish, which has...

Shizuoka
Ohataki meat roll
Shizuoka Local cuisine

Ohataki meat roll

“Ohataki no Nikumaki,” a soul food from the Enshu region, is a dish made by wrapping “ohataki,” which has been handed down since the Edo period, wrapped in pork and grilled with...

Shizuoka
Onsen manju
Shizuoka Local cuisine

Onsen manju

Izu Nagaoka Onsen is a major hot spring resort with 130 hot springs, and “hot spring manju” is one of its specialties. The hot spring manju offered at each store has its own cha...

Mie
Nikenjaya mochi
Mie Local cuisine

Nikenjaya mochi

Nikenjaya mochi is an old-fashioned kinako mochi made by wrapping red bean paste in smooth raw mochi and sprinkled with fragrant soybean flour. It was founded in 1575, and the o...

Shimane
Misaki bowl
Shimane Local cuisine

Misaki bowl

“Misakidon” is a popular kaisendon in Hinomisaki, where the tallest stone lighthouse in Japan is located. Fresh seafood caught locally is luxuriously served and seasoned with a ...