Japanese Cuisine - Local cuisine
Open port roll cake
Sasebo Open Port Roll Cake is a popular sweet of “Sasebo ☆ Star Product” developed with the aim of becoming a new specialty product representing Sasebo. A coffee flavored spong...
Fish squirt
Sea squirt is a marine product rich in minerals from the sea, called “sea pineapple” because of its shape. The production volume in Miyagi prefecture is the number one in Japan...
Shinko manju
Shinkomanju are made to serve as offerings to the Hatsuuma Festival held in February of the lunar calendar at Ippeizuka Inari Shrine in Tanuma-cho, Sano City. “Shinko” not only...
Mukago gohan
It's cooked rice from Mukago. “Mukago” is a small bud (shiyuga) formed at the base of leaves such as Japanese oysters and natural yam (dioscorea), and Ibaraki prefecture is famo...
Agar dishes
Agar culture is rooted in Akita prefecture, and when you visit, you can enjoy agar dishes everywhere. Agar is a food that has been valued for a long time because it can be stor...
Nanbu senbei
It is a type of senbei made by making dough with flour and water, dipped in sesame seeds and peanuts, and baked. Aomori and Iwate prefectures are the main production and consum...
Five family treasures (Gokaho)
Kumagaya's “Five Family Treasures” are said to be one of the three major confections in Saitama, along with Soka senbei senbei and Kawagoe sweet potato sweets, with the fragrant...
Eel dishes in Narita
The area around Naritasan Omotesando, where Naritasan Shinshoji Temple is located, is a “town of eels” where eel shops are concentrated, which is rare nationwide. There are man...
Bamboo dumplings (Sasa dango)
Famous as a specialty of Niigata prefecture, “Sasa dango” is a ball-shaped dumpling made by wrapping mugwort dumplings with bean paste in bamboo leaves and tied at both ends wit...
Makigaki (makigaki)
A traditional food handed down in Yamato-cho, Kamimashiki-gun, in the Uki district, famous for producing dried persimmons. With the meaning of “waking up good fortune,” it is in...