Japanese Cuisine - Local cuisine

Chiba
Whale
Chiba Local cuisine

Whale

Whale sauce is a local dish of Minamiboso, Chiba Prefecture, where whale meat is pickled in sauce and dried. It looks black like charcoal or seaweed, and looks like the skin of ...

Chiba
Barappa Manju
Chiba Local cuisine

Barappa Manju

Barappa Manju is made from ancient times in the Hokuso region of Chiba Prefecture, and is eaten on summer festivals and on the day of Hare. By the end of wheat fall, grind the h...

Aomori
SUSHIKO
Aomori Local cuisine

SUSHIKO

It is a local dish that has been eaten especially in the Northwest region on the Sea of Japan side of the Tsugaru region. It is a very unusual and unique dish that should be cal...

Hokkaido
Kelp roll
Hokkaido Local cuisine

Kelp roll

In Hokkaido, which boasts the highest quantity of kelp production in Japan, is rooted in kombu rolls of fish such as salmon and herring. For kombu-maki, Hidaka kelp is often use...

Hokkaido
Matsumae pickled
Hokkaido Local cuisine

Matsumae pickled

It is a local dish using kelp, a specialty of Hokkaido Matsumae region. It is a preserved food with herring roe, surume and kelp marinated in soy sauce. It is often eaten locall...

Gifu
Ayu confectionary
Gifu Local cuisine

Ayu confectionary

Ayu confectionary is a famous confectionary from Gifu in the shape of sweetfish swimming in the Nagara River, wrapped in castella dough. Gifu prefecture is called Hiyama concen...

Gifu
Kurikinton
Gifu Local cuisine

Kurikinton

Kurikinton is a local confectionary with ties to Gifu's Mino region. It is a simple, heartwarming chestnut confectionary made by combining chestnuts and a little sugar and finis...

Gifu
Kusamochi
Gifu Local cuisine

Kusamochi

Kusamochi (kusamochi) is a popular confectionary known as a specialty of Kaizu City. The richly flavored mochi dough made with natural wormwood has a strong scent of mugwort, a...

Gifu
Misogi dango
Gifu Local cuisine

Misogi dango

Miso dango is a traditional confectionary from Hashima City. It is a simple dish made by wrapping koshian in rice flour dumpling dough, putting it on 2 skewers, applying dengaku...

Aomori
Kenojiru
Aomori Local cuisine

Kenojiru

Keno-jiru, a local dish that is eaten extensively from the Tsugaru region of Aomori Prefecture, is a soup made with finely chopped vegetables cooked in kelp soup stock. Ingredie...

Miyagi
Miyagi Zundamochi
Miyagi Local cuisine

Miyagi Zundamochi

Zundamochi is a mixture of green soybeans (edamame) before soybeans are boiled in salt and crushed in a mortar, added sugar and mixed into rice cakes. It has been used as a hous...

Tochigi
Shimotsukare
Tochigi Local cuisine

Shimotsukare

On the first day of February (the first morning of the afternoon of February), it is an event meal that is served to Inari Shrine along with red rice. A thankful dish called luc...