Japanese Cuisine - Local cuisine

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...

Fukui
Mikuni Burger
Fukui Local cuisine

Mikuni Burger

Mikuni Burger is a specialty hamburger made with local ingredients from Fukui Prefecture. Minced meat patties made from blocks of beef from Fukui prefecture and domestic pork, ...

Gifu
Water manju
Gifu Local cuisine

Water manju

Since ancient times, Ogaki has been blessed with rich groundwater and is known as the “City of Water.” “Water manju” was created in the latter half of the Meiji period due to th...

Gifu
Tsukemono steak
Gifu Local cuisine

Tsukemono steak

Tsukemono steak is a local dish from the Hida region of Gifu prefecture. The normal way to eat tsukemono is often to eat it as it is, but in Hida Takayama, Gifu prefecture, the ...

Gifu
Mitarashi dango
Gifu Local cuisine

Mitarashi dango

Mitarashi dango are skewer dango topped with kudzu bean paste, a sugar soy sauce, which is widely popular in Gifu prefecture. Most of them are sweet sauces, and the perfect bal...

Gifu
Kakamigahara Kimchi
Gifu Local cuisine

Kakamigahara Kimchi

Kakamigahara Kimchi is a specialty dish of Hamigahara, which is characterized by the fact that it contains a special product of Kakamigahara city “carrot” and “pine tree”, a spe...

Fukui
Katsuyama oyaki
Fukui Local cuisine

Katsuyama oyaki

“Oyaki” loved by Katsuyama citizens is a Japanese confectionary made by wrapping slightly sweet azuki bean paste in mochi kneaded with mugwort and baked until browned. The savo...