Introducing the top 10 unmissable local gourmet dishes from the Okayama region.
Introducing the top 10 unmissable local gourmet dishes from the Okayama region.
When visiting the Okayama region, be sure to enjoy the authentic local gourmet dishes at their best.
Table of Contents
Mari pickled
Kasaoka ramen
Okayama barazushi
Beef mochi bowl
dried meat
Ebi meshi
Spanish mackerel sashimi
Sushi bowl
denim bun
Bukkake udon
Mari pickled
It remains delicious enough to eat even if you borrow rice
One of the local dishes of Okayama Prefecture is pickled in the leaves. It is said that it came to be called mama kari because “the more delicious you go to potash (borrow) mama (rice)”. In Okayama...
Kasaoka ramen
Local ramen representing Okayama
It is one of the local ramen representing Okayama Prefecture that originated in Kasaoka City, Okayama Prefecture. The main feature of Kasaoka ramen is that it is boiled chicken of Kashiwa chashew ...
Okayama barazushi
Okayama's representative local dish with gorgeously served seafood and seasonal vegetables
Okayama barazushi is a sushi made with seasonal vegetables and seafood from the Seto Inland Sea. During the Edo period, Mitsumasa IKEDA, the first lord of the Okayama Domain in Bizen Province, enco...
Beef mochi bowl
Beef bowl with himenochi
It is a beef mochi bowl with mochi in place of rice in gyudon. It contains “Himenomochi,” a specialty of Shinjo Village, and it is a dish where you can fully enjoy the delicious taste of “Himenomoc...
dried meat
Tightly condenses the flavor of meat
It is a local food that has been handed down since ancient times in Tsuyama, Okayama prefecture. Okayama prefecture is also the place where Japan's oldest wagyu was born, and its history is old, an...
Ebi meshi
An impactful black fried rice! Okayama's local specialty “shrimp meshi”
“Ebi-meshi” is a unique type of fried rice that combines caramel sauce and ketchup and uses a spicy sauce. It is eaten in the vicinity of Okayama prefecture, and it is particularly famous as a loc...
Spanish mackerel sashimi
Elegant sweetness and thick texture
Speaking of sashimi in the south of Okayama prefecture, it is such a representative ingredient that it indicates sawara sashimi. Spring sawara, in particular, has a child on the belly and is light ...
Sushi bowl
Taste the seasons in Okayama
The “sushi bowl,” which has seafood taken in the Seto Inland Sea on it, is an authentic, superb “sushi bowl” offered by sushi restaurants, unlike the “kaisendon” offered at conventional restaurants...
denim bun
A blue gem born in Kurashiki, the mecca of denim — “denim bun”
At “Kurashiki Denim Street,” which is located in the Bikan Historical Quarter of Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture, the unique blue meat bun “denim bun” is attracting the attention of tourists. Th...
Bukkake udon
The taste unique to the birthplace of Bukkake Udon
Speaking of Bukkake Udon, it is one of the specialties of Kagawa Prefecture, but its birthplace is located in Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture. Kurashiki's specialty udon is topped with leeks, t...