Japanese Seasonings & Pantry Shikoku Tokushima Naruto Wakame (鳴門わかめ) Date October 3, 2026 Reading Time 13 Mins Read Open a bowl of miso soup in Tokushima and the seaweed inside may not behave the way you expect. It…
Japan Tea Type Karigane (雁ヶ音) Date October 3, 2026 Reading Time 10 Mins Read Walk into an old tea shop in Kyoto and you’ll find gyokuro, the shaded tea Japan treats as one of…
Drinking Japan Sake Sake and Food Pairing: How to Match Japanese Sake with Food Date October 3, 2026 Reading Time 15 Mins Read A plate of salt-grilled fish arrives, its skin still crackling. You take a sip of sake, then a bite of…
Japan Tea Type Kukicha (茎茶) Date October 2, 2026 Reading Time 11 Mins Read Most Japanese green teas are judged by their leaves. Kukicha (茎茶) turns that idea around. It’s a Japanese green tea…
Shikoku Sweet Potatoes Tokushima Naruto Kintoki (なると金時) Date October 2, 2026 Reading Time 18 Mins Read In autumn, shoppers across Kansai are likely to see one Tokushima name repeated on produce signs: Naruto Kintoki. This Naruto…
Drinking Japan Sake How to Drink Sake in Japan: A Beginner’s Guide Date October 1, 2026 Reading Time 18 Mins Read You sit down at a small izakaya counter, and the staff slide over a menu with a long column of…
Chubu Japanese Sweets Toyama Tsukisekai (月世界) Date October 1, 2026 Reading Time 14 Mins Read Picture a small, plain white rectangle sitting on a plate next to a cup of tea. At first, it looks…
History Japan Sake Contemporary Sake in Japan: Craft, Globalization, and a Living Tradition Date October 1, 2026 Reading Time 26 Mins Read In 2025, Japan exported about 45.9 billion yen of sake to a record 81 countries and regions. Meanwhile, the country’s…
Drinking Japan Sake How to Read a Japanese Sake Label: A Beginner’s Guide Date September 30, 2026 Reading Time 26 Mins Read You pick up a bottle in a Japanese liquor shop and turn it around. On the back, you find a…
Fukushima Japanese Pickles Tohoku Kōyō-zuke (紅葉漬) Date September 29, 2026 Reading Time 8 Mins Read Kōyō-zuke (紅葉漬), also written koyo-zuke or koyozuke, is a ready-to-eat fermented salmon specialty from northern Fukushima Prefecture. Producers make it…
