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Kiryu City in Gunma Prefecture, centered on the Kiryu River, thrives as a “textile town” with flourishing textile industries such as weaving and sewing. This town, known for making many obi for kimonos, also boasts a flat udon noodle tha...

Beniharuka, officially registered in Japanese as べにはるか and commonly written 紅はるか in shops, is one of Japan's best-known sweet potato cultivars for moist, strongly sweet yakiimo. It has reddish-purple skin and pale flesh that tur...

Genmaicha (玄米茶) is a Japanese green tea blended with roasted rice. Producers mix bancha or sencha with roasted rice, usually in close to equal parts. The rice is soaked, steamed, and roasted until golden brown. Some of it pops open du...

Picture a roasted sweet potato split open on a cold evening. The skin is wrinkled and dark, while the flesh glows golden orange with a glossy, syrup-like surface. This is the image most often associated with Anno Imo (安納芋), a Japanese...

Tokyo is one of the world’s great food cities, but its restaurant culture can feel unfamiliar when you visit for the first time. A small ramen counter, a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant, an underground food hall, and a neighborhood izakay...

In 1425, a document kept at Kitano Shrine in Kyoto recorded 342 sake businesses inside and around the capital. By then, that number marks how far sake had travelled. It was no longer mainly a courtly ritual drink, but rather a commodity,...

Koshu miso (甲州味噌, Kōshū miso) is a regional miso associated with Yamanashi Prefecture in central Japan. In its traditional form, producers ferment soybeans with both rice koji and barley koji in the same batch, which gives the paste ...

Karigane Hōjicha (雁が音ほうじ茶) is a roasted Japanese tea. Producers make it from karigane: the stems, stalks, and leaf veins they sort out while processing gyokuro and other high-grade, shade-grown tea. It starts from gyokuro-grade pl...

Kaga Bōcha (加賀棒茶) is a roasted Japanese tea made almost entirely from tea stems rather than leaves. It comes from Kanazawa, in Ishikawa Prefecture. Dozens of local roasting houses there turn separated tea stems into a naturally sweet...

Kaizoku Ryori translates as pirate cuisine, and it means grilling seafood yourself at the table in southern Tokushima. Spiny lobster, abalone, turban shells, and scallops go straight onto a mesh grill in front of you. Some restaurants si...