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関西の食 Kansai Food Guide Takoyaki · Kaiseki · Kobe Beef This Kansai food guide spans seven prefectures — Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo, Nara, Shiga, Wakayama, and Mie — and explores one of the most diverse and celebrated food cultures in the cou...

If you're planning a trip to Japan, the Kansai region is probably already on your list. Kyoto, Osaka, Nara are names that almost everyone recognizes. But here's the thing: most travelers spend so much time planning what to see that they ...

Kansai-style sukiyaki (関西風すき焼き) is a Japanese hot pot that begins by searing beef with sugar. The cook then adds soy sauce, sake, and other seasonings straight to the pan. In the classic method, no pre-mixed sauce waits in a jug. ...

Introduction to Kansai Style Okonomiyaki Kansai style okonomiyaki or also Osaka-style okonomiyaki is a Japanese traditional food in Osaka prefecture in the Kansai region. It is a predominant version of the dish, found throughout most of ...

Walk into a Tokyo department store food hall in February, and the fruit counter can look more like a jewelry case. Glossy red berries sit in neat rows beside strawberries so pale they look almost unripe. Some shops even sell them one at ...

Imagine biting into a strawberry that looks almost like a pearl, pale with a faint pink blush and dotted with tiny red seeds. That is the Pearl White strawberry (パールホワイト), a Japanese white strawberry developed in Nara Prefecture. ...

Oita Wagyu (おおいた和牛) is a premium certification for selected Oita Bungo Beef from Oita Prefecture, on the island of Kyushu. It is not a separate breed. To qualify, the beef must reach meat quality Grade 4 or 5. It must also come fro...

In Oita, some pigs eat rice before they reach the table. That simple detail sits behind Kome no Megumi pork (米の恵み), the prefecture's unified pork brand. The name means “blessing of rice,” and it covers pork from pigs given feed with ...

Picture a clay pot on a winter table in Hiroshima, its inner rim coated with a thick ridge of miso. That ridge is the whole point of Kaki no Dotenabe, a Hiroshima oyster hot pot. Oysters, tofu, and vegetables simmer in dashi broth, and d...

At Kochi's Sunday Market, packs of local sushi may look nothing like the nigiri you know. Pink buds, green stalks, and dark mushrooms replace the seafood that many visitors expect. This is Tosa Inaka Sushi (土佐田舎寿司), the mountain-ve...