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Fukushima Food Guide – Food in Japan 福島の食 Fukushima Food Guide Ramen Towns · Fruit Kingdom · Aizu Tradition Welcome to the complete Fukushima food guide from Food in Japan. This is a prefecture where people line up for ramen at 7 a.m...

岩手の食 Iwate Food Guide Three Great Noodles · Sanriku Coast · Nanbu Iron Iwate food rests on three things: noodles, a cold northern coast, and a long habit of turning scarcity into cooking. In fact, the largest prefecture on Honshu spl...

Tono Jingisukan (遠野ジンギスカン) is a regional lamb barbecue from Tono City in Iwate Prefecture. Thin slices of lamb or mutton go onto a domed iron pan unseasoned, then get dipped in a soy-based sauce. Its signature feature is the port...

Hittsumi (ひっつみ) is a traditional dumpling soup from Iwate Prefecture. Cooks tear wheat-flour dough by hand and simmer it with chicken, root vegetables, mushrooms, and soy-based broth. The dish is known for its soft, chewy texture and...

Aomori Food Guide – Food in Japan 青森の食 Aomori Food Guide Apple Kingdom · Oma Tuna · Nebuta Nights Aomori food rests on three things: apples, cold northern seas, and a stubborn streak of local invention. In fact, the prefecture at the...

Miyagi Food Guide – Food in Japan 杜の都の食 Miyagi Food Guide Gyutan · Sanriku Sea · City of Trees Miyagi food means two things above all: the charcoal-grilled beef tongue of Sendai, and the seafood of the Sanriku coast. Around those si...

Yamagata Food Guide – Food in Japan 山形の食 Yamagata Food Guide Ramen Capital · Soba Holy Land · Fruit Kingdom Welcome to the complete Yamagata food guide from Food in Japan. This is the prefecture that spends more on ramen than anywher...

Akita Food Guide – Food in Japan 秋田の食 Akita Food Guide Rice Country · Snow Country · Tohoku Welcome to the complete Akita food guide from Food in Japan. Akita Prefecture sits on the Sea of Japan coast in northern Tohoku. Thanks to de...

Okinawa zenzai breaks every rule you thought you knew about Japanese sweets. On the mainland, after all, zenzai means a steaming bowl of sweet red bean soup. In Okinawa, order zenzai and you get a mountain of shaved ice. Beneath that sno...

Yamaguchi sake has quietly become one of Japan's most exciting regional styles. The prefecture sits at the western tip of Honshu, facing the Seto Inland Sea. For years, drinkers overlooked it beside giants like Niigata. That picture chan...