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The brewery describes Urakasumi Zen as gently fruity, fresh, and moderately savory. Zen is restrained rather than strongly perfumed, which makes it, in our view, an easy partner for sushi and grilled fish. Yet behind the bottle lies a re...

A small bowl of soup arrives at a table in Matsue. Inside, dozens of tiny dark clams sit in a steaming broth. This is Shijimi Jiru (しじみ汁), the clam soup of Shimane Prefecture, made with Yamato shijimi from nearby Lake Shinji. It look...

Picture a family gathering on Tsushima, a remote island of Nagasaki Prefecture. A big pot simmers at the center of the table, full of chicken or fresh local fish, vegetables and tofu. In the past, the family might even kill one of its ow...

Tap a pale bar against the corner of a table, and it breaks with a clean crack. That small ritual introduces Amegata (あめがた), a pulled malt candy associated with Saga Prefecture in Kyushu. Its mellow sweetness comes from malt syrup ra...

Picture a bowl of ramen with a pale golden broth. You lean in, and the smell is sweet and toasty, yet it isn't pork at all. That's Tottori Gyukotsu Ramen (鳥取牛骨ラーメン), a regional ramen made with beef bone broth. Today, you'll find ...

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 ...

Bite into a ripe Kureha pear on a hot August afternoon, and the juice runs down your wrist before you finish the first mouthful. There is no dignified way to eat one. Kureha nashi is the branded Japanese pear of the Kureha Hills in Toyam...

Sit down at a sushi counter in Tokyo, and before you have even opened the menu, a tall, heavy cup lands in front of you. The tea inside is a deep, slightly cloudy green, very hot and pleasantly strong. Most visitors drink it without a se...

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. ...

Open a box of live Himeshima kuruma prawns, and the sawdust inside may suddenly move. The striped prawns come from a small island off Oita Prefecture, on the island of Kyushu. There, land once used for salt making gave way to seawater po...