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Most visitors to Kobe go straight for the steak. That is completely understandable. Kobe beef is one of the most celebrated ingredients in all of Japan. But the city has another beef dish. It is less famous. It costs a fraction of the pr...

Yokohama is Japan's most cosmopolitan food city. As the country's first modern port, opened in 1859, it became the birthplace of Japan's ramen culture, home to the nation's largest Chinatown, and the city where Western-style dining first...

Nagoya is Japan's most underrated food city. Situated at the heart of the Chubu region, it gave the world Hitsumabushi, Miso Katsu, Tebasaki, and a singular obsession with Hatcho miso that defines every dish on every table. Nagoya cuisin...

Fukuoka punches well above its weight as a food city. Situated at the southwestern tip of Japan's main islands, it sits closer to Seoul than Tokyo, and its cuisine reflects centuries of trade with China and Korea. The result is food that...

Kyoto is where Japanese food culture reached its highest refinement. For over a thousand years, as Japan's imperial capital, the city developed a cuisine built on restraint, seasonality, and respect for ingredients rather than boldness o...

Osaka does not do subtle. Japan's old merchant capital built its cooking around volume, speed and sauce, and it gave the country a word for the result: kuidaore, eating yourself into ruin. This is the birthplace of takoyaki, the home of ...

Tokyo has more restaurants per capita than any other city on earth. For first-time visitors, that abundance is both exciting and overwhelming. This guide cuts through it: 20 dishes that are genuinely essential to Tokyo's food identity, o...

Ask someone what to eat in Ibaraki. Most people say natto, the fermented soybeans, or Mito's pickled plum. Both are fair answers. But ask a local, and the first thing out of their mouth is usually kenchin soba. It's a bowl of earthy root...

埼玉の食 Saitama Food Guide Negi · Sweet Potato · Udon This Saitama food guide covers the dishes, cities, and agricultural traditions that make this inland prefecture one of the Kanto region's most distinctive — and most overlooked — foo...

Have you ever heard of sumitsukare? If this is your first time, don't worry. Most people haven't heard of it either. The name is hard to spell, the dish looks pretty plain, and nobody agrees on where the name came from. But for people wh...