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In Himi, the fish market usually steals the show. Toyama Bay sits right there, and the morning catch is hard to ignore. Yet the town keeps a quieter specialty on the souvenir shelf. Himi udon is a hand-stretched wheat noodle from Himi Ci...

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...

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 ...