Local cuisine, regional dishes, and everyday food culture in Japan.
Current date: 2025-12-19 (JST) URL Slug Suggestion: satoyama-soba-experience-osaka-nose Some meals require a journey. In Osaka, you can find soba anywhere, but to experience it as part of the landscape, you have to leave the city. Sobakiri Tsutaya, a celebrated restaurant…
Current date: 2025-12-19 (JST) Fukuoka has soba restaurants. Most sit in town, convenient to reach. But there is a different kind of soba experience, one that requires planning and a drive into the countryside. Soba Bunjiro is located in Wakasugi,…
Current date: 2025-12-19 (JST) Fukuoka’s food culture runs deep. Beyond the ramen stalls and yatai carts, there are quieter, more focused traditions. One of these centers on gyutan—beef tongue—treated not as a side dish, but as a complete experience. I…
About Kinseiken Standing gracefully in Daigahara, Hakushu-cho, Hokuto City, Yamanashi Prefecture, “Kinseiken” is a traditional Japanese confectionery shop with over 120 years of history, established in 1902 (Meiji 35). This shop began when a former inn (ryokan) from the 41st…
