Resource for local cuisines and specialties across Japan

4/2/2014 10:49:09 AM

The keyword is 郷土料理 kyōdo-ryōri “hometown food”, and the Japanese Wikipedia has a very comprehensive list:

日本の郷土料理一覧

Unfortunately it’s only in Japanese and Google Translate doesn’t do a great job (“swine juice”, anyone?). The place names do make it through reasonably well, and most all dishes have links to pages with pictures, so with a bit of effort you can make sense of it.

For a more lightweight version in English, check out JNTO’s illustrated Local Cuisine pages. Virtually every prefecture/city/village tourist office/homepage will also have information about the local specialities, eg. this PDF for Kagoshima, although the English versions tend to omit the weirder stuff (what, no torizashi raw chicken sashimi?!).

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