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The versatile seasoning "Umaitere" is a powerful and unsung hero of local cuisine! [Yamagata Prefecture]

We have soy sauce that has been loved for generations in Yonezawa City, southern Yamagata Prefecture. Its name is "Umaitere." Every citizen of Yonezawa knows about it, and I've heard that each family always has one bottle in their own...

ikokeikoke2023.09.15

[Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture] Tsuruoka's food culture has been passed down for hundreds of years

Tsuruoka City has been a long-standing experience of local cuisine that makes use of seasonal ingredients, including mountain produce such as wild vegetables and mushrooms, the bounty of the villages such as rice, edamame, turnips, and bamboo shoots, and seafood such as cod and flounder...

NORIJUNNORIJUN2023.08.29

[Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture] Tsuruoka City, home to four national hot spring resorts

Tsuruoka City has four national resort resorts: Yudagawa Onsen, Atsumi Onsen, Yunohama Onsen, and Yura Onsen...

NORIJUNNORIJUN2023.07.26

[Yamagata Prefecture] Is Yamagata the secret to surviving the hot summer? A closer look at Yamagata's "chilled culture"...

No matter how many things you make, have you given up on the annual summer heat that is renewed every year, and no matter what you do, you've given up on it, that's wasted? I want to do something about the summer heat, and at least I can't get cooler around me...

SatomioriSatomiori2023.07.25

Yamagata famous confectionery “Noshiume”

Is the roots of Yamagata's specialty Japanese sweet "Noshi Ume"? [Yamagata Prefecture]

Do you know about Yamagata's famous sweet "Noshi Ume"? It looks like a jelly-like candy, but it looks like a child's candy, but its history is a long-established Japanese sweet. This time we will be introducing the Yamagata famous sweet "Noshi Ume"...

AoiwaAoiwa2023.07.06

[Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture] 3 recommended sake restaurants where you can enjoy the locally loved Morioka!

The area where sake shops in Morioka mainly gathers around Odori and Cinema Street, the city's most busy downtown area, Hachimancho, the Hachiman-cho, the mote-mae town of Morioka Hachimangu Shrine, and the area around Morioka Station, where new shops have opened in recent years...

Daiwa ConsilioDaiwa Consilio2023.06.29

[Kamiyama City, Yamagata Prefecture] A post town on the Ushu Kaido road that was used by 13 feudal lords during the Edo period...

Narageshuku is a post town on the Ushu Kaido road. The Ushu Kaido is a Kuwaori inn on the Oshu Kaido, one of the five Edo roads that connects Edo and Mutsu Province on the Pacific side.

NORIJUNNORIJUN2023.06.22

[Yamagata Prefecture] Nostalgic yet new! ? What kind of bread is Taiyo bread?

There are many attractive breads that can be purchased anywhere, but don't you find "local bread" that can only be purchased in rural areas even more attractive? Taiyou Bread has been loved in Yamagata Prefecture for a long time...

SatomioriSatomiori2023.06.12

Wild vegetables

[Yamagata Prefecture] Wild vegetables and wild plants that can be enjoyed even in early summer, the season for the classic grasses that are popular in Yamagata...

When you think of wild vegetables, many people think that early spring is the only bounty. In fact, the bounty of nature is not limited to early spring. In particular, the Tohoku region has many areas with heavy snowfall, but it's early summer...

ikokeikoke2023.05.22

A winter illusion woven with sweet dew... A review of the history and actual food of Kokonoe Honpo Tamazawa's "Shimobashira"! [...

Kokonoe Honpo Tamazawa Shimobashira, which has been a hot topic on social media these days, is being sold every early autumn, and is now available for pre-orders, and when you realize it, it is a masterpiece that is truly nicknamed "Winter Illusion." This time I bought it miraculously...

editorial staffeditorial staff2023.05.09

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