Eating Your Way Across Japan: A Guide to Kyōdo Ryōri
What regional dishes are, and how Japan archived all of them.
Regional Dishes of Japan
An English guide to Japan's local dishes — the kyōdo ryōri cooked in homes across all 47 prefectures. Every dish has its own page: its history and origins, its main ingredients, how and when it is eaten, and a traditional home recipe.
1365 regional dishes · 47 prefectures · 8 regions
About the collection
The dishes were selected and documented by local experts in every prefecture for the
“Uchi no Kyodo Ryori” (Our Regional Cuisines) database of Japan's Ministry of Agriculture,
Forestry and Fisheries — a national archive of home cooking. This guide presents the
complete archive in English. Read the story of the collection →
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Hokkaido
27 dishes
Aomori
29 dishes
Iwate
30 dishes
Miyagi
29 dishes
Akita
29 dishes
Yamagata
29 dishes
Fukushima
30 dishes
Ibaraki
30 dishes
Tochigi
30 dishes
Gunma
27 dishes
Saitama
29 dishes
Chiba
28 dishes
Tokyo
30 dishes
Kanagawa
23 dishes
Yamanashi
30 dishes
Nagano
29 dishes
Shizuoka
28 dishes
Niigata
30 dishes
Toyama
30 dishes
Ishikawa
30 dishes
Fukui
29 dishes
Gifu
30 dishes
Aichi
30 dishes
Mie
30 dishes
Shiga
30 dishes
Kyoto
30 dishes
Osaka
30 dishes
Hyogo
30 dishes
Nara
30 dishes
Wakayama
27 dishes
Tottori
27 dishes
Shimane
28 dishes
Okayama
28 dishes
Hiroshima
30 dishes
Yamaguchi
30 dishes
Tokushima
30 dishes
Kagawa
30 dishes
Ehime
25 dishes
Kochi
30 dishes
Fukuoka
30 dishes
Saga
25 dishes
Nagasaki
30 dishes
Kumamoto
29 dishes
Oita
30 dishes
Miyazaki
30 dishes
Kagoshima
30 dishes
Okinawa
30 dishes
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