
REGION
Beyond the capitals
From Hokkaido to Okinawa — visiting the tables of each place.
Old warehouses beside the Otaru Canal — Photo: Markus Leupold-Löwenthal / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Japanese gastronomy is not only in Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka. This archive also holds tables in Hokkaido, Tohoku, Koshinetsu, Hokuriku, Tokai, Chugoku, Kyushu and Okinawa.
Sushi in Otaru, grilled beef tongue in Sendai, a restaurant in Minamiuonuma, an auberge in Toga village, Toyama, hitsumabushi in Nagoya, Satsuma cooking in Kagoshima, Ryukyu cuisine in Naha.

The archive will keep growing, region by region, from information that can be verified.

Photo credits

Old warehouses beside the Otaru Canal
Otaru, Hokkaido
Photographer / creator
Markus Leupold-Löwenthal
Source / licence
Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
Markus Leupold-Löwenthal, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Kaisendon (seafood rice bowl) at Hakodate Morning Market
Hakodate, Hokkaido
Photographer / creator
663highland
Source / licence
663highland, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
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Higashi Chaya, the former geisha district of Kanazawa
Kanazawa, Ishikawa
Photographer / creator
Andrea Schaffer from Sydney, Australia
Source / licence
Andrea Schaffer from Sydney, Australia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Tsukigahama beach on Iriomote Island
Iriomote, Okinawa
Photographer / creator
663highland
Source / licence
663highland, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
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