Yukari is the signature prawn cracker of Bankaku Sohonpo, a Nagoya confectioner founded in 1889 whose name is…
Deep in the warm, sun-soaked south of Kyushu, Kagoshima has quietly become one of Japan's largest tea-growing regions,…
Okaki are the thicker, mochi-rice cousins of everyday senbei, and few makers are as widely recognized in Japan…
Ogi, a small former castle town in Saga on the island of Kyushu, is known across Japan as…
Shizuoka has been the beating heart of Japanese green tea for centuries, and no style is more closely…
Imo kenpi is one of Kochi Prefecture's most recognizable everyday sweets: batons of local sweet potato deep-fried and…
Nanbu senbei are thin, round wheat-flour wafers pressed between hot iron molds, a food born in the cold…
In the castle town of Ogaki in southwestern Gifu, the confectioner Tsuchiya has been making sweets since 1755,…
Konpeito, the tiny star-shaped sugar candy, arrived in Japan with 16th-century Portuguese traders, and few makers have kept…
Okoshi is one of Japan's oldest confections — hardened puffed rice bound with sugar and starch syrup —…
Kaga Bocha is the signature roasted tea of Ishikawa Prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast, and Maruhachi…
Kaki no Tane are small, curved soy-glazed arare—named for their resemblance to persimmon seeds—mixed with roasted peanuts, and…
Tucked into the misty river valleys of Yame in southern Fukuoka, the village of Hoshino has built a…
Soka Senbei are firm, hand-pressed rice crackers from Soka, a former post town on the old Nikko Kaido…
