Hokkaido
Esashi faces the Japan Sea on the southwestern tail of Hokkaido, and it is one of the few…
Fukushima
Most yokan arrives as a firm rectangular bar. Tamashimaya, a confectioner in the old castle town of Nihonmatsu…
Yamagata
Noshiume is a paper-thin sheet of ume plum pressed with sugar and agar, cut into strips and sandwiched…
Saga
Ogi, a small former castle town in Saga on the island of Kyushu, is known across Japan as…
Gifu
In the castle town of Ogaki in southwestern Gifu, the confectioner Tsuchiya has been making sweets since 1755,…
Kyoto
Toraya (虎屋), founded in Kyoto in the early 1500s and purveyor of wagashi to the Japanese Imperial Court…