Japan Food Trip Builder
Build Your Japan Food Trip
Pick a prefecture, choose local foods, and get a simple food plan with a rough budget and planning time.
A rough food planning guide — not a live restaurant database.
Japan has more food than sushi and ramen.
Soul Food in Japan is a travel guide to Japanese soul food — regional comfort dishes, local favorites, and everyday foods from across all 47 prefectures.
Pick where you're going. Find what to eat. Learn how to order it.
Build a Food Trip
Pick prefectures and local dishes to create a simple food route with budget and planning time.
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Find Food by Prefecture
Explore 229 regional dishes across all 47 prefectures.
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Order in Japanese
Show simple Japanese food phrases to staff with one tap.
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Not sure where to start?
Try a ready-made food route, then customize your own trip with Food Planner.
Beat the brutal heat with cold noodles, shaved ice, festival snacks, and stamina food.
Furano Omu-Curry (富良野オムカレー)
Cut into the omelette and curry sauce comes flooding out like it's been waiting all morning for permission — with a lavender field in the window behind it.
Okayama Ebimeshi (えびめし)
The rice is black. Not burnt-black — on-purpose black, glossy and rich, and I did not trust it until the first bite made me a believer.
Sasebo Burger (佐世保バーガー)
It arrives the size of your face, wrapped in paper like a gift you didn't earn, and you will need both hands and possibly a moment alone with it.
Yokohama Sanma-men (サンマー麺)
No, it's not the fish. Yes, everyone asks. And once you get past that, this is the noodle bowl I quietly crave more than the famous ones.
Eat your way across Japan
229 regional dishes across all 47 prefectures. Plan the trip around the food.
Explore the map →Order like a regular
Izakaya etiquette, the Ramen Jiro call, shrine manners — the stuff guidebooks skip.
Get the tips →Which dish are you?
Answer five quick questions and we'll point you at the dish you didn't know you needed.
Take the quiz →Browse all 299 dishes
Search, filter by region or category, and sort the whole catalog your way.
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