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 247 regional dishes across all 47 prefectures.
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Show simple Japanese food phrases to staff with one tap.
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Try a ready-made food route, then customize your own trip with Food Planner.
Appetite season — hearty, savory bowls as the air turns crisp.
Inaka Zushi (田舎寿司)
I bought what I thought was a box of ordinary sushi at a street market in Kochi. There was no fish in it anywhere, and that turned out to be the best thing about it.
Karamen (辛麺)
They ask you for a number before they ask you for anything else. I said five like an idiot, and Nobeoka taught me something about myself that afternoon.
Kuroishi Tsuyu Yakisoba (黒石つゆやきそば)
Somebody in Kuroishi looked at a plate of fried noodles and thought: what this needs is soup. They were wrong about that. They were also completely right.
Tama Konnyaku (玉こんにゃく)
In Yamagata, tama konnyaku is a simple local snack that comes into its own when served hot from the skewer.
Eat your way across Japan
247 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.
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