Morning set of toast, egg and coffee on a cafe counter, Gifu

Eat what is in season, where it grows

Seasonal food from the Japanese countryside — the prefectures, the small places, and the people who cook there.

Free ordering cards

Morning set — Gifu. January 2025.

Every place visited in person. Every photograph ours. Prices in yen.

In season now — Autumn

  • Easy Roasted Kabocha Squash Recipe

    Easy Roasted Kabocha Squash Recipe

    Roasted kabocha squash — creamy, sweet and faintly savoury. The simplest way to cook the autumn pumpkin stacked at every market from October.

All autumn dishes

Four seasons, four sites

Japanese food changes four times a year, and so does this site.

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

[TILE PHOTOGRAPHS TO COME — one of ours per season, shot on the trip. Colours are Sakura-iro, Asagi, Kaki-iro and Sumi until then.]

Regional gems

  • Gifu
  • Fukui
  • Toyama
  • Shimane
  • Ehime
  • Akita
  • Miyazaki

Prefectures open as we visit them. Next: Fukui, Toyama, Shimane.

[PHOTOGRAPH OF THE PRINTED CARDS — six cards fanned on a wooden table, shot from above.]

Ordering cards for the countryside

Six printable bilingual cards for eating where nobody speaks English — what to say, how to ask what is in season, and an allergy card the kitchen can read. Free.

[EMAIL FIELD GOES HERE — form to be connected once the email platform is chosen and the Japanese is checked.]

Send me the cards

Six cards, one email. No spam.

Who is behind this

[PHOTOGRAPH OF US — at a counter, mid-meal. Not a studio portrait.]

A family with one foot in Australia and one in Japan. We go, we eat, we ask permission, we write it down. We tell you the date we went and the price we actually paid, in yen. More about us.

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