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.
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.
Open the Food Planner →
Find Food by Prefecture
Explore 184 regional dishes across all 47 prefectures.
Choose a Prefecture →Order in Japanese
Show simple Japanese food phrases to staff with one tap.
Open the Phrasebook →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.
Funazushi (鮒寿司)
Fermented lake carp aged in rice for a year or more — a sour, funky, cheese-and-sake bomb that turns out to be the great-grandparent of every piece of sushi you've ever eaten.
Mehari-zushi (めはり寿司)
A rice ball wrapped head-to-toe in tangy pickled mustard greens, so big and good that the old story says your eyes go wide just to fit it in your mouth.
Utsunomiya Gyoza (宇都宮餃子)
A whole plate of pan-fried dumplings with lacquered, crackle-crisp bottoms — in the city that eats more gyoza than anywhere else in Japan and has zero shame about it.
Yobuko Squid, Ika Ikizukuri (呼子のイカ活造り)
Squid so fresh the body is still glassy-clear and the legs are still moving when it reaches your table — sweeter and cleaner than any squid you thought you knew, at the little port that made it famous.
Eat your way across Japan
184 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 251 dishes
Search, filter by region or category, and sort the whole catalog your way.
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