Japan's Best Eats Rankings 日本語

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101 items with the largest gap from the national average. The bigger the gap, the more strongly that food is tied to a particular place.

Freshwater clams (shijimi) Matsue 10.3× Seafood Peaches Fukushima 8.9× Fruit Crab Tottori 7.8× Seafood Castella sponge cake Nagasaki 6.6× Confectionery Scallops Aomori 5.9× Seafood Flounder Tottori 4.6× Seafood Bonito Kochi 4.5× Seafood Melon Mito 4.1× Fruit Japanese pears Tottori 4.0× Fruit Pod beans Niigata 3.4× Fresh Vegetables Other shellfish Aomori 3.4× Seafood Pickled Chinese cabbage Kochi 3.4× Dried Foods, Seaweed & Soy Products Dried bonito flakes Naha 3.3× Seafood Other citrus Matsuyama 3.1× Fruit Sardines Tottori 3.0× Seafood Oysters Hiroshima 3.0× Seafood Sea bream Saga 2.9× Seafood Shellfish Aomori 2.8× Seafood Horse mackerel Matsue 2.8× Seafood Persimmons Gifu 2.8× Fruit Fried fish cake Kagoshima 2.7× Seafood Fish cake (kamaboko) Sendai 2.5× Seafood Apples Aomori 2.5× Fruit Meal-kit ingredients Toyama 2.5× Prepared Foods Dried baby sardines Wakayama 2.5× Seafood Kelp Aomori 2.5× Dried Foods, Seaweed & Soy Products Taro Yamagata 2.4× Fresh Vegetables Yellowtail Toyama 2.4× Seafood Shumai dumplings Yokohama 2.4× Prepared Foods Green tea Shizuoka 2.4× Beverages Manju buns Tottori 2.4× Confectionery Pickled seafood Toyama 2.4× Seafood Wakame seaweed Morioka 2.4× Dried Foods, Seaweed & Soy Products Wine Chiba 2.3× Alcohol Bamboo shoots Yamagata 2.3× Fresh Vegetables Pickled plums (umeboshi) Wakayama 2.3× Dried Foods, Seaweed & Soy Products Other fruit Yamagata 2.2× Fruit Tuna Shizuoka 2.2× Seafood Baby formula Kochi 2.2× Dairy & Eggs Salt Niigata 2.2× Oils & Seasonings Squid Toyama 2.2× Seafood Other fresh meat Kumamoto 2.1× Meat Shochu Miyazaki 2.1× Alcohol Cod roe Kitakyushu 2.1× Seafood Salted salmon Niigata 2.1× Seafood Oranges Toyama 2.1× Fruit Simmered seafood (tsukudani) Shizuoka 2.1× Seafood Gyoza dumplings Hamamatsu 2.0× Prepared Foods Sweet potatoes Tokushima 2.0× Fresh Vegetables Grilled eel (unagi) Hamamatsu 2.0× Prepared Foods Dried horse mackerel Kofu 2.0× Seafood Fried tofu (aburaage & ganmodoki) Fukui 1.9× Dried Foods, Seaweed & Soy Products Sweet bean jelly (yokan) Fukui 1.9× Confectionery Black tea Kobe 1.9× Beverages Other tea leaves Sakai 1.9× Beverages Whisky Akita 1.9× Alcohol Cutlet Fukui 1.9× Prepared Foods Grapes Kofu 1.9× Fruit Cocoa & cocoa drinks Naha 1.9× Beverages Sake Akita 1.9× Alcohol Mackerel Kagoshima 1.8× Seafood Simmered kelp (tsukudani) Fukui 1.8× Dried Foods, Seaweed & Soy Products Yakitori Aomori 1.8× Prepared Foods Dried udon & soba Akita 1.8× Grains Canned seafood Naha 1.8× Seafood Fish cake tube (chikuwa) Tottori 1.8× Seafood Wheat flour Nagano 1.8× Grains Manila clams Kofu 1.8× Seafood Dried shiitake mushrooms Kagoshima 1.8× Dried Foods, Seaweed & Soy Products Other salted/dried seafood Aomori 1.8× Seafood Konjac Yamagata 1.8× Dried Foods, Seaweed & Soy Products Other processed meat Naha 1.8× Meat Watermelon Niigata 1.8× Fruit Fresh udon & soba Takamatsu 1.8× Grains Mineral water Naha 1.7× Beverages Dried nori seaweed Saga 1.7× Dried Foods, Seaweed & Soy Products Mandarin oranges Wakayama 1.7× Fruit Rice cakes (mochi) Fukui 1.7× Grains Other mushrooms Yamagata 1.7× Fresh Vegetables Beef Kyoto 1.7× Meat Other alcohol Tokyo (23 Wards) 1.7× Alcohol Happoshu (low-malt beer) Kochi 1.7× Alcohol Enoki mushrooms Nagano 1.7× Fresh Vegetables Other vegetables, misc. Nagasaki 1.7× Fresh Vegetables Fish paste products Nagasaki 1.7× Seafood Ground beef & pork mix Nagasaki 1.7× Meat Pacific saury Akita 1.7× Seafood Soy sauce Yamagata 1.6× Oils & Seasonings Lotus root Niigata 1.6× Fresh Vegetables Lactic acid bacteria drinks Kagoshima 1.6× Beverages Salmon Sapporo 1.6× Seafood Strawberries Utsunomiya 1.6× Fruit Other fish paste products Shizuoka 1.6× Seafood Assorted sashimi Kitakyushu 1.6× Seafood Other fresh fish Nagasaki 1.6× Seafood Sports drinks Yamaguchi 1.6× Beverages Salted & dried seafood Aomori 1.6× Seafood Spinach Akita 1.6× Fresh Vegetables Other pickled vegetables Kyoto 1.6× Dried Foods, Seaweed & Soy Products Bean sprouts Yamagata 1.6× Fresh Vegetables Pork Niigata 1.2× Meat

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