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title: Narai-juku
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# Narai-juku

Travel journal from Narai-juku, with 7 notes on the places I ate, the dishes I cooked and the sights: Narai-juku, Rice-flour oyaki with nozawana, Shinshu beef sukiyaki, Sagamiya Soba.

## Journeys

- [Autumn leaves in Narai-juku and an autumn table in Shinshu](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/narai/index.md): A Quiet Day in an Old House in Nagano（2022-12-18）

## Cook the local flavors once more

- [Rice-flour oyaki with nozawana](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/rice-flour-oyaki-with-nozawana/index.md): Oyaki are the signature home dish of Shinshu: a dough of wheat or buckwheat flour rolled thin, wrapped around a filling and baked.
- [Shinshu beef sukiyaki](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/shinshu-beef-sukiyaki/index.md): Nagano's "apple-fed Shinshu beef" is black wagyu that meets standards set by a producers' association; the cattle are fed by-products of the prefecture's food industry, such as apple pomace from juice…

## A little of each town’s story

- [Narai-juku](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/narai-juku/index.md): The 34th of the 69 post towns on the Nakasendo, equidistant from Edo and Kyoto.
- [Shinshu soba](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/shinshu-soba/index.md): Buckwheat grows even in cool highlands where rice and wheat struggle, so it has long been cultivated in Nagano, helped by the wide day-night temperature swings and clear water.
- [Pickled nozawana](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/pickled-nozawana/index.md): Nozawana is said to descend from Tennoji turnips that a temple priest in Nozawa Onsen brought back from Kyoto in 1756.
- [Apple-fed Shinshu beef](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/apple-fed-shinshu-beef/index.md): A brand of black wagyu from Nagano.

## Places we stopped along the way

- [Sagamiya Soba](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/sagamiya-soba/index.md): A handmade soba shop in the middle of Narai-juku.