KINKI
Tamba
Travel journal from Tamba, with 5 notes on the places I ate, the dishes I cooked and the sights: Tamba City, Kingyoku hydrangea, Sobanchi, Botan nabe of Tamba.
Journeys: 1 · Notes: 5
Journeys
01
Cook the local flavors once more
Dishes made in borrowed kitchens, and how each one connects to the land.
02
A little of each town’s story
Sights, specialties and how the towns came to be: small cultural notes beside each journey.
Tamba, Hyogo
Botan nabe of Tamba
Thinly sliced wild boar is arranged like a peony (botan) flower and simmered with vegetables in a miso broth.
From: Hydrangea season in an old house in Tamba
Tamba, Hyogo
Tamba black soybeans
A large black soybean grown in the Tamba region since old times.
From: Hydrangea season in an old house in Tamba
Tamba, Hyogo
Tamba City
An inland city in the hills of eastern Hyogo, roughly midway between the Seto Inland Sea and the Sea of Japan.
From: Hydrangea season in an old house in Tamba
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Places we stopped along the way
What we ate and bought, with shop details checked against published listings.
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Shimogamo Shrine (Kamomioya-jinja), Takase River, Gion Shinbashi and the banks of the Shirakawa
Journeys: 2 · Notes: 18
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Aridagawa
Aragijima Rice Terraces, Washigamine Cosmos Park, Arida mandarins and stone-walled terraces
Journeys: 2 · Notes: 14
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Kushimoto
Cape Shionomisaki, the southernmost point of Honshu, Kushimoto Marine Park (aquarium and underwater observatory), The coral of Kushimoto's sea
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Omihachiman
Hachimanbori Canal, Old Hachiman Post Office, Hakuunkan
Journeys: 1 · Notes: 15
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Nachi Falls (Hiro Shrine), Kumano Nachi Taisha and the Yatagarasu, Katsuura Fishing Port Nigiwai Market and the Umi no Yu footbath
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The boathouses of Ineura, Aoshima Island, A boathouse open to visitors
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