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title: Tamba
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# 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

- [Hydrangea season in an old house in Tamba](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/episodes/tamba/index.md): Japanese village when hydrangea blooms（2023-09-03）

## Cook the local flavors once more

- [Kingyoku hydrangea](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/kingyoku-hydrangea/index.md): Kingyoku (kingyokukan) is a Japanese sweet made by dissolving agar, adding sugar or starch syrup, and letting it set; its translucence is used to suggest water or sky, and it appears most often in sum…

## A little of each town’s story

- [Botan nabe of Tamba](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/botan-nabe-tamba/index.md): Thinly sliced wild boar is arranged like a peony (botan) flower and simmered with vegetables in a miso broth.
- [Tamba black soybeans](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/tamba-black-soybeans/index.md): A large black soybean grown in the Tamba region since old times.
- [Tamba City](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/tamba-city/index.md): An inland city in the hills of eastern Hyogo, roughly midway between the Seto Inland Sea and the Sea of Japan.

## Places we stopped along the way

- [Sobanchi](https://karigurashijourney.com/en/notes/sobanchi/index.md): A soba restaurant in an old house, with veranda seats looking out on a garden maple, rice fields and hydrangeas.