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Eat the Streets
Downtown Fukuoka (p264) is
full of yatai, glowing stalls
providing hungry workers or
revelers with late-night
sustenance. While these
stalls used to be common
around Japan, around 40 per-
cent are now found in this
bustling city. Follow your
nose, and the smell of creamy
tonkotsu ramen, to find spots,
or discover the stalls most
likely to have you shouting
“oishii” on a tour with a local
guide (www.govoyagin.com).

Frying up Osaka’s
famous fried octopus
ball, takoyaki, at a yatai

Seasons Greetings
Visiting Japan during winter? Nabemono (hot
pot) dishes will keep you warm. In spring,
cherry-blossom ice cream is the perfect
accompaniment for sakura spotting. Light
noodles will cool you down in sweltering
summer, while mackerel is an autumn must.

A delicious swirl of
cherry-blossom ice cream

Elevating Japanese
dining to a fine art
at Kikunoi in Kyoto
Delicate Dishes
Kaiseki, a tasting menu involving tens of delicate dishes, is the
pinnacle of fine dining in Kyoto. Here, everything from the
serving ceramics to the seasonality of the ingredients is taken
into consideration. No trip to the city would be complete
Showcasing the endless without sampling this refined dining style. Eat on a budget
variety of sushi types, at Kyoto Hyoki (hyoki.jp/en), or splash out at Kikunoi (kikunoi.

from nigiri to maki jp), which is run by a third-generation kaisekichef.
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