The entrance to Rikiya

 

Yoro-dofu, shrimp and okra

 

 Steamed local abalone, sea bream and squid 

 

Common Japanese conger with flavorful soup

 

Broiled butterfish, a turbo cooked in the shell and grilled green peppers  

 

Pacific ocean perch and burdock boiled in soy sauce 

 

Local blue crab and yama-imo yam

 

Grilled local eggplant, prawn and raw sea urchin 

 

Box sushi with grilled local conger on top

 

Wa-san-bon ice cream 

 

 

This is a dinner at Hotel Nansui in Kochi City, Kochi Pref: lobster, tuna,

eggplant with special miso paste, shrimp tempura and so on. 

 

This is a lunch at To-wa restaurant along the Shimanto River in the western

Kochi Pref.  All food items are from this To-wa Village: fresh shrimp, riverweed

from the Shimanto River, and mountain plants in the neighborhood.   

 

This is the entrance to the local restaurant located just next to the Shimanto

River, which is the longest one in Shikoku: about 196 kilometers. 

 

 Dinner at Shimanto-Iyashi-no-Yado in the western Kochi

 

 This is the dinner at Ashizuri-Pacific Hotel Hanatsubaki, which is located

at the southernmost Cape Ashizuri-misaki in Kochi. 

 

Various kinds of seafood can be enjoyed here at A. P. Hotel Hanatsubaki.  

 

This is sashimi of a big seared bonito at Ashizuri-Pacific Hotel Hanatsubaki,

for which Kochi Pref. is famous.  

 

You can enjoy not only lots of kinds of foods but also local “sake-drinking game” 

till late at night at the hotel.

Japanese dish at Tsutsui’s in Ikuchi-jima, Hiroshima Pref.  Although a small island,

there is a nice, cozy bar near the inn.   

 

 

 

Ume-Oroshi Udon with pinky soup at Udon-Ichiba’s on Hyogomachi Street

The soup is flavored with Japanese plum and grated radish.

Yuzu-Kosyo Udon with grilled chicken that is flavored with salt and pepper

 

 

 

Tempura-bukkake Udon

They don’t use any chemical seasonings at all at Ishikawa’s.

 

Nikujiru Udon

You dip noodle in the soup which is flavored with carrot, burdock and beef.

 

 

Lunch at a very reasonable price, starting with this

 

Fried fish dipped in a sweet sauce, with vegetables placed on it  

 

Sashimi fish (left) 

 

Grilled eggplant with miso sauce on top

 

Rice served with Tempura, Sumashi soup and pickles

 

Lunch finishes with an ice cream.