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A thread asking “Which prefecture in Japan has the best food?” took off on 5ch’s Nandemo Jikkyo (Live Commentary) board. Early on, posters praised the izakaya food quality in Akita and Aomori, while others pointed to the deliciousness of Niigata rice and salted onigiri. Big-city opinions clashed too — “Tokyo’s rice and water are both mediocre” versus “Osaka is the nation’s kitchen.” The thread wandered through claims that Fukuoka, Kobe, and Hiroshima pull off cheap-and-delicious food, stories about Miyazaki and Kagoshima’s raw chicken sashimi being safe thanks to special local hygiene standards, and the observation that landlocked prefectures are simply at a disadvantage for seafood.
What people said
And the water probably smells too
Opposite, actually
It's ridiculously salty
Western Japan's food sucks
Niigata's rice was just incredible
And above all, the salted onigiri are amazing
They'll feed you all kinds of mysterious deep-sea fish
Makes me want to eat a giant spider crab
As long as you're willing to pay, you can eat endless amounts of great food
You could also say it's nothing but bad food unless you pay up
But I don't have the guts to eat raw chicken sashimi (torisashi) in Tokyo
The risk's too high
Miyazaki and Kagoshima have their own hygiene rules though, so it's safer there.
I feel like landlocked prefectures are at a disadvantage
Isn't Hachiban Ramen basically Ishikawa's version of Sugakiya in Aichi? (both cheap, no-frills regional chains)
If you're worried about risk, just don't eat raw chicken sashimi lmaooo no matter how strict the standards are, there's still risk eating that stuff
True, but it's still better eating it in Kagoshima or Miyazaki than in Tokyo
It's at least reasonably freshly prepared there
For Hiroshima food, I want to push senjigara (deep-fried beef offal)
It's still not well known nationwide
It's way cheaper than that overpriced Hiroshima-yaki and goes amazingly well with booze, so I recommend it
Hokkaido, Kagoshima, Niigata, and Toyama were delicious and didn't have many tourist-trap places either
Thinking about it that way, it really comes down to northern Japan
Why is the fish so bad in southern Japan anyway?
Exactly
Ramen, motsunabe, mizutaki — I mean, come on
The only good thing about them is that they go well with alcohol
1st 🇮🇹Italy
2nd 🇨🇳China
3rd 🇫🇷France
4th 🇪🇸Spain
5th 🇯🇵Japan
6th 🇮🇳India
7th 🇬🇷Greece
8th 🇹🇭Thailand
9th 🇲🇽Mexico
10th 🇺🇸USA
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/world-best-food-cultures/index.html
Seems about right
For a Japanese palate, Spain would probably rank higher though
I have, though
Let me guess the worst-food prefecture
It's Okinawa, right?
Okinawa's food is totally fine, normally
What kind of places are you eating at?
Just eat the meat
Jackie's Steak House was good, sure, but it's not worth waiting in that long a line for
Landlocked prefectures are bound to be at a disadvantage
Even garbage restaurants get customers there
Not western Japan
Tone-deaf taste buds
Sorry, I meant the bad-food prefecture
What even is that, just eat okonomiyaki instead
Background and Key Points of This Topic
“Which region has the best food” is a perennial topic on 5ch’s livestream-commentary boards, and these threads tend to pit individual anecdotes without statistical backing against each other. The split over rice is telling — both sides have a nationally famous brand to point to, with Niigata’s Koshihikari and Akita’s Akitakomachi. The raw chicken sashimi (torisashi) that comes up in >>25 and the replies that follow is worth some context: Miyazaki and Kagoshima are among the few regions where local health ordinances actually permit selling chicken for raw consumption, while in most other prefectures it generally can’t be sold raw at all — knowing that cuts down on the confusion. Meanwhile, the “best food cultures” ranking attributed to CNN in >>83 doesn’t specify in the post itself what year or methodology was used, so it’s probably best treated as “one piece of information shared in the thread” rather than taken at face value as established fact. On the whole, this is a topic that reveals a spread of personal preferences rather than settling any objective hierarchy.
※This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “The Prefecture With the Best Food in Japan LOLOLOLOL.”
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