Edo period
Charming old post town serves up a culinary tradition you won’t find anywhere else in Japan.
Designed to let foreign goods in while keeping foreign ideas out, this Nagasaki neighborhood is one of the most historically significant places in Japan.
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Today in the SoraKitchen we’re trying out hand at one of the 10,000 Cooking Treasure Secrets of a samurai-era cookbook.
The inn is actually an upgraded traditional Japanese house that’s continuously served as a residence for officials for more than 400 years.
Nagano village was once a major stop on the Kyoto-Edo route, and the neighborhood looks much the same centuries later.
Not far from Akihabara you’ll find Amanoya, but it wouldn’t be there if not for an assassination.
Yoshiwara was once where men with money to burn came to entertain themselves, while this woman was eating rotten pickles, or sometimes nothing at all.
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