The map of Japanese specialties

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1. Question 1. Which territory is best known for miso ramen?

   • Osaka
   • Hokkaidō
   • Ishikawa
   • Saitama

   Answer: Hokkaidō: The great northern island: powder-snow winters, lavender summers and a cuisine built on the sea and dairy.

2. Question 2. Which territory is best known for gyūtan (grilled beef tongue)?

   • Fukui
   • Shimane
   • Wakayama
   • Miyagi

   Answer: Miyagi: The capital of Tōhoku, a bay strewn with eight hundred islets, and the rebuilding after 2011.

3. Question 3. Which territory is best known for mito nattō?

   • Ibaraki
   • Tochigi
   • Chiba
   • Kanagawa

   Answer: Ibaraki: The laboratory city of Tsukuba, a garden of three thousand plum trees and the capital of nattō.

4. Question 4. Which territory is best known for soy sauce?

   • Tokyo
   • Chiba
   • Shiga
   • Hiroshima

   Answer: Chiba: The country’s international airport, the Bōsō peninsula and the soy sauce vats of Noda.

5. Question 5. Which territory is best known for white shrimp?

   • Nagasaki
   • Mie
   • Shiga
   • Toyama

   Answer: Toyama: A deep bay, three-thousand-metre Alps, and a twenty-metre wall of snow in spring.

6. Question 6. Which territory is best known for soba?

   • Nagano
   • Tottori
   • Hokkaidō
   • Yamaguchi

   Answer: Nagano: The roof of Japan: central Alps, the 1998 Winter Olympics and macaques in the hot pools.

7. Question 7. Which territory is best known for matsusaka beef?

   • Kagawa
   • Nagano
   • Ibaraki
   • Mie

   Answer: Mie: Shinto’s most sacred shrine, the ama divers and Matsusaka beef.

8. Question 8. Which territory is best known for kobe beef?

   • Kōchi
   • Shiga
   • Hyōgo
   • Shizuoka

   Answer: Hyōgo: The white castle of Himeji, Kobe beef and Japan’s leading sake brewing district.

9. Question 9. Which territory is best known for izumo soba?

   • Shimane
   • Chiba
   • Hokkaidō
   • Okinawa

   Answer: Shimane: The shrine where all the gods of Japan gather once a year.

10. Question 10. Which territory is best known for sudachi citrus?

    • Kanagawa
    • Tochigi
    • Tokushima
    • Nagasaki

    Answer: Tokushima: Four nights of dancing in August, tidal whirlpools and the indigo that dressed Japan.

11. Question 11. Which territory is best known for tonkotsu ramen?

    • Fukuoka
    • Aichi
    • Yamanashi
    • Shimane

    Answer: Fukuoka: The gateway to the continent, the street stalls of Hakata and pork-bone broth ramen.

12. Question 12. Which territory is best known for toriten?

    • Toyama
    • Ōita
    • Hyōgo
    • Kōchi

    Answer: Ōita: More hot springs and more thermal water than anywhere else in Japan.