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Kingyo Chochin (goldfish-shaped lanterns)
Yanai’s traditional folkcraft from Edo period (17th-19th centuries) Kumatani Rinzaburo, a highly successful merchant of Edo (former name of Tokyo), invented this lantern inspired by Nebuta ornaments found in Aomori Prefecture. Made of washi-paper and bamboo framework, painted with the same dyeing material as Yanai-jima textile, they were hung out outside as guiding lanterns to help the ancestors’ spirits to come back home during Obon period. Today, the town holds a lantern festival on the 13th of August every year. The fantastical look of swinging goldfish lanterns along white-walled streets in the evening during early August is a typical image...
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Yanai Jima (traditional stripe textile)
Plain cotton textile produced in this area for centuries. This style became well known during the Edo period, when Yanai prospered as a merchants’ city. As industrialization began in the Meiji period (19th century), production of this folk textile declined and almost disappeared in the early 20th century. After decades of absence, Yanai-Jima production was revived thanks to a new technology and design, that yet manage to preserve the warmth of hand-woven textile.
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Kanro Joyu (soy sauce)
Soy sauce with extra-rich flavor thanks to an original double processing. When this sauce was first presented to Lord Kikkawa during the Edo period, the governor praised the flavor as being “kanro” – “heavenly sweet dew”. Hence its name Kanro Joyu. Using a technique that remains unchanged since it was first developed 200 years ago, soy sauce matures for two years and gains its characteristic flavor.
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Jinenjo (Japanese wild yam)
Japanese wild yams used to be considered very rare, as they were only harvested in the mountains and not produced in farms. After long years of research and trials, Masada Natural Farm in Yanai City invented a special device named “Clever Pipe”, which enabled growing wild yam for the first time in the world, paving a way for other farmers to grow them. This is why Yanai is now called “the place of origin of wild-yam farming”. The Jinenjo wild yam is also scientifically proven to contain a substance which increases DHEA (Dehydroepiandrosterone), a male hormone which is good for...
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Kanro Soy Sauce Museum & Sagawa Soy Sauce Brewery
Kanro Shoyu (vintage soy sauce) was invented in Yanai 200 years ago. Its production process utilizes a unique technique of double-stage fermentation and was loved by the local feudal lord Yoshikawa. The vintage flavor of soy sauce and unique production process have been preserved by two local soy sauce breweries, both of them still remain in the downtown. One of them is Sagawa Soy Sauce Brewery which is now open to the public as museum as well, you will have a chance to learn the special production processes of this vintage soy sauce and see various traditional tools, such as...
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Fujiyama Coffee Roasters
Fujiyama Coffee Roasters is a coffee shop exclusively serving specialty coffee, facing onto the Seto Inland Sea in Yanai City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. “Truly delicious coffee should be a more everyday thing.” Using roasting to maximize the individual characteristics of coffee beans, grown with the utmost care by farmers who dedicate their lives to coffee production, this store enables customers to easily understand and become familiar with specialty coffee, tailor-made to the ordinary scenes of daily life.
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Nogorou 0506 Factory Outlet Store
An original mascot character from Yanai City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The black cat “Nogorou” is loved for his ever-so-slightly sneaky eyes. Visitors to this factory outlet store can meet cats that serve as Nogorou’s models.
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Jinenjo Mura (wild yam)
We are an Internet online shop selling Jinenjo(Japanese wild yam) and its products. Please try various products such as Jinenjo Dango Jiru(Japanese soup with Jinenjo dumplings), flavoured Jinenjo Furikake (dried topping for rice), and Jinenjo Doughnuts. We are happy to deliver these products to your home.
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Kashinoki Sohonten (confectionery factory) / Azisai En (hydrangea garden)
【Confectionery factory】 Factory tours are available, in which you can observe the production process of famous confections "Tsuki De Hirotta Tamago" (Eggs found on the moon), "Hatoko No Umi" (Sea of Hatoko), "Miwakuno Sachertorte (Enchanted chocolate cake), Japanese confections and cakes. The factory also offers a cake workshop where you can make the one and only original cake in the world by yourself. (Reservation is required.) 【Hydrangea garden】 It is the prefecture's largest Hydrangea garden with over 20,000 of the flowers from approximately 100 species blooming in early June, located behind the confectionery factory. A Hydrangea Festival held in late...
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Yanai Fruits Gifts & Parlor Hoshi Fruits
With expertise developed over 45 years in the business, Hoshi Fruits sells fruit gifts, parfaits and cakes made with luxurious amount of high-grade fresh fruits procured from the markets of Hiroshima and Okayama. Customers can eat-in at the café on the store premises.
