Obuse is well-known for its delicious local specialties and creative cuisine. Please discover local food specialties and restaurants here.
Chestnut is a famous local specialty of Obuse. Chestnuts are used in Japanese sweets, Western desserts, steamed rice with chestnuts, and more.
Here, you can get giant-sized chestnut cakes at several cafes and restaurants as dessert.
Next let’s go to a Japanese food restaurant. Here you can taste “Kuriokowa”. It is steamed rice with chestnuts. You can taste the moderate sweetness and deliciousness of chestnuts. You can get many sizes of “kuriokowa” boxes to take out, and you can also eat them as part of a set of dishes at restaurants.
A Japanese dessert, “Kurian Shiruko,” is a boiled and mashed chestnut dish with sugar. Though “Shiruko” is usually made with red beans, here you can also taste “Shiruko” made with chestnuts. This picture shows a “Kurian Shiruko with baked rice cakes”.
This is a dish of fried chestnuts served as part of a course.
The chestnut harvest season is September and October. But you can get chestnut sweets and dishes year-round.