Food & Drink
Exquisite, Tasty Local Sake, Wine and Beer
Asahikawa is famous for sake. "Otokoyama" by Otokoyama Brewery, "Kokushimuso" by Takasago Brewery, and "Taisetsunokura" by Asahikawa-Jizakegura Taisetsunokura are Asahikawa's sake brands. Each of them has their own characteristics and all of them best match the local foods.
Inland Hokkaido, where there is a large gap between the lowest and highest temperatures, is a suitable place to grow grapes, and "Furano Wine" made in Furano, and "Tokachi Wine" made in Ikeda, Tokachi, are popular.
With regard to microbreweries, "Tasetsu Ji Beer" in Asahikawa and "Tokachi Beer" in Tokachi make a variety of beer using local produce.
Enjoy the tasty local beverage with delicious local food!
Healthy Handmade
Natural Cheese
Many cheese factories are scattered along the Garden Path. Their cheeses are the charms of Hokkaido, the dairy kingdom. Every cheese is just excellent. You can find various natural cheeses that have won contest awards inside and outside Japan.
Hunting for
Delectable Sweets
The Garden Path is also a treasure hoard of sweets. The secret of the tastiness is good ingredients. Fresh milk, quality sugar, and adzuki beans for Japanese sweet paste, are all produced along the Path. Many of the confectioneries are famous and attract lines of customers when they open stands at Hokkaido product exhibitions held in other parts of Japan.
Discover Local Specialty Foods along the Path
The foods include long-loved local dishes and newly developed dishes using local produce. Asahikawa shoyu ramen (noodle in soy sauce soup), shio horumon (salted broiled pork offal), Biei curry udon (noodle in curry soup), Furano omu-curry (rice omelet with curry), Minami-Furano nampu ezo katsu curry (curry and rice with fried venison), Tokachi-Shimizu Gyutoro-don (raw fatty beef flakes rice bowl), Tokachi-Memuro Corn Chahan (fried rice with corn), Tokachi-Obihiro edamame salad men (salad with green soybeans and noodle) and Butadon (pork rice bowl) in Obihiro, are some examples. Why don't you try them?
