Locals foods and great gifts are all part & Nikko Souvenirs of the fun when taking a trip. Here’s a Katashina sampling of the treats and specialties A Whole Host of & you can find in Katashina and Nikko. Nikko > Katashina So Much to Eat and Enjoy! Food Food Souvenirs Katashina > Nikko Drive & Access Guide Drive & Access Guide Katashina Village Nikko City Katashina Village Gelato Ozedofu Zaru Tofu Nikko Handmade Soba Enjoy a selection of gelato made Nikko is famous as the producer of some of the finest soba noodles Tofu made using fabled Katashina big with a rich selection of local in Tochigi, and this delicious example is made using locally white soy beans, which were revived ingredients. The menu includes the produced flour and pure Nikko water. You can find many old-style after ten years of hard work. The rich hanamame gelato that’s so popular restaurants serving handmade soba in Nikko. with Oze hikers, richly blended with flavor of the soy beans and smooth the hanamame beans that are a texture have won over many fans. specialty of Katashina. Nikko City Katashina Village Natural Ice Shaved Ice Hotaka Bokujo Shaved ice made using natural ice and time-honored methods. This Jingisukan (Genghis Khan) natural ice is only made by five places in all of Japan, making this rare treat A guide for having A famous Hotaka Bokujo dish that can popular in cafes across the city. A guide for having be enjoyed while camping amid the vastness of nature or enjoying other fun traveling (RAKUTABI) activities. Dynamic preparation in a fun traveling(RAKUTABI) special skillet only increases the flavor. Nikko City Nikko & Katashina Nikko Mizuyokan Katashina & Nikko Katashina Village Refreshing Nikko mizuyokan is Katashina Village a jellied dessert made using red Katashina Village Katashina Handmade bean paste and plenty of fresh Watanabe Seika Amazake water from the Nikko mountains. Roadside Roasted Hanamame Bread Nikko City Nikko City The elegant interaction of the Sweetcorn This is your chance to experience delicious ingredients has This popular bread is baked handmade “amazake”, a sweet Nikko Yuba Nikko Pickles garnered great popularity. using plenty of Katashina The famous “sweetcorn road” is located low-alcohol drink made from fermented hanamame beans, boiled slowly along the road from the Katashina town rice. Packed with the blessings of Yuba, also known as “tofu skin” and Traditional Nikko pickles, made using an to make them super soft and hall in the direction of Nikko. Katashina nature, this particular amazake is made “bean curd robes”, is said to have amber by-product called “tamari” that is delicious. sweetcorn boasts a high sugar content, using renowned Katashina mochi rice, started out as food for monks during produced when making soy sauce or making it especially sweet and carefully selected malt, and snow-melt Buddhist training. It is now eaten in a miso. They go perfectly with white rice, deliciously fragrant. water from Oze. variety of different ways, including and also with “Chazuke” (cooked rice ers, K sashimi yuba, rolled up or fried. with green tea poured on it). cultu of flow atashin H f history, re and H alley a! Katashina Village Katashina Village ead ove o natu ea us v Nikko City ou e-tr re! d out to the famo Large Sized Portions (Homitei) Katashina Highland Vegetables t to “Nikko”, treasur A hit menu item for around 30 years, and by now Katashina highlands vegetables come highly Cheesecake, Meiji-no-Yakata a dish that Katashina is famous for. Apparently is recommended, produced by the marked Using cream cheese from Denmark, the got its start when construction workers visiting to temperature difference between day and night and Meiji-no-Yakata cheesecake is made using work locally asked if the portions could be made the pure waters of the region! You can purchase meticulous methods and the best ingredients. any larger... them at the Roadside Station Oze Katashina. Incredibly popular, in particular for its no-bake flavor (Around late July - late September). from a baked cheesecake. Also makes a great gift! Katashina Village Maitake Mushroom Dishes Nikko City Hefty “Royal Bread” is the most popular Nikko City choice here, with a dense dough that Katashina is where cultivation of maitake produces a subtle texture. Then there is (“hen-of-the-woods” mushrooms) started out. With Nikko Pudding, Nikko Pudding Tei Kanaya Hotel the cylindrical and fragrant “Cheese carefully controlled temperature, humidity and growing Pudding characterized by a full, rich flavor Bakery Bread Lord” with a crispy toasted surface periods, these delectable mushrooms have as natural and subtle sweetness, made using fresh wrapped around melting cheddar a texture and fragrance as possible. You’ll taste that eggs from Nikko and milk from the Nikko cheese. Enjoy flavors that only carefully difference not only with the famous maitake rice bowl, Kirifuri Highland Ozasa Ranch. The selected ingredients and traditional but also as tempura when accompanying delicious meltingly smooth texture also further brings baking methods can produce. “Katashina soba”, which itself is made using water out the delicious flavor. selected as one of the top one-hundred in Japan. < Inquiries > Katashina Village Tourism Association Katashina Village Murazukuri Tourism Division Nikko City Tourism Association Nikko City Tourism Section Tourism Promotion Division 3964 Oaza Kamata, Katashina-mura, Tone-gun, Gunma 378-0415 3967-3 Oaza Kamata, Katashina-mura, Tone-gun, Gunma 378-0498 717-1 Imaichi, Nikko-shi, Tochigi Prefecture 321-1261 1 Imaichihoncho, Nikko, Tochigi 321-1292 (inside the Nikko City Office) TEL 0278-58-3222 FAX 0278-58-3213 TEL 0278-58-2112 FAX 0278-58-2110 Inside the Tourism Information Hall at the Roadside TEL 0288-21-5170 FAX 0288-21-5121 URL http://www.oze-info.com/ Station Nikko (Nikko-Kaido Nikonikohonjin) See the homepage TEL 0288-22-1525 FAX 0288-25-3347 See the homepage for more details Katashina Village search URL http://www.nikko-kankou.org/ for more details Nikko Kinugawa Travel Guide search Dｰ4 Dｰ4 Indigo Dyeing Experience J ｰ 3・4 Nikko Kimono Experience Jｰ4 Experience indigo dyeing for yourself on a Wear an antique kimono and head out for a Recommended! handkerchief, T-shirt, stole or carrying Recommended! stroll through the world heritage site of Nikko. cloth, all using traditional Japanese Take photos in front of each famous location methods (natural indigo made of to deepen your memories of your trip. fermenting indigo leaves). Inquiries: 0288-53-6465 (Utakata) Hｰ4 Inquiries: 0278-25-3443 Inquiries: 0288-25-6625 (COCON NIKKO) Ⅰｰ4 Reservation required Katashina (Indigo Studio Shigehachi) Nikko Sightseeing Spots! Sightseeing Spots! Hｰ4 Meisui no Sato Nikko Okaki workshop You’ll find more than 100 types of Japanese Okaki and Senbei crackers here! The handmade Head out to the famous valley of Highland Produce Head out to Nikko, treasure-trove of senbei crackers experience even allows you to flowers, Katashina. Harvesting Experience history, culture and nature. create your own unique cracker decorated with Introducing some of the best spots an image or lettering of your choice. You can experience harvesting a range of An introduction to some of the best in Katashina, Gunma! Inquiries: 0288-31-1147 different highland produce, including spots in Nikko, Tochigi! (Meisui no Sato Nikko Okaki workshop) tomatoes, sweetcorn, blueberries and Kinugawa Rafting apples. Picking them yourself makes them This popular outdoor tour places your party in a rubber taste even better! You can also take them boat and forces you to work together to navigate the CharcoalHandmade Accessories Experience home or give them as gifts. ravines of the Kinugawa river. With an instructor along Relax and refresh in Making your own original accessory using charcoal, which is also Hｰ4 *There will be seasonal variations in for the ride, even beginners can take to the water! lovely scenery! one of the traditional industries of Katashina, has proven to be a exactly what you can harvest. very popular experience. You can make a variety of items, Nikko Toshogu Yomei Gate Canyoning Dｰ2 including necklaces and earrings, so come along and give it a try! Inquiries: 0278-58-3222 (Katashina Village Tourism Association) (National Treasure) Give yourself over to a natural Inquiries: 090-8596-0250 A mausoleum for Ieyasu Tokugawa, and part of rock waterslide created by the Reservation required (Iikarakan) Oze National Park the Shrines and Temples of Nikko World Heritage canyon itself! This thrilling dive Oze, the largest highland wetlands on Cｰ4 Katashina Pottery Experience Site. The “Heisei major repairs” have recently into basin of water will take Honshu, is bursting with the appeal of Delicious Katashina Water The “Oze Hanasaku gama kiln” is located been completed, the first of their kind in around bravery, but is more than Experience Nikko Pottery untouched nature. There are three entry The delicious water at the “Oze no Sato close to Hanasaku Onsen. The pottery 40 years and restoring much of the original worth it! Experience for Three different studios offer the chance to points into Oze from Katashina: Hatomachi Katashina Springs” was selected in 2008 to making experience here can be enjoyed by beauty of the temple, including incredible colors yourself all the fun that nature experience pottery making, by hand for Pass, Fujimishita and Oshimizu. be among the one hundred most exquisite simply making a reservation, and the careful and lacquer on the 508 carvings, decorations has to offer. beginners or children and or using an electric Inquiries: 0278-58-3222 waters of Japan. Here you can enjoy not only instruction of the teacher makes it perfect adorned with gold leaf, and pure white pillars. potter’s wheel for more experienced potters. Inquiries: 0288-54-0560 (Nikko Toshogu) (Katashina Village Tourism Association) the clear, clean water but also the wonderful even for absolute beginners.