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24 picks · 22 portsThe souvenir each port is actually known for — and the shop near the berth that sells the real thing.
Fukuoka · #5 in the port's Top 10Spicy cod roe, brought from Korea and reinvented in this city in 1949…
~1.5h2–3h callSee the port guide →
Naha · #5 in the port's Top 10Potters have worked this street since 1682, when the kingdom gathered its kilns here…
~1h2–3h callSee the port guide →
Ishigaki · #6 in the port's Top 10A belt woven in a repeating five-and-four square pattern, traditionally given by a woman to a man…
~1.5h2–3h callSee the port guide →
Otaru · #6 in the port's Top 10The glassworks began making floats for herring nets and oil lamps for a town without electricity…
~2h2–3h callSee the port guide →
Sakaiminato · #7 in the port's Top 10The Yokai Food Research Lab sells Medama-oyaji — an eerily accurate eyeball on a stick, in wagashi form…
~1.5h on the Road2–3h callSee the port guide →
Aomori · #9 in the port's Top 10Ciders, butters, chips, pies and whole Mutsu apples the size of grapefruit…
~1h2–3h callSee the port guide →
Hakodate · #9 in the port's Top 10Cheese omelet cakes that dissolve on contact — Hakodate’s proudest confection, boxed for travel…
~1h2–3h callSee the port guide →
Hiroshima · #9 in the port's Top 10Maple-leaf cakes filled with bean paste — Fujiiya bakes them in view on Miyajima…
on your Miyajima trip4–6h callSee the port guide →
Kanazawa · #9 in the port's Top 10Five-color porcelain painted since 1655 — Kaburaki has dealt it since 1822 and ships worldwide…
~4h downtown4–6h callSee the port guide →
Keelung (Taipei) · #9 in the port's Top 10Keelung’s own century-old bakery — pineapple cakes and curry pastries the locals queue for instead of the Taipei brands…
~1h, walkable2–3h callSee the port guide →
Akita · #10 in the port's Top 10Cedar bent into featherweight lunchboxes and cups — 400 years of Odate craft that makes rice taste better…
~3h downtown2–3h callSee the port guide →
Beppu · #10 in the port's Top 10Bath salts scraped from thatched huts that farm hot-spring minerals, and the citrus-chili paste that lifts every soup…
~4h via Myoban4–6h callSee the port guide →
Busan · #10 in the port's Top 10The post-war everything-market — dried seaweed bricks, K-beauty at source prices, socks with your face on them if you as…
~4h4–6h callSee the port guide →
Hiroshima · #10 in the port's Top 10The brush capital that supplies makeup houses worldwide — a Kumano fude is craft you use daily…
~3h downtown2–3h callSee the port guide →
Kagoshima · #10 in the port's Top 10Sweet-potato shochu is this prefecture’s wine, and Satsuma kiriko — deep-cut colored crystal once made for the lords — i…
~2.5h2–3h callSee the port guide →
Kanazawa · #10 in the port's Top 10Kanazawa beats 99% of Japan’s gold leaf — cosmetics, chopsticks, even wall panels…
with Higashiyama4–6h callSee the port guide →
Kobe · #10 in the port's Top 10This city taught Japan European pastry — Motomachi’s patisseries still lead…
~1.5h2–3h callSee the port guide →
Kochi · #10 in the port's Top 10A thousand years of paper and six hundred of blacksmithing — Tosa washi glows and Tosa knives outlive their owners…
~3h2–3h callSee the port guide →
Miyakojima · #10 in the port's Top 10Yuki-shio powder salt from reef seawater, and the island distilleries’ awamori — the two bottles that carry Miyako home …
~40 min2–3h callSee the port guide →
Osaka · #10 in the port's Top 10Department store basements the size of supermarkets, entirely prepared food, staffed by people who will hand you samples…
~2.5h2–3h callSee the port guide →
Sasebo · #10 in the port's Top 10Blue-and-white porcelain made in the hills behind this port since the 1600s by potters brought from Korea, with a signat…
~3.5h4–6h callSee the port guide →
Shimizu · #10 in the port's Top 10Wasabi (real, from the valleys upstream), deep-steamed green tea, and Chibi Maruko-chan goods — the town’s own comic ico…
~1h, walkable2–3h callSee the port guide →
Takamatsu · #10 in the port's Top 10A fine-grained sugar made from local sugarcane by a hand-kneading process that takes days, pressed into small moulded sw…
~1h2–3h callSee the port guide →
Yokohama · #10 in the port's Top 10Boat-shaped chestnut cakes that Yokohama gives when it visits anyone — soft, not-too-sweet, and boxed like jewelry…
~1h2–3h callSee the port guide →No picks in that combination. Try a longer window, or .
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