【YAKITORI】Kurume, the best town in Japan

Japanese people love Yakitori. I think there ar emany people like just want to go home after work and enjoy it with beer! 

Do you know that the best Japanese soul food and yakitori in Japan is Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture? The best in Japan? What are the characteristics of Yakitori from Kurume? What kind of menu do they have? ... I will answer all!

Crowded! Kurume city is a town of yakitori

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There are many yakitori restaurants, and the “town of yakitori” that is focused on throughout the city is scattered all over Japan. Among them, the cities called "the seven biggest nationwide towns" are Bibai, Muroran, Fukushima, Higashimatsuyama, Imabari, Ehime, Nagato, and Kurume.

Kurume is the third largest city in Fukuoka prefecture. The number of yakitori restaurants per 10,000 people was 7.46 in 2003, which was the highest in Japan! That's why yakitori is loved in Kurume City.

In 2005, the population of Kurume City increased to 300,000 due to the merger of municipalities. Unfortunately, it became the second place in Japan after Higashimatsuyama City in Saitama Prefecture, but as the city that declared "the best grilled in Japan", "Kurume Yakitori" was promoted throughout the town. Every year in October, they held the “Kurume Yakitori Nihon Ichi Festa” to delight many yakitori fans.

If you stick it on a skewer, it's all "yakitori"!

・室蘭やきとり (Muroran Yakitori) which is eaten with pork + onion skewers with sweet sauce and Western pepper↓

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・東松山のやきとり(Mastura Yakitori) which is eaten with pork cabbage meat + long onion skewers with miso sauce↓

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Each place has its own characteristic yakitori, such as Imabari Yakitori. So the characteristic of "Kurume Yakitori" is "there are many menus". If you stick a skewer, anything becomes a yakitori！

Pork skewers, beef tongue skewers, ... Other popular items are the "Maki skewers", which are made of bacon wrapped with various ingredients such as asparagus and quail eggs. The yakitori menu is rich in variety in Fukuoka Prefecture.

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