Tōhoku region
Tōhoku was traditionally considered the granary of Japan because it supplied Sendai and the Tokyo-Yokohama market with rice and other farming commodities. Tōhoku provided 20 percent of the nation's rice crop. The climate, however, is harsher than in other parts of Honshū due to the stronger effect of the Siberian High, and permits only one crop a year on paddy fields.
Okonomiyaki
Okonomi-mura, in Naka-ku in Hiroshima, was the top food theme park destination for families in Japan according to an April 2004 poll.Food researcher Tekishū Motoyama has pointed out that a sort of thin crepe-like confection called may be an early precursor, though it hardly includes the bare elements that makes it identifiable as "okonomiyaki". Records of the word "funoyaki" occurs as far back as the 16th century, and Sen no Rikyū writes about it, but what it really was can only be speculated, and may have involved the use of "fu" (wheat gluten), though certainly by the late Edo period, "funoyaki" referred to a thin crepe baked on a cooking pot, with miso basted on one side.