Tamba
Sasayama special products
Tamba chestnuts ![]() |
There is the article about Tamba chestnut in thebook,NIHON-SHOKI,which is the oldest book of Japanese history. It is very famous. Principal nutriens of the chestnut are carbohydrates. It includes lots of sugar, grape sugar. It is very popular as a healthy food of digestion and absorption because it includes many vitamins B1, C. People say that there must be several hundred kinds of the chestnut,but Tamba's must be the biggest in the size and taste. It has the character of a champion. There are numerous sweet chestnut and the Sake chestnut in Tamba. |
Tamba black soybeans ![]() |
The fame of Tamba black soybeans are due to the climate and nature
in Sasayama. Peaple have made them since the old days. It is the biggest in the size and the best in the taste and form. Also, it is a characteristic to be not able to peel a skin no matter how long it boils. It includes a lot of vitamins B1 B2 ,protein and fat. It has an effective for kidney/circulatory organ.It is called "meat of field". It is also effective for the cough. It is utilized throughout a year, besides it is used for traditional cooking in New Year. |
Yama-no-imo(Yam) ![]() |
Yama-no-imo(Yam) is pure white, and includes the delicate stickiness. It includes lots of high-quality plant protein and digestive enzyme diastase, it is effective for stout, fatigue recovery, hypertension prevention etc. It has various uses in cooking. Probably you might not know how to cook.Don't worry! We introduce lots of recipes. |
Tamba green soybeans(Tamba black soy beans)![]() |
Green soybean (Tamba black soybean) is the king of the taste in fall
recently. It is arranged in the department store in the Osaka and Kobe
etc. Many people come to Sasayama in quest of the taste in fall. The green soybean has original taste and flavor. Green soybean (Tamba black soybean) is differrent from Green soybean (white soybean) entirely. That season is for just 3 weeks in October. Compare and eat by all means if you think it is not what I say. I introduce many delicious cooking method. |
Tamba red beans ![]() |
The history of Tamba red bean is very old. It was
presented to the shogunate and Kyoto Palace. It's outer skin is thin and beautiful. The sugar allows for natural preservation of these beans for a long piriod of time. |
Matsutake mushrooms![]() |
Tamba matsutake mushroom is very famous.According to "Sasayama-cho
history for hundred years" says that a matsutake is in the forest
of a Japanese red pine.The harvest time is from the last ten days of September
to mid October.The 1930's data of Hyogo Pref say "The output in Hyogo
is the 1st in Japan. Taki-gun is the 1th in Hygo.So Taki-gun is the 1st
in Japan. However, as the recent output has drastically decreased,matsutake has become very expensive, although matsutake is still the champion of a taste. |
Sasayama beef ![]() |
Sasayama is famous in Japan as the home town of Kobe
beef which is the most famous for the taste in Japan. Three things are very important to create delicious meat;good climate,care of the cow,and care for the cow's enviroment. |
Tamba Sasayama rice ![]() |
Koshihikari(rice) has been made from the 1960's in this region. The difference in temperature in night and day seem to be one of the delicious conditions.Koshihikari of Niigata is a grand champion in the open market of rice. Sasayama rice is very populor in Kansai market. Compare and eat with other rice once. |
Botan nabe ![]() |
" The sow falls
gently.The wild boar jumps into the botan pan at the inn of Sasayama"
This is the phrase of Dekansyo melody.The Botan pan is the meat of wild boar. Botan means a peony.The meat is arranged in the shape of a peony.Thus,we call it "Botan nabe". There are wild boars everywhere in Japan,but Sasayama is the most famous place for them because of the climate and the nature. |