Japan for Vegan & Vegetarian Travelers

About this book

Japan may be the best country in the world in which to eat plants, and one of the hardest in which to be sure that you are — because fish runs quietly underneath almost everything, in the broth, the flakes and the sauce. This guide gives the vegan and vegetarian traveller 200 complete journeys, each built as a working day: the plant-based case for the scene, exactly how the food is found and ordered, the season and timing with its fallback, and the manners owed to the cook who tries, the host who cannot and the companions whose plates differ. Temple stays from the guest's seat, city hunting grounds, market mornings, regional and rural tables, trains and ferries, festivals and ceremonial tables, and a full handbook of the words, cards and phrases that open almost any kitchen. Menus, ingredients, hours and prices change, so none are asserted as fixed facts; every entry names the official source for its subject — while the durable part, how to read, ask and be welcome anywhere in Japan on a plant-based table, is guaranteed in full.