Nov 13, 2025
A day for "good" sweet potatoes!
Today, and November 13th annually, is Good Sweet Potato Day. November 13th was chosen as the date because it is one month after October 13th, which is known as "Sweet Potato Day" and sweet potatoes become sweeter when aged.
The day was established by Imoko no Yakiimo Asami-ya, a company headquartered in Toda City, Saitama Prefecture, which manages mobile baked sweet potato vendors, event sales, and support for opening baked sweet potato shops.
The feature photo is also from Saitama Prefecture, but Kawagoe City which is known for sweet potatoes. The photo is of a giant sweet potato made out of styrofoam! Do you like sweet potato?
Former nickname was "Saitama". Changed it to save confusion on place review posts! Irish, 20+ years in Japan! I also write on my personal website: insaitama.com
1 Comment
TonetoEdo
2 hours ago
A lovely dish is satsumaimo gohan, sweet potato rice. I love to do this in a donabe. Just One has a simple recipe - https://www.justonecookbook.com/japanese-sweet-potato-rice/