Food
Hachijō-jima is famous for its sushi and kusaya. Local cuisine also makes use of the ashitaba plant in dishes such as ashitaba soba and tempura.
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“A few pieces of fat pine were a great treasure. It is interesting to remember how much of this food for fire is still concealed in the bowels of the earth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935)