Yamamoto Noriten ”Tokyo Premium Otsumami-Nori”

“Otsumami-Nori'' is a popular souvenir made of carefully selected ingredients sprinkled between high-quality nori seaweed sheets. It comes in cans featuring famous ukiyoe designs, Katsushika Hokusai’s “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji: The Great Wave off Kanagawa'' and Kitagawa Utamaro’s “Fujo Ninso Juppin: Young Lady Blowing on a Poppin Glass”, making it an ideal Tokyo souvenir.

It comes in two flavors: Wasabi sesame flavor, made with special domestic wasabi powder and roasted white sesame seeds; and Mentaiko (spicy cod roe) flavor, made with mentaiko marinated in a chili pepper and yuzu pepper sauce. Since they both have a rich flavor, they go well with alcohol or are great as a salad topping.

Yamamoto Noriten is a long-established company that was founded in 1849 during the Edo period and is considered as the pioneer of flavored nori seaweed. The seaweed is carefully selected by skilled buyers and then further sorted by skilled workers. The company is committed to freshness and has built a factory in Saga, where the seaweed is grown, to produce high-quality nori seaweed.