Bizen-Fukuoka no Ichi, a once-bustling medieval market, has been reborn as a centre of Bizen food culture, where local farmers, bakers and producers of all kinds have been gathering here every month since 2006. Identified by the “Fukuoka no Ichi Memorial Stone” from which the market gets its name, it is a community-driven morning market created through the cooperation of its vendors.

When you walk through the open-air market, you will be enveloped in a blanket of delicious aromas, with the smell of fresh bread and pastries mingling with the distinct smell of local Bizen Meito Miso. Further on you might find someone selling beautifully made Bizen pottery, or a swordsmith adding a new razor-sharp edge to a local fisherman’s once blunt filleting knife.