When you travel somewhere for the first time, you want to taste that place’s cuisine. Personally, I want to try the local sake too. So I asked an acquaintance of mine, Mr. Shinichiro Sato, who works as a guide for the Amanico Guide Service on Amami-Oshima, to plan a one-day tour to explore the local cuisine of Amami. Let me introduce, with photos, my day there in which I encountered the traditional shimameshi food, the brown-sugar shochu (distilled liquor) that can only be made in the Amami region, and the local fish that go so well with this drink.