# The best kinds of Japanese tsukemono (pickles)

Umeboshi, takuan, shibazuke, senmaizuke and nozawana: Japan's essential pickles to go with rice.

- 19 votes · 18 items
- Jun 29, 2024 · gohan
- https://even.best/en/l/3463/the-best-kinds-of-japanese-tsukemono-pickles

## Top 18

1. **Takuan** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Yellow pickle of dried daikon in rice bran and salt.
2. **Umeboshi** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Salted and dried ume plums.
3. **Shibazuke** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Kyoto Ohara pickle of aubergine with red shiso.
4. **Senmaizuke** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Kyoto pickle of thinly sliced Shogoin turnip.
5. **Suguki** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Lactic-fermented suguki turnip from Kamigamo, Kyoto.
6. **Nozawana-zuke** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Nozawana greens pickle from Shinshu.
7. **Narazuke** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Gourds pickled in sake lees, from Nara.
8. **Nukazuke** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Vegetables pickled in a rice bran bed at home.
9. **Fukujinzuke** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Seven vegetables in soy, the curry side.
10. **Rakkyozuke** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Rakkyo shallots in sweet vinegar.
11. **Sunkizuke** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Salt-free fermented turnip-leaf pickle from Kiso, Nagano.
12. **Matsumaezuke** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Hokkaido pickle of kelp, dried squid and herring roe.
13. **Bettarazuke** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sweet daikon pickled in koji, from Tokyo.
14. **Takanazuke** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Takana mustard greens pickle from Kyushu.
15. **Wasabizuke** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Wasabi in sake lees, a Shizuoka speciality.
16. **Hiroshimanazuke** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Hiroshima greens pickle, one of Japan's top three leaf pickles.
17. **Asazuke** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lightly pickled fresh vegetables.
18. **Iburigakko** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Akita's smoked daikon pickle.

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