98 Kids' Info Center Nagano's Food and Business Nagano is blessed by nature. Because the land is so rich, it's one of Japan's best farming areas. A variety of fruits, vegetables, and flowers are grown here. Northern Nagano is famous for apples and grapes.
Japanese apples are bigger and sweeter than apples from other countries.
Nagano also produces a lot of miso, the fermented soybean paste that the Japanese use as a flavoring in many dishes. Another Nagano specialty is soba, a Japanese buckwheat noodle. Soba is one of Japanese people's favorite foods. They hope that eating long soba noodles on that night will give them a long life. Nagano has plenty of industry too.