Buying Corn Flour in Japan?

Is it possible to buy corn_flour in Japan? or even just Corn? Like the one Mexicans use to prepare ''Tortillas''?

If you go to foreign import grocery chains, they should have plenty of corn flower or even prepacked tortillas.

I've sometimes found things like that at Sony Plaza or the underground grocery stores beneath big department stores. But, they may be a lot more expensive than you hope.

Corn is sold in most (if not, all) Japanese grocery stores, but usually priced individually, not sold by the lbs. Frankly, I think going about buying corn flour OR corn is too expensive in the end and all the work/money I'd go through preparing stuff (oil, gas, time) is better enjoyed at a Mexican restaurant, etc.

Well, That is actually good info! I'm not planning to buy as an individual.. I would like to open a buisiness... You know, preparing and maybe selling tortilla there, I have some money that I would like to invest ^^

"Corn Flour" also goes under the American name "Corn Starch".

Corn flour and corn starch are two different things. You cannot make tortilla with corn starch.

is this?
http://www.tomizawa.co.jp/webshop/commodity_param/ctc/+/shc/0/grp/0030...


or is this?
http://www.tomizawa.co.jp/webshop/commodity_param/ctc/+/shc/0/grp/0030...


tomizawa http://www.tomizawa.co.jp/

is the shop easy to buy many flours around tokyo.

"Corn flour and corn starch are two different things. You cannot make tortilla with corn starch."

Not in UK, Australia, NZ etc....

In those countries, what is called "corn starch" in the US is called "corn flour".

There needs to be an awareness of the names and differences to be able to buy the right thing in Japan.

The unambiguous name for flour used for tortillas is Cornmeal, flour ground from dried corn.

''Corn flour and corn starch are two different things. You cannot make tortilla with corn starch.''

Not in UK, Australia, NZ etc....

In those countries, what is called ''corn starch'' in the US is called ''corn flour''.

There needs to be an awareness of the names and differences to be able to buy the right thing in Japan.

The unambiguous name for flour used for tortillas is Cornmeal, flour ground from dried corn.

I know that sometimes ''corn starch'' is sold under the name of ''corn flour'' in UK and some other English speaking countries, but not the other way round.

''Corn flour'' is flour made of corn (maize) but ''corn starch'' (which can be also sold as ''corn flour'') is starch extracted from corn/maize and with this you cannot make tortilla.

USA-Corn flour (masa harina) is made from dried corn which has been slaked(soaked in lime water). Masa is used for making corn tortillas as well as tamales, empanadas, etc. Corn starch is a fine powdery flour made frrom the endosperm of corn kernals. Corn starch is used as a thickener for sauces, puddings, soups, etc.