Local Cuisine Spots in Japan

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  Kagoshima
  
  Okinawa

Category

Gourmet / Alcohol

Japanese Food

Local Cuisine

TOKYO SHIBA TOFUYA UKAI

4.5

935 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Minato-ku Shibakouen 4-4-13

Tokyo Shiba Ukai Tofu Shop wins high marks for its tofu, made with water drawn from a well 120 meters deep and carefully selected, high quality soybeans. Customers can taste seasonal flavors, including tofu in seasoned soymilk and dashi, appetizer plates, and sashimi. Two kinds of lunchtime course meals only available on weekdays are recommended for a little luxurious lunch. Ukai's evening meals are recommended for special occasions and celebrations.

The setting, service and experience is exceptional and worth the visit. The 4 of us had our own room and 2 of us had a vegan kaiseki menu, the others had some fish and meat too. Each dish was...
Speciality Houtoh Fudo Lake Kawaguchi North Main Store

Gourmet / Alcohol

Yamanashi Pref. Minamitsurugunfujikawaguchikomachi Kawaguchi 707

This is a specialty hoto noodle restaurant located in the northeast area of Lake Kawaguchi. Visitors can enjoy a relaxing meal in the warm atmosphere of traditional folk-style restaurant. There is something simple and warming about firm homemade noodles with pumpkin, edible wild plants, and mushrooms and the taste of the foothills of Mt. Fuji. The flavor is outstanding.
Specialty Houtou Fudou Higashi koiji Store

4.0

180 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Yamanashi Pref. Minamitsurugunfujikawaguchikomachi Funatsu Koiji 2458

Even among the number of “Houtou Fudou” stores which this chain has around Lake Kawaguchi, the Higashi koiji store among others has the most characteristic appearance. There are roughly 300 seats available within the white round building which is similar to a snow dome, so even large numbers of people can feel relieved and use it with confidence. The miso base soup which has been flavored with the savory taste of vegetables and mushrooms has a gentle flavor which goes very well with the homemade noodles.

This place being in the outskirts of Kawaguchi, we had to walk for about 25 min from our hotel, but it was worth it. Even though this extraterrestrial building is close to a big road, once youre...
Hotokura Funari Kawaguchiko Restaurant

4.5

74 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Yamanashi Minamitsuru-gun Fujikawaguchikomachi Funatsu 6931

Delicious local hoto noodles! They made a vegetarian version for me and my partner enjoyed the pork hoto. Both were really good and with lots of taste. Large portions! Really lovely!
Yasudaya

3.5

33 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Saitama Pref. Chichibugunoganomachi Ogano 392

This shop, founded in 1916 in Ogano Town, Chichibu County, Saitama Prefecture, is the birthplace of Chichibu’s famed Waraji Katsudon pork cutlet bowl. This dish includes a satisfying portion of pork cutlet with a shoyu-based sauce. Not only is it tasty and filling, but the reasonable price is attractive, too. People come from all over to enjoy this famous dish.

家族で5年ぶりに食べに行きましたが、店内に入ること猫のおしっこ臭い匂いが漂っていました。味は、油身の多いかつでした。家族は二度と行かないと言っていました。味より店内と接客を考えた方がいいですね。
Chojiya

4.0

166 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Shizuoka Pref. Shizuokashi Suruga-ku Mariko 7-10-10

This restaurant in Suruga Ward, Shizuoka City, makes local cuisine and has been known since the early Edo Period as the oldest makers of grated yam soup. The shop has appeared in works by artists such as Matsuo Basho and Utagawa Hiroshige. Here you can enjoy the well-maintained traditional flavor of grated yam soup made from Japanese yam and other local ingredients. There is also a historical reference room.

This casual restaurant does not tequire so-called eating manner nor formal clothes although it has a long history back into 1600s. The restaurant thach-roofed building became a motif of UKIYOE by...
Tosa Tataki Dojo

4.5

42 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kouchi Pref. Kouchishi Nida 201-2

This restaurant is inside the Drive-In Katsuobune tourist stop located on the side of the Kuroshio Line in Niida, Kochi City. It is popular for allowing visitors to sear freshly-caught raw skipjack tuna themselves with burning straw. In addition to freshly-seared skipjack tuna, the restaurant also offers a la carte items, set meals, and takeout.

JALダイナミックパッケージのびっくりオプションで格安だったので訪問。自分で藁焼きの体験が出来、それを食す。この時は生のカツオがあってラッキーとの事。添えてある他のものが若干萎びていながそこそこのお味。ご馳走さまでした。
Hotokura Funari Fruit Line Restaurant

4.0

48 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Yamanashi Pref. Yamanashishi Manriki 1091

This restaurant established in 1979 is popular for their golden hoto noodles made exclusively with ingredients sourced from Yamanashi Prefecture. It even won first place at the Shosenkyo Gorge Hoto Noodle Competition three years in a row. Their exquisite premium golden hoto noodles luxuriously combine their famous golden hoto noodles with boiled abalone, a Yamanashi Prefecture delicacy.

「ほうとう」というと、南瓜が溶け込んでトロっとした味噌味というイメージがあったのですが、この店は南瓜がトッピングのように載せられているので、汁に濃厚さはありません。しかし、南瓜のペーストを加えた黄金味噌に出汁を合わせてあるそうで、サッパリした中にも実に味わい深い汁でした。一方で麺はもっちりとしていて満足感がありました。煮貝のステーキも注文。当たり前ですが熱々なので、何度か食した煮貝ですがとても新...
Okinawa Soba Hamaya

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Nakagamigunchatanchou Miyagi 2-99

This 36-year-old Okinawa soba noodle restaurant is a symbol of Okinawa. Their traditional salty soup that uses no soy sauce has the condensed savoriness of pork, chicken and skipjack, and is popular for its unique irresistible flavor. Their “Hamaya soba” with pork cartilage soki boiled until soft and their “Okinawa soba” topped with cartilage soki and boneless rib of pork are especially popular.
Ufuya - Okinawa Old Folk House

4.0

624 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Nagoshi Nakayama 90

This local restaurant uses a kominka (old house) centered on Asato residence, constructed in the late Meiji period (1868–1912). In the afternoon, in addition to Okinawan soba wheat noodles, you can enjoy their prided Agu pork dishes and steak using wagyu beef from the prefecture, and reservations are only available for the shabu-shabu course and wagyu steak. They only offer courses of Ryukyu dishes or Agu pork at night.

Make your reservations online as the place can be packed. We ordered the Agu pork shabu shabu set for 3 persons and really enjoyed the meat and the fresh vegetables. The resulting broth at the end...
Koshu Hoto Kosaku (Kofu Station Restaurant)

Gourmet / Alcohol

Yamanashi Pref. Koufushi Marunouchi 1-7-2

Hoto noodles, a regional cuisine of Kai province, are thought to have been popularized due their use as field rations? by samurai warlord Takeda Shingen. Their high vegetable content is believed to give people beautiful skin and help prevent cancer. Located in front of Kofu Station, this hoto noodle shop, part of a chain, is popular not just for the taste of its hoto noodles as well as its convenient location.
Houtou Fudou (South Kawaguchi-ko Store)

3.5

50 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Yamanashi Pref. Minamitsurugunfujikawaguchikomachi Funatsu 1672-2

Houtou (Fudou South Kawaguchi-ko Store) is dedicated solely to Houtou noodles-a Lake Kawaguchi standard. Enjoy Houtou noodles in their warehouse-like interior with expertly utilized natural lighting. It's great to savor their proud Houtou while gazing at Lake Kawaguchi and Mt. Fuji right in front of you. They also sell souvenirs like Houtou noodles and pickled goods.

Delicious houtou noodles, very fat with a real al dente bite in homemade miso soup with nameko & aburage. Good for vegetarians. Really filling! Try the BA sashi (Horse Sashimi, another regional...
Nagasaki Shippoku Hamakatsu

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nagasaki Pref. Nagasakishi Kajiyamachi 6-50

This shippoku restaurant is located in Kajiya-machi, Nagasaki City. It offers Nagasaki's local cuisine of shippoku, a fusion of Japanese, Chinese and Dutch cuisine placed on large plates eaten on a shippoku (vermillion-painted round table). Besides a shippoku cuisine course using traditional Nagasaki vegetables and local seafood, you can also taste simple, single portions of shippoku cuisine and whale dishes. In addition, it also has a Nagasaki Night View Course where you can see night views of Nagasaki chosen as one of the World's New Top 3 Night Views after dinner.
Port Station Beppu Traffic Center

3.5

50 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Oita Pref. Beppushi Shinminatomachi 6-46

A souvenir and gift store standing on the Kokura Kaido Highway in Shinminato-machi, Beppu City. The store sells specialty products, seafood, local sake, and arts and crafts from Oita and throughout Kyushu. The adjoining Take Miraikan museum displays examples of traditional Beppu takezaiku bamboo work. Local dishes are served in the facility’s two restaurants—Take no Restaurant Chikushi and Umibe no Restaurant Shiosai, which boasts a sweeping view of Beppu Bay.

別府温泉のおみやげが揃っていると、わざわざ駐車料金まで払って買いに行った。880円で買った商品が道の駅で650円で売っていた。約35％高であった。こんなにも高く売るのは消費者として納得し難い。二度と行かない。
Aoyagi

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshichuouku Shimotori 1-4-26 Link Place Building 1F

This restaurant located in Chuo Ward, Kumamoto City serves local cuisine. They offer a variety of raw horse meat sashimi dishes, spicy mustard filled lotus root, fresh Amakusa seafood, and seasonal Kumamoto fare. Their Honmaru Gozen Japanese style meal sets featuring local heirloom varieties of komatsuna greens, bean sprouts, and bobura squash revive the Edo period cuisine of the region.
Ganso Guzoni Himematsuya Flagship Store

4.0

130 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nagasaki Pref. Shimabarashi Jounai 1-1208-3

This is a restaurant well-known as the original restaurant of the Shimabara delicacy “Guzoni”, standing right across from Shimabara Castle. Guzoni is prepared by boiling vegetables such as shirona (a leafy vegetable), lotus root etc., with chicken meat, conger eel, and omelette in a soup stock. The wonderful flavor of the bonito stock soup is so popular, people queue to eat here. In addition to Guzoni dishes, there are various set menus to choose from. It is a nine-minute walk from Shimabara Station.

島原城周辺は飲食店が少ないため、平日にもかかわらず昼食を利用する客がこのレストランに集中します。14時過ぎでも駐車場が満車の状態で、列を成していることが多く、その人気ぶりがうかがえます。店内は広く、焦げ茶色の落ち着いた色合いのテーブルや椅子が、純和風の食堂の雰囲気を漂わせます。スタッフの多くは地元の女性で構成され、テキパキと動きながらも丁寧さは損なわれていません。ほぼ全ての席に客が居ても、注文か...
Shimujo

4.5

62 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Nahashi Shurisueyoshichou 2-124-1

Shimujo near Sueyoshi Park is a restaurant located at 2-chome, Shurisueyoshi Town, Naha City. The shop occupies a traditional Japanese house with red roof tiles which has been designated as a national registered Tangible Cultural Property. It offers set meals of local cuisine such as Okinawan soba noodles, which are thin noodles covered with stock from pork and dried bonito. You can enjoy them in the Okinawan atmosphere which remains the same as in the past.

首里近くの少し細くわかりにくい道にあります。10:45オープンで平日でも満席になる程の人気っぷり。縁側で順番を待ってテラス席か中で食べます。ソーキそばやテビチ、じーまみー豆腐など沖縄の伝統料理を、高いレベルでいただけます。お薦めはソーキそばセット1300円です。これに食べたいものは大体乗ってます。
Izu no Sataro

4.0

6 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Shizuoka Pref. Izushi Yugashima 2859-29

Close to Joren Falls in the tourist area of Yugashima in Shizuoka Prefecture’s Izu City, this is a restaurant in the style of an old home. The food uses boar meat such as Amagi’s famous product of Shishi-nabe (boar meat hot pot), and guests can enjoy tasting the products of Izu’s mountain and sea. The popular menu item is the Amagi-don rice bowl topped with plenty of grilled boar meat and covered in a special sauce. There is also plenty of other variety such as the Shishi-nabe set meal with miso sauce, the Koyo-don rice bowl topped with deer meat, and handmade soba. The spacious interior has both table seats and tatami floor seating, and patrons can relax and enjoy a meal either before or after sightseeing at the falls.

中伊豆で昼食するとしたらと、あれこれ計画練っていてジビエ料理にしようということでこちらのお店に決めました。二人でそれぞれ天城郷土料理セットの猪と鹿をオーダーしてシェアし合いながら食べました。セットにはプラス100円で味噌汁も追加できます。お肉は秘伝の甘辛いタレで味付けされた焼肉にキノコや筍など山野菜が豊富に入った食べ応えある内容でした。これにミニわさび丼が付きます。古民家風のレストランで雰囲気もあ...
Shimantoya

4.0

56 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kouchi Pref. Shimantoshi Yamachi 2494-1

This souvenir shop is on the bank of the Shimanto River in Shimanto City, Kochi Prefecture and contains a restaurant on the second floor. It opened in 1967. The first floor sells processed goods such as natural eel, shrimp, sweetfish, and seaweed from the Shimanto River, which is said to be Japan’s last remaining limpid river. The chef, who is also a river fisherman, offers dishes such as grilled eel and rice, natural salt-grilled sweetfish, fried river shrimp, and other local cuisine. Depending on the season, you may be able to sit outside on the terrace and gaze at the river while you eat.

Luckily I could have limited available chacoal grilled “Tennen” eel (not farmed eel) which is cooked as Kansai style, however, a bit over cooked but still very tasty. Restaurant located on 2F with...
Shitamiya Honten

4.0

29 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Gunma Pref. Kiryushi Hamamatsuchou 1-1-1

The over 80 year old Shitamiya is said to be the founding store serving the popular Kiryu cuisine, cutlets on rice with sauce. In addition to the standard sauce cutlet bowl, visitors can enjoy the flavors of the old-fashioned shop in other dishes such as an egg and cutlet bowl, set meals, and meals catering to women and children are also available. The takeout menu is extensive and it is possible to choose from dishes to have at home, or to eat while exploring Kiryu.

桐生名物らしいソースカツ丼のお店です。駅からはちょっと遠いですが歩けない距離ではないです。テーブル席と小上がり席がありますが、どちらも落ち着いた雰囲気で和みます。ソースカツ丼は枚数が選べますので空腹度によって調整できて便利です。お味も大変良く、お値段も手頃ですので、大変満足です。ソースカツ丼食べるならおすすめのお店です。