Gourmet / Alcohol Spots in Akita Area

  • Sato Yosuke Main Shop
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    4.5
    17 Reviews
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    Akita Pref. Yuzawashi Inaniwachou Inaniwa 80
    The Sato Yosuke Flagship shop was founded in 1860, controls every step of the process meticulously, from ingredient selection to shipping, and manages everything in-house for their Inaniwa Dried Udon. At the Flagship Store, not only can you try the shop's products on-site off their full menu, you can also watch the master makers at work on a tour of the factory. There is also an attached tourist information center and shop selling Akita specialties.

    佐藤養助さんは、都心に3店ある以外は、全て秋田県内に店舗があり(海外店舗は除く)、なかなか行けなかったんですが、今回は3連休を利用して秋田へ遠征! 稲庭うどんは絶品!二味、3玉、天ぷら付きも、アッという間の完食!特にゴマだれツユが、ホント旨かった!紅葉にはまだ早かったけど、ドライブがてら来て正解でした。帰りにお土産も買いました。さて、今夜は温泉でゆっくりします。 ごちそうさまでした。

  • Akita Hinaiya Inc., Odate Honten
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    4.5
    61 Reviews
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    Akita Pref. Odateshi Omachi 21
    This shop, under the direct management of the Akita Hinaiya Inc., offers customers a taste of Hinai-jidori chicken. The Japanese-modern interior offers a warm, comfortable space for enjoying Hinai-jidori chicken dishes like Tataki (seared) breast, thigh steak, and their original Odate Edamame Gyoza dumplings made with Hinai-jidori chicken and local edamame beans. Their lunch menu includes the chicken and egg Oyakodon rice bowl and a weekly special.

    夫婦で比内地鶏を食べに立寄りました。 先ずは美味しい! 店内は綺麗で、店員さんは皆秋田美人です。 焼鳥焼いている店員さんもバッチリ化粧した秋田美人でした。 焼き方が大変丁寧でした。また、食べに行きたいです。

  • Takaichi Seikaten
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    4.0
    4 Reviews
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    Akita Yuzawa-shi Omotemachi 1-1-28
    Operated as a greengrocer in the prewar-period but started selling fried food including fried sweet potatoes in the latter half of the 1920s. Then, nearly 30-years ago, they started selling Oban-yaki and Oranda-yaki fried pastries. Now it's a soul food shop selling shaved ice in the summer and Oban-yaki and Oranda-yaki in the winter. It's got a reputation as being delicious and easy to eat as either a light meal or as a snack.

    関西ではまずないオランダ焼のお店。今川焼きの生地にハムとチーズが入っていて、甘塩風味で美味しかったです。お値段も100円と手ごろ。

  • Otafuku
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    Akita Pref. Akitashi Omachi 4-2-25
    A local cuisine restaurant in Omachi Town, Akita City, Akita Prefecture, where one can taste Akita’s fresh seafood and mountain food. The menu is a lineup of Akita specialties including kiritanpo (mashed rice pressed on a skewer and toasted) and shottsuru (salted and fermented fish sauce), sandfish, hinaijidori (a cross between Hinai-Dori and Rhode Island Red Chickens), with kiritanpo being served with the most pride. The kiritanpo using Akitakomachi rice from the Senpoku plain is known for its sweetness and aroma, and are rolled and baked stick by stick. The tasty aroma one gets from a sip of the hinaijidori broth soup is another draw for visitors. Aside from counter seats there are also private rooms and sunken kotatsu (warmer) seats, allowing you to enjoy your meal in peace.
  • Kosendo
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    4.0
    17 Reviews
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    Akita Pref. Sembokushi Kakunodatemachihigashikatsurakuchou 9
    A well-known udon & soba shop in an old temple school building of a former samurai residence, in Kakunodate Town, Semboku City, Akita Prefecture. The specialties are a smooth rice plant udon using hinaijidori chicken or maitake mushroom, and locally-produced buke soba with buckwheat flour aroma bamboo shoot and beefsteak plant (macrophyll) tempura inside. It is a popular tourist spot for its exterior and interior that still retain the atmosphere of the Edo period.

    Excellent Oyako-don which is the best one in my life. Also Inaniwa udon with egg plant tempura is very good.

  • Restaurant Kitagura
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    Akita Pref. Sembokushi Kakunodatemachitamachikamichou 11-1
    This is a restaurant remodeled from a warehouse built in 1919, with an attractive subdued modern-retro atmosphere. One can enjoy coffee and a menu with locally-produced rice grown with few pesticides and fresh vegetables. The daily special lunch, available weekdays, is particularly popular. In the grounds of the “Akita Kakunodate Nishinomiyake” samurai residence, one can enjoy walking around Japanese-style sweet cafes and artifact exhibition spaces. Access from Kakunodate Station.
  • Kappo Shinyoshi
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    4.0
    1 Reviews
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    Akita Nikaho Kisakatamachi Ienoshiro 184-4
    A kappo Japanese restaurant located in Ienoushiro Kisakata-machi, Nikaho City. Here customers can enjoy cuisine carefully crafted by the owner using fresh, seasonal local fish and farm produce. From July through August, the restaurant also serves course cuisine featuring wild Iwagaki oysters from the Sea of Japan prepared in a variety of ways.

    有名なエビフライを食べに行きましたが、その大きさに本当に驚きました。畳の個室で落ち着いた雰囲気も良かったです。

  • Kimuraya
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    Akita Yokote Omachi 5-23
    This long-standing Japanese confectionary shop located in O-machi, Yokote City was established in 1902. Products include the Kamakura, a new, up-and-coming Yokote confection made with yokan jelly mixed with condensed milk wrapped around a tasty egg yolk-based filling; and the Tomato Daifuku, a three-layer daifuku cake consisting of tomato jam, a filling made with tomato juice, and chewy mochi rice cake. The shop also makes and sells seasonal and limited-time items such as the steamed chestnut yokan jelly.
  • Towadako Marine Blue
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    4.0
    14 Reviews
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    Akita Kazuno-gun Kosakamachi
    A sightseeing cruise dock and cafe along National Route 103 in Yasumitai, Towadako, Kosaka Town, Kazuno County. With a reservation you can take a sightseeing cruise to see Lake Towada. The attached cafe serves apple pie made with Aomori apples as well as sherbet and light meals as you can also enjoy BBQ on the shore of Lake Towada (reservation required).

    青森に来たらアップルパイが食べたい。 十和田湖に泊まったので、近くにあったここに来てみました。 平日の1時頃に行ったのですが、お客さんは1組だけでした。 雨が降ってなかったら外で食べたかったのですが、買って帰って宿で食べました。 ここのアップルパイは円形でなく、フランスパンのような細長いものを輪切りにしてあります。 中には大きくカットしたりんごがぎっしり。 りんごがとても美味しかった。 きっと使っ...

  • Horumon Koraku Hanawa Main Restaurant
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    4.0
    28 Reviews
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    Akita Kazuno-shi Hanawa Sekimukai 5
    "A horumonyaki offal barbecue restaurant located in Hanawa Sekimukai, Kazuno City. The restaurant was opened in 1952. Flavoring its offal with a secret recipe sauce inspired by Korean bulgogi, the restaurant's famous ""horumon nabe,"" provided in jingisukan convex metal skillet (pan) , is known as the progenitor of Kazuno horumon, a popular local style of horumonyaki."

    夫婦で行きました。 12時前に入店したので、空いてました。 安くて、美味しくいです。 二人でホルモン三人前頼んでも食べてしまうでしょう。 また、行きたいです。

  • Salon de Kappo Mifuji
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    Akita Kazuno-shi Hanawa Shimohanawa 155-7
    A Japanese restaurant in Shimohanawa, Hanawa, Kazuno City. They serve local specialties and creative cuisine made with local ingredients including kiritanpo, a rice dumpling roasted on a cedar skewer that originated in Kazuno, and a horse meat course meal that's been an enthusiastic favorite for quite some time (reservation required). Along with counter seating and sunken tables they also have a private room that can be reserved.
  • STOVE Plus
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    4.0
    3 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Akita Akita-shi Hiromote Kondo Seki Koshi 21-2

    秋田市広面地区の住宅街、車通りも多いところにひっそりとあるお店に初めて入りました。 店内はしっとりとした空間、ケーキをはじめとしたスイーツが綺麗に可愛く並んでいます。 少し小ぶりで金額は高めですが味は間違いなし、家族も喜んで食べてくれました。

  • Kaorudo Omachi Branch
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    Akita Akita-shi Omachi 4-3-11
    A Japanese confectioner located on Akarenga Kyodokan Street in Omachi 4-Chome, Akita City. They produce traditional Japanese confections including local specialty Akita Morokoshi made from pressed adzuki red bean flour. Their confection offerings include the Okunibusato symbolizing Akita's seasonal traditions, their Kanto Morokoshi shaping the Akita Kanto Festival and Akita specialty giant butterbur with 16 pieces of morokoshi, their Dorakuyaki cake filled with top quality red bean paste, and their Tengyoken which wraps milky bean paste in batter and bakes it.
  • Akita Shitogi-gashi Confections Ichi no Ho
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    Akita Akita-shi Nakadori 2-4-15
    A Japanese-style confectioner located along Prefectural Route 28 in Nakadori 2-Chome, Akita City. They make and sell Akita Shitogi (Rice Cakes) made with local Akita rice. In addition to their Shitogi Monaka wafer cakes stuffed with mochi pounded rice and their Shitogi Mochi rice dumplings baked with a bean paste center they also sell sweets such as sable shortbreads and rice crackers.
  • Akita Hinai Jidori-ya
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    4.0
    169 Reviews
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    Akita Akita-shi Nakadori 7-1-2 Topico 3F
    "A local Hinai-jidori chicken specialty restaurant located inside the Topico mall adjoining Akita Station in 7-Chome Naka-dori, Akita City. Serving cuisine made with local Hinai-jidori chicken, menu highlights include the grilled chicken thighs, karaage fried chicken, and the ""ultimate oyakodon"" chicken and egg over rice made with Hinai-jidori chicken grilled with high grade ubame oak charcoal and fresh Hinai-jidori chicken eggs. There's also the Lake Tazawa cold noodles topped with Hinai-jidori chicken."

    oyakodon can be found on every corner of japan and outside of japan. akita is known for its free range chicken and so of course i tried out the oyakodon. coming from the states the chicken is for...

  • Ryotei Tokiwa
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    Akita Senboku-shi Kakunodatemachi Nishikatsurakumachi 14
    A traditional Japanese restaurant in Nishikatsuraku-machi, Kakunodate-machi, Semboku City. Equipped with a room that can accommodate up to 40 guests they serve traditional cuisine including a course meal made with local ingredients for both lunch and dinner (reservation required) as well as Kiritanpo hot pot in the evenings. They also offer seasonal dishes including their spring Hana no Zen (Flower Meal) made with wild vegetables and meals made with Japanese sandfish in the winter including salted fermented fish hot pot.
  • Murasaki
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    4.0
    13 Reviews
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    Akita Senboku-shi Kakunodatemachi Takewaramachi 4-4
    A local cuisine restaurant located in Takewara-machi Kakunodate-machi, Semboku City. Popular menu selections include the kiritanpo toasted mashed rice skewers, homemade exclusively with Akitakomachi rice; kiritanpo nabe hotpot made with a Hinai-jidori chicken broth; and Hinai-jidori chicken oyakodon chicken and egg over rice. The establishment also serves regional cuisine made with fresh, seasonal ingredients such as edible wild plants in the spring and sailfin sandfish in the winter. The Bukemeshi teishoku meal comes with four seasonal, regional dishes.

    夕飯に、比内地鶏の親子丼とローストチキン、山菜の天ぷらに秋田の吟醸酒「六舟」をいただきました。 やっぱり、秋田の食と酒、良いなぁ! 夫婦で大満足でした。

  • Soba Goro
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    4.0
    44 Reviews
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    Akita Senboku-shi Tazawako Obonai Mizushiri 59-40
    "A soba noodle shop located in the ""Tazawako Ichi"" local goods shop in front of Tazawako Station in Mizushiri, Tazawako-obonai, Semboku City. They make 100% buckwheat juwari soba noodles using local Tazawako buckwheat. In addition to simple soba noodle standards including chilled morisoba and dipping zarusoba they also serve soba with Hinaijidori chicken or fried tempura. They also serve ramen for a limited period from the 22nd to the 24th of each month."

    田沢湖駅前の物産館、田沢湖市の中に構える[そば五郎]に訪問しました。 本日は2人で訪れ《地鶏そば》と《本日のラーメン》を注文しました。 《鶏そば》 冷たい日本蕎麦を温かいお汁で食べるつけ麺スタイル。田沢湖地蕎麦5割に細かい蕎麦粉を繋ぎ足した10割蕎麦はツルッとした喉越しで、豊かな蕎麦の香りがします。お汁は天然ダシが薫る上品な味わい。汁の中に比内地鶏と焼きネギが入ります。蕎麦も汁も無添加無化...

  • Yamadakeigetsu-do
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    Akita Odate-shi Onaricho 1-10-14
    A Japanese confectioner in Onari-cho 1-Chome, Odate City that first opened in 1901. They offer a variety of original Japanese sweets for sale including their famous Akegara Kotobuki confection which has been a popular item since their founding. Another popular item is their original Habutae Mochi which wraps fresh cream in a soft pounded rice dumpling. They currently sell a number of assorted flavors for you to enjoy including strawberry, matcha green tea, and brown sugar syrup.
  • Hokushu Club
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    4.5
    3 Reviews
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    Akita Odate-shi Saiwaicho 15-6
    A well-established restaurant in Saiwai-cho, Odate City that first opened in 1893. They've been known for their special Kiritanpo (toasted pounded rice skewers) Hot-pot, made with a secret Hinaijidori chicken broth and hand-picked ingredients, ever since their founding and it's currently offered year-round (reservation required). If you'd like to enjoy the flavor of a traditional Japanese restaurant with your family at home, they also offer their Hokushu Club Kiritanpo Set.

    明治二十六年操業の老舗です。昔大館は鉱石や木材の集散地として栄え、いくつも料亭があったそうです。そのころから残る趣のある建物の中で食事をいただけます。初代は「比内鶏きりたんぽ鍋」を完成させた方で、現在5代目。2017年のきりたんぽグランプリを受賞したそうで銀色の大きなきりたんぽ型トロフィー(?)が玄関に飾ってありました。 比内鶏きりたんぽ鍋の味は絶品!比内鶏から出る最高の出汁の味のスープにマイタケ...

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Famed for its sake and samurai, Akita prefecture offers quintessential Japanese culture in a non-touristy setting. Alongside the celebrated rice paddies and historical sites of the region lies dramatic natural scenery in the form of the rugged coastline of the Oga Peninsula and the Dakigaeri Gorge, best visited in autumn, when the leaves begin to change color.

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