Crab / Blowfish / Seafood Spots in Ishikawa Area

  • Ikiikitei (Omi-cho Restaurant)
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    4.0
    86 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Aokusamachi 88 Omi-cho Ichiba-kan 1F
    "A restaurant located on the first floor of the Omi-cho Market Hall affiliated with the long-standing Kanazawa sushi shop Tamazushi. The restaurant's counter is able to seat 10 customers. The establishment is compact, but the cozy atmosphere makes it possible for customers to quickly get to know each other, ensuring that even diners coming on their own will feel comfortable coming in. The restaurant primarily serves rice bowls and nigirizushi-style sushi made with fresh seafood shipped straight from Kanazawa Port. The establishment is particularly visited by many tourists seeking to enjoy its tasty seafood rice bowls. Visitors are recommended to try the ""Tokusen Hokuriku-don,"" piled high with high quality seafood; and the ""Ikiikitei-don,"" loaded with 14 different toppings. For those who don't want to eat too much, try the ""Mini Kanazawa-don."""

    They open at 7:00 a.m. and would be closed in the afternoon as they sell out everything. They have only 8 seats and guests have to write down what they eat and at what time they came. I arrive at...

  • Kappo Shintoku
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Kagashi Tajirimachi Hamayama 2-11
    Kassen Shintoku is a seafood restaurant under the direct ownership of Maruya Seafood, located a ten-minute drive from the Katayamazu Interchange on the Hokuriku Expressway in the city of Kaga, Ishikawa Prefecture. In addition to seafood rice bowl, sashimi set meal, and tempura set meal, customers can enjoy cuisine made from special local seafood, such as sea bass and Alaskan pink shrimp. The restaurant serves cuisine appropriate for each season: Shabushabu (stew) made with fresh wakame seaweed in the spring, natural oysters in the summer, and Kamameshi (rice dish cooked in a small pot) and sashimi made with snow crabs and queen crabs in the winter. The adjacent seafood store sells fish that customers can select, and the restaurant will prepare the fish they choose any way they specify.
  • Omicho Shokudo
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    4.0
    93 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Kanazawa-shi Aokusamachi 1
    This Japanese-style diner, opened in 1930, is the oldest in the Omi-cho Market. Serving sashimi, grilled fish, stewed fish, a la carte dishes, and even drinks and appetizers, the restaurant offers a menu consisting of over 100 items and also has daily recommended specials. The most popular dish is the restaurant’s seafood rice bowl, made with an abundance of fresh seafood stocked straight from the market. The establishment also serves an abundant array of alcoholic beverages.

    We thought Kanazawa will have plenty night life, but we were wrong. This restaurant acrossed on the map and saved us from hunger. The restaurant owner was very kind and friendly, and even instructed...

  • Minshuku Muroya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Suzu-shi Takojimamachi Na Department 123
    A bed and breakfast and restaurant where you can enjoy the innate flavor of fresh, lively seafood caught that very morning. Certified as a broker at Takojima Fishing Port and involved in the fisheries industry, the owner has a discerning eye when it comes to choosing seafood. The contents of the restaurant’s menu differ not only depending on the season but also on the weather and what could be stocked that day, but in any case, you’ll be able to enjoy delicious seafood to your heart’s content.
  • Hirai (Ichiba-kan)
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    3.5
    31 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Aokusamachi 88 Omi-cho Ichiba-kan 2F
    A seafood cafeteria located on the second floor of the Omi-cho Ichiba-kan mall in Kanazawa, Ishikawa renowned for its seafood rice bowls made with the freshest fish from the adjoining Omi-cho Market. The “tokusen Kaisen-don” select seafood rice bowl is particularly popular, and is piled high with local fish caught just that morning, tuna, crab, sweet shrimp, and sea urchin. At night, the restaurant serves local Ishikawa sakes and a la carte dishes made with the bounties of the sea. In addition to counter and table seating, the restaurant also has tatami mat seating, and everyone from individuals to groups can enjoy a leisurely meal at Hirai.

    金沢市近江町市場にあります、ランチ時期は9割海鮮丼です少し値段は下がったが今でも高いやはりインスタバエがすると言うこよか。

  • Daimatsu Suisan Omi-cho Shunsai-yaki
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Kamioumichou 21-1
    A shop located in the Omi-cho Market in Kanazawa, Ishikawa which sells charcoal-grilled seafood operated by Daimatsu Suisan, a local long-standing fish dealer. The shop has an eat-in space located next to shops selling fresh seafood from the Sea of Japan and will cook your fish for you then and there with your order at the counter. Customers can enjoy a variety of seasonal seafood delicacies at reasonable prices, such as seafood rice bowls and Japanese scallops grilled in butter. This popular shop is also frequently featured on TV and in magazines.
  • Kotetsu
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    4.0
    10 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Shimotsutsumichou 37-1
    A seafood rice bowl restaurant with just nine seats at the counter located inside the Omi-cho Market in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture. The restaurant’s variety of seafood rice bowls, topped with fish bought that morning personally by the owner at the market, are popular with bus guides, hotel staff members, and other people involved in the local travel industry. The standard Kaisen-don seafood rice bowl is the shop’s most popular; this luxurious dish gives diners the chance to enjoy around 13 to 14 different varieties of seafood served on a single rice bowl. The fresh-cooked Ishikawa Koshihikari rice, specially prepared soy sauce, and seasonal seafood toppings create an exquisite balance.

    賑わう時間には観光客が多く、近江町市場で食事をするのは覚悟して長時間待つことになります。しかし、この店は待っている人が少ないので「美味しくないんだろう」と敬遠していましたが、新幹線出発までの時間もないしお腹もすいたし、仕方なく(お店には申し訳ない表現ですがご容赦ください)入りました。ご夫婦だけで切り盛りされていて、L型のカウンターだけの店内です。店頭の看板にある海鮮丼をいただきました。提供も早く好...

  • Asaichi Sakaba
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Wajimashi Kawaimachi 1-91
    This standing Japanese-style bar (Izakaya) is located on the first floor of WACCA, which can be found along the morning market street in Wajima City, Ishikawa Prefecture. They are popular for serving fresh fish caught the same day from Wajima harbor, and their “sashimi kebabs” are loved as well. There’s also the “Noto rice bowl,” which has pickled seafood and yam, a seafood rice bowl, the Sakaba set, which includes both sashimi and grilled fish, and more. Enjoy the bounties of the sea along with some sake or canned beer from 7:30 a.m. until 15:00.
  • Kuroya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Honmachi 2-6-24
    This well-renowned Japanese-style restaurant is proud to purchase its locally sourced fish not only from Kanazawa, but also from Toyama Bay and Noto Peninsula. The dishes made by the owner, who was born in a fishing town and gained experience working at a famous Japanese-style restaurant, range from simple sashimi dishes to uniquely arranged dishes. The restaurant is well-known for its traditional local dishes, which use Kaga vegetables, and allows its customers to enjoy Hokuriku sake with snacks found only in Ishikawa. The well-cooked Black Wagyu beef stew is also very popular. The nearest station is Kanazawa Station.
  • Restaurant and Guest House Muroya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Suzushi Takojimamachi Naval section 123
    Muroya located near Takojima fishing port in Suzu City, Ishikawa Prefecture is a guest house with a restaurant that boasts dishes using fresh fish landed in the morning of the day. The guest house is popular for the heartfelt welcoming gestures of its owner and his simple seasoning focused on the deliciousness of the fish itself. In the restaurant, there is a wide range of unique local menu items including Notodon rice bowl topped with plenty of seafood, a sashimi set meal, kamameshi (rice cooked with meat and vegetables in a pot), and ramen noodles with iwanori seaweed. The guest house is a traditional Japanese building so you can enjoy a somewhat nostalgic atmosphere as if you are visiting your country relative’s house.
  • Kappo Meigetsu
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    4.0
    11 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Wajimashi Kawaimachi 24-17-5
    A Japanese restaurant which uses local ingredients from Wajima. The owner's family has been lacquerware artisans for three generations and the restaurant accordingly used high class Wajima lacquerware for its tableware. The restaurant's menu is omakase (chef's choice) style and, based on your price range, you will be served a variety of local seafood such as blackthroat seaperch and other dishes. The restaurant is also open during lunch, during which time you can order reasonably priced seafood and other set meals. As a souvenir for tourists, diners are given a set of chopsticks made with hiba wood harvested locally in Ishikawa Prefecture.

    友人と2人でドライブがてら輪島へ行きました。お腹が空いて...

  • Jimonotei
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    4.5
    37 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Kamioumichou 27-1 Omi-machi Market
    "A seafood restaurant located in the Omi-cho Market, known as the ""kitchen of Kanazawa."" The restaurant serves seafood rice bowls and other dishes made with fresh seafood from the waters off Kanazawa. The restaurant's seafood rice bowls are stuffed to overflowing with tasty ingredients like northern shrimp, sea urchin, and tuna. In addition to rice and miso soup, the tuna sukiyaki set meal comes with a butchered tuna spine, allowing diners to scoop out the tasty bits of meat between the bones with a spoon."

    Located inside Omicho wet market. They serve a wide variety of kaisendon (raw fish served over a bowl of rice) and sashimi. Certain menus can be pretty pricey, depending on the types of seafood they...

  • Sensai Enishi
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Aokusamachi 88 Omi-cho Ichiba-kan 2F
    "A Japanese izakaya pub serving seafood owned and operated by the Ohguchi Suisan Group fish dealer located in the Omi-cho Market Hall a 12 minute walk from the Kenrokuen exit of Kanazawa Station. The restaurant takes pride in serving dishes made with the kind of fresh seafood only a fish dealer can provide. The restaurant's signature dish is its ""Kaisen Enishi-don,"" a seafood rice bowl loaded with an abundance of local Kanazawa toppings such as Japanese amberjack, northern shrimp, crab, blackthroat seaperch, ikura salted salmon roe, and sea urchin. Also recommended is the ""Nodoguro Hitsumabushi,"" made with an entire blackthroat seaperch, a highly prized fish from the Sea of Japan, sliced thin and served over rice, this tasty dish can be enjoyed three different ways. The establishment also carries a wide selection of choice local liquors from the Hokuriku region."
  • Itsumi Ushioya (Omicho Market Shop)
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    4.0
    15 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Aokusamachi 88 Omi-cho Ichiba-kan 1F
    A seafood shop with an adjoining eat-in space located on the first floor of the Omi-cho Market Hall. A branch shop of Itsumi Ushioya, a company which sells marine products made with select ingredients and seasonings, the shop carries the company's signature Noto, Kanazawa seared Japanese amberjack tataki and salmon tataki as well as items befitting the Ishikawa area like dried blackthroat seaperch. In the relaxing Japanese-style eat-in space in the back, you can enjoy seafood rice bowls topped with the company's popular tataki as well as chirashi sushi and other seafood dishes.

    Many places are rated over 4 these days but also many are not worth it. This one is worth it. The fish was fresh and the rice was tasty. The miso soup probably the best we had. One of our top meals...

  • Daimatsu Suisan Co., Ltd.
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Kamioumichou 33
    "A seafood shop established 130 years ago located in the Omi-cho Market a 15 minute walk from Kanazawa Station. Striving to provide customers with products that feel like a bargain and taste delicious, the shop sells seasonal seafood as well as dried fish and sushi. Particularly focusing on shrimp, crab, and Japanese amberjack, the shop's cases are only filled seafood at its most delicious period in the season. Northern shrimp, in particular, is known as the ""jewel of the Sea of Japan,"" and the owner recommends the whole dried northern shrimp and whole dried northern shrimp with roe. Only the freshest just-caught northern shrimp are washed with underground spring water from Mt. Hakusan and dried with natural salt."
  • Wajima Kaiko
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Wajimashi Kawaimachi 1-100-4
    "A seafood rice bowl and sushi restaurant located in the Wajima Morning Market. The restaurant's most popular menu selection is its ""Kaiko-don,"" a seafood rice bowl topped with eight to nine seasonal seafood varieties and served with miso soup and pickles. Because it comes overloaded with seafood, the ""Kaiko-don"" is served in a rice bowl about two sizes bigger than usual. Another popular choice is the ""Wajima Fugu-don,"" a rice bowl completely covered with fresh, chewy fugu shipped straight from Wajima's fishing ports garnished with rare fugu whitebait. Diners can also take home the chopsticks which come with the ""Wajima Fugu-don"" as a souvenir."
  • Imashin
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    4.0
    13 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Wajimashi Machinomachi Sosogi A 38-4
    "A seafood restaurant where you can enjoy dishes made with the freshest of ingredients standing on National Route 249. The restaurant has counter seats and tatami mat seating able to accommodate up to 40. The tatami mat seating area offers a sweeping view of the nearby rocky coast. The most popular item on the menu is the ""Noto Anago-don,"" a rice bowl topped to overflowing with huge pieces of conger eel. Other menu selections include fresh sashimi, tempura, and the restaurant's new ""Kaisen-don"" seafood rice bowl topped with a selection of local fish which changes depending on the season. In summer, the restaurant also serves a la carte dishes like turban shell, abalone, and Iwagaki oysters."

    海鮮丼を注文しました。 とても新鮮プリプリで、炙りサーモンもとろけて美味しかった。 カニもイクラものっていて、新鮮な海鮮がこの金額なのは、コスパがかなり良くて満足感がありました。 金沢だと3000円位しそう…。 そして、海藻の手作りお味噌汁。 うまい…。 磯の香りが口の中に広がり、五臓六腑に染み渡ります。 体に優しい…。ありがとう。 思わず感謝です。 お店もとても雰囲気があって、目の前は日本...

  • Itsumi Ushioya (Higashi Chaya District Shop)
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    4.0
    11 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Higashiyama 1-7-9 (Higashi Chaya Street)

    Situated inside the market. Overall, the food experience was good. Quite reasonable in terms of pricing. Dining in the market is like a new experience.

  • I No Yayoidai
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    3.5
    42 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Kanazawa-shi Kamiomicho 33-1

    We came to the restaurant around 13h50 and went in the restaurant at 14h50 - the queue was pretty long but we thought it indicates great food as it is usual in Japan so we didnt mind waiting for...

  • Kaiyu Oto no Sho Nebuta cafe
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Wajima-shi Onomachi Tsurugaike 72
    "The restaurant is located along the coastline on National Route 249 east of downtown Wajima, and is home to the ""Kaiyu Noto no Sho"" onsen ryokan. As a hot spring ryokan, you can take a relaxing bath after your meal or just relax in your room."

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Long, thin Ishikawa prefecture runs along the Sea of Japan up into Noto Peninsula. Highlights of the seaside towns lining the west coast include Kanazawa, often described as a "Little Kyoto" thanks to its old wooden tea houses and geisha culture as well as its picturesque Japanese garden, Kenroku-en.

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