Crab / Blowfish / Seafood Spots in Fukui Area

  • Shokusai Goen
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    4.0
    23 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Obama-shi Obamahiyoshi 57-2
    A seafood restaurant located along Kaigan-dori Street in Obamahiyoshi, Obama City. They serve meals using fresh local seafood caught every morning out in Wakasa Bay. Experience the changing flavors of Wakasa Bay with options including their Goen Seafood Rice bowl loaded with seasonal fish as well as Iwagaki oysters in the summer and blowfish and crab in the winter.

    平日ランチで限定日替わりランチ定食いただきました。790円とリーズナブルでした。お茶がポットで付きます。造り定食も美味しそうでした。

  • Yamani Seafood
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Pref. Sakaishi Mikunichouantou 64-1
    Located near the famous Tojinbo Cliffs in Mikuni-cho in the city of Sakai, Fukui Prefecture, Yamani Seafood is a purveyor to the Imperial Household Agency. A venerable business founded during the Meiji period (1868–1912), it sells fresh seafood caught in Mikuni Harbor and processed seafood. It boasts a wide range of seafood, including Echizen crabs, deep water shrimp, and flounder. In the onsite restaurant, customers can enjoy generous servings of seafood over rice, sashimi made from fish caught that day, or fish roasted on the beach. Customers can choose one of the famous Echizen crabs from the live storage tank and have it prepared any way they want.
  • Oshokujidokoro Tajima
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    3.5
    35 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Pref. Sakaishi Mikunichoushuku 1-17-42
    Run by a long-running fish wholesaler and purveyor to the Imperial Household Agency, this restaurant lets you taste the fresh bounty of the ocean taken from the nearby Mikuni Port. It is a famous shop featured in magazines and various media. The most popular item is “kaisen don” —a bountiful dish with sea urchin, salmon roe, and Mikuni seafood like squid and sweet shrimp piled high on rice. During crab season from November to March, you can enjoy a dish using luxurious Echizen crab that was even served to the Imperial Household. The building is a Japanese-style with Kara-mon gate (Chinese gate). Inside the shop there is a counter seat which is easy to enter alone. The nearest station is Mikuni-Minato Station.

    お盆休み中の12時前に訪れたましたが、既に行列が出来ており約30分待ちでした (コロナの影響でテーブル一つおきに着席)。 大半の方が注文するからか、海鮮丼はオーダーしてから割と早く提供いただけました。 海鮮がてんこ盛りで、特に甘海老が甘くて美味しかったです。付属の味噌汁も海老の出汁が非常に濃厚で美味しかったです。待つ価値はあったと思います。

  • Echizen Kaninobo
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    4.0
    30 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Pref. Sakaishi Mikunichoushuku 1-16
    Echizen Kaninobo, located near Mikuni Port where there is a concentration of seafood from the Hokuriku Region, is a souvenir shop as well as a restaurant directly managed by Bouyourou, a well-established ryori ryokan (an inn focusing on food). At the souvenir shop, they sell seafood such as Echizen crab, which is also known as an item presented to the Imperial Household, dried seafood using fresh fish, and processed products. The second floor is a restaurant which offers a range of menu items from simple rice bowls and set meals to a full course meal with crab. The Kaisen chirashidon (a rice bowl scattered with seafood) and the Original Gasaebi Katsudon (a rice bowl topped with gasa shrimp cutlets), serving plenty of delicacies from the Japan Sea, are popular. The nearest station is Mikuniminato Station.

    三国港駅の直ぐ横にある大きな蟹の看板が掲げられた蟹と海鮮の店。店内一階の大きな水槽には蟹が… 客室がある2階は個室風の掘り炬燵テーブル席が並ぶ。今回はランチで訪問、旬の海鮮ちらし丼を注文。スズキ等の福井県産の魚と甘エビ、岩海苔のお吸い物と冷奴、大変美味しゅうございました。

  • Tarumi
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    4.0
    4 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Pref. Fukuishi Hamakitayamachou 1-2
    This restaurant specializing in Echizen crab and live fish features great seasonal views of the Sea of Japan from each of its dining rooms. Its popular cuisine is created by an owner chef highly knowledgeable about Echizen crab and the region’s seasonal fish. The attached inn of the same name offers accommodation packages that include activities such as fishing on a professional fishing boat, fishing for squid, and more.

    平日16時頃に到着!営業中の看板が出ていたので店内へ気の良いおばちゃんに席まで案内してもらい活きイカ丼を注文しようとしたけど「朝〆イカしかない!」(-_-;)・・・ということで海鮮丼を注文! しばらく待つと海鮮丼が到着‼︎ イカ、マグロ、ヒラメなど5種類入っておりどれも新鮮で歯応え、旨味がたまりませんでした(≧∀≦) 今回は活きイカがなかったですが美味しい海鮮丼が食べれて大満足でした...

  • Raden
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Pref. Fukuishi Chuou 1-2-1 Hapirin 1F
    This restaurant offers carefully-crafted cuisine made with Echizen crab, one of the greatest winter flavors offered by the Sea of Japan, fresh seasonal seafood, and freshly-harvested vegetables from local producers. Customers can feel the warmth of Fukui in the restaurant’s interior, whether it is from the use of Echizen-washi (a traditional handicraft of Fukui) as wallpaper, or the use of shakudani-ishi, a type of rock once mined in Fukui.
  • Echizen Seafood Restaurant
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    3.5
    11 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Pref. Nyugunechizenchou Kokonogi 3-81
    This restaurant in a fishing port in Port in Kokonogi, Echizen-cho has a panoramic view of the port and you can enjoy fresh Echizen seafood throughout the year as well as Echizen crab dishes in the winter. During the Echizen crab season, you can eat crab selected by the owner from his own catch. Fishing restrictions are lifted from 6th November to 20th March and visitors can enjoy crab up to the end of April. The menu also includes rare seafood that is not sold commercially.

    取引先の方と来店しました。漁港に面したお店です。定食を注文。海老は新鮮で、揚げ物はカラッとしていて美味しかったです。蟹の季節に来たいと思いました。

  • Yuunagiso
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    3.0
    9 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Sakai-shi Mikunicho Anto 63-1-33
    A restaurant in Anto, Mikuni-cho, Sakai City. The restaurant is located nearby the Tojinbo Cliffs, a registered national place of scenic beauty, and offers fresh seafood cuisine made with local seafood. Enjoy set meals and course meals made with Fukui's specialty Echizen crab or their seafood rice bowl loaded with local seasonal seafood.

    駐車料金が500円で2000円以上の食事や買い物で駐車料金が払い戻しされるというので食事をしました。 1350円でカニのどんぶりが食べれました。

  • Hamasaka
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    5.0
    5 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Sakai-shi Mikunicho Shuku 2-17-24
    A restaurant located on Kamome-dori Road in Shuku, Mikuni-cho 2-Chome, Sakai City. The restaurant is run by a fishmonger and serves meals made with fresh seasonal fish caught right in Mikuni. You can enjoy a variety of meals including seafood rice bowls and kamameshi kettle cooked dishes featuring Mikuni's specialty sweet shrimp and even Echizen crab during the winter period.

    We went there for lunch on a cold afternoon. The place was cozy and we were arranged to sit at the bar table. We ordered seafood rice bowl while they have a wide range of food serving there. I...

  • Oshokuji-dokoro Yuki
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    3.5
    4 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Sakai-shi Mikunicho Tojinbo
    A restaurant in Mikuni-cho, Sakai City. Located next to the Tojinbo Cliffs, a national place of scenic beauty, they serve meals made with fresh seasonal seafood delivered directly from the local Yamani Suisan fishery. In addition to seafood dishes including seafood rice bowls, sashimi set meats, and broiled seafood they offer a squid ink soft-serve ice-cream that's very popular.

    観光地の東尋坊から歩いて行けます。東尋坊は国指定名勝で天然記念物です。その東尋坊の商店街の中にあります。イカスミソフト、黒い色のソフトクリーム、目玉付きというのがユニークです。

  • Aji Ikkyu
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Mikata-gun Mihamacho Kugushi 80-3
    A seafood restaurant located along Prefectural Route 214 in Kugushi, Mihama Town, Mikata County. They serve small dishes including sashimi and tempura, sushi, and course meals made with the seasonal seafood that swims in their inhouse fish tanks. You can enjoy a variety of changing seasonal flavors including winter Echizen crab, tiger blowfish caught in Wakasa Gulf, and fresh eel from the Mikatagoko Lakes.
  • Wakasugi Suehirotei
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Obama-shi Otecho 8-5
    A ryokan inn located along National Route 162 in Ote-cho, Obama City. The inn prides itself on its cuisine and serves course meals made with local Wakasa seafood including their Wakasa Obama Tilefish Meal and their Wakasa Obama Mackerel Assortment. In winter you can also enjoy blowfish and snow crab. In a small raised area facing the inner courtyard they also offer a meal service to non-guests with menu options including Grilled Wakasa Tilefish and Broiled Mackerel meals. They also offer a special Saba-suki Mackerel Rice bowl with advance reservation.
  • Restaurant KANINOHANA
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Nyu-gun Echizencho Umeura 56-13
    A seafood restaurant located along Prefectural Route 6 in Umeura, Echizen Town, Nyu County. They serve cuisine made with seasonal Echizen seafood including meals featuring Echizen crab from November to early May. From the restaurant's hill top location you can enjoy the view of the Sea of Japan as you dine. From April to October you can also enjoy freshly caught Abalone.
  • Warabi Katamachiten
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    2-21-1, Junka, Fukui-shi, Fukui, 910-0023
  • Warabi Fukuiekimaeten
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    3.0
    11 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    1F, 1-11-11, Chuo, Fukui-shi, Fukui, 910-0006

    福井のチェーンの居酒屋。ちょっと残念だったのは地酒の種類が少なかったこと。料理は美味しかっただけに残念。

  • Warabi Takagiten
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    52-28-1, Takagi, Fukui-shi, Fukui, 910-0805
  • Warabi Sabaeten
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    1-5-16, Koguromachi, Sabae-shi, Fukui, 916-0028
  • Kutsurogi-no Yado Minshukuhamagashira
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    8-4, Ano, Obama-shi, Fukui, 917-0105
  • MIKUNIINKYOJO
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    5.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    3-7-22, Mikunichoshuku, Sakai-shi, Fukui, 913-0056

    1Fがレストランで、2F宿泊施設のお店。地元の新鮮な魚介類を使った料理がとても美味しかったです。ランチで来ても良し!泊りに来ても良し!そんなお店です。釣った魚を捌いて食べる事もできるみたい。夏は、海釣り教室やビアガーデンもやっていて、このお店はこれから人気が出ると思いますよ!

  • Chisou En
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    4-27-19 Ninomiya Fukui-shi Fukui

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Northeast of Kyoto, the ancient Tojinbo Cliffs separate Fukui prefecture from the Sea of Japan in a stretch of land well worth exploring. Water sports and seaside delicacies are available in abundance as the spectacular rugged coastline flattens down into beaches to the west of the prefecture, while inland, Fukui is home to Zen Buddhist temples and historic ruins.

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