Gourmet / Alcohol Spots in Takayama Area

  • Ebisu Soba restaurant
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    4.5
    169 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Kamininomachi 46
    Founded in 1898, the Ebisu Soba restaurant is the oldest Soba noodles restaurant in the Hida Takayama region. Ebisu Soba makes its Soba noodles using a unique recipe that has remained largely unchanged since the restaurant was founded, with a ratio of 70–75% buckwheat flour to 25–30% wheat flour. The restaurant is proud of its noodle broth, made using a secret recipe which involves allowing the broth to steep for a specified period of time; this broth gives the Soba noodles their delicate, delicious flavor. Ebisu Soba is located in a traditional Machiya townhouse, so diners can enjoy a unique atmosphere redolent of times gone by. The restaurant is situated around 15 minutes’ walk from JR Takayama Station.

    Delicious noodles. Very helpful staffs who help to fulfill our orders. We request to have a quail egg for the traditional soba noodles which is not inside the menu. Their curry ramen is yummy too.

  • Kyoya restaurant
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    4.5
    403 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Oushinmachi 1-77
    Kyoya is a restaurant in Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture that offers delicious local cuisine made using Hida beef and other local ingredients, as well as seasonal delicacies. Kyoya is located in a traditional house that was specially relocated to the site from the Echigo (Niigata) region, giving it a fascinating retro-style ambience; as diners pass through the entrance curtain, they are greeted with the sight of huge beams that create a friendly, welcoming space. Seated around Irori (hearths constructed in the floor), diners can enjoy steak or sukiyaki made from high-quality Hida beef, Shabu-shabu hotpot, a wide range of other top-notch dishes, and local Sake brands. Kyoya is also a convenient place to drop in for lunch, with a lunch menu featuring a wide range of set meals such as “Hida Takayama Go-zen (Gourmet) Meal” and “Hida Beef Yakishabu (thinly-sliced beef marinated in a delicious sauce) Set Meal.” Kyoya is situated around 15 minutes’ walk from Takayama Station on the JR Takayama Line.

    Our sons ate here years ago and encouraged us to give it a try. We are so glad we did! The beef was amazing, the interior authentic and the staff friendly. My 200g A5 steak was the best dish I ate...

  • RESTAURANT Le Midi
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    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Honmachi 2-85
    RESTAURANT Le Midi is a restaurant in Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture specializing in Hida beef steak and hamburgers. The Hida beef used in the restaurant is meticulously prepared over a period of around two weeks. Besides steak, diners can also enjoy hamburgers, beef stew and other dishes, made with carefully selected locally-sourced ingredients. The interior decor has a fashionable, nostalgic ambience redolent of one of the historic districts of Paris, making dining here a relaxing, enjoyable experience.
  • Panorama Takeout Shop
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Okuhida Onsenkyo Shinhodaka
    A shop selling refreshments in Shirakabadaira Station, part of the Shinhotaka Ropeway with superb views at over 2,000 meters above sea level. Snacks available for take-out include soft serve ice cream, Hida beef croquettes, and juicy beef skewers. You can eat your purchase while soaking in their outdoor footbath. It's a nice spot for a break and a bite to eat while looking up at the Daini Ropeway against the clear blue sky.
  • Cafe Mount View
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Okuhida Onsenkyo Shinhodaka Mountain peak Nishihodakaguchi Sta. 4F
    An eatery at the top of the Shinhotaka Ropeway with its 360-degree panorama at the summit. It's about 1 hour and 40 minutes from Takayama Station. You can get casual fare like ramen and udon noodles, curry rice, and oden hot pot. It's on the 4th floor of Nishihotakaguchi Station. Limited availability items that are only sold there include Unkai Udon, Unkai Soba, and a ramen set with rice and a mix of local mushrooms. The spacious shop is often filled with tourists who've just enjoyed the spectacular view from the Shinhotaka Ropeway.
  • Cafe Kasagatake
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Okuhida Onsenkyo Shinhodaka Shinhodaka Onsen Sta. 1F
    "A coffee shop at Shinhotaka Onsen Station, the boarding point for the Shinhotaka Ropeway. They serve coffee and soft drinks and casual fare like curry rice and Hida beef croquettes that you pick up yourself when your order is called. The shop's specialty is wasabi soft serve ice cream that's colored a refreshing green. It's lightly sweet with a pleasant wasabi aroma. Lots of people get it while taking a break or waiting for the ropeway. Other items include beef tendon ramen, Shinhotaka ramen, and ""black ramen"" with dark soup."
  • Alps-no-Panya-san
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    Gifu Takayama-shi Okuhida Onsenkyo Shinhodaka Onsen
    A bakery at the Shinhotaka Ropeway with its incredible seasonal alpine scenery. Some of their fresh-baked items include plain croissants, chocolate croissants, croissants with bean jam, and maple pecan and spinach feta cheese baked goods. Many people buy highland produced milk to go with their popular crispy croissants and enjoy them while soaking in the footbath in front of the station.
  • Toraya Roho
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    4.0
    12 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Kamininomachi 75
    An old-school Japanese sweet shop located a 13-minute walk from Takayama Station that was founded in 1830. They sell a range of items including steamed mugwort manju buns, mugwort rice cakes, cherry petal daifuku rice cakes, dorayaki pancake with various flavored cream fillings, and yokan red bean jelly. Their popular mugwort manju buns feature tsubuan red bean jam wrapped in a soft dark green crust. They sell them individually at a reasonable price. There is a bench in front of the store where customers are welcome to sit and eat their purchases.

    高山街上的房屋和店舖都很有歷史,這家店也不例外,店裡空間不大,和菓子色彩和風味都很傳統,在老街屹立不搖多年,饅頭口感也很不錯。

  • Soba-no-Sato Shokawa Shinuchitei
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    4.0
    9 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Shokawacho Nakahata 143
    A soba noodle restaurant with a 13-meter diameter waterwheel, part of a row of five and the largest in Japan. They serve fresh noodles made from 100% Shokawa soba flour ground from quality buckwheat grown on the nature-rich highlands. The noodles have a pleasant scent and feel good going down. Their Kanzarashi soba is a Shokawa local favorite only available in early June. Known for their sweetness, the noodles are made from buckwheat berries that have been soaked in the Shokawa River in midwinter and repeatedly freeze-dried. They stop serving the noodles for the season as soon as the stock of buckwheat berries is used up, so lots of people seek them out as soon as they are available.

    高山に向かう途中で昼食どうしようかって話になり、友人が荘川でそばはどうかと勧めるのでこちらに。大きな水車が回ってて、駐車場がやたら広いです。 昼時は過ぎてたのでお客さんも少なく、それほど待たずにそばが出てきました。 店に入った時からそばのいい香りが漂っていて、ざるそばと地物野菜の天ぷら、川魚の甘煮を注文。そばはコシがあって美味しく、野菜の天ぷらがサクサクでこれまた美味しい。野菜のえぐみや青臭さがな...

  • Hatoya
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    4.5
    7 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Oshinmachi 3-110
    This Hida beef specialty store is in Hida Takayama, a town that conveys the atmosphere of the old capitol to the present. You can eat shabu-shabu, sukiyaki and steak made from soft Hida beef that melts in your mouth. The majestic building emanates a sense of history is a townhouse structure that retains an image of samurai politics. Situated next to the Etchu Highway, it has been designated as a traditional building and won the Takayama City Landscaping Design Award as the building most representative of Takayama. Steak baked on a 10-kilogram iron-cast plate is a proud gem explodes with taste and sweetness the moment it comes into contact with your mouth.

    Went to this restaurant on the recommendation of a friend and definitely wasnt disappointed. We had the personal attention from the daughter of the owner of the house who cooked the food for us on...

  • Viracocha
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    4.0
    3 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Nakayamamachi 175 Hikari Museum
    "A restaurant that's part of the HIKARU MUSEUM, the largest museum in the Chubu area. Guests dine on casual fare like pasta and curry and sweets like cakes and waffles in the wide-open shop with its large glass windows. The restaurant recommends its own soft and fluffy chiffon cake. Chiffon means ""silk fabric,"" and their additive and artificial flavor free banana chiffon cake is worthy of the name. Their ""jade ramen"" made with soft shell turtle extract, fried garlic, and specially made low-calorie chlorella noodles is also popular."

    Very good drinks, in a beautiful view restaurant. Cheese-cake was not that good, but other cakes were better. Seems like they have very nice lunch food-menu, but we did not try, since we were not...

  • Jakson
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    4.5
    120 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Tenmanmachi 5-5
    "A curry shop with a modern facade three minutes on foot from Takayama Station. The shop has a counter and raised tatami floor seating with low tables. The curry features lots of onions and a blend of 28 spices. The store's motto is ""Curry is Alive."" It takes about eight days to make their curry roux, and another day on top of that to make their own curry sauce. Hida pork curry is their signature dish. It's lighter than it looks and goes great with a richer curry. It's a popular shop with foreign tourists visiting Takayama."

    The curry here was the best we had in 3 weeks traveling across Japan. It was delicious. The staff and waitress were wonderful too and very helpful in spite of the language barrier. Both the friend...

  • Cafe & Gallery Takayama Warajiya
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    5.0
    21 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Hachimanmachi 170-1 Hachimangu Keidai YATAI Hall Yoko
    A cafe and gallery on the grounds of Sakurayama Hachimangu Shrine. Attached to a Hida pottery shop, the cappuccino-loving senior couple who runs this cafe serves some great coffee. Their carefully hand-dripped java is nicely bitter with a pleasant flavor. They also sell items like affogato, sweet vanilla ice cream drizzled with bitter espresso, and cafe frappe, perfect for hot summers. Many tourists stop here for a break while visiting Sakurayama Hachimangu Shrine or the Takayama Matsuri Yatai Kaikan.

    Best Coffee on our trip so far. Very friendly service and welcome. Close to the Takayama Matsuri Yatai Kaikan. Beautiful selection of pottery and ceramics to purchase.

  • Fujimiya Honmachi Store
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Honmachi 2-25
    This dumpling shop is located on Takayama Honmachi 2-chome shopping street, which was once the central shopping location in Takayama. For over 60 years since its establishment, their mitarashi dango (rice dough dumplings with sweet-salty sauce) using original dumpling dough and soy sauce ordered directly from a soy sauce brewery were famous. Takayama's mitarashi dango are different from everyday sweet and salty dumplings, and are characterized by their unsweet taste from being made with the fragrance of the soy sauce-based sauce. These small dumplings are perfect for eating while walking around Takayama. The shop sells zenzai (red bean soup), which warms up the body, freshly-ground coffee and gohei-mochi rice cakes (grilled rice cakes skewered and basted in sweet walnut miso) with a sesame aroma, and you can also the inside tables.
  • Fujimiya Kajibashi Store
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    4.0
    21 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Honmachi 3-1
    This dumpling shop is located a ten-minute walk from Takayama Station at the foot of Kajiyabashi Bridge. It sells salty mitarashi dumplings (rice dough dumplings with sweet-salty sauce) that are fragrantly made with an original soy sauce-based sauce instead of the usual sweet dumplings. Their sauce has a traditional flavor that has been used since its establishment. It is a special sauce made by blending three types of soy sauce. The shop also sells Hida's local dish of gohei-mochi rice cakes (grilled rice cakes skewered and basted in sweet walnut miso) that are also not sweet, so you can experience the slight sweetness of the glutinous rice.

    高山の定番、鍛冶橋のたもとで頂いたみたらしだんご90円。世間でいう甘辛のタレで頂くそれではなくお醤油のタレをつけてこんがり焼き上げるタイプ。これが高山流みたらしだそうです。こまお店、何度訪れたか分かりません。 見慣れた鍛冶橋店のおばちゃん、相変わらず頑張ってるようですが…この日のおばちゃん、無愛想&不機嫌でした。

  • Hongo
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Honmachi 3-20
    This retro-modern adult izakaya Japanese pub is located a seven-minute walk from Takayama Station. The relaxing and calm atmosphere allows you to enjoy Hida beef and other bounties from the land and sea. The pub also features more than 100 types of wine selected by the female owner which is a wine taster and sommelier. This wide range of Japanese wines mainly from Koshu and Yamanashi and mild overseas wines mostly from France, you can find a drink that pairs well with your meal. In addition, there are private rooms, tables and terrace seats (summer only / reservation required), so the store can suit various uses.
  • Kikyoya
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    4.5
    25 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Honmachi 3-58
    This ramen shop that has been loved for more than half a century in Takayama is where you can eat New Year's ramen instead of New Year's soba noodles. You can eat traditional ramen noodles in this retro shop nestled in a narrow alleyway. The soup made with a chicken base and vegetables and bonito has a simple soy sauce taste. It goes perfectly with the curly thin noodles, and is something you want to eat after drinking alcohol. In addition to basic ramen, they also have Char siu pork and wonton noodles, chilled ramen available only in the summer.

    I was their first customer last Feb 25! The family that runs Kikyouya is so accommodating. I loved their Takayama ramen to the point where I managed to slurp my bowl clean :) Soup was light but...

  • Hakurai Izakaya Tonio
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Honmachi 4-65
    This bar in Takayama where you can feel the area's long history is located a ten-minute walk from the station. You can enjoy a relaxing time in the classic wooden house. It is well received as a place where you can spend time forgetting the hustle and bustle of daily life in a stylish interior with things such as Western liquor lining the walls, calm lighting and soft light reflecting in the glasses. You can eat a la carte dishes full of local foods such as pickle steak and red turnip cheese, as well as delicious cocktails. It is not unusual to see female customers sitting along at the counter.
  • Otowaya Main Store
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Uramachi 22
    "This long-established sweets shop was established with the name ""Hida Dagashi,"" and has been loved since long age in Hida. It uses bounty from the land and sea such as roasted soy beans, dried chestnuts, walnuts and rice as ingredients, and manufactures and sells traditional handmade Japanese sweets for children. The half-baked confectionery called ""Hida no Kataribe"" made using kinako (soy bean flour) and kosen (roasted barley flour) is the shop's signature item. It is a wonderful treat that comes in a refined box and has the aesthetic sentiment of Hida Takayama, and has won the Japan Confectionery Award at the All Japan Sweets Exhibition."
  • Tefukin
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Uramachi 45
    This cafe with its white Western-style exterior is located an eight-minute walk from Takayama Station. You can enjoy special crepes in the store with plenty of soft natural light. In addition to basic flavors such as butter, chocolate, strawberry and caramel, they also make crepes using ham, eggs and Hida vegetables, so it's an ideal place for taking breaks while sightseeing in Takayama. You can come together with your pets at the outside table seats.

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Tucked away in the very center of Japan, Gifu prefecture houses mountains, old towns, and one of Japan’s greatest hot springs, Gero Onsen. A tour of the prefecture’s traditional architecture will take you from the mountain-enveloped wooden streets of Takayama to the mountain village of Shirakawago, where visitors can explore 250-year-old thatched roofed houses known as gassho-zukuri.

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