Gourmet / Alcohol Spots in Umeda Area

  • Eki-Marche Shin-Osaka
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Yodogawa-ku Nishinakajima 5-16-1 JR Shin-Osaka Station Campus/Conventional Line Wicket
    A shopping mall located inside the ticket gate area at JR Shin-Osaka Station located close to the Shinkansen transfer gate. Here shoppers can buy Unique Kansai region delicacies and treats to bring back with them, such as the famed pork buns of 551 Horai and the delicious cheesecake of Rikuro Ojisan no Mise. There are also a variety of snacks perfect for souvenirs as well as bento box lunches for sale. The facility is also host to numerous cafes and famous Kansai restaurants perfect for Shinkansen passengers waiting for their train. The mall constantly bustles with tourists and people on their way to work or school.
  • Hanadako
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Kakudachou 9-16 Shin Umeda Esophagus Street 1F
    Hanadako located in Shin-Umeda Shokudogai (food arcade) right next to Umeda Station is known as a takoyaki (octopus dumpling) restaurant where there is always a queue. A largish takoyaki fried on a high flame is attractive with a springy texture. It has the taste of a main Osaka dish with the soft, fragrant flavor of the stock, and the standard sauce as well as Negimayo topped with heaped spring onions are also popular. In the eating area, there is only seating for six with a standing-bar style. It is a popular restaurant with many visitors including regular local customers, shoppers and tourists.
  • BW STATION (Subway Shin-Osaka Station Store)
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Yodogawa-ku Nishinakajima 5-15-5 Subway Shin-Osaka Station North Concourse 'New Naniwa Diner'
    A beer and wine bar in the new Naniwa dining hall inside Shin-Osaka Station. Enjoy three extra cold chilled craft beers by TOKYO Sumidagawa Brewing; a Weizen, Amber, and Kolsch. The lunch menu offers rice with hashed meat, curry, and huge beef rice bowls. In the evening they offer meals such as deep fried Bicchu chicken thighs, and Australian wheat-reared sirloin steak to enjoy with your drinks.
  • Rikuro-Ojisan no Mise (Eki Marche Shin-Osaka Store)
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Yodogawa-ku Nishinakajima 5-16-1 JR Shin-Osaka Station prefix Conventional Line Ticket Gate Exchache Shin-Osaka
    This shop found in Shin-Osaka Station's Eki Marche Shin-Osaka sells Japanese and Western confections and pastries, with a focus on cheesecake. Their flagship product is also their most well-known, a fresh baked cheesecake branded with the logo of the shop. Their cheesecake is distinguished by the cream cheese imported directly from the factory in Denmark and the homemade base inset with syrup-soaked raisins. Other standard products include their smiling roll cake and thick custard flan. Home delivery options are also available.
  • Mimiu Shin-Osaka Branch
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Yodogawa-ku Nishinakajima 5-16-1 Shin-Osaka Station Building 1F/2F
    Mimiu is a Japanese cuisine restaurant that has inherited the traditions of restaurants in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture with a history going back 200 years. Mimiu's signature dish is udon suki (seafood and vegetable hotpot served with udon noodles) made using a special Kansai-style broth. To ensure that diners can enjoy the scent of freshly-sliced Sodabushi (dried Bullet Mackerel), every day just the amount of Sodabushi needed for that day is sliced up and delivered to each branch of the restaurant. Besides luxurious banquet-style dishes, Mimiu also offers a reasonably-priced lunch menu, including a Hina Suki set meal that combines Udon Suki with snacks. Mimiu (Shin-Osaka Branch) has a Draft Beer Set Meal not available at any other branch, which combines food options with draft beer.
  • Stardust (Umeda Sky Building)
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Oyodonaka 1-1-88 Umeda Sky Building Tower East 39F
    This bar and lounge are found on the 39th floor of the Umeda Sky Building Tower East. In the evening look through the round windows over the city lights of Umeda. The Italian style pastas and main courses come with tickets to the hanging gardens, which are popular worldwide. This bar is perfect for a birthday or anniversary. Chinese cuisine is also available with all-you-can-drink party options, or an a la carte menu with mixed pizzas that go well with alcohol, and slowly stewed locally made Japanese Wagyu beef stew.
  • Sweets Paradise Umeda Branch
    rating-image
    3.5
    18 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Kakudachou 5-1 Umeda Rakuten building 2F
    This is a cafe focusing mainly on sweets on the second floor of the Umeda Rakutenchi Building. The poppy, cute shop interior hosts an all-you-can-eat menu of about 30 different sweets (including some seasonal varieties). The shop's most popular item, Fluffy Shortcake, uses 17.7% fat cream from Hokkaido in their whipped cream in an exquisite pairing with strawberries. Apart from cakes, they also serve pasta, salads, snacks and drinks for a fully stocked menu. Take as much as you like of whatever you like!

    とても美味しいケーキやスイーツをたくさん食べられます。非常に充実した時間を過ごすことが出来ます。友達も満足していました。

  • Takonotetsu Kakuta Store
    rating-image
    4.0
    21 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Kakudachou 1-10
    A takoyaki (octopus dumpling) restaurant first opened in 1979 which gives diners the chance to make their own takoyaki using the iron takoyaki frying molds installed in each of the tables. The batter and fillings all make use of carefully selected ingredients, including a secret dashi stock and fresh raw octopus, as well as kujo negi spring onions and other vegetables stocked from specially contracted farms. The shop also offers a variety of sauces for topping your takoyaki with, from a special house sauce to an Akashiyaki-style tsuyu sauce. In addition to takoyaki, the restaurant offers a variety of Kansai favorites, including okonomiyaki and yakisoba. Don't be worried if this is your first time making takoyaki; the staff are there to help anyone having difficulty getting their takoyaki right.

    Last thing you’d expect from a small Japanese store. The service is terrible. I waited at the front and no one greeted me for 30 minutes - it was packed but they kept walking past me without a quick...

  • Okonomiyaki Yukari restaurant (Sonezaki flagship store)
    rating-image
    4.0
    101 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Sonezaki 2-14-13
    Okonomiyaki Yukari is a long-established Okonomiyaki (Japanese savory pancake) restaurant that opened in 1950. The Sonezaki flagship store is located in the Ohatsutenjindori Shotengai shopping arcade in the Kita Ward of Osaka City. Okonomiyaki Yukari achieved fame and lasting popularity by being a pioneer in the development of innovative Okonomiyaki recipes that feature ingredients such as Mochi rice cakes, cheese, etc. With a soft, sticky pancake base covered with a wide variety of toppings (including meat, fish, seafood, etc.), the restaurant’s Okonomiyaki are both delicious and filling.

    Coming to Osaka we were so excited to try okonomiyaki and this place had such great reviews. We arrived and had a short wait as the place was quite busy. We were pretty excited because the atmosphere...

  • Negiyaki Yamamoto Umeda EST Branch
    rating-image
    4.0
    121 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Kakudachou 3-25ESTE27
    Negiyaki (green onion pancake) Yamamoto Umeda EST Branch, established in Jyuso, Higashiyodogawa Ward in 1965, is a famous restaurant as the birthplace of the negiyaki (spring onion pancake). The staff meals that the owner made for children became famous and the negiyaki, an okonomiyaki (Japanese pancake) with plenty of spring onions, has become the signature dish. A popular menu item is sujinegi with beef sinew and konjac paste. It goes well with the special soy-based sauce. The restaurant is located in the corner of “EST”, a shopping complex, and is known as a restaurant where there is a queue. The closest station is Umeda Station.

    We came all the way to this restaurant to try the hyped delicacies, having queued 30mins with my friends going to washroom intermittently. The staff came and told us to start from scratch and queue...

  • THE CITY BAKERY Grand Front Osaka
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osaka-shi Kita-ku Ofukacho 4-1 GRAND FRONT Osaka Umekita Hiroba B1F
    THE CITY BAKERY located on the first floor below ground of Umekita Square in Grand Front Osaka, a shopping complex right next to JR Osaka Station, is a popular bakery with a café which originated in New York. In the shop, there is a full lineup of fresh breads every morning, and you can enjoy them with a coffee or a fresh juice in the café area as well as take-out. There are menu items which are also popular in New York including the Pretzel Croissant which perfectly combining savory saltiness and sweetness, as well as cookies. It also sells a range of new products such as baguettes in pursuit of the original flavor of wheat for the Japanese store opening.
  • Kobe Nishimura Coffee Umeda Shop
    rating-image
    4.0
    27 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osaka-shi Kita-ku Sonezaki 2-15-20 Swing Umeda 1F
    This is the Umeda location of Kobe Nishimura Coffee, a coffee shop chain which has been a major pioneer in the industry since it was founded in 1948. The chain has refined and built on its knowledge and experience of green coffee beans, water, roasting methods, freshness, and even cups over a half-century. In addition to coffee, the shop also offers a full array of drinks, desserts, and foods.

    お初天神入口にあるにしむら珈琲。 入ってすぐ、ケーキのショーケースがあり、どれも美味しそう。 店内は綺麗で天井も高く開放的。 おしぼりは紙ではなくしっかりした布タイプのものが出てきます。 店員さんは親切で荷物を置くかごを持ってきて下さいました。 珈琲を飲みに来たのに、フレッシュジュースに目が止まり、キウイジュースを注文。 キウイをそのまま絞ったような新鮮で美味しいジュースでした。 次回は絶対ケーキ...

  • HANAKUJIRA Honten
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osaka-shi Fukushima-ku Fukushima 2-8-2
  • Café Sunshine
    rating-image
    4.0
    34 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka prefecture Osaka city Kita-ku Sonezaki 2-11-8 Osaka Nikko building B2
    Located on the second floor basement of the Nikko Shoken Building, the coffee shop can be directly accessed from exit number seven of Higashi Umeda Station on the Tanimachi Subway Line. This is a coffee shop of long standing which was established in 1973. The shop’s interior has a relaxing atmosphere, where you can spend a moment of bliss. The good quality home roasted coffee which they roast and the gently grilled pancakes are popular in this coffee shop, and are often introduced on television and in magazines. From Monday to Saturday, it is open from seven o’ clock and one can also go for a set breakfast. There is a full lunch menu which includes sandwiches, omelets filled with ketchup-seasoned fried rice and pasta. The coffee shop opens at eight o’clock on Sundays.

    以前この喫茶は喫煙出来たようですが、禁煙の法律が施行されてから、禁煙になったのでランチで友達と行ってみました。食べてみたかったホットケーキセットとBLTサンドセットを注文。ホットケーキは家で作ると少し硬さがでるのに、ここのはふわふわしていて美味しかった。BLTサンドもいい感じで美味しかった。写真で見る限りビザトーストも美味しそうでしたね。お店自体は広くないけど禁煙になったおかげで行きやすくなりまし...

  • Matsuba Sohonten (Shin-Osaka Store)
    rating-image
    3.5
    37 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Yodogawa-ku Nishinakajima 5-16-1 Station Marche Shin-Osaka
    This kushikatsu (skewers of fried food) shop is located in Eki Marche, a shopping area inside Shin-Osaka Station. Large fryers to fry the skewers are inside the store, and you can eat freshly-made kushikatsu inside the station. The dining area only has a counter where you eat while standing. In addition to what is already fry, you can also request them to fry what you want. You can also buy skewers lining the showcase at the take-out corner.

    新幹線利用時 《串カツ》を食べたいけれど カウンターで食べるには時間が無かった為 あきらめようとしましたが 《テイクアウト メニュー》があることを知り 初めて《新大阪セット 内容;串カツ8本[若鶏、椎茸、えび、レンコン、玉ねぎ、キス、牛...

  • Kiyasu Sohompo
    rating-image
    4.5
    47 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osaka-shi Yodogawa-ku Jusohonmachi 1-4-2
    This Japanese confectionary shop carries over 40 varieties of confections, including its signature sake manju buns as well as popular mitarashi dango dumplings, jumbo-sized kintsuba flour dough sweet bean cakes, hanabotamochi, yakimochi, and other namagashi fresh Japanese confections, as well as rikishi monaka wafer cakes, hatsushimo pancake sandwiches, kuri manju chestnut buns, mikasa, and other Japanese confections perfect for giving as a gift. The mitarashi dango dumplings, which are broiled to order, are particularly recommended.

    こちらのお店は、大阪市の十三にあります。みたらし団子や酒まんじゅうの他、きんつばも名物です。美味しいきんつばでした。

  • Dotonbori Kamukura (Eki Marche Shin-Osaka Store)
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Yodogawa-ku Nishinakajima 5-16-1 JR Shin-Osaka Station 3rd Floor Conventional Concourse Kyoto direction side
    The chef and owner of this ramen chain in Shin-Osaka was trained in France. The rich French-style broth is topped with Chinese cabbage. The store is designed to be easy to enter, perfect for commuters. Try their limited Oishi Zosui (delicious vegetable porridge) from 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Or come along in the early evening for their happy hour and enjoy some discounted sides with a cool beer.
  • Negiyaki Yamamoto Shin-Osaka Branch
    rating-image
    3.0
    9 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Yodogawa-ku Nishinakajima 5-16-1 JR Shin-Osaka Station Shinkansen ticket gate
    Negiyaki Yamamoto is a restaurant serving negiyaki (Okonomiyaki savory pancake with green onions), one of Osaka’s lesser-known traditional fried foods, and teppanyaki. As Negiyaki Yamamoto is located inside the concourse of Shin-Osaka Shinkansen (Bullet Train) Station, it is the perfect place to stop for a bite to eat while traveling. For the benefit of customers who may be in a rush, some of the fried foods are pre-cooked, and then finished off just before serving. The Suji-Negi, which includes plenty of spring onions with slow-boiled beef tendons and konjac, is especially popular.

    フードコートのような、お店がいくつかあるうちの一つです。改札内にあって、お気軽に食べられます。ネギ焼き、美味しかったです。ただずっと食べてると少し飽きるかも?他のお店のものも頼みながら、誰かとシェアすることをお勧めします。

  • Daruma LUCUA osaka Branch
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Umeda 3-1-3-10F
  • Osaka Station City Bar Del Sole
    rating-image
    4.0
    19 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Umeda 3-1-3 JR Osaka Station 5F Space-Time Plaza
    Situated near a bustling railway station, Osaka Station City Bar Del Sole is an authentic Italian-style café where you can enjoy soft Italian ice cream, calzone and Neapolitan pizza; the café also hosts frequent special events. Take-out service is available for all items except alcoholic beverages and snacks. Osaka Station City Bar Del Sole is located around one minute's walk from JR Osaka Station.

    JR大阪駅の5階、吹き抜け気味になっている時空の広場にあるお店、ヨーロッパの駅のようないい雰囲気、駅構内を見ながらゆっくり飲めるお進めば場所です。 90分飲み放題にフードが3品で3000円、お得感はまずまずでよかったです。

Osaka Areas

around-area-map

While Osaka prefecture is the country's second smallest prefecture, its capital, Osaka City, is the country’s third-largest and arguably one of the most popular in the Kansai region thanks to its vibrant nightlife, the Osaka people’s openness, and its much-loved cuisine, which has earned it the nickname "the nation’s kitchen."

Osaka Photo Album

Browse Interests