Spots in Sanda / Tamba / Sasayama Area

  • Grilled Beef AIYA
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    4.0
    9 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyougo Pref. Sandashi Shimoaino 319-22
    A restaurant located a three-minute walk from JR Aino Station on the Fukuchiyama Line. Owned and operated by Niku no Maruse, a meat company which carries Sanda Maruse beef (Sanda beef) raised on its own farms, the restaurant is notable for cooking and serving many of its dishes on plates made of lava stone from an active volcano. These plates generate an abundance of far infrared rays, which aids in retaining the innate flavor of meat. The restaurant offers a variety of primarily beef dishes, including steaks, sauteed shabushabu, and sukiyaki, and all of the restaurant's sauces are homemade. The lava stone sauteed steak, which can be cooked to your preferred level of doneness, is particularly recommended.

    ランチで特選サーロインステーキセット1万円ちょっとを頂きました。レアに仕上げ口にいれるととろけるように美味く値段相応に思いました。開店前に10人以上の列ができるのも納得

  • Fujinobo Sanda
    Travel / Tourism
    Hyougo Pref. Sandashi Shidehara 861-1
    "A tourism-oriented farm located in Sanda City, Hyogo Prefecture. Visitors can pick strawberries, harvest corn, or gather black soybeans, and each of these farm areas is equipped with a barbecue ground as well. In the fall, the farm offers a ""treasure hunt"" in which participants search for and can take home free of charge expensive, gourmet matsutake mushrooms; the farm also offers a tasty Hyogo-grown Japanese black beef barbecue set which includes Sanda beef, Tajima beef, and Kobe beef. The farm's botan nabe, practically a byword for Fujinobo, is a boar meat hotpot which has been made with choice Sanda edible wild plants, boar meat, and Iwatsu Welsh onions from specially contracted farms since the time of the farm's first owner. This hotpot is only offered in winter (mid-November to mid-April) and requires an advance reservation."
  • Sanda City Outdoor Activity Center
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Hyougo Pref. Sandashi Kogaki 949
    A caravan campground located close to the Kannou-ji Temple in Sanda City, Hyogo Prefecture. Here visitors can enjoy barbecuing, river sports, forest therapy, and hiking in a lush, seasonally beautiful area. Visitors can also look at stars and the moon under the guidance of an expert starwatcher using a 40 centimeter-diameter Newtonian-Cassegrain telescope in an astronomical observatory on the grounds. The campground area has bungalows and cabins and the facility rents Dutch ovens, kamado stoves for rice cooking, and other cooking utensils. Utensil use requires a reservation made by 17:00 three days in advance.
  • Pascal Sanda Ichiban-kan
    Shopping
    Hyougo Pref. Sandashi Kawayoke 677-1
    "A farmers market located close to the ""Fukushi Hoken Center"" bus stop a short bus ride from JR and Kobe Electric Railway Sanda Station. Dedicated to the concept of ""you are what you eat,"" the market sells a wide selection of vegetables, meats, and prepared foods, including Tamba soybeans, Sanda udo, Sanda beef, and Nameless Hot Pepper Sauce which goes well with Meats only obtainable in the Sanda area. Events are also regularly held here and during these times visitors will find an abundance of foods made with the ingredients sold at the market."
  • Ganko Sanda no Sato
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    4.0
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyogo Sanda-shi Ohara 149
    Located in a region where the walls and stone base of ruined Ohara Castle still stand, this restaurant operates out of an old family home which still looks much as it did during the castle's heyday. Particularly recommended is Ganko's signature sashimi assortment of fresh, seasonal seafood such as abalone and 250 kilogram Pacific bluefin tuna. The restaurant also offers a full array of a la carte dishes, such as teppanyaki, tempura, and Monde Selection Gold-certified homemade oboro tofu. The establishment has private dining areas with a view of a tasteful garden, and diners can enjoy their meal in a relaxing atmosphere.

    田園風景の中にあるお店! 年配のの方の家族連れも多く利用されてます。 ランチの値段もリーズナブルで美味しい✨

  • Arima Fuji Shiitake Farm
    Travel / Tourism
    Hyougo Pref. Sandashi Ohara 933
    A shiitake mushroom farm located a 10-minute drive from the Kobe-Sanda interchange on the Chugoku Expressway. Here year-round visitors can enjoy gathering shiitake mushrooms grown at the foot of Mt. Arima Fuji, as well as barbecuing with choice Japanese black beef and shiitake mushroom rice made with locally grown Sanda rice (the barbecuing area is indoors and is open even on rainy days). There's also rainbow trout and char fishing (September 15 to June 15) and catching ayu by hand (June 16 to September 14). Depending on the time of year, visitors can also enjoy chestnut gathering, rhinoceros and stag beetle collecting, and tasty botan nabe boar meat hotpot.
  • Sanda Barbecue Gardens Hanayama Kankoen
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyougo Pref. Sandashi Ninji 423
    "A restaurant specializing in Kuroge Wagyu Beef (Japanese black beef). Located about 15 minutes by car from Kobe Sanda Interchange on the Chugoku Expressway. In collaboration with neighboring farms, they have fun things to do: visitors can seasonally enjoy picking strawberries, blueberries, black beans, etc. throughout the year. In addition, customers can enjoy barbecues all season long, which consists of specially selected Japanese black beef and other select ingredients served with ""special salt"" made using an original method that brings out the flavor of the ingredients, or with select BBQ sauce. The most popular dish here is ""the barbecue set including a mix of specially selected Japanese black beef round and sirloin"". You can also enjoy seasonal desserts."
  • Iwaya
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    4.5
    28 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyougo Pref. Sasayamashi Hiuchiwan 495-1
    A restaurant which serves old fashioned Japanese cuisine prepared around a traditional irori sunken hearth located a 20-minute drive from the Tannan Sasayamaguchi interchange on the Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway. Inside the old fashioned Japanese home-style restaurant, surrounded by abundant natural beauty, diners can sit on a heated floor around an irori hearth and enjoy Hyogo-Ajidori chicken, a variety developed in Hyogo Prefecture; Japanese black beef; and Sasayama beef barbecue and sukiyaki; as well as biwa trout roasted with salt on bamboo skewers and Hyogo-Ajidori chicken miso nabe hotpot (reservation required; parties must consist of at least two people).A particular draw is the restaurant's rich array of mountain foods, such as the seasonal botan nabe boar meat hotpot and the Sasayama beef and Tamba Sasayama matsutake mushroom sukiyaki.

    It’s not the easiest to find but worth the drive if you staying at Tamba Sasayama area. The hotpot is done and eaten in very traditional Japanese way. The boar is the must eat in Sasayama and Tamba...

  • Forest Adventure Tanba Sasayama
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Hyougo Pref. Sasayamashi Hiuchiwan Hatayama 256-3
    A large outdoor adventure park incorporating the surrounding natural forest located a 30-minute drive from the Tannan Sasayamaguchi interchange on the Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway. Boasting Japan's largest outdoor adventure course, in all visitors can enjoy 51 obstacles and activities. Making use of the surrounded forest as-is, course facilities include a more than 100-meter long zip slide which shoots down from 20 meters above the ground from an even taller tree, and a zip board skateboard-like zip line that you ride through the air.
  • Shin Tanbaso
    Accommodations / Hot Spring
    Hyougo Pref. Sasayamashi Gunge 451-4
    A hotel located close to Suwa-jinja Shrine in Sasayama City, Hyogo Prefecture. The white walled building is reminiscent of a rural Northern European hotel, and guests staying here are enwrapped in a relaxing atmosphere. The hotel's main building has two types of rooms - Japanese and Western style; there's also a log house with a suite room. The Suite Room Pack, recommended for anniversaries and special occasions, includes seasonal kaiseki course cuisine as well as a bottle of LORAN, a spirit made from Tamba black soybeans. The hotel offers other plans tailored to a variety of needs, such as meeting and training session plans.
  • Sasayama Tamamizu Lily Garden
    Travel / Tourism
    Hyougo Pref. Sasayamashi Kuroka 207-1
    A lily garden located a 10-minute drive from the Tannan-Sasayamaguchi Interchange on the Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway. Only open when the flowers are in bloom from June to early July, during this time some 100 thousand colorful lily plants spanning around 60 varieties blossom on the grounds. The Tamamizu, a historic site which provided water for the well of Sasayama Castle, is located in the garden. Around 1,000 hydrangeas also grow on the grounds. The garden's Tamba souvenir and gift shop sells local specialty products as well as potted plants and cut flowers.
  • Tokusankan Sasayama
    Shopping
    Hyougo Pref. Sasayamashi Kuroka 70-1
    "A farmers market located a 13-minute drive from the Tannan-Sasayamaguchi Interchange on the Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway. The local Tamba-Sasayama specialty products shop carries foods made with popular Tamba-Sasayama black soybeans (an indispensable part of any Japanese New Year's celebration), including okaki rice crackers with black soybeans and black soybean cakes; as well as ""Sasayamakko"" Sasayama grown Koshihikari rice and Tamba-Sasayama black beef loin steaks. There's also a restaurant which serves dishes made with these same specialty products where customers can enjoy Tamba-Sasayama black beef Japanese-style barbecue and, when in season from November to March, botan nabe wild boar hot pot."
  • Okashi no Sato Tanba
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    3.5
    21 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyougo Pref. Sasayamashi Higashibuki 416
    A confection-themed tourism facility located five minutes drive from the Tannan Sasayamaguchi interchange on the Maizuru-Wakasa Expressway. Unique, Tamba-style sweets, such as the popular, Japanese-style black soybean and matcha roll cakes, are sold here and no place else. At the cafe operating out of the renovated former Kobe City Waterfall Station, which was moved to this location, visitors can enjoy seasonal cakes and a cup of tea alongside a view of forest and lake. The German building offers fresh, oven baked pizzas, German beer, and sausages. Visitors can also visit a mountain villa moved to the facility which once belonged to a wealthy merchant, as well as an old-fashioned Japanese-style thatched roof home.

    この時期、毎年ボタン鍋を食べるついでに立ち寄ります。今年はコロナの為か、本館の食事処と、裏のドイツ館は休業中です。昔みたいな賑わいは無いですが、土産物は豊富に揃つてます。

  • Okuman Kawanishi-Noseguchi Restaurant
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyougo Pref. Kawanishishi Sakaemachi 1-1
    This Japanese izakaya pub and restaurant is located at the Kawanishi Shiyakusho Nishi Intersection a short walk from Kawanishi-Noseguchi Station north along Prefectural Route 13. The establishment serves fresh seafood shipped straight from Kannoura Port in Kochi Prefecture at reasonable prices. The restaurant's most popular menu selection is its five variety sashimi assortment. Hearty in both the amount of food and its volume, this assortment offers outstanding cost performance. The establishment also offers a wide selection of meat dishes and dishes like tempura made with seasonal ingredients. In addition, there's an easy to use all-you-can-drink menu, and during the peak drinking party seasons the restaurant bustles with customers.
  • The Statue of Florence Nightingale
    Travel / Tourism
    Hyougo Pref. Kawanishishi Hanayashiki 1-24
    "It's next to Eikon-ji Temple Remnants Historical Park along the railroad tracks to the west of Kawanishi-noseguchi Station. Deeply moved by this nurse's commitment while being cared for in a Japanese Red Cross Hospital, Nakayama Tsuyu, the owner of the land, had this statue made in 1936. It's modeled after the image that stands at the entrance to The Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery at St. Thomas Hospital in London, making it only the second of its kind. The phrase "" Kanzeon to relieve the sufferings of the people "" is engraved on the pedestal, sending a message of benevolence and love for humanity. It's a popular spot for students studying to be nurses, and a festival to mark Florence Nightingale's birthday is held every May. "
  • Hyogo Prefectural Nishiina Park Waterland
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Hyougo Pref. Kawanishishi Kushiro 6-30-1
    "A waterpark 10 thousand square meters in size sprawling on the west side of JR Kita-Itami Station. A highly popular play destination for children, in addition to standard waterslides, the park has smaller slides, fountains, and a ""water castle"" with tunnels. There's also a zone created with stones, waterfalls, and miniature rapids; and a zone with a small stream and terrace for relaxing. In addition, there is much play equipment for smaller children like water picture books and pump-powered waterwheels. The park provides a place where children can play with and in water without a care."
  • Tamba Municipal Yakusoyakuju Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Hyougo Pref. Tambashi Sannanchouwada 338-1
    This interesting botanical garden grows about 300 kinds of herbs and medicinal plants including angsana and chameleon plant. Some varieties used in traditional Chinese medicine are incorporated into the healthful yakuzen ryori cuisine served at their restaurant. Their souvenir shop sells popular herbal teas, well known sweets, and local Tamba sake. Their Yukobo studio holds workshops that include herb dyeing and bread making for kids. Their day-use hot spring spa Tamba-no-Yu uses a blend of eleven kinds of medicinal herbs in the water and has facilities that both kids and adults will enjoy.
  • Gourmetria Tajima (Ichijima Restaurant)
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyougo Pref. Tambashi Ichijimachoukamida 46
    You'll find this yakiniku Japanese barbecue restaurant if you head towards Mitsuzuka Haiji-Ato (the ruins of deserted Mitsuzuka temple) from the Ichijima Shisho Kita Intersection on National Route 175 coming from JR Ichijima Station. It's run by the Takami Beef Farm, and they serve the finest Takami Beef, which received the Prime Minister's Award. The menu features multi-course meals with charcoal grilled steak and shabu-shabu, thinly sliced meat boiled with vegetables and dipped in sauce?. They also have a lunch time gourmet gozen Japanese meal set (limited to 10 servings a day), steak on rice, and hamburger steak meal sets. The classic wooden interior is warm and inviting. With a reservation you can dine in their annex with private rooms in a variety of sizes to choose from, or in the room with horigotatsu floor seating. It's a great place for a leisurely meal for everyone from couples to large groups.
  • Amago Mura
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    4.0
    4 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyougo Pref. Tambashi Aogakichouonaza 898
    This restaurant and fishery specializing in amago trout is about a ten-minute drive from the Kita Kinki Toyooka Expressway's Aogaki Interchange. Amago is a river dwelling subspecies of masu salmon endemic to Japan. Run by the Ichinose Amago Farm, the facility lets visitors catch amago by hand, fish for rainbow trout, and dine on multi-course amago cuisine. You can take your catch of amago and rainbow trout with you, or have it prepared on the spot sashimi-style, salt-grilled, or fried, a tasty way to eat it that kids love.

    お店の前の堀でにじます釣りができます。 エサはミミズ?とか思ってたら、なんか丸い団子みたいなゼリー?みたいな物でした。 釣った分は買取りだから、あんまり釣れても困るわけで…(e_e) でもって入れ食いなわけで〜。 釣ったニジマスは塩焼きにしてもらえてフワフワで美味しかった〜 あまご満足膳は、唐揚げ、塩焼き、刺身、釜飯、南蛮漬け、甘辛煮等がついていて大満足でした。 クーラーがなく、自然の風なの...

  • Tamba-no-mori Park
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Hyougo Pref. Tambashi Kaibarachoukaibara 5600
    This park is located about 15 minutes on foot from the JR Fukuchiyama Line's Kaibara Station. Visitors enjoy sports and recreational activities in the midst of nature at the foot of a mountain. Their Creative Life Center has a Creativity Studio you can use for activities like cooking and handicrafts, and its multi-purpose room is available for piano recitals, panel exhibitions, and more. You can also use their tennis court and sports ground, as well as go hiking, look for plants, and birdwatch at the park's riverside and woodland areas.

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Hyogo prefecture stretches from the north coast to the south coast on the western end of the popular Kansai region, encompassing verdant mountains, urban beaches, and fantastic historical sights. The prefecture’s main attractions lie along the south coast at Kobe, the prefectural capital, a pretty harbor city best known for its production of the renowned Kobe beef, and Himeji, the home of Himeji Castle, one of the country’s most beautifully preserved feudal castles, perched magically atop a hill.

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