Local Cuisine Spots in Nago / Motobu Peninsula Area

  • Ufuya - Okinawa Old Folk House
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    4.0
    624 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Okinawa Pref. Nagoshi Nakayama 90
    This local restaurant uses a kominka (old house) centered on Asato residence, constructed in the late Meiji period (1868–1912). In the afternoon, in addition to Okinawan soba wheat noodles, you can enjoy their prided Agu pork dishes and steak using wagyu beef from the prefecture, and reservations are only available for the shabu-shabu course and wagyu steak. They only offer courses of Ryukyu dishes or Agu pork at night.

    Make your reservations online as the place can be packed. We ordered the Agu pork shabu shabu set for 3 persons and really enjoyed the meat and the fresh vegetables. The resulting broth at the end...

  • Kishimoto Cafeteria flagship store
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    4.0
    263 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Okinawa Pref. Kunigamigunmotobuchou Toguchi 5
    Kishimoto Cafeteria is a long-established (founded in 1905) Okinawan Soba Noodles restaurant located in Motobu Town. The restaurant’s signature dish is its hand-made “Ash Soba Noodles,” made with broth derived from the clear upper layer of water that has had rice straw ash dissolved in it. The rich-flavored dried bonito soup stock and thick hand-made noodles have remained largely unchanged since the restaurant was first established. Kishimoto Cafeteria is very popular with both tourists and locals.

    If you are exploring the northeast of Okinawa island you owe it to yourself to try and have lunch here. They specialise in the local Okinawan soba noodles and it was one of the best lunches we had on...

  • Yanbaru Soba
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Okinawa Pref. Kunigamigunmotobuchou Izumi 70-1
    Despite being located a two-hour drive from Naha Airport in Motobu Town, Kunigami District, Okinawa Prefecture, this Okinawa soba noodle restaurant is so popular, lines of waiting customers form outside its door. Operating out of an Okinawan style wooden Japanese home with a red tile roof, the restaurant's tatami mat seating gives it an old fashioned, Showa period atmosphere. The establishment's medium thick noodles are served in a fairly thick skipjack tuna based broth. Here customers can enjoy soki soba noodles topped with sweet and salty stewed spare rib, and san-mai niku soba topped with three strips of sweet and salty stewed boneless pork rib. Lines often form outside the door before the restaurant even opens and the establishment closes when supplies run out. This popular restaurant is frequently featured on television and in magazines.
  • Mukashi Mukashi noodle restaurant
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    4.0
    9 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Okinawa Pref. Nagoshi Nakayama 694-1
    Mukashi Mukashi is an Okinawan Soba noodle restaurant located on Prefectural Highway 84 in Nakayama, Nago City. The restaurant’s Okinawan Soba noodles, which use noodles made in-house using charcoal and broth that has a pronounced taste of Bonito fish, are topped with a variety of vegetables grown by the restaurant owner, including mugwort, etc. Mukashi Mukashi’s “Island Vegetables Soba Noodles,” which uses lots of seasonal vegetables, and which enables diners to enjoy the fresh taste of just-picked vegetables, is also a popular menu item.

    どんどんラーメンに寄ってきた沖縄そば屋が増えてきた沖縄。 一方でタコそば・海ぶどうそば…等、沖縄ちゃんぷるーも見かける。 そんな中、ここはヒージャー(山羊)そば。 写真を添付おきます。 山羊汁と本部っぽい伝統的なアルデンテ麺。 山羊専門店はちょっと行きにくいし、沖縄料理屋さんは当たり外れが… という方には良いかもしれない。 カップ山羊汁が食べられる方は大丈夫。

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Let go of your image of a busy, ordered Japan and replace it with crystal-clear waters, white sand beaches, and relaxing folk music: You’ve arrived in Okinawa. A world away from the high intensity of Tokyo, Okinawans appear to live a laid-back beach life on this paradisiacal tropical island that lies in the middle of the East China Sea almost 1,000 kilometers south of mainland Japan’s most southern tip. Home to a spattering of islands, prepare yourself to discover underwater caves, star-shaped sand, and an island culture sometimes unrecognizable from mainland Japan.

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