Meat / Fresh Fish Spots in Japan

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Category

Shopping

Groceries

Meat / Fresh Fish

Itsura Ham

Shopping

Ibaraki Pref. Takahagishi Kamiteduna Nori 2565-11

A ham shop located right next to the Takahagi interchange on the Joban Expressway. The shop hams and sausages, crafted with an eye towards authentic European flavor, are made with Ibaraki brand Okukuji Shamo chicken, Hitachi beef, and pork raised in Ibaraki Prefecture which is smothered in dozens of herbs, spices, and salt; aged; and smoked with local cherry tree chips. In addition to roast ham and bacon, the shop also sells smoke flavoring liver and Okukuji Shamo chicken roles slathered with sauce.
Takahashi Nikuten

Shopping

Ibaraki Pref. Ryugasakishi Sunamachi 5131

"A meat and handmade side dish shop on the Ryugasaki Shotengai shopping street in Ryugasaki City, Ibaraki Prefecture. The shop's famed ""Ryugasaki Croquettes"" are made with panko breadcrumbs containing rice flour and are known for their excellent texture and surprising lack of oiliness. The shop sells eight croquette varieties in all, including the old-fashioned ""Ba-chan Croquette"" and the ""Okome no Cream Croquette"" made with lotus root grown in Ibaraki Prefecture and rich cream made with Ryugasaki rice flour. The flavorful, aromatic miso used to make the shop's miso marinated pork ""Ryugasaki-zuke"" whets the appetite even before you take a bite."
Chichibu Pork Miso Pickles Honpo Sekai

Shopping

Saitama Pref. Chichibushi Motomachi 4-23

"A long-standing butcher's shop established in 1915 which is located in 4-Chome Moto-machi, Chichibu City. The shop is famous for its ""Chichibu Butaniku Miso-zuke,"" tender pork marinated in a special blend of aged miso utilizing a method for preserving meat developed long ago by hunters in Chichibu."
Yasudaya

4.5

14 Reviews

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Saitama Pref. Chichibushi Bambamachi 19-9

A long-standing butcher shop established in 1916 which is located in Banba-machi, Chichibu City. The shop is famous for its pork, beef, and wild boar meat carefully marinated in a secret recipe miso sauce by skilled hands. The shop also sells various cuts of meat over the counter as well as fried food and other sides. The shop's handmade menchi-katsu breaded mincemeat cutlets are particularly popular.

週末に何回か行ったが、肉屋は開いていても揚げ物も販売は昼頃からのようだ。何時頃から販売すると揚げ物コーナーに看板が出ているので、タイミングを合わせていけば揚げたてが食べられる。メンチカツ100円、コロッケ、ハムカツ50円。昔の味がする。ソースもい置いてあるので、その場でも食べられます。
Takumiya (Yasugawa Branch)

4.0

79 Reviews

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Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Shimoninomachi 2

Takumiya is a combination premium butcher's shop and restaurant located in the Yasugawa shopping district in Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture. The butcher's shop on the first floor sells superior Hida beef, while the restaurant on the second floor serves Yakiniku (grilled beef) and steak, also made from high-quality Hida beef. Hida Beef Mabushi is another popular menu option here; this is a three-course meal that involves first eating the beef plain, then with a herbal sauce, and finally with a special stock.

This is where to go to try the famous Hida beef. We ordered two dishes from the set menu - steak slices and boiled beef on rice. Absolutely sublime. The beef was beautifully seasoned and melted in...
Hiraoka Meat Shop

4.5

7 Reviews

Shopping

Kodairacho, Nakatado-gun, Kagawa Prefecture 220

People pour in for Hiraoka Meat Shop 's freshly fried meat croquettes. They're crispy, hot, and juicy, with a burst of soupy goodness in the middle. Other fine items you'd only get at a butcher shop like this include their Hiraoka Mama no Menchikatsu meat cakes made with Japanese pork and beef, nothing frozen or imported, as well as their Sanuki-no-honetsuki-dori (chicken-on-the-bone) roast chicken.

SNS等で必ず出てくるコロッケが有名な肉屋さん。参拝の帰りに立ち寄り購入、食べたいのをグッと堪え、駅コンビニでビールを買い特急電車内で食べた。サクサクの衣、ホクホクのジャガイモ、ジューシーなお肉、ビールとも相性が良く評判通り大変美味しゅうございました。
Tanaka Chikusan

4.5

35 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Amakusashi Itsuwamachijougawara 2-101-1

This famous yakiniku barbecue house offers carefully selected, reasonably priced Japanese black beef from their own ranch. Their popular all-you-can-eat menu lets you dine on the tender marbled beef to your heart's content. People even come from far away to eat there, to the point that they sometimes have a line waiting for them to open.

肉もおいしいですが（特選ランチを頂きました。）食べ放題の牛丼とカレーがおいしいことおいしいこと。何回でも行きたいです。
Kitanada Sea Station JF Kitanada Fish Market

4.0

13 Reviews

Shopping

Tokushima Naruto-shi Kitanadacho

This fish market operated by a fisheries cooperative offers local fish caught in the waters off Kitanada, Naruto City, processed seafood, souvenirs, and other products. Located next to Oura Fishing Port, the market is equipped with a large parking lot, making it an easy place to stop by while on a trip. The cooperative's recommendations are Naruto Kitanada Beppintai, a local brand of wild-caught sea bream with fixed net, Sudachiburi, a brand of farmed Japanese amberjack, and Naruto Wakame, the local brand of farmed wakame seaweed. Other offerings include dried seafood prepared by fishermen as well as local vegetables such as Naruto Kintoki sweet potatoes. The attached Gyokyo Shokudo Uzushio restaurant serves fishermen's cuisine such as rice bowls made with fresh seafood.

他の道の駅と変わらないようにも見えますが，新鮮な魚が並んでいて，それを目当てに来る人も多いです。頼むと裁いてくれるので，その日のうちに食べると本当に美味しいです。
Yawatahama City Regional Fishery Products Wholesale Market

Shopping

Ehime Yawatahama-shi Okishinden 1585-9

This marketplace in Okishinden, Yawatahama City is one of the largest fishery products wholesale markets in Shikoku. It is open to the general public and visitors can even watch the early morning auctions. The nearby Roadside Station Yawatahama Minatto features a market that carries fresh seafood as well as a restaurant that serves seafood on rice, seafood barbecue, and other dishes.
Okukuji-shamo Local Chicken Shop

Shopping

Ibaraki Kuji-gun Daigomachi Fukuroda 3721

A store selling chicken on National Route 118 in Fukuroda, Daigo City, Kuji County. They sell the local Okukuji Shamo variety, which is raised over a period three times longer than usual. It’s low in fat, has firm flesh, and receives high praise for its quality. It was ranked first among local chicken varieties in competition.
Hida Kogen Ham and Hida Cheese Factory

Shopping

Gifu Takayama-shi Kokufucho Sangawa 1654

A meat atelier that has been handmaking fine roast ham in Kokufu-cho for over 30 years. While they focus on processed meats like sausage, bacon, and ham, they also make dairy products like cheese mousse, and yogurt. Their renowned roast ham is seasoned in a marinade for a month and then smoked for 30 to 40 hours. Only a minimum of additives is used in order to protect the inherent flavors of the meat, finishing the hams one-by-one with meticulous attention. The resulting flavor is so superb it's been featured on television many times.
Kiraku Seinikuten

Shopping

Gifu Mino-shi Tawaramachi 2147

"This butcher shop located in Tawara-machi, Mino City was established in 1945, and sells meats and prepared dishes. Among them, ""Udatsu croquettes"" which use the branded pork ""Buono Pork Gifu"" and ""Kiraku Hand Wrapped Gyoza"" with plenty of vegetables are the specialties."
Heihichi Suisan Taiza Main Store

Shopping

Kyoto Kyotango-shi Tangocho Taiza 1789-1

This shop offers carefully selected fresh caught seafood bought at auction twice a day in the morning and the evening. The morning selection includes pole caught and net caught seafood including turban shell mollusks, abalone, sea bream, sea bass, yellowtail amberjack, black rockfish, tilefish, and squid. The evening selection includes seafood caught by trawling including snow crab, monkfish, flounder, white clams, sailfin sandfish, and black shrimp. This lively shop will always have the best seasonal seafood.
Marufuji Foods

Shopping

Kyoto Maizuru-shi Hikitsuchi 263

This fresh fish shop is at the station-side entrance of Manai Shopping Street, about five minutes' walk from Nishi-Maizuru station, near Manai no Shimizu Spring. The fresh-caught fish is supplied by brokers directly from the Maizuru Regional Market, and they also offer their own dried and miso-preserved foods, as well as other processed goods. Their snow crab, fish, and more seafood straight from the morning auction makes it popular with locals and visitors. Next door is a restaurant that uses fish from this shop in their dishes for fresh, mouthwatering meals.
Restaurant Koshiji

Shopping

Yamanashi Minamitsuru-gun Yamanakakomura Hirano 508-375

This cafe restaurant is located in an area dotted with lodging facilities on the southeastern shore of Lake Yamanaka. It is notable for cuisine that capitalizes on the flavor of the ingredients without the use of artificial seasonings. Its most popular dish is the tongue stew, which is stewed for two weeks straight. Other offerings include their hamburger steak and cheese sausage, which has been made the same way since the restaurant was established, as well as their ham and sausage assortments. Guests can bring their pets with them to the restaurant's veranda. The restaurant also offers sausage-making classes and sells some of its sausages. Another of the restaurant's appeals is its wonderful seasonal scenery including expansive snowy landscapes in the winter.
Kita no Ryoba #3

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hokkaido Sapporo-shi Chuo-ku Kita 11-jo nishi 21 Sapporo Market

"This venerable shop is part of Sapporo's Central Wholesale Market, which gathers seasonal foods from all over Hokkaido. Of the four ""Kita no Ryoba"" shops inside the market, this is the oldest. They offer foodstuffs selected with decades of experience and care, so even inexperienced tourists can shop here with confidence. The shop takes advantage of its connection to the marketplace to sell the freshest seafood at the most reasonable prices. They also offer seafood bowls made with items direct from the market which you can eat on the spot. They have both counter and table seating, so families and groups are welcome, too."
Kita no Ryoba #1

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hokkaido Sapporo-shi Chuo-ku Kita 11-jo nishi 21 Sapporo Market

This shop is part of Sapporo's Central Wholesale Market. It is one of the largest in the market, which is a popular spot even for group tours. They offer a selection of fresh, seasonal seafood that only a truly big handler can sell! Not only do they offer seafood like crabs, sea urchin, kombu kelp and processed foods, but farm produce like melons and corn. Most of their foods can be sampled, as well, so it's perfect to take your time and really enjoy the selection while you shop. The lively shop also offers fresh seafood rice bowls to enjoy.
Kajihara Fish Shop

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Hokkaido Shari-gun Sharicho Utoro-higashi 8-1

This seafood shop is about a five-minute walk from Roadside Station Utoro Shirietoku. Established in 1972, this was the first seafood specialist shop in the Shiretoko/Utoro area. They have a huge variety of seafood from the Shiretoko area, including crabs, scallops, sea urchins, salmon roe, salmon and channel rockfish. Since it's near the roadside station, a popular tourist spot, on National Route 334, it's an easy stop on your drive through the area. They can boil live crabs just before shipping so you can get fresh, never-frozen crab delivered around Japan!
Ueda Meat Shop

Shopping

Hokkaido Kamikawa-gun Shintokucho 1 Jominami 2-7

This butcher's shop is located approximately 300 meters from Shintoku Station. It sells purely natural deer meat captured by hunters. It is a pioneering establishment that aims to spread the deliciousness of deer meat throughout the country, and for people to recognize properly processed deer meat as a healthy beauty food. It is a first-class food that has been added to the menus of many restaurants as the greatest lean red meat. The butcher's most popular cut of meat is the shoulder of Ezo deer, which is a beautiful part that displays the fat leaned into the red meat. It is recommended for shabu-shabu and sukiyaki dishes. Customers can request for the meat to be cut to a specific thickness.
Sapporo Seafoods

Shopping

Hokkaido Chitoseshi Bibi New Chitose Airport Domestic Terminal Building 2F

A local specialty products shop carrying goods straight from the Sapporo Central Wholesale Market on the second floor of the domestic terminal building in New Chitose Airport. The Kita no Hosekibako, an assortment of matsumae-zuke pickled abalone and ikura salted salmon roe, is particularly popular and only sold here at the airport location. There's a standing only sushi corner serving seasonal sushi. Many of the sushi menu items are also only served here in the airport location, such as baby salmon, a variety seen only once out of every 10 thousand salmon caught; and miraculous grape shrimp.