Eel Spots in Japan

Area

Japan
- Japan
- Hokkaido / Tohoku
  
  Hokkaido
  
  Aomori
  
  Iwate
  
  Miyagi
  
  Akita
  
  Yamagata
  
  Fukushima
- Kanto
  
  Ibaraki
  
  Tochigi
  
  Gunma
  
  Saitama
  
  Chiba
  
  Tokyo
  
  Kanagawa
- Koshinetsu / Hokuriku
  
  Niigata
  
  Toyama
  
  Ishikawa
  
  Fukui
  
  Yamanashi
  
  Nagano
- Tokai
  
  Gifu
  
  Shizuoka
  
  Aichi
  
  Mie
- Kinki
  
  Shiga
  
  Kyoto
  
  Osaka
  
  Hyogo
  
  Nara
  
  Wakayama
- Chugoku
  
  Tottori
  
  Shimane
  
  Okayama
  
  Hiroshima
  
  Yamaguchi
- Shikoku
  
  Tokushima
  
  Kagawa
  
  Ehime
  
  Kochi
- Kyushu / Okinawa
  
  Fukuoka
  
  Saga
  
  Nagasaki
  
  Kumamoto
  
  Oita
  
  Miyazaki
  
  Kagoshima
  
  Okinawa

Category

Gourmet / Alcohol

Japanese Food

Grilled Eel Cooking Kita-mikado

4.5

31 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nagasaki Isahaya-shi Hattenmachi 4-3

昔から本明川沿いにある鰻屋さん。諫早ではかなり有名。蒲焼は甘めのタレで普通に美味い。今回ひつまぶしを注文しました。これも美味い。ただし、一緒に出てくる薬味は加減して入れたほうが良いです。ワサビも効いているので、足りなかったら足すくらいがちょうど良いかと。
Fukudaya

4.0

25 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nagasaki Isahaya-shi Sakaemachi (Aeru Shopping street)

この前のぞいたら、空港までおみやげで進出しててびっくり。車でちょっと行きにくいけど、町で一番おいしいよね
Manmaru

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nagasaki Isahaya-shi Eishohigashimachi 7-1
Yamato Main Store

3.5

5 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Gifu Kaizu-shi Hiratacho Sango 1966

川魚の専門店で、金のなまずのマークが玄関にありました。なまずランチは蒲焼きが小型ながら一匹付いてきます。
Naka Kawaya

Gourmet / Alcohol

Shizuoka Higashi-ku Nakanomachi 861-2
Grilled Eel no Iguchi

4.5

2 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Shizuoka Hamamatsu-shi Hamana-ku Hirakuchi 253-1

浜松市へのふるさと納税を利用して、こちらの蒲焼を注文いたしました。とても美味しい蒲焼で、家族皆で堪能いたしました。ぜひお店にも行ってみたいです。
Tokuemon

Gourmet / Alcohol

Fukui Mikatakaminakagun-gun Wakasacho Torihama 44-18

A restaurant serving eel in Torihama, Wakasa Town, Mikatakaminaka County. They serve eel in a variety of styles including Unaju broiled eel over rice, Kabayaki eel dipped in sauce and then broiled, Hitsumabushi grilled eel over rice, and different course meals allowing you to fully enjoy the flavor of eel. When in season you can enjoy fresh eel straight from Lake Mikata but from December to March during the off season of eel fishing, they offer carp dishes reminiscent of Lake Mikata in the winter.
Yasuke

4.0

1 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagawa Shozu-gun Tonoshocho Fuchizaki Ko 2078-11

This is a restaurant on Shodo Island's main street, the Shodo Island Olive-dori shopping arcade. Located across from the Shodo government offices, it primarily serves cuisine using the local fresh catch of the day. Their menu offers not only combination set meals, but full course dinners or al a cart items, accommodating large parties to a woman visiting alone. Naturally, in addition to the Seto Inland Sea bounties, the Sanuki-gyu beef or Olive Beef raised in this paradise of sun and breezes, one can also enjoy the microbrew sake produced in these environs. Almost a half a century since its founding, this restaurant is a beloved restaurant to the locals.

瀬戸内海島巡りの旅で、旅猿メンバーが夜ご飯を食べていたお店です。時価のオリーブ牛は5500円でした。やわらかくておいしい。少々お値段高めですが、はずれなしです。お寿司やてんぷら、ホタルイカもおいしかったです。
Nakamuraya

Gourmet / Alcohol

Saitama Saitama-shi Urawa-ku Takasago 3-2-12

A long-standing eel restaurant that celebrated its 80-year anniversary in 2017. Their eel is cooked to order one by one over high quality Kishu Binchotan, the regional ubame oak charcoal, and so takes about 40 minutes to serve but has garnered a lot of fans. Along with broiled eel over rice, soy sauce-seasoned broiled eel, eel set meals, and unseasoned grilled eel they also serve full course meals though for these prior reservations are required.
Mandana

4.0

8 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Saitama Saitama-shi Minami-ku Shikatebukuro 1-2-26

A long-standing eel shop that first opened in 1886. The exterior of the shop has a graceful appearance with a small bridge and garden with trees and shrubs. On the inside you'll find the restaurant on the first floor, private rooms on the second floor, and a large banquet hall on the third floor allowing them to accommodate a variety of requests. The private rooms and banquet hall require advance reservations. Along with the traditional eel dishes their menu has a wide variety including authentic Japanese cuisine such as Shokado premium split bento meals, daily specials, and reception feasts.

中浦和駅より徒歩5分程、巨大な店舗、ここまで大きい鰻店はお初です。広い店内、団体専用上の階のようです。鰻以外の川魚メニューから鯉の洗い、どじょうの柳川。刺身は臭みなくコリコリ食感、どじょうは小骨は柔らかく濃い目の味付が美味しい。メインは白焼きと鰻重を注文。絶妙な焼き加減、中はふわふわ食感、風味と旨味を堪能。
Uoai

Gourmet / Alcohol

Saitama Iruma-gun Ogosemachi Ogose 728

This unagi eel restaurant is located along Prefectural Route 30 in Ogose, Ogose Town, Iruma County. Established over a century ago, the restaurant uses a secret sauce that has been handed down, and provides eel dishes such as unaju grilled eel over rice. The catfish tempura rice “Zudon,” as well as the “Yuzu Katsudon” made with yuzu citrus from Ogose, are also popular.
Manraku

4.5

24 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Miyazaki Miyazaki-shi Shioji 2300

This unagi (eel) shop is along Prefectural Road 372 in Shioji, Miyazaki city. They carefully select their unagi raised in eel farms in Miyazaki and Kagoshima, then charcoal-grill them, not steam them, to provide the Kansai-style local grilling. The unagi has a fluffy inside and a crispy outside, and is cleanly finished with tare sauce. You can enjoy unajyu, and hitsumabushi (chopped eel on rice), as well as course meals and unagi shabu shabu (reservation required.)

宮崎県宮崎市塩路2300番地エリア〜宮崎空港より車で40分/日向住吉駅から1,4キロくらいの位置にあります。宮崎市民に「鰻の美味しい所」と尋ねると筆頭に上がってくるのがコチラ！ならばと初訪鰻〜外観は趣ある古民家が素晴らしい！宮崎県椎葉村と新潟県柏崎市の築200年以上の古民家4軒に使用されていた古材を再利用し建築しているとか〜店内は開放感あり！高い天井に大きな梁がなんとも「温故知新」☆新旧の価値...
Hombu Unagiya

4.0

8 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Miyazaki Saito Onozaki 1-8

This eel restaurant was established in 1848 during the rule of Tokugawa Ieyoshi. The restaurant serves choice, domestic eel which is plump and loaded with fat. All of the restaurant's eel cuisine is prepared with unsparing time and effort. Its eel is butchered on-site and broiled to order, and customers rave about the chewy, crispy, smoky eel. The restaurant's exquisite eel is also slathered in a secret recipe sweet and salty sauce, added onto since the establishment first opened its doors, which further enhances the flavor; the moment you pop a bite into your mouth, you'll experience an explosion of perfect chewiness and juiciness. The shirayaki-style sumiso-ae eel, which is served with a full-bodied, sour, and light sumiso (vinegar and miso sauce), is also popular.

西都市には鰻屋さんが多く、皆さん好みもバラバラです。この店は、宮崎県の東国原元知事がイチオシのお店で、地域の方達から支持されているお店です。特徴としてはタレが甘く、鰻がパリフワなところであり、肝吸いではなく呉汁が提供されるところです。また、店内は昭和の香り漂う風情がなんとも言えませんので、是非オススメしたいお店です。
Taisei

4.0

14 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Miyazaki Nichinan-shi Agata-higashi 10-8-14

This eel restaurant is located a five-minute drive from Nichinan Station. Here customers can savor choice dishes maid exclusively with eel from Miyazaki Prefecture and Kagoshima Prefecture in a genuine Japanese atmosphere. The restaurant's herb eel, which has been featured in the media, is rich in high quality fat yet does not have the distinctive smell of river fish. Its excellent and mild flavor is so delicious, even people who don't like eel will find it tasty. The restaurant's tuna rice bowls, made with tuna from the local Aburatsu Port; and its broiled bonito rice boxes, a local Nichinan favorite; are also well-reviewed.

日南市で鰻を食べるのならこのお店という評判だったので伺ってみました。ランチ営業は１４時までと知ってましたがぎりぎりの１３時半過ぎに訪店。快く入店させてもらえました。当方はうな丼特上、連れはうな重特上をオーダー。価格はどちらも３千円以下で東京なら５千円ぐらい払わないとありつけないと思います。鰻は皮がやや硬めに感じましたが身はふっくらでタレとの相性も抜群でした。この価格で国産鰻にありつけたので...
Izushin

4.0

12 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Gunma Kiryu-shi Honcho 3-3-2

A restaurant specializing in eel cuisine located along Prefectural Route 66 in Hon-cho 3-Chome, Kiryu City. This long-standing shop first opened in 1829 during the late Edo period. Their Unaju eel dish serves plump eels, grilled with a secret sauce that has been handed down through the generations, over koshihikari white rice.

いつ行っても最高の鰻重が頂けます！先代からの継ぎ足しタレと備長炭が素晴らしいのひと言！！御座敷も堀座敷なので、お年寄りの方でも寛げます！
Suzukiya

3.5

4 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Ome-shi Honcho 153

This Japanese restaurant is located a five-minute walk from Ome Station. Housed in an atmospheric building constructed at the end of the 19th century, here you can enjoy vaunted eel cuisine. The restaurant's thick-cut eel filets are so tender, they can be pulled apart with a flick of your chopsticks, and the fatty meat goes perfectly with a traditional tare sauce. The restaurant also serves tempura made with seasonal vegetables from the local west Tama area, as well as a sashimi set meal which comes with huge pieces of fish. It is said that novelists Eiji Yoshikawa and Shotaro Ikenami also frequently stopped by here, and the restaurant's old-fashioned building, seemingly existing outside of time, has been designated a Historic Structure by the Tokyo metropolitan government, and an Important Scenic Resource by the city government.

知人の誕生日の祝いとしてうな重(特)を注文。間に柳川鍋や川海老の天ぷらなどを挟み、個室で食べました。味はよかったのですが、私個人としてはうなぎは「特別」なものとして考えすぎていたのか、雰囲気も重視してしまいました。家族経営の4代目のご主人がきりもみしていましたが、自宅も兼ねている故、お子さんが走る様子や会話のやりとりなどが全部筒抜けのため特別感は全て失われお祝いモードは無くなり、終始落ち着...
Kawahachi

Gourmet / Alcohol

Shizuoka Kamo-gun Minamiizucho Minato 376-4

This restaurant specializing in eel dishes is located along Prefectural Route 16 south of a fallow field that blooms profusely with rape blossoms in the spring and sunflower in the summer. It offers a menu including unaju and unadon (broiled eel served on rice) as well as hitsumabushi (chopped broiled eel served on rice) and set meals. It even offers mini unadon sized just right for children and the elderly. The restaurant's specialty is its kakure unagi, which was named by the late Taira Hara, a well-known comic artist and a regular customer at the restaurant. This luxurious dish features two layers of broiled eel served over rice in a lacquered box. The restaurant also offers a la carte items such as sashimi and tempura and can even be used for banquets.
Nodaiwa Ginza Restaurant

4.0

42 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Chuo-ku Ginza 4-2-15 Tsukamoto Soyama Building B1

A restaurant specializing in eel in the Tsukamoto Sozan Building directly accessible from Ginza Station. The long-standing store was founded during the Kansei era when Tokugawa Ienari was in power. They serve a combination of domestically harvested wild and farmed eel in a shop with a distinctive appearance. The eel is laboriously and painstakingly prepared by skilled chefs to enhance the wonderful flavor. Wild eel typically is on the menu from late April to late November. In addition to classics like unagi on rice and kabayaki (eel dipped in a soy-based sauce and broiled), the popular Mabushi Gozen Japanese style meal set comes with a premium soup.

The truth is i expect more from a michellin star restaurant. We had try unazen the previous night (posted the review also) and it was way better than nodaiwa in my oppinion. But on the better note...
Hamanako Yamabuki (Ekimachi Store)

Gourmet / Alcohol

Shizuoka Hamamatsu-shi Chuo-ku Sunayamacho 6-1

This eel cuisine shop was established in 1948. Located in the Ekimachi West shopping mall connected directly to Hamamatsu Station, the shop sells choice eel prepared kabayaki style grilled with sauce, tsukudani style boiled in soy sauce, and sansho-ni style boiled with soy sauce and Japanese pepper. The shop prepares its fresh, lively eel in the morning, and its slow-broiled eel kabayaki is shipped via refrigerated truck the same day without the use of vacuum packs or freezing. Prepared one skewer at a time, the shop's eel kabayaki is plump and tender. The shop carefully removes the tough fins and meat directly around the bones, ensuring you can enjoy a delightfully soft texture.
Katsumi Center

4.0

1 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Shizuoka Hamamatsu-shi Hamana-ku Mikkabicho Tsuzuki 1313-665

A shop directly managed by Katsumi, a shop specializing in eel with multiple shops across the prefecture. They offer a variety of products from carefully selected eel to Hamamatsu souvenirs. They make sure to only use larger-sized, hand-picked eels in their products. They use well water drawn from 100-meters beneath in the deep mountains to completely wash away the characteristic muddy smell associated with eel. As it's not steamed you can enjoy the rich authentic full taste of eel. Across the street you'll find the Mikkabi Interchange location of Katsumi Eel.

此処の店は店の中では買い物をしたことは無いが、秋から冬にかけてミカンを売るので利用している、店の外で売っていて、時々ビニール袋１ぱい５００円で売っていて、こぼれるほど入れてくる、本場のミカンなのでとてもおいしい。