Local Cuisine Spots in Japan

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Category

Gourmet / Alcohol

Japanese Food

Local Cuisine

Wappa-meshi Aizu Cuisine Kappo Takino

Gourmet / Alcohol

Fukushima Pref. Aiduwakamatsushi Sakaemachi 5-31 (Kanedokido Alley)

This is a kappo-style and Aizu cuisine restaurant located in the center of Aizuwakamatsu City, Fukushima Prefecture. The restaurant is famous for the food served in the oval shaped bamboo lunch boxes (mage-wappa) traditionally used by the people of the mountain village of Hinoematamura in Aizu, called “wappa meshi”. The simple and delicate wooden boxes are full of local ingredients such as salmon, salmon roe, crabs, mountain vegetables, mushrooms, etc. The “kaiseki” cuisine that makes use of Aizu seasonal produce is also popular. The relocated old houses and restored historical buildings that have continued since the Kamakura period are also interesting. There are rooms ranging from private rooms for small groups to a large hall of 36.4 square meters.
Otafuku

Gourmet / Alcohol

Akita Pref. Akitashi Omachi 4-2-25

A local cuisine restaurant in Omachi Town, Akita City, Akita Prefecture, where one can taste Akita’s fresh seafood and mountain food. The menu is a lineup of Akita specialties including kiritanpo (mashed rice pressed on a skewer and toasted) and shottsuru (salted and fermented fish sauce), sandfish, hinaijidori (a cross between Hinai-Dori and Rhode Island Red Chickens), with kiritanpo being served with the most pride. The kiritanpo using Akitakomachi rice from the Senpoku plain is known for its sweetness and aroma, and are rolled and baked stick by stick. The tasty aroma one gets from a sip of the hinaijidori broth soup is another draw for visitors. Aside from counter seats there are also private rooms and sunken kotatsu (warmer) seats, allowing you to enjoy your meal in peace.
Sumibi no Jujuan

4.0

9 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tottori Pref. Tottorishi Suehironsenchou 751

This is a restaurant in Suehiro Onsen town, where one can savor the luxurious taste of charcoal-grilled local sea and mountain foods. A popular menu choice is the Jujuan course where one can enjoy both carefully selected black-hair Tottori Wagyu beef and seafood from the local harbor. There are also plentiful combination platters and a la carte options, and in winter the snow crab menu is popular. There are counter and table seats, as well as private rooms where one can easily hold dinner meetings.

這裏的鳥取和牛油脂分佈極高，經過炭火燒烤後油份很快流出，屬真正入口後會溶化的質感。雖然價錢比較貴，但鳥取牛值得一試，與神戶牛的質感完全不同。
Iya Bijin restaurant and hotel

4.0

53 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokushima Pref. Miyoshishi Nishiyayamamurazentoku 9-3

Iya Bijin is a restaurant that offers spectacular views of the mountains lining the Iya Gorge and of Iya River. The restaurant makes its own noodles, handling the whole process from the initial stage of Iya Soba buckwheat powder manufacturing through to noodle-making. Besides Soba noodles, Iya Bijin also offers a range of other dishes that embody the natural glories of the Iya region, including Soba-gome-zosui (buckwheat porridge) and grilled Amego (Masu salmon), etc. Tables on the open terrace-which affords brilliant views of the Iya Gorge and Iya River-are particularly popular. The restaurant is attached to a hotel which offers rooms with their own outdoor pools.

Iya Bijin is a true find! Our group of 7 had two fantastic meals on the back deck of Iya Bijin and every one of us was wowed both times. The food is simply delicious, the staff is friendly and...
Wabisuke restaurant (Seasonal and local delicacies)

4.0

9 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Ehime Pref. Uwajimashi Ebisumachi 1-2-6

The Wabisuke restaurant is situated around seven minutes’ walk from Uwajima Station (on the JR Yosan Line). The restaurant prides itself on serving dishes made with locally-sourced food; its outstanding local dishes make extensive use of Uwajima’s fresh seafood and mountain specialties. Wabisuke has a relaxed, casual atmosphere and a comprehensive range of dining options; patrons can eat sitting at the counter, in individual rooms, or around a hori-gotatsu heated table. The restaurant also serves lunches.

We had a typical Japanese set meal. Appetizers, hot pot, salad, miso soup rice and tempura. The food was ok - service was great which helped the overall rating. Nothing really notable about the...
Airport Restaurant

4.0

1238 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Nahashi Kagamizu 150 Naha Airport Building 1F

The Airport Restaurant is located on the left-hand side of the first floor in the Arrivals building at Naha Airport. Although mainly intended for airport employees, non-employees are welcome to use the Restaurant, and many tourists eat there. Diners can enjoy classic Okinawa dishes such as Okinawa-style Soba Noodles, Chanpuru (a stir-fried dish), Champon (rice with fried vegetables, meat and eggs), etc. for very reasonable prices (around 600 yen).

I had a transit flight for Ishigaki Island, I looked forward to trying this restaurant as I heard about positive feedback. Soki soba was good maybe because of super reasonable price. Other local...
Kishimoto Cafeteria flagship store

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...
Kyoya restaurant

4.5

403 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Oushinmachi 1-77

Kyoya is a restaurant in Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture that offers delicious local cuisine made using Hida beef and other local ingredients, as well as seasonal delicacies. Kyoya is located in a traditional house that was specially relocated to the site from the Echigo (Niigata) region, giving it a fascinating retro-style ambience; as diners pass through the entrance curtain, they are greeted with the sight of huge beams that create a friendly, welcoming space. Seated around Irori (hearths constructed in the floor), diners can enjoy steak or sukiyaki made from high-quality Hida beef, Shabu-shabu hotpot, a wide range of other top-notch dishes, and local Sake brands. Kyoya is also a convenient place to drop in for lunch, with a lunch menu featuring a wide range of set meals such as “Hida Takayama Go-zen (Gourmet) Meal” and “Hida Beef Yakishabu (thinly-sliced beef marinated in a delicious sauce) Set Meal.” Kyoya is situated around 15 minutes’ walk from Takayama Station on the JR Takayama Line.

Our sons ate here years ago and encouraged us to give it a try. We are so glad we did! The beef was amazing, the interior authentic and the staff friendly. My 200g A5 steak was the best dish I ate...
Irori restaurant

4.0

77 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Gifu Pref. Onogunshirakawamura Ogimachi 374-1

Irori is a restaurant in a traditional thatched-roof house located in Shirakawa-go village (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) in Gifu Prefecture. Diners can enjoy traditional local dishes made using mountain herbs and vegetables etc. picked locally in Hida, the Shirakawa-go and Gokayama district, while seated round an Irori (a hearth constructed in a depression in the floor). Popular menu items include the “Hida Beef Cooked on a Ceramic Board–Set Meal” for which diners can specify how well-cooked they want the premium Hida beef to be, the “Grilled Tofu Set Meal” made with the unique local Shirakawa-ko Tofu, and the “Hoba Miso Set Meal” made using Hoba Miso, a famous Hida-Takayama region specialty.

We took a bus from Takayama and had lunch at Shirakawa-go. It was very delicious. It is also a restaurant I want to visit. is.
Monzensaryo Yayoiza

4.5

20 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nagano prefecture Nagano-shi Daimon cho 503

This restaurant is housed inside a tatami wholesaler's built in the Edo period. Here diners can enjoy carefully prepared local cuisine which incorporates Shinshu (Nagano) and seasonal ingredients. Popular menu items include the steamed Shinshu beef and country-style usuyaki crepes made with 100% buckwheat flour and dressed with sweet miso and green onions. Located right next to the entrance to the road leading to the Zenkoji Temple.

My boyfriend and I had an amazing experience. The food was so tasty and beautiful and the staff was absolutely amazing as well! I would definitely come here again!
Chikufudo Obuse Main Store

Gourmet / Alcohol

973 Obuse-cho, Kamakitai-gun, Nagano Prefecture

This famous Japanese confection shop uses Japanese chestnuts, a local Obuse specialty, in place of the more common sweet red bean paste. The shop on the first floor sells delicious sweets such as kuri yokan (chestnut jelly blocks), kuri dorayaki (sponge cake with chestnut paste), and kuri kanoko (chestnut paste with molasses). In the second floor restaurant, diners can enjoy fresh-made sweets, rice with chestnuts, and traditional Shinshu (Nagano) cuisine. The restaurant’s parking lot is free for customers for the first two hours.
Kumaso tei

4.0

119 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Pref. Kagoshimashi Higashisengokuchou 6-10

A restaurant specializing in local Satsuma (Kagoshima) cuisine located on the north side of the Tenmonkan. Diners can enjoy a variety of colorful Kagoshima dishes, including pork bone and belly meat slow stewed for three hours until it can be cut with chopsticks, shabu-shabu with Roppaku Kurobuta pork from Kagoshima, sake-zushi fermented overnight with only local sake, fresh silver-striped round herring sashimi caught in Kagoshima Bay (Kinkou Bay) and served with a homemade mustard and vinegared miso sauce, and satsumaage deep-fried fish paste. Private rooms in a variety of sizes are also available, making this a perfect place to have a party or banquet.

We enjoyed a delicious pork shabu shabu set dinner with attentive and friendly service. All of the courses were delicious, and the lovely server made sure we knew which sauces went with what and that...
Anbai

Gourmet / Alcohol

Miyazaki Pref. Miyazakishi Chuoudori 7-30 The twilight building 1F

This popular restaurant serves local favorites such as local fish sashimi caught just that morning, chicken nanban made with local Miyazaki chicken, chicken sashimi, and chilled miso soup. Anbai also stocks over 360 varieties of shochu. The restaurant keeps at least 25 varieties of sake on hand at any time, and with the reasonable prices, you're encouraged to compare and find your favorite. A 17-minute walk from JR Miyazaki Station.
Okiru

5.0

1 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagawa Pref. Takamatsushi Fukudamachi 13-5

This Japanese pub gets great reviews for items made with local Kagawa ingredients. Guests love their Sanuki Sanchiku: Sanuki beef, Sanuki Yumebuta pork, and Sanuki Sanchiku Cochin chicken. Everything on the menu is fantastic, including their multi-course meals, combination platters, and traditional Kagawa fare. They close as soon as their main dishes run out, so it's best to go early.

讃岐の美味しいお料理を味わうなら、絶対こちら！こだわりの食材と、素晴らしい腕前の大将の、素晴らしい夜が約束されています。お酒も讃岐の地酒が揃っていて、マリアーシュもバッチリ楽しめます。骨付鳥もこちらで戴くと一味違う♪
Amego-tei

4.0

4 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokushima Pref. Miyoshishi Ikedachouhakuchi Honmyou 462-1

This restaurant serves amego (red-spotted masu trout) raised in the pure water of clear local streams. Amego is a fish with a light, mild flavor that is available all year. The restaurant’s specialty is its amego no hirara-yaki, Hirara means a flat stone in this region, and hirara-yaki, a dish of tofu, vegetables and amego cooked with miso, is traditionally cooked on the stone. Other items on its menu include seasonal fish served as salt-grilled, sashimi, or in tempura, as well as amego sushi, amego soba (soba noodles served with amego), and Iya soba noodles. The restaurant has preserved its original flavors since it opened as a regional cuisine restaurant more than 30 years ago.

塩焼き、フライ、甘辛煮、唐揚げ。色々な調理方法でこのあたりの名物のあめごが食べられる。定食から一品物まで幅広いのでお腹の空き具合に合わせてオーダーするのが良い。店内はゆったりとした席で大歩危小歩危に続く川が見えて景色も良い。
Local cuisine Shiokaze

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokushima Pref. Narutoshi Narutochoutosadomariura Fukuike 65-49

This restaurant offers regional cuisine made with Naruto red snapper as well as the magnificent scenery of the Naruto Straight. Guests can enjoy sweeping views of the Naruto whirlpools, Onaruto Bridge, and Awaji Island. Their Naruchuru udon noodles, a regional udon dish of Naruto, are also popular. A souvenir shop on the 1st floor offers take-out drinks and food and other items.
Rinsuke

4.0

22 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Ehime Pref. Kitagunuchikochou Uchiko 2027

Come enjoy traditional Southern-Ehime Taimeshi, rice with sea bream in this Japanese-style restaurant. In the central (Chuyo) and eastern (Toyo) regions, grilled whole sea breams are cooked with rice, but in the southern (Nanyo) region, around Rinsuke here in Uwajima, it features raw sliced sea bream which is placed on rice along with a special soy-sauce based sauce and egg yolk. Many restaurants will dissolve the egg yolk in a dashi fish broth, but here along with shredded nori and ground sesame seeds, a whole egg yolk is placed on top of the fresh sliced sea beam that completely covers the rice. Another popular menu item that is also served with their special sauce is a boiled barley and rice dish mixed with grated yam.

内子座近くの「りんすけ」で鯛めしをいただく。以前、徳島で食べた鯛めしはお米に鯛を入れて炊いたものだったがここの鯛めしは、真鯛の刺身がのったもの。卵とタレが絶妙でこれも絶品♪ 小鉢のあら煮も美味しい。ミシュランにも掲載されているとか・・・「内子・大洲町並散策1日パス」で100円引き♪ クレジットカードは使用不可。ＰＡＹＰＡＹ払いは可能。
Kadoya (Ekimae Main Shop)

Gourmet / Alcohol

Ehime Pref. Uwajimashi Nishikimachi 8-1 Station Street

This restaurant serving up local cuisine is just a two-minute walk from Uwajima Station. They serve up a variety of Ehime staples including Uwajima Tai Meshi (Rice cooked with sea bream), in which fresh slices of sea bream topped with sauce mixed with raw egg, and Jako-ten-yaki, in which small fish are mashed into a paste and then fried into tempura. They serve a number of dishes that can't be had anywhere else, such as Fukayuzarashi, a dish from the southern region with boiled shark served with a spicy-sweet dipping sauce called migarashi, and Sea Bream Soumen (requires advance reservation) where a full sea bream is served with soumen noodles arranged to evoke the waves off of Uwajima. Alongside traditional tatami mat seating they offer dug out seating, perfect for families with small children.
Japanese Cuisine Tonomachi Tarui

4.0

6 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Ehime Pref. Ozushi Nakamura Tonomachi 553-19

Come taste local riverside Ozu cuisine in this remodeled county office building originally built during the early Meiji-period. From the second floor of this beautiful wooden structure you can look out and see Ozu Castle. Their specialty is their Tonomachi-Tarui meal serving eel grilled with their secret sauce that they've protected since the Taisho-period. They can accommodate any situation with counter seating where you can easily drop in by yourself, private rooms where you can relax without worrying about your surroundings, and even a banquet hall. They also offer simple lunch boxes, exquisite arrangements for seasonal festivals or family gatherings, and special meals for memorial services.

大洲城帰りにオススメですリーズナブルで絶品の郷土料理皆さん鰻をお昼に食べられる方も多かった大洲は鵜飼いの地なので地魚もオススメ子供には唐揚げ、エビフライ定食もあるよ
SETOUCHI CHAYA Omishima

3.0

21 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Ehime Pref. Imabarishi Omishimachoumiyaura 5119-2

One of the best foods and souvenir shops along the Setouchi Shimanami Kaido route. Come taste fantastic local cuisine made with seafood delivered from the Omishima fishery coop and local Ehime koshihikari rice. One of their specialties is their famous Tai-meshi (rice with sea bream) where the sea bream is steamed with their secret sauce in a wicker basket which they've served ever since they first opened. Indulge yourself with every bite in the rich full flavor of the sea bream. In the attached store you'll find around 800 different popular items including Imabari Towels and small bitesize Lemon-Persimmon Japanese sweets, making this the perfect place to get souvenirs while taking the Shimanami drive.

ツアー客専用会場だけあって、横並びの長テーブル仕様。添乗員・ドライバーさん用の小部屋もあって、まさしくツアー客専用のよう。メイン料理のたこめしは、上にふりかけ風の具材をかけて食べます。2種類ありました。ほくほくして美味しくいただきました。暑い日だったので、冷水がとても美味しく感じました。