Yakitori Grilled Chicken Spots in Japan

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Category

Gourmet / Alcohol

Japanese Food

Hinatoriyama

4.0

16 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Hachioujishi Kamiyugi 1602-4

An irori-yaki skewer barbecue restaurant located in Kamiyugi, Hachioji City, Tokyo. Diners are provided with skewers of vegetables, seafood, river fish, and specially raised hinadori (young chicken) to grill over an irori hearth placed in the center of a sunken kotatsu table. Hinatoriyama is also renowned for its fuku-fuku tofu-nabe, a hotpot dish which comes with a tofu specially made with Hokkaido soybeans and natural Minamidaitojima nigari bittern.

土曜日予約をして行きましたが空いていました。こちらはコロナでも個室ですし、お料理は船で運ばれてきますし安心してお食事を楽しめました。お料理も美味しかったです。炭で自分たちで焼くスタイルです。炭焼き美味しいです。１人必ず1コース頼まないといけないのであまり食べれない方は多すぎると思いますが‥単品だけでもOKとかその辺融通が効くと良いと思います。
Kyobashi Isehiro Main Shop

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Chuou-ku Kyoubashi 1-5-4

Isehiro is a veteran yakitori skewered chicken shop since 1921 located at Kyobashi Station near Tokyo Station’s Yaesu Exit. Guests enjoy professionally prepared yakitori featuring meat from hens in their prime as well as other carefully selected ingredients like leeks and shiitake mushrooms. The quaint interior has a counter, Japanese style tatami mat rooms, and private seating available for gatherings.
Yakitori Senmon Ginneko

4.0

72 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hokkaido Asahikawashi Gojoudori 7 - Right on the 65th and 7th street

This yakitori chicken skewer store is located in the 5-7 Alley Furarito entertainment district in Asahikawa City, Hokkaido. Shinko-yaki (grilled boned chicken wings) are the soul food of Hokkaido's Asahikawa and a specialty of the restaurant. This simple yet exquisite menu item is made by baking half a chicken and seasoning it. The Ginneko store manager is the chairperson of the Shinko-yaki Association. The restaurant offers chicken raised in Date, Hokkaido that is carefully hand-grilled one by one over white charcoal. The secret sauce makes the outside crispy and fragrant while keeping the inside juicy. In addition to the variety of chicken skewers, the Chappu-yaki with soft Hokkaido pork shoulder loin is perfect with rice or as a snack when drinking.

We got there excited to eat their yakitori but because it was full (which we expected) they told us we couldnt wait as it would bother the other stalls. What kind of policy is that? We left pretty...
Torikawa Suikyo

4.0

46 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Fukuoka Fukuoka-shi Chuo-ku Yakuin 1-11-15

・皮（150円）×20本、とその他いろいろと頂きましたが、記録付けておらず忘れてしまいました。。。大体、お酒を6杯(3杯×2人)飲んで、〆て8,500円くらい（1人約4,200円）でした。・福岡県福岡市中央区。薬院駅から徒歩5分の薬院六つ角交差点の手前に佇む「とりかわ粋恭...
Yakitori Fujiyoshi

4.0

48 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Fukuoka Pref. Fukuokashichuouku Nishinakasu 9-6

A kushiyaki grilled skewer restaurant located in Chuo Ward, Fukuoka City where customers can enjoy a variety of yakitori grilled chicken dishes made with choice ingredients and cooked to perfection. In addition to yakitori, this popular restaurant also offers a variety of sakes plus seasonal raw asparagus. Frequented by locals and tourists alike, customers can enjoy a relaxing meal surrounded by the establishment's chic Japanese modern atmosphere.

Booked this place as it use to be a Bib Gourmad recommentation. Very busy on a Sunday night with a lot of japanese locals. Staff quite friendly and had english menu. Shame the yakitori isnt cooked...
Honetsuki Marugamedori

5.0

5 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagawa Pref. Marugameshi Torichou 87-2

This restaurant is famous for its chicken served on the bone and topped with daikon radish sprouts. The restaurant's large menu includes meat from adult birds, meat from young birds, grilled chicken skin, and chicken tsukune meatloaf. The restaurant is decorated simply and has a friendly atmosphere. The chicken on the bone is cooked with plenty of chicken fat and spicy seasonings are kept to a minimum, meaning even children can enjoy the restaurant's delicious chicken.

骨付丸亀鳥がおいしい。アットホームな、地元の人々に愛されてそうな居酒屋さんです。丸亀市役所のすぐ近くにお店があります。ローカル感の強いお店です。やさしい感じの店の女将さんとご主人がきりもりしていて、アットホームな、昭和的な雰囲気の居酒屋さんです。良い感じです。で、実際の骨付丸亀鳥は、にんにくが少し効いていて、外はパリッと、中は、鳥脂が程よくのっていて、ジューシーなおいしい骨付き鳥でした。思った...
Ganso Takesumi Yakitori Hakata Food Honten

4.0

11 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Fukuoka Pref. Fukuokashihakataku Hakataekihigashi 2-4-17 sixth Rokkabe Building 1F

A yakitori grilled chicken skewer restaurant located in Hakata Ward, Fukuoka City where customers can enjoy yakitori grilled over bamboo charcoal that makes the chicken crispy on the outside due to its far-infrared ray effect. The restaurant also offers a variety of Hakata specialty dishes, like motsu nabe made with a special broth and plump, chewy offal.

ネットでしらべていきました。焼き鳥がめちゃくちゃおいしい！あまり待ち時間もなかったです。焼き鳥は網つくねがとてもおいしいです。レバーはやわらかくて絶品でした！
Yakitori Hachibei (Shoninbashi-dori Restaurant)

4.5

36 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Fukuoka Pref. Fukuokashichuouku Kego 1-4-27 KEGO Eight Building 1F

"A yakitori grilled chicken skewer restaurant located in Chuo Ward, Fukuoka City. At the restaurant, where chefs are dedicated to the concept that ""each skewer is served with heart and soul,"" customers can enjoy fully fledged yakitori. Sprinkling it with sake and natural sea salt combined with rapid searing result in a unique texture. The establishment also offers a full selection of dishes that are not only tasty but visually delightful as well, including hearty bone-in chicken and colorful deep-fried green pea skewers."

There are shops of Hachibei in Fukuoka, we take this one as it is a bit far from the Hakata or Tenjin. We go there by car and found a Times carpark just near by is okay with an acceptable...
Kawaya

4.0

60 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Fukuoka Pref. Fukuokashichuouku Shirogane 1-15-7

A yakitori restaurant famous for its popular, signature chicken skin skewers slow broiled over a six-day period. Rolled around a bamboo skewer, customers can enjoy the chewy yet firm texture of the skin. This popular restaurant is frequented by locals as well as tourists.

福岡名物かわ焼きの人気店。薬院駅より歩くこと5分、「とりかわ」と書かれた提灯を横目に予約せずに初入店。カウター端に落ち着く。かわ焼とビールを注文、お通しは福岡焼きとりの定番、酢ダレがかかるキャベツ。待つこと10分、一瞬細目のツクネににたルックス、タレが革に染み、かりかり中はとろとろ、癖になる味わい。鳥の脂が濃いためお代わりはできずキャベを完食し終了。
Toridoki Shinkawa Store

4.0

15 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Tokyo Chuou-ku Shinkawa 2-26-111/2F

This yakitori shop opened in 2016 and its yakitori made with fresh jiyodori chicken that is full of umami are carefully grilled over Tosa binchotan (high-grade charcoal produced from ubame oak) for outstanding consistency and juiciness. They also offer various other items on the menu such as their specialty 100% soba (buckwheat flour) noodles served on a basket steamer, mizutaki (chicken and vegetables boiled in plain water or dashi and served with dipping sauce) and shabu-shabu. Their popular skewers are “toridoki”—jiyodori chicken thigh and breast meat wrapped in skin. The relaxed ambience of an old Japanese-style house is also appealing.

週末15時過ぎにもかかわらず、ランチメニューと同じものと思われるメニューの提供があり、一人で立ち寄ったので大変嬉しかった。すき焼き鍋御膳をいただきまさ。量はお腹いっぱいになる量で大満足いくものでした。店内も落ち着いたいい感じの清潔感ある店内につき、一人でも大人数でもおすすめです。また何かの際は家から近いので利用したいと思います。
Bajitofu

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Muromachi-dori Shijo Agaru Kikusuibokocho 587

This charcoal-grilled yakitori chicken skewer shop is one minute's walk from Karasuma line Shijo Station, facing Muromachi-dori street. They offer fresh grilled skewers in a cozy shop interior with chic, moody lighting. You can order single skewers of chicken and spring onion, gizzards, chicken neck meat, and pair them with beer, shochu, plumb liquor, chuhai and other reasonably priced drinks. This is a fun, unpretentious shop, but it's so popular it's often hard to get in without reservations, so reservations are strongly recommended.
Kinpuku

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Sado-shi Aikawa 2-9

A well-known kushiyaki grilled bamboo skewer restaurant which serves food so tasty, people are willing to cross an ocean to enjoy it. In this bar-like establishment, lit by indirect lighting, you can eat authentic charcoal fire-grilled kushiyaki skewers. Only counter seating is available and no reservations are accepted whatsoever. Aikawa’s most popular dining establishment, it is always filled with customers despite the fact you won’t know whether you’ll be able to get in that day until you go. In addition to standards such as regular meat cuts, gizzards, and cartilage, many locals come here to enjoy the novel special daily skewers. Also great is the restaurant’s large selection of beers and Sado sakes, as well as wines, which go surprisingly well with kushiyaki.
Sumibi Yakitori Komiyama

3.5

11 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nagano Kitasaku-gun Karuizawamachi Karuizawa 196-10

A yakitori grilled chicken skewer restaurant situated along Mikasa-dori Street in Karuizawa, Karuizawa Town, Kitasaku County, Nagano Prefecture. The restaurant's slow-grilled skewers are made with choice renowned local chicken varieties such as Awaodori chicken from Tokushima Prefecture. During lunchtime, the establishment also serves several types of donburi rice bowls such as oyakodon chicken and egg over rice made with local chicken varieties.

The staff was really rude, they don’t welcome foreigners at all!!! We were asked if we were foreigners and then driven away... Incredible!!!
Yakitori Mifune

4.0

2 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Hokkaido Iwamizawashi Ichijounishi 7-1

A yakitori restaurant located in Ichijo-nishi, Iwamizawa City. This popular establishment can see numerous customers waiting out front for takeout orders when Mifune opens at 15:00 and can be entirely filled with reservations at night. Featured in the media in the past, the restaurant bustles with regulars day after day. The restaurant offers both regular cuts of meat and offal. The only flavor offered is shio (salt), revealing the chef's single-minded dedication to flavor. You'll be able to taste the freshness and quality of the ingredients used. The kakesoba noodle soup, made with the broth created by boiling offal, is a recommended way to end your meal. The Kashiwa-nabe chicken hot pot requires an advance reservation.

私は昔からの「三船」の大ファン！とにかく、「もつ」と「かけそば」が美味しい！岩見沢駅から出て、右へ歩いて１分。バスターミナルのすぐ横。予約した方が安心。
Sumiyakishoten Yo Namba

4.0

17 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Osaka Osakashi Chuou-ku Nambasennichimae 14-25 Hannan Building 1F

This is an izakaya in Chuo Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, a comfortable space with warm wood, handmade tables and sunken horigotatsu seats. Their focus is charcoal-cooked cuisine involving carefully cooking selected foodstuffs including fresh Yamato chicken, seafood from a direct contract market, and seasonal vegetables with Kishu binchotan charcoal. Popular options include the “yakitori-moriawase” (yakitori assortment), “momo-no-aburiyaki” (toasted chicken thigh) and nodoguro-urokoyaki (grilled black throat fish). The lunch menu with its rich variety of sake and casual “oyakodon” (chicken and egg on rice) dish is another customer favorite.

When I was researching my trip, I stumbled across a blog that recommended this restaurant and said that they offered “Japanese home-style dishes,” something that I was very curious about. I’m glad I...
Torihei Head Shop

4.0

8 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Kakudachou 9-10 (Shin Umeda esophagus street)

Founded in 1952, Torihei is a restaurant that has remained committed to providing first-class yakitori (grilled chicken or duck) for over 50 years. Torihei makes yakitori using its own traditional techniques, which include the use of Bincho-tan charcoal for grilling, and a special sauce that has remained the same since the restaurant first opened. The Yakitori, which is made by grilling the meat and skin of Aigamo ducks (a crossbreed between wild ducks and domestic ducks), achieves a perfect balance of the savory flavor of duck-meat and the pungent taste of onions. There are menu options to suit every budget. Torihei is located around six minutes' walk from the Hanshin Railway's Umeda Station.

残念です。火曜日の夜、ふらっと行けるお店を探していたら見つけたので入りました。焼き鳥は小さく、割に高い。味も残念。どんどん呼び込んでいましたが、客が来ないのかな？その予感は当たりました。再訪なしです。
FUNKY JUNK FULL CHICKEN

3.0

4 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Osaka Osakashi Chuou-ku Nambasennichimae 11-3

FUNKY JUNK FULL CHICKEN offers high-quality chicken which diners grill themselves using a clay charcoal grill, making for a unique dining experience; its vision is to be “a restaurant where the chicken tastes more delicious, and where you have more fun eating it.” Besides chicken grilled on a clay grill, the restaurant’s famous Furifuri Kaiten Chicken, which is grilled for one hour using a rotisserie machine, also has many customers coming back again for more. With very reasonable prices, FUNKY JUNK FULL CHICKEN is the ideal place for a meal with friends or for a party. The restaurant is located around five minutes’ walk from the Kintetsu Railway Nippombashi Station.

We stumbled upon a chicken bbq place when we were here in 2017 and no matter how hard we looked 2 weeks ago when we were here .. we couldn’t find it. We gave up. We’re back for a few nights as of...
Yakiton-ya Tayutayu Temma

Gourmet / Alcohol

Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Tenjimbashi 5-1-15 Ueda Building

This is the Tenma branch of this pork offal shop. They specialize in rare roast pork giblets. In addition to premium stomach lining, diaphragm, hanging tender and heart, windpipe, inner jaw meat and other rare parts that only this store can acquire fill the menu. They also have yukhoe (raw pork seasoned with various spices and sauces) and hisashi (pork sashimi), which you can only make with fresh pork. One of their popular menu items is their famous offal stew with thoroughly simmered pork offal.
Hammer Honten

Gourmet / Alcohol

Osaka Osakashi Chuou-ku Higashishinsaibashi 1-4-28

This yakitori chicken skewer restaurant located in Osaka's Nagahoribashi district is operated by Hamamoto of the manzai comedy group 10 Dollars. You can taste fresh chicken minced in the morning cooked yourself over a small charcoal grill with white charcoal. Starting with their famous taretsubo-yaki (skewers cooked then dipped in a sauce pot) with four kinds of skewers including chicken meatball, chicken neck, back giblets and hearts, and their highly popular salted diaphragm, they have other skewers such as pork belly using Japanese Chamiton pork and pork cheeks. They have items such as chicken tataki (briefly seared, marinated and seasoned with ginger) and a special salad with a soft-boiled egg, crispy noodles and Caesar dressing.
Yakitori Aburi Sumiyaki Odori (Yokohama Landmark Mirai Yokocho)

3.5

12 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kanagawa Pref. Yokohamashi Nishi-ku Minatomirai 2-2-1 Landmark Plaza Dockyard Garden B2F

This chicken-specialty restaurant is on the second underground Dockyard Garden floor of the Yokohama Landmark Tower in Minato Mirai, Nish ward, Yokohama City. Using local chickens and famous breeds from all over Japan, they offer up charcoal grilled yakitori skewers and all types of chicken dishes. Popular dishes include Yopparai Tori drunken chicken, made from chicken thigh marinated in shochu liquor, and the Wodori Mori, a huge portion of kara-age deep fried chicken.

鶏のメニューに非常なこだわりが感じる。すべて鶏に関するメニューで、他のものは何もない。値段はリーズナブルで、おいしい。