Creative Cuisine Spots in Japan

  • Kakizaemon
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    3.5
    22 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hiroshima Pref. Onomichishi Tsuchidou 2-9-20
    Kakizaemon is a restaurant run by one of Japan’s finest oyster producers. It is located in Tsuchido, Onomichi City, Hiroshima Prefecture. The restaurant boasts a range of dishes using the freshest seafood caught in the Seto Inland Sea, such as large, flavorsome Hiroshima oysters, sea bream, octopus, conger eel, rockfish and stonefish. Popular dishes include their hearty servings of deep-fried oysters and oven-baked oysters, as well as their seafood rice bowl lavishly topped with the finest white fish. Guests can enjoy a relaxing meal while listening to some jazz in this modern Japanese restaurant refurbished out of an old historical building.

    Walked along the waters to find this place just for its oysters - they have their own farm and factory so the oysters are guaranteed fresh and good! Didn’t disappoint at all. Strongly recommend going...

  • Nekkoya
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    4.0
    32 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Shimane Pref. Matsueshi Isemiyachou 542-6
    Nekkoya is an izakaya (Japanese-style pub) where guests can enjoy seasonal food from the San'in region including Lake Shinji. It is located along Ohashi River, about three minutes on foot from the north exit of Matsue Station. The warm, wooden interior of the pub with its spacious atrium type space has a very relaxed feel. The well loved and creative food on offer is a blend of both Western and Japanese tastes such as their deisui-shijimi, clams from Lake Shinji bathed in sake, and their dogi-no-ichiyaboshi (white fish salted and dried overnight), as well as their rich and juicy foie gras chawanmushi (steamed egg custard and other ingredients). Nekkoya is a relaxing place to have a meal while looking out over the river.

    駅に近く、大橋川沿いに美味しいランチが食べられるちょっとお洒落な居酒屋さんです。 開店前から並んだので、待ちはなく、キッチンを見下ろせる2階のテーブル席へ。大橋川を眺められるカウンターがあり、一人二人ならば一等席かもしれません。ランチは、メインが変わる、日替わり、月替わりランチが基本、これにグレードアップした料理長ごちそうランチ、あとのせ海鮮丼ランチなどの選択肢が揃っています。今回は月替りランチ...

  • Candle Taku Watanabe House
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    4.0
    12 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Okayama Pref. Kurashikishi Chuou 2-5-19
    Enjoy a chat by candlelight with seasonal food and drink at Candle Taku Watanabe House. Located in a renovated Taisho period storehouse, it has the feel of a traditional Japanese house drenched in candlelight. Their French-based set menu changes monthly. Reservations are required for dinner, so please get in touch in advance. The restaurant is a 13-minute walk from JR Kurashiki Station.

    アフタヌーンティー、シェフおまかせコースのメイン肉料理で予約しました。とても可愛い盛りつけでよかったです。たまたま案内された席が窓側だったので写真が撮れやすかった。キャンドルの雰囲気を味わいたいなら内側の席の方が良いかも。

  • Town's Schule 963
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    4.0
    14 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kagawa Pref. Takamatsushi Marugamemachi 13-3 Takamatsu Marugame-machi Yamanouchi Street East Street 2F
    This lifestyle select shop is located in Takamatsu Marugame Town Sanbangai Higashi Kan in Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture. The interior of the shop has a relaxing atmosphere that makes it feel like a natural setting. The shop is divided into zones such as the café, gallery, household goods, crafts, and foods zones. There are traditional art works and crafts, as well as products using local foods and Sikoku Kagawa specialty goods that have been selected by the female owner for sale. Visitors can place orders by phone for the café’s limited healthy lunches using Kagawa prefecture-made organic vegetables.

    小豆島の日本酒が買えるお店が有ります。 瀬戸内レモンのお店 ロロロッサの商品が買えます。 他にもファッション、レストラン等が有ります。

  • Akatsuki
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    4.5
    4 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tochigi Pref. Hagagunmashikomachi Mashiko 4231 Forest within Mashiko
    A creative cuisine restaurant located in the Forest Mashiko inn. The restaurant’s dishes are primarily made with seafood shipped direct from Hakodate and local vegetables. The fresh fish assortment is particularly popular. Akatsuki also offers over 15 varieties of sake as well as over 10 varieties of shochu. The staff at Akatsuki will recommend the perfect beverage to go with the season and the seasonal ingredients used to make your meal. The restaurant’s location adjoining Mashiko Prefectural Nature Park is also outstanding. At night, a star-filled sky stretches overhead, creating a charming atmosphere.

    Akasuki Restaurant is located on the grounds of the Forest Inn. If youre traveling to Mashiko, I recommend spending the night at the Forest Inn, too. We made reservations the week before we arrived...

  • Dinning & Gallery Mayugura
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    4.0
    13 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tokyo Oumeshi Nishiwakechou 3-127
    A creative cuisine restaurant located in Nishiwake, Ome City. Mayugura serves creative, nutritionally balanced dishes make use of seasonal ingredients with a focus on fresh vegetables. Try the Kurazen meal, which comes with aperitif, dessert, and multitier bento box, or the Mayuzen selection of small dishes and dessert; there’s also the vegetarian saishoku plate, curry, stew plates, and sweets.

    電話の対応も接客も最悪。 確かに薄味で身体には優しいのかもしれないけど、あの接客じゃ二度と行きません。 食の細い人、ご高齢の人なら、まぁまぁの味付け。 まゆぜん(2,000円)を食べましたが、デザートを頼んでも中々持って来ない。 駐車場は隣にあって2時間無料になるけど、混んでいてら過ぎた分は自分持ち。

  • Seibu Railways Restaurant Train – 52 Seats of Happiness
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Saitama Pref. Chichibushi Nosakamachi 1-16-15
    The Seibu Railways' 52 Seats of Happiness is a very popular restaurant where guests can enjoy brunch and dinner on the train which runs from Seibu-Chichibu to the center of Tokyo. Course meals are prepared according to the seasons and overseen by chefs from famous restaurants, and the interior décor has an especially relaxed feel of a tourist train with motifs of the natural scenery and valleys.
  • Jiroemu restaurant (Hyakusho Yashiki)
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    4.5
    6 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Chiba Pref. Minamibousoushi Yamana 2011
    Jiroemu (Hyakusho Yashiki) is a reservation-only restaurant located in Yamana, Minamiboso City. It serves cuisine made using rice and vegetables grown by the restaurant owners using organic methods, with no pesticides or chemical fertilizers used, and fertilized eggs from free-range chickens, etc. The menu includes four “Jiroemu Set Meals” that vary in price depending on the number of dishes included. Diners can enjoy meals that include miso soup made using miso from Jiroemu’s own malted rice, omelet made from fertilized eggs, and rice with a lustrous texture that has been cooked in a cauldron.

    始めて南房総に旅行に行ったときに、来店しました。完全予約制のレストランで、茅葺屋根の伝統ある民家で食事を楽しめます。こんにゃく、豆腐料理、卵料理、お漬物があり、特にショウガのお漬物は絶品でした。

  • Le risa
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Chiba Pref. Minamibousoushi Tomiurachoutadara 1054-1
    Le risa is popular for its natural goods and vegetable-loaded lunches, as well as for its healthy smoothies. They offer their so-called two-week lunch which changes every two weeks, but always features a healthy helping of fresh, colorful foods. Take-out is available for burgers and drinks, too.
  • Sachiya
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    3.5
    10 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukui Pref. Yoshidaguneiheijichou Kyouzen 41-53-1
    A gift shop and restaurant where you can enjoy creative tofu dishes, Sachiya is situated on a small hill, offering you a wide view of nature and the mountains surrounding Eiheiji Temple while you enjoy your meal. They offer healthy meals, with morning-squeezed soy milk, freshly-made tofu, sesame tofu, and in-season vegetables. The restaurant’s tofu, sides, and stock are available for purchase at the shop.

    店内は新しく、綺麗です。 豆腐づくしの5000円のコースを頂きました。 豆腐を色々な形で楽しませてくれようとする気持ちは伝わるのですが、あともうちょっとで美味しくなるだろう、残念な結果に終わっているお品も…。 お子様プレートも頼みましたが、こども向けのはずなのにドレッシングがかなり生姜が効いて、見た目も地味な色合いで少し残念。 全体的に値段と内容のバランスが取れていないと感じました。

  • Tsujike-Teien
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    4.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ishikawa Pref. Kanazawashi Teramachi 1-8-48
    A reservation only restaurant situated in a historic heritage site in Kanagawa. The restaurant building was once an extravagant reception hall built when Takatoshi Yokoyama, chief retainer of the Maeda clan in Kaga Domain, brought a gardener here from Kyoto to create a magnificent garden. Not long ago, this structure was renovated and reborn as a modern ryotei-style Japanese restaurant. The Gunjo room is limited to just two groups of diners per day, who get to enjoy the restaurant's vaunted kaiseki course cuisine. The restaurant is also available for use as a wedding hall, and services adhering to any given sect or religion many be conducted in the Japanese modern-style chapel in a corner of the garden. The restaurant has several reception halls and can customize events based on your plans and the number of people who will be in attendance.

    友人の結婚披露宴での利用でした。お料理はいずれも凝っていて美味しかったですが、何と言っても昔ながらのお屋敷をリノベーションした和洋折衷の建物が素晴らしかったです。岡の上という立地を活かした迷路のような造りは回遊していて楽しかったですし、窓が多く素敵なお庭が望めました。

  • Kajiya
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    5.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Naganoshi Matsushiromachi Matsushiro 955
    A creative Japanese cuisine restaurant located in Matsushiro-machi Matsushiro, Nagano City. The restaurant serves creative takes on Japanese cuisine made with seasonal vegetables and local Nagano ingredients such as Chiyo Genton pork, Shinshu salmon, and Shinshu maraena. The restaurant's diverse selection of dishes made with Chinese yams, a local specialty product, are particularly popular.

    メイン通りから1本中に入った所にあります。 「準備中」と掛札がかかっていましたが、折角なのでドアを開けると、最初は「予約のみなんです」と言われましたが、奥の料理人に掛け合ってくれて、中に通してもらいました。 (その後も2組、一見さんが入ってきましたか、、、) 夜はコースのみで、メニューは出されず、2500円から5000円(税別)で、500円刻み、一番出ているのは3000円か3500円、という説明を...

  • Budouya
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    4.5
    7 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aichi Pref. Chitagunminamichitachou Yamami Hashidume 59 Marine Chateau Yamami 102
    A creative cuisine restaurant located in Minamichita Town, Chita County, Aichi Prefecture. The restaurant is reservation only and serves monthly changing course meals made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Popular in part for its ocean view, the restaurant is frequented by many locals.

    知多では評判の良い創作料理のお店。 ランチで利用。 店内はこじんまりとしていて、満席だったのでちょっと密かなと感じました。アルコールは置いていました。 前菜、魚、肉付け合わせに地ものの山菜や野菜。パン、お蕎麦、ご飯もあり盛り沢山で、2900円はお値打ちだと思います。 前もって、食べられない食材を連絡すると ちゃんと対応してくださいました。 食事スペースの奥にパンやシフォンケーキの販売スペー...

  • Umaya No Sui Oita
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    4.0
    7 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Oita Oita-shi Kanamemachi 1-14 Amu Plaza Oita 4F

    出入り口、内装共に典型的なショッピングモール内のレストランですが、提供される食事は、盛り付けの見た目から味付けに至るまで丁寧に拵えられており、最後まで美味しく食事を楽しめるレストランです。それだけに休日の昼食の時間帯は非常に混雑する筆頭のレストランだと思います。一方で14:00以降であれば混雑も緩和され、スムーズに入店・注文することが出来ました。ボリュームもあり成人男性でも満腹感を味わえると思いま...

  • Ogata Farm Gonohe
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Sannohe-gun Gonohemachi Bakuromachi 18-1
  • Tanba Seasonal Vegetable Inakaya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Hyogo Tanba-shi Kaibaracho Kaibara 168-2
  • Bikyo-Shunsai Sanjo
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    3.5
    10 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukushima Yama-gun Inawashiromachi Mitsuwa
    An artisan restaurant founded in 1972. Set amidst the beautiful mountains, lakes, and scenery of Inawashiro, this restaurant maintains the traditional culinary culture of the region taking the utmost care with selecting and preparing ingredients to create meals that are pleasure for the eye as well as for the palate. Customers can savor seasonal ingredients and the abundance of the region in their freshest form. Three specially prepared lunches are available every season, each of them made with painstakingly chosen pork, chicken, fish, vegetables and buckwheat produced in Fukushima Prefecture. The three types of seasonal selective lunch sets, that are designed to provide a perfect balance of vitamins and minerals, are very popular.

    オープン前からすでに2組待っていて、人気のある店だなと思いました。 11:30開店のはずが、11:36を過ぎても開かず、また接客もイマイチだったので余り期待していませんでした。 しかし、注文したCランチは、味は勿論、見た目もオシャレで、期待を裏切っていて、大満足しました。コスパもグッドです。 誰かを連れて行きたい、と思えるレストランでした。

  • Rakunokura Chez tomo
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Saitama Koshigaya-shi Kita-koshigaya 2-33-9
    A creative French restaurant that uses seasonal ingredients with a focus on local organically grown vegetables. The restaurant and gallery occupy a building that was once the personal library of a family from Tsuruoka City, Yamagata Prefecture that made their fortune in the brewing trade. The library is recorded as being first constructed in 1880 but lay dormant for some time until it was moved and restored. The shop is popular for its special atmosphere and stylish cuisine.
  • Nanshuan
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    4.0
    2 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kagoshima Kagoshima-shi Chuocho 21-31
    This restaurant serves creative cuisine made with local ingredients of Satsuma. The restaurants interior is decorated with numerous historical materials from the late Edo period including a portrait Saigo Takamori and a reproduction photograph of Sakamoto Ryoma. The restaurant's sign even features the Shimazu cross, the family crest of the Shimazu Clan. Their menu includes meat dishes made with Satsuma Kurobuta pork as well as fish dishes made with silver-stripe round herring. The restaurant also has a selection of as local shochu including Mao. Their shio (salt-flavored) ramen is one of the area's best-kept secrets.

    夜は居酒屋さんになるようですが、行ったことはありません。ランチタイムの「塩豚骨ラーメン」をいただきました。スープは塩の味よりも豚骨の風味が勝って塩辛さがありません。麺は中太のモチモチした食感です。硬い目の麺が好きな自分には軟く感じました。チャーシューは角煮のような感じで甘めの味付けです。スープと良いバランスになっています。わかめ、コーン、ネギが入ってリーズナブルな価格設定です。この味なら飲んだ後の...

  • Tougura
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Wadomaricho Wadomari 3-7
    This creative cuisine restaurant is located a 15-minute drive from Okinoerabu Airport. The restaurant's owner personally participates in auctions each morning to stock fresh seafood caught that very day. The vegetables the restaurant uses are also almost exclusively from Okinoerabu Island, and the establishment even uses salt from Yoronjima and sugar from Kikaijima. The lunch-only Shokado Bento box meal is particularly popular and comes with sashimi, tempura, and fresh island vegetables.

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