Gourmet / Alcohol Spots in Aomori Area

  • Kayano Chaya (directly managed by Sakuyu Onsen)
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Aomori-shi
  • Onimen-an
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Aomori-shi
    "This local Sukayu Onsen eatery is famous for its homemade 100% buckwheat soba noodles. Other menu items include ""kake soba"" (soba noodle soup),""tororo soba"" (soba noodles topped with grated yam), soba topped with Sukayu Onsen hot springs egg, as well as ""mugitoro gohan"" (rice and barley topped with grated yam) and tempura rice bowl set meals. Their ""soba-cha"" pudding made with buckwheat tea is also very popular, and many guests order it to go with their meal. Because there is a limited supply, be sure to visit early for a chance to eat it."
  • Kanseido Honten
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    3.5
    2 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Aomori-shi Shinmachi 1-13-21
    A history-leaden confectionary shop established in 1891. The shop is famous for its Konbu Yokan kelp jelly, the establishment's signature product since it first opened its doors. This exquisite confection has won the honorary president's award, the highest honor, in a national confection and tourism exposition. Any number of the shop's other products are also recommended, including the firm Neri Yokan and blackcurrant Cassis Yokan jellies, as well as the confections made with Tsugaru apples.

    和菓子と洋菓子を置いていました。どら焼きをお土産に買おうと思って行ったのですが、平日の午後だったのに売り切れでした。

  • Nagai Kujira-mochi Shop
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Aomori-shi Asamushi Sakamoto 51-5
    "This mochi rice cake shop was established in 1907. Even now, Nagai's ""kujiramochi""is a beloved product of Asamushi. Crafted with care, without preservatives or additives, kujiramochi uses high-quality powdered Tsugaru rice, the finest koshi an and sugar, and is steamed to a light maroon color. It is recommended to cool in for about 30 minutes in the summer."
  • Restaurant Mori no Door
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    4.0
    6 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Nakatsugaru-gun Nishimeyamura Tashiro Kanda 219-1
    "Located at the southern foot of Mt. Iwaki, this is a restaurant known as the ""Water Source Village"" located in Nishimeya Village. It is attached to the newly-reopened Tsugaru Shirakami Roadside Station. While viewing the mountain scenery, you can enjoy Nishimeya local gourmet, Shirakami soba, and more. In addition to the recommended dishes like zaru soba and wild vegetable soba, be sure to try the local specialty Tsugaru Dam curry and popular Nome-ya Ramen."

    リニューアルオープンから半年経った日曜日に行きましたが、お昼時はお客さんがひっきりなしにきて、席が埋まっていました。名物のダムカレーは、サクサクのポークカツが入っていて、ルーの中にも柔らかい牛肉が入っていました。(レタスやブロッコリーはあるけど、比較的野菜は少なめ)量は女性にとっては、少し多めな気がしますが、甘口よりでお子さんも食べやすいと思います。

  • Shokuji-dokoro KAIKYO
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    3.5
    10 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Higashitsugaru-gun
    A 30-minute drive from Okutsugaru-Imabetsu Station. This Japanese seafood restaurant is located inside Hotel Tappi. Offering warm and inviting Japanese-style dining rooms and casual table seating, the restaurant is suitable for small groups and also offers a hall perfect for banquets. Customers can choose their seating based on the nature of their dining engagement and enjoy the fresh-caught delicacies of the sea off of Tsugaru to their heart's content. All the fish caught in the Tsugaru Strait is considered first class, with fat, firm meat. Particularly recommended is the hearty seafood rice bowl piled high with fresh seafood delights. The restaurant also offers an abundance of other a la carte dishes, such as sashimi and piping hot tobanyaki seafood roasted on a ceramic plate.

    二年ぶりの訪問でアワビとウニの丼を食べましたが以前に比べて具の量が明らかに減っています、そのせいがご飯が余りそうなのか、ご飯の量を少なめにできるとメニューに書いてあります、小鉢もサラダも以前はあったのに、今はありません。

  • FESANT
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    4.0
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Hachinohe-shi Samemachi
    Located along the coast of Hachinohe, this European-style restaurant has a refined, kominka (old houses) atmosphere. The menu includes many staples of Italian home cooking, with the seafood served there being all freshly caught in the waters off Hachinohe. The seafood pasta is especially popular, and our recommendations include the squid liver pasta, the abalone pasta in the winter and the sea urchin pasta in the summer. The restaurant's crunchy and aromatic pizza topped with Hachinohe's regional specialty of mackerel is another popular item for its subtle fish flavors.

    海に近く、雰囲気の良いレストランです。 ランチで利用しました。それなりのお値段ですが、自家製の燻製ベーコンのカルボナーラが未だに忘れられないくらい美味しかったです。デザートまでペロリと食べてしまいました。あとサバピザがお気に入りです。山椒をかけ自家製の味噌ソースをかけるのですがそれがまた絶品。いくと必ず頼みます。 天気がよく暖かければ外にもベンチなどがありゆっくりくつろげると思います。

  • Angélique Hirosaki Shop
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    4.0
    46 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Pref. Hirosakishi Noda 1-3-16
    This Western-style confectioner is located beside Kita-oh-dori Avenue along the east side of Hirosaki Castle. The showcase on the first floor exudes a bright feeling with white as a motif. In contrast, the second floor has an eat-in space, featuring a chic, grown-up atmosphere colored in black. Popular products include the apple pie, as one might expect from Aomori Prefecture—an apple paradise. The taste is great, and the volume has it hanging over the plate, so it’s known as a place where you get a good deal for the price.

    弘前といえばアップルパイ。「弘前アップルパイガイドマップ」(弘前観光コンベンション協会発行、A4...

  • Taisho Roman Tea Room
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Pref. Hirosakishi Kamishiroganechou 8-1
    This Western-style building standing in Fujita Memorial Garden was built as a villa for businessman Ken’ichi Fujita in 1921. The Taisho Roman Tea Room is a café operating out of the building’s spacious sunroom. Some of the café’s most popular menu items are its six varieties of apple pies, all of which are also offered at popular Western confectionaries in Hirosaki City. The café also offers drink sets with its pies and you can take your time to eat, compare, and find your favorite. Take a moment and relax while gazing out at the garden’s trees from the café’s windows.
  • Tochino Chaya
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    4.0
    17 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Pref. Towadashi Okuse Towadakohanyasumiya 486
    Tochino Chaya is located between Towada Shrine and the port for the Lake Towada cruise boat. Next to Lake Towada, it offers you a great view of this grand lake from the glass-walled corner. As for the menu, dishes that use natural kokanee and rainbow trout from Lake Towada are popular. You can taste them with sashimi, shioyaki (salt grilled fish), and tempura, together with local wild vegetables. They also have Inaniwa udon and Nanbu soba, so you can savor all the tastes of Aomori.

    Returning from the boat tour in Lake Towada, we walked to this restaurant for lunch. Located on the side of the lake, very near to the famous maiden statue from the sculptor Kotaro Takamura, it is...

  • Restaurant Yamazaki
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    4.0
    71 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Pref. Hirosakishi Oyakatamachi 41 Odagiri Building 1F
    Restaurant Yamazaki is a restaurant specializing in French cuisine, located to the east of Hirosaki-jo Otemon Road, between the Road and the Tsuchibuchi River. Visitors can enjoy a full-course meal featuring the “Kiseki no Ringo” (“Miracle Apple”) organic apple variety that was featured in the film “Kiseki no Ringo.” In particular, cold apple soup has become Restaurant Yamazaki’s signature dish. Restaurant Yamazaki has adopted a “slow food” approach that emphasizes the careful selection of ingredients; the Restaurant’s philosophy is to use ingredients sourced locally in Aomori Prefecture to provide diners with food that is delicious and healthy and that can be eaten with complete peace of mind.

    We chose to dine at this French restaurant in Hirosaki as it is reputed to be the best/one of the best. As it was cherry blossom season in Hirosaki, we could only lunch here during the second...

  • Hasshoku Ichiba-zushi
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Pref. Hachinoheshi Kawaragi Kansai 22-2 Eight-meal center Inside the kitchen stadium
    A conveyor belt sushi restaurant located in the Hasshoku Center market where some 60 sellers stand side by side in the city of Hachinohe. The restaurant takes great pride in serving stunningly fresh sushi made with seafood offered at the market brought in from Hachinohe Port and the surrounding seas. Making maximum use of its prime location in the market, many of the restaurant’s menu items are sold at very reasonable prices. Particularly recommended are the ika-zanmai, saba-zanmai, and aburi-zanmai sets, which let you eat and compare different varieties of squid, mackerel, and aburi-zushi broiled sushi, respectively. Order one and enjoy three different flavors on one plate!
  • Shichirinmura
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    4.5
    31 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Pref. Hachinoheshi Kawaragi Kansai 22-2 Eight meals center Yaboku market Within sushi
    A self-service style charcoal grilling corner located in the Hasshoku Center market where some 60 sellers stand side by side in the city of Hachinohe. One of the most popular activities for tourists is to take the seafood and meats purchased in Hasshoku Center and immediately grill and enjoy them at Shichirinmura. All of the sellers at the market also offer services such as dressing meats so you can easily grill them. Shichirinmura also conveniently sells sake and side dishes perfect for enjoying with your barbecue.

    八戸の八食センターにある食事処です。 八食センターの中のお店で海鮮などを自分で買って焼いて食べることができます。平日でも結構混みますので、時間に余裕を持って訪れるといいと思います。 ビールやご飯系などはカウンターで注文可能です。 大変おすすめできるお店です。

  • Tsugaru-ji Yasaburo Kajimachi Shop
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    4.5
    7 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Pref. Hirosakishi Kajimachi 23-2
    A restaurant with local cuisine, roughly five minutes on foot from Chuo-Hirosaki Station. It offers local cuisine made using the freshest vegetable and seafood ingredients from the Sea of Japan. Also, the dishes using Aomori’s local chicken variety—Aomori Shamorock—are quite popular.

    弘前公園の近くにある郷土料理やさんで、あまい大きくはありませんが1人でも入りやすいお店です。 他の店舗では味わえないものが食べられます。

  • Satonone Hibiki
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    4.0
    24 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Pref. Hirosakishi Dotemachi 126 Hirosaki Park Hotel 3F
    A local cuisine restaurant located along Prefectural Route 3 in Dote Town, Hirosaki City. Hibiki serves local kaiseki course cuisine making use of local ingredients as well as local Aomori sakes. In addition, one of the restaurant’s highlights is the live Tsugaru Shamisen music performances held on its stage from 7:00 p.m. most evenings. Coupled with the Tsugaru regional accents of the staff, you can get the full Tsugaru Aomori experience right here.

    レストラン形式で演者からの距離はありますが、もともと音量の大きい三味線なので十分楽しめました。またいろいろ郷土料理をリーズナブルな料金で楽しめました。

  • Hachinohe Yatai Village Miroku Yokocho
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Pref. Hachinoheshi Mikkamachi 25 - Wa town town 10
    Miroku Yokocho is a food stall, (or “yatai” in Japanese) village located between Mikka Town and Muika Town in Hachinohe City. The village is packed full of food stalls selling all sorts of food such as local cuisine, seafood, meat, oden, skewer grilled food, ramen, and western-style food. Miroku Yokocho gets its name from the fact that it runs through Mikka Town (“mi” meaning “three”) and Muika Town (“mui”, or “roku”, meaning “6”).
  • Shinshuya
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    3.0
    9 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Pref. Towadashi Okuse Towadakohanyasumiya 16-11
    Shinshuya is a souvenir shop and restaurant in Okuse Towadakohan Yasumiya, Towada City. The shop sells not only specialty products from Aomori but also from Iwate and Akita too. In the restaurant on the second floor with sweeping views over Lake Towada, guests can enjoy such delights as Towada beef steak, kokanee salmon, and Hinai-jidori chicken.

    もう10年も前になる。今回も湖畔の食堂で遅い昼食を摂った。2階から湖畔を眺めながらの食事ではあった。「B級グルメ」として名を馳せた物らしいが「Bの4乗級」の食べ物であった。(タマネギは美味しかった。)この「ばら焼き」タマネギばかりが,やけに目立つ。妻はきりたんぽの鍋をオーダーしていた。1階でお土産を物色し,車を駐めたまま「乙女の像」に向かう。

  • Suzuro Sweets Main Shop
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Pref. Hirosakishi Tashirochou 14-2
    This Japanese sweet shop is located in Tashiro-cho, Hirosaki City. It sells famous confections such as Suzuro with baked adzuki beans, Yukihimo, sweets molded from refined Japanese sugar and Hanakazashi, dried apple in jelly as well as seasonal confections. Visitors can try out the fresh sweets with matcha or sencha green tea in the tearoom.
  • Restaurant Porte Blanche
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    4.0
    13 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Pref. Hirosakishi Honchou 44-1
    Porte Blanche is a French restaurant in Honmachi, Hirosaki City. The restaurant serves authentic French cuisine using a range of ingredients from French produce to local ingredients such as apples and Aomori shamrock chicken. Guests can choose from a course meal off the menu or a la carte, with all dishes prepared by the chef trained in France.

    ランチのコース料理をいただきました。弘前に、こんな本格的な料理を出すお店があることにびっくりしました。とくに「りんごの冷たいクリームスープ」が印象深い味でした。

  • Nishimura
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    4.0
    33 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aomori Pref. Aomorishi Yasukata 1-1-40
    Nishimura is a local cuisine restaurant situated within the Aomori Tourist Information Center, ASPAM. Every day fresh food is prepared by master chefs using carefully selected seasonal ingredients to produce local cuisine which has been passed down for more than 30 years. Here guests can enjoy local sake and local dishes like grilled scallops with miso, and kenoshiru soup, as well as local seafood favorites and rice bowl set meals. The restaurant also caters for course meals with prior booking and set meals for large groups. Guests can also use the private rooms and tatami seating with views overlooking Aomori Bay.

    2泊3日の青森旅行で初日にランチのため訪問しました。事前に席を予約しておきました。入店すると賑やかな店内と反対側の静かなテーブル席があるほうに案内されました。窓際のテーブル席のため10階から青森港(陸奥湾)の景色も見えました。漁獲量日本2位の青森に来たのでメニューに[当店一番人気]と記載されている「つがる定食」と「お刺身定食」をオーダーしました。新鮮な魚介の郷土料理を堪能しました。

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Centuries-old stories of samurai at Kakunodate and the remains of millennia-old archaeological sites including the likes of Isedotai invite history buffs to delve into Aomori’s fascinating history. As the most northern prefecture on the Japanese mainland, Aomori enjoys a cooler climate, which makes it a welcome escape from the southern cities for combining castles, art galleries, and summer festivals with the great outdoors.

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