Minami-Aizu

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• Ouchi-Juku Misawaya

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  131 Reviews

  Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunshimogoumachi Ouchi Yamamoto 26-1

  Misawaya, where visitors can eat handmade takato soba (leek soba), is famous as the place where their grated daikon radish soba is eaten using leeks instead of chopsticks. Since Masayuki Hoshina (Matsudaira) became lord of Aizu Domain in 1643, grated daikon radish soba has been called takato soba. As well as takato soba, visitors can also have kozuyu (a local soup) and tempura manju, traditional dishes usually served on auspicious occasions and ceremonial gatherings in Aizu.

• Aizu Kogen Takatsue Ski Resort

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  35 Reviews

  Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunminamiaidumachi Takatsuehara 535

  This is a ski resort on Takatsue Hara in the Aizu highlands. It boasts a spectacular panoramic view from the top and fine powder snow. There are various courses tailored to a range of levels from beginner to advanced including a family course which can be enjoyed safely with small children as well as a top hill course with a maximum inclination of 36 degrees. In addition there are facilities to enjoy after skiing such as a resort hotel overlooking the ski resort and a day hot spring “Shirakaba no yu.”

• Roadside Station Shimogo

  3.5

  34 Reviews

  Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunshimogoumachi Nagurasawa Koizumi 844-188

  A roadside station located in Shimogo Town, Minamiaizu County, Fukushima Prefecture. Here you can buy wood crafts and local specialty products. In the station's restaurant, you can enjoy handmade soba noodles created with high quality buckwheat flour or a rice bowl topped with Aizu jidori chicken. A perfect place to take a break, the station also has an observatory from which you can enjoy the vast, seasonal natural beauty of the Minamiaizu area.

• Honke Tamaya

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  18 Reviews

  Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunshimogoumachi Ouchi Yamamoto 3

  A soba noodle restaurant located in Shimogo Town, Minamiaizu County, Fukushima Prefecture. The restaurant operates out of an atmospheric old Japanese building over 400 years old with tatami mat seating, and diners here can enjoy negi soba (wedding soba), a local specialty dish in the Ouchi-juku area. The restaurant's soba noodles are made with Aizu-grown buckwheat, and people love their firm, chewy texture. The vegetables in the restaurant uses are also locally-grown. The restaurant's black rice kintsuba flour dough sweet bean cakes are also popular.

• Ouchi-juku

  Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunshimogoumachi Ouchi Yamamoto

  O-uchi-juku was designated an Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings in 1981. It was founded around 1640 as the third post station from Aizu Castle town in the 130 kilometer road connecting Aizu Castle and Imaichi, Nikko City in Tochigi Prefecture. The townscape remains as is, taking visitors back in time to the Edo period. There are also night tours available from the end of April to late November.

• Ajidokoro Minatoya

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  18 Reviews

  Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunshimogoumachi Ouchi Yamamoto 34

  This local cuisine restaurant is located in Ouchi-juku, roughly 15 minutes by car from Yunokami-Onsen Station. The building still has its straw thatched roof, for an olden times sensation you can feel in your skin. They are careful to use 100% specially grown soba for their juwari soba. “Ten zarusoba” with freshly made soba and homemade vegetable tempura is popular. Also, you can purchase “shingoro” —local dish of Minami Aizu—in front too. The half-polished rice is stuck on a skewer, coated with 10-year miso and then cooked on a charcoal grill—perfect food for walking and eating.

• Roadside Station Ban-ya

  3.5

  17 Reviews

  Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunminamiaidumachi Banquet 4

  A roadside station located in Minamiaizu Town, Minamiaizu County, Fukushima Prefecture. Located at the entranceway to the lush and expansive Oze area, the station sells local specialty products such as akakabu-zuke red turnip pickles and Alpine leeks. The station also has a restaurant area where you can eat juwari soba noodles made with buckwheat grown in the harsh temperature changes of the area, soba-kaki dumplings, and gyoza pot stickers made with Alpine leeks.

• Asanuma Shokudo

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  14 Reviews

  Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunshimogoumachi Ouchi Yamamoto 51

  A restaurant located in Shimogo Town, Minamiaizu County, Fukushima Prefecture. The thatched roof restaurant commands an excellent view of the Ouchi-juku district and here you can enjoy local Aizu cuisine. The restaurant is famous for its fresh char grilled over an irori sunken hearth, and handmade negi soba noodles eaten not with chopsticks but a negi Welsh onion.

• Roadside Station Tajima

  4.5

  12 Reviews

  Fukushima Pref. Minamiaidugunminamiaidumachi Itozawa Oga Numawara 3242 - 6

  A roadside station standing along National Route 121 in Minamiaizu Town, Minamiaizu County, Fukushima Prefecture. The station sells fresh, local, seasonal mountain and farm vegetables, local sakes, and a wide variety of other goods. You can enjoy asparagus soft serve ice cream in the light meal area. The station sees many local residents as well as tourists exploring the Oku-aizu area on foot.