Spots in Oarai / Hitachi / Nakaminato Area

  • Kaizokusen Pirates
    Travel / Tourism
    Ibaraki Pref. Higashibarakigunoaraimachi Isohamachou 8253
    A sightseeing boat cruise operated by Oarai Shinsengumi which docks at the Oarai Town Fisheries Cooperative Wholesale Market in Oarai, Ibaraki Prefecture. Originally operated by Resort Outlet Oarai, after a change in the company which owns and operates it, the cruise began running again. The red and black tour boat, flying a pirate flag, leaves for a 30-minute round trip cruise on the Pacific Ocean from a dock close to Oarai Marine Tower. The exact course of the tour changes depending on circumstances, but tour-goers will get a sweeping view of Oarai from the sea. Seven tours are held every Sunday and on holidays.
  • Uoyasu
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    4.5
    19 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Pref. Nakaguntoukaimura Muramatsu 214-13
    "A Japanese seafood restaurant which has been in business for over 30 years located a two-minute walk from the ""Masaki Higashi"" bus stop on the bus leaving from Tokai Station on the Joban Line in Naka County, Ibaraki Prefecture. The restaurant serves sashimi, seafood rice bowls, kamani hotpots, and lovingly made using fresh, local seafood and tuna stocked each morning from the market by the owner. The restaurant also offers seasonal goosefish nabe hotpot and goosefish liver in ponzu sauce, as well as reservation-only kabutoyaki broiled tuna head. The restaurant carries several varieties of seasonal sakes and also has courses for parties and Buddhist memorial services."

    Restaurants in country sides are quite different from those in metropolitan cities. First. Their prices are cheap but it doesnt mean that the quality of food is bad. Actually it is sometimes better...

  • Furuhashitei
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    4.0
    5 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Pref. Higashibarakigunoaraimachi Isohamachou 8196
    An Italian restaurant located close to the Aqua World Ibaraki Prefectural Aquarium in Oarai Town, Higashiibaraki County, Ibaraki Prefecture. Diners can enjoy a relaxing meal in the restaurant's bright and warm interior decorated with paintings and antiques. The restaurant has no fixed menu, instead serving chef's choice courses which include pastas, red wine stews, and hors d'oeuvres made with Hitachi beef, local fish, and other ingredients stocked that day. Normally, children are not permitted in the restaurant, but the establishment has one family day each month.

    3年ぶりの規制なしのGW、川崎からロングドライブで大渋滞に悪戦苦闘しながら、ひたちなかの海浜公園に二人で出かけました。帰りに古橋亭でディナーを頂きました。お客は少なめでしたが、頂いたお任せの5000円コースは良い材料を丁寧に料理されているのが良くわかり、味や見た目も良くとてもおいしく頂きました。久々のコース料理、大満足です。

  • Hiraiso Beach
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Ibaraki Pref. Hitachinakashi Hiraisochou
    A small swimming beach enclosed by an embankment. The beach's waves are extremely gentle, and children and poor swimmers can enjoy playing in the ocean here in safety. A large, whale-shaped inflatable slide 2.5 meters tall, 15 meters wide, and weighing five tons floats in the center of the beach's harbor area. This popular slide serves as a symbol of the beach. During swimming season, there are beachside clubhouses, changing rooms, and heated showers available for visitors to use.
  • Ajinomise Takahashi
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    4.0
    17 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Pref. Higashibarakigunoaraimachi Isohamachou 884
    "A Japanese confectionary shop located on the Nagacho Shotengai shopping street in Oarai Town. The shop's popularity exploded after its ""Mitsu Dango,"" skewered triple dumplings which are a local Oarai favorite, were featured in a popular animated television series. Plump mitarashi-style flour dumplings covered with a special sauce and kinako toasted soybean flour, their novel texture combined with their familiar, old-fashioned flavor have long made them a favorite with locals. Customers can purchase a single skewer or sets of five or 10 skewers. Now that Oarai has become a mecca for anime fans, the shop also has anime-themed displays and sells merchandise as well."

    ランチがちょっと物足りなかったので、味の店 たかはしに寄りました。 ここは、5本300円のパックです。 自転車でなければパックで買うのですが一本でも売っているので二人で二本買いました。 暖かくてみたらしがほんと美味しいです。 上にきな粉をまぶしてあります。

  • Kiuchi Brewery Honten
    Shopping
    Ibaraki Pref. Nakashi Kounosu 1257
    "A long-standing brewery established in 1823 located a five-minute walk from Hitachi-Konosu Station on the JR Suigun Line. The brewery makes the Kikusakari refined sake, shochu, wine, liqueurs, and other alcoholic beverages. The grounds enclose the brewery's daiginjo storehouse, boiler room, koji production room, and other brewing facilities. There's also a shop where visitors can taste and purchase an abundant variety of alcoholic beverages, merchandise, and products while enwrapped in the brewery's distinctive atmosphere. The adjoining Nakaya restaurant serves handmade soba noodles, sake, and Hitachino Nest Beer inside a Taisho period storehouse. The restaurant's ""Sake Soba,"" juwari soba noodles made with just 100% buckwheat flour and, unusually, sake, are particularly popular."
  • Nakaminato Reverberatory Furnace Ruin
    Travel / Tourism
    Ibaraki Hitachinaka-shi Sakaecho 1-10
    A prefectural designated Historic Site in Shaka-machi, Hitachinaka City. It was built by Tokugawa Nariaki, the 9th head of the Mito Clan for the purpose of casting cannons. It was destroyed during the internal strife of the Tenguto Rebellion in 1864 but was restored in the early Showa period. It is also recognized as a Heritage of Industrial Modernization by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
  • Oarai Art Museum
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Ibaraki Higashiibaraki-gun Oaraimachi Isohama Machi 8249
    "This art museum is located along OaraiKaigan-dori, in Oaraimachi-Isohamacho, Higashi-Ibaraki County. In addition to the permanent display of watercolor paintings by the businessman and intellectual, Hideo Shibusawa, there are also exhibitions for crafts and photographs held in the museum. Visitors can also enjoy “Fukeisoga, Landscape Window Painting,"" which looks like a landscape painting through the framed large window glass facing the sea. ."
  • Okatei
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Higashiibaraki-gun Oaraimachi Isohama Machi 1202
  • Iso-ryori Sansui
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    4.0
    11 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Higashiibaraki-gun Oaraimachi Isohama Machi 8249-4
    A seafood restaurant on Oarai Kaigan-dori Street in Isohama-cho, Oarai Town, Higashiibaraki County. It offers panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean and serves sashimi meal sets, seafood rice bowls made with local seafood, and lots more. In winter, you can also enjoy goosefish, which sometimes can be found hanging in front of the store.

    大洗に行ってみまして、 那珂港のほうに抜ける道を行ってみると でっかすごる神社がありにけり 前にいった寿司屋は超行列だったので こちらに入ってみましたー 

  • Aqua World Oarai Food Court
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Higashiibaraki-gun Oaraimachi Isohama Machi 8252-3
    "A food court in the Aqua World Ibaraki Prefectural Oarai Aquarium in Isohama-cho, Oarai Town, Higashiibaraki County. Because it is located in a ""Fee-Free"" zone, there's no charge for admission. It has 10 restaurants offering fare such as sushi, curry, ramen noodles, and seafood rice bowls made with local ingredients. There are also two stores that sell marine products. The venue's terrace seating lets you dine while gazing at the Pacific Ocean."
  • Umi-no-gohanya Isogiku
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    2.0
    2 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Higashiibaraki-gun Oaraimachi Isohama Machi Higashi 8253-24
    A seafood restaurant on Sunbeach Street in Isohama-cho, Oarai Town, Higashiibaraki County. Run by a long-standing fish wholesaler that has been in business for over 100 years, the restaurant makes its cuisine with fresh seafood from Oarai. Reasonably priced fare includes rice bowls such astheir Special Kaisendon Seafood Rice Bowl featuring 15 kinds of seasonal seafood. They also have a la carte items and meals sets.

    連休に行きました。当日雪の予報でかーちゃんの店が臨時休業でしたが、県道沿いのこの店はやってました。似たような店が3件並んでますがその真ん中です。問屋の直営店なので刺身の鮮度はいいと思いました。サービスランチも1000円です。

  • JA Hitachi Farmer’s Market “Nijinonaka”
    Shopping
    Ibaraki Naka-gun Tokaimura Ishigamiuchijuku 1167-9
    This farmer's market is on Momiji-dori Street in Ishigamiuchijuku, Tokai Village, Naka County. They sell fresh vegetables harvested that morning as well as prepared items including tofu that they make at the facility. Ibaraki sells more dried sweet potato than anywhere in Japan, and the stand has a variety of them available from nearby producers.
  • Ibaraki Prefecture Mori no Culture Center
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Ibaraki Naka-shi To 4589
    A culture center in the Ibaraki Botanical Garden in To, Naka City. Conceived to promote the construction of wooden buildings, the entire structure is made from timber harvested in the prefecture. It has exhibits on forests, forestry, and wildlife, as well as wooden toys and playground equipment.
  • Kinokohakasekan
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Ibaraki Naka-shi To 4603
    A museum adjacent to the Ibaraki Botanical Garden in To, Naka City. They have eight display rooms with exhibits that teach about the ecology of various plant life such as mushrooms, lacquer trees, wild vegetables, and bamboo, as well as people's relationship to them. Visitors learn through panel displays, video, model displays, and more. They hold “Dr. Mushroom's Mini Courses” four times a year with programs including mushroom observation and hands-on traditional charcoal making.
  • ume cafe WAON
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Higashiibaraki-gun Oaraimachi Isohama Machi 546
  • Panzer Vor
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    4.5
    9 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Pref. Higashibarakigunoaraimachi Minatochuou 10

    ガルパンファンだけではなく、老若男女問わず人気のお店です! その理由は眺望にあると思います。展望台に上るのは有料なのですが、ちょっと下にあるここで食事をするなら無料で展望ビューがそれも食事をしながら楽しめます。 接客も皆さんフレンドリーですごく好感が持てます。呼び鈴が戦車の発砲音というのはガルパンファンにうれしいサービスです。うれしくて何度も押してしまいました。 料金はどれも1000円前後でガルパ...

  • Hamaguriya
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    5.0
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Pref. Hitachinakashi Ajigaurachou 552-24
    Hamaguriya is a restaurant specializing in clam cuisine and uses only Kashimanada coastal clams, rare amongst domestically produced clams. The shop has a stately looking interior and calm atmosphere. The clam course is recommended, however, due to the freshness of the clams raw clams and clam and sesame tofu are also popular. Enjoy the Kashimanada clams, the best in the country.

    5月にひたち海浜公園へ行った際にお昼ごはん選びでヒットしたので行ってみた所、最初は場所が見つからず隣のうどん屋さんで悩みましたが、隣にどう見ても一般住宅で有る事が分かり入店しましたが、予約で一杯との事で断念しました。 気を取り直し約一カ月後前日電話予約し無事ありつけました。 基本メニューはセットメニューと残り単品ですが、お勧めはセットメニューです。 珍しいハマグリの肝とか蒸しとかとにかくハマ...

  • Kuidoraku Sumiyoshi
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    4.0
    10 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Pref. Hitachinakashi Minatochuou 1-5-12
    Sumiyoshi is a restaurant where the monkfish hot pot and seashore cuisine are delicious and you can enjoy fresh fish from Nakaminato, monkfish as well as sumptuous soft shelled turtle. It may not be available depending on the weather but all the fish offered is superb, and the sashimi is also popular as well as the donburimono (rice bowl). Set course meals which are mainly sashimi and seafood hot pot as well as a banquet set course meal with a monkfish hot pot are also available.

    ひたちなか海浜鉄道湊線の那珂湊駅から徒歩7-8分、おさかな市場から徒歩5分くらいの店です。基本的には海鮮の店ですが、B級グルメ那珂湊焼そばの発祥の店としても知られています。 何度か行った事があり海鮮も焼そばもどちらもお薦めの店ですが、今回はランチで焼そば目当てで行きました。2年ぶりに行きましたが入口手前がスロープに変わっており、車椅子でもそのまま入店可になっていました。注文は現在はタブレットでの送...

  • NEWPORT HITACHINAKA FASHION CRUISE
    Leisure / Hobbies
    Ibaraki Pref. Hitachinakashi Shinkouchou 35
    Annexed to Joyful Honda mega home center, this shopping center is one of the largest in Japan. It houses around 100 stores, carrying trending fashion brands to furniture, household items, and more. The food court, based on a California design, bustles with local families while their kids enjoy the children’s space.

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