Gourmet / Alcohol Spots in Tsukuba / Tsuchiura / Ushiku / Kashima Area

  • Hitachi beef cuisine Hitachino
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Pref. Tsukubashi Usui 2103-5 Tsukuba-yama style reed
    A restaurant operating out of an old thatched-roof Japanese home along the Kazekaeshi Pass on Mt. Tsukuba in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture. The building was moved here from the famous Shirakawa-go and engenders an elegant and relaxing atmosphere. The establishment serves top class marbled Hitachi beef, a brand name variety of Japanese black beef, served as steaks, sukiyaki with special sauce, and grilled over charcoal Japanese barbecue style. The restaurant also offers reasonably priced items such as lunch sets and Hitachi beef hitsumabushi, as well as Western-style dishes like beef stew and sirloin cutlets.
  • Kuradashi Kaitsuka, Kasumigaura Main Store
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    4.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Kasumigaura Owada Jizo Mae 517

    工場敷地内からの移転。毎年GW辺りに芋を買いにお邪魔していたが、2020年はコロナ禍で来られていなかったので12月、2021年は4月訪問でいつものペースに戻った。以前はプレハブで焼き芋の販売だけだったが、いまはカフェ営業もしている。 焼き芋はいつもの通り、自宅用の不揃いな芋たち。1.5kgの箱詰め1,100円の紅天使。初めてこの店で紅天使の焼き芋をいただいた時は衝撃的だった。冷たいままでも美味しい...

  • Boulangerie encuit
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    4.5
    6 Reviews
    Shopping
    Ibaraki Pref. Tsukubashi Inarimae 33-1
    A popular bread bakery located south from the JAXA Tsukuba Space Center on Prefectural Route 244 heading towards the Joban Expressway. In addition to standard Japanese shokupan bread and sweet buns, the bakery's diverse selection of over 60 bread varieties includes French bread, bagels, rusks, and tarts. The bakery's skilled owner, Hiroki Ogawa, worked at famous Tokyo hotels such as the Tokyo Prince Hotel and has won awards in numerous bakery competitions. Ogawa also likes a challenge, as is revealed by his choice to set up shop in Tsukuba City, a hotly contested market home to many delicious bakeries.

    味、コスパは、つくばでダントツ1位だと思います。特に食パンは、私の中では、乃が美より上です! ただ残念なことが1つ。本日行ったら、フランスパン?の上にハエがとまっていました。大したことはないですが、衛生面だけはしっかり管理してもらいたいです。

  • La Cote d’Azurl Main Shop
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Pref. Tsukubashi Higashiarai 19-26
    "A cake shop located at the Takezono 1-Chome Nishi intersection south of Tsukuba Station, the last stop on the Tsukuba Express. The shop is notable for its abundant variety of sweets. The shop carries cakes and other baked sweets, crepes, puddings, souffles, gelato, and Japanese sweets like daifuku (rice cakes stuffed with bean jam). One of the shop's staples is its ""Hanjuku Cheese,"" small cakes made with French cream cheese and fresh milk from cows raised at the foot of Mt. Tsukuba. There are also many natural parks in the area such as Takezono Park, making the shop a great place to stop by for a snack while enjoying a nature walk. In addition, the shop has free parking and is perfect for making a quick stop while exploring the local sightseeing destinations."
  • Numataya
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    4.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Tsukuba-shi Numata 1400-2
    A Japanese confectionery located on Prefectural Route 42 in Numata, Tsukuba City. Their Karinto Manju Buns are a local favorite made by wrapping koshi-an bean paste in dough containing brown sugar. Their Shiroku-no-Manju buns are inspired by Gama-no-Aburauri traditional street performances, a Mt. Tsukuba specialty.

    筑波山からの帰り道沿いにあった和菓子屋さん。かりんとう饅頭を買いました。黒糖饅頭を揚げたもので、やや大きめのカリントウの形をしています。熱々で美味しかったです。

  • TRATTORIA E PIZZERIA Amici
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    4.0
    61 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Tsukuba-shi Teshirogi 286-1

    Friendly staff, delicious pizza and a very good portion by Japan standards. Went here yesterday and my wife said we are definitely coming back to try the other pizzas. We also got a drink included...

  • Tsutsujigaoka Rest House
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Pref. Tsukubashi Tsukuba 1 Tsukuba mountain ropeway Tsutsujigaoka Station landing point
    "A rest house adjoining Mt. Tsukuba Ropeway Tsutsujigaoka Station. Inside, there's a restaurant area as well as a gift shop carrying local specialty products and souvenirs. One of the restaurant's features is its location, which offers a sweeping view of the Kanto Plain. The restaurant's popular array of local dishes include ""Fukure Shoyu Ramen,"" flavored with fragrant Fukure mikan mandarin oranges; and ""Tsukubadori Oyakodon"" chicken and egg over rice made with local Tsukubadori chicken. The restaurant also serves seasonal selections like the ""Aki no Mikaku-zen"" tastes of fall meal and the ""Tsukubadori Nabe Teishoku"" Tsukubadori chicken hot pot set meal. The restaurant's gift shop sells ""Tsukubasan Karinto Manju"" buns, an original souvenir offered nowhere else. Visitors can also buy soft serve ice cream or a yakimanju toasted bun to enjoy while waiting for the next ropeway car."
  • Bakery Couronne Tsukuba
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    4.5
    76 Reviews
    Shopping
    Ibaraki Pref. Tsukubashi Matsunoki 152-40
    This chain of bread bakeries is primarily located in southern Ibaraki Prefecture; this particular location is situated in Matsunoki, Tsukuba City. Outside, the bakery's exterior gives it a warm and inviting atmosphere; inside, visitors will find a large variety of breads. The establishment has a terrace seating area with 15 seats where, on sunny days, patrons can enjoy a baked good fresh out of the oven. The bakery's breads are basic made with great care using pure, safe, and healthy ingredients. The secret behind the great taste of the bakery's rye bread is its use of natural, homemade yeast levain. The bakery's abundant selection of goods includes Japanese shokupan bread, baguettes, and baked sweets, as well as seasonal items like stollen.

    It’s a gem of a place for foreigners looking for a good bakery, you can have a sumptuous brunch on a Sunday with unlimited tea/coffee. Definitely worth dropping by.

  • Shichino Tsuchiura Main Store
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Pref. Tsuchiurashi Tenomachi 60-3
    The main location of a dorayaki Japanese-style pancake sandwich shop which has been in business for over 60 years. The shop is situated on National Route 354 along the way to the Kasumigaura Bridge in Tsuchiura City, Ibaraki Prefecture. The shop's standard dorayaki consists of sweet adzuki beans from specially contracted farms mashed into a paste and enwrapped in two moist pancakes whose recipe is changed daily as appropriate to local humidity and temperature. Other dorayaki varieties include the highly popular chestnut dorayaki made with candied Japanese chestnuts, and the unusual and spicy curry dorayaki. The shop also sells a Kijo-no-matsu dorayaki made by image of pine trees in the Tsuchiura Castle and Hasu-dora dorayaki made with candied lotus seeds only offered here in Tsuchiura.
  • Renkonya
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    4.5
    11 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Pref. Ushikushi Kamiya 1-6-8
    A restaurant serving creative cuisine created by a chef who trained in Ginza and the United States located a 15-minute walk from the east exit of Ushiku Station on the JR Joban Line. The restaurant serves hasamiage lotus root fill-and-fry made with fresh, crisp lotus root from a specially contracted farm; sweet potato buns; and harihari nabe hotpot made with Mizuna greens and Shurei pork raised in Ibaraki Prefecture. Diners can also taste fresh fish personally stocked by the owner at the market served sashimi style and grilled with yuzu. The restaurant also offers a variety of courses for a girls night out, going away event, or other party.

    This is one of the famous place in this location. They use pretty fresh seasonal vegetables, raw fish and seasonal recommended Sake they surve. Food and sake matching is sofisticated.

  • Komatsuya
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    4.0
    13 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Pref. Tsuchiurashi Yamatomachi 5-3
    A boxed lunch shop selling eel and tsukudani foods boiled and preserved in soy sauce. Established in 1916, the shop is located a three-minute walk from the west exit of Tsuchiura Station on the JR Joban Line. The shop's kabayaki, made only with eel from trusted sources, is deep steamed and grilled by an experienced chef, resulting in meat that is plump, tender, and clean-tasting. In addition to kabayaki, the shop also offers Unaju (grilled eel and rice boxes) and bento box lunches, as well as anago (garden eel) bento box and chirashi sushi crafted with the skills of a long-standing eel cuisine purveyor. Other selections include Yawatamaki rolls made with burdock from Ibaraki and kimoyaki grilled liver, plus foods sold in sealed vacuum packs like tsukudani perfect for giving as a gift. The shop also has a space where customers can eat top quality, fresh-grilled Unaju during lunchtime.

    家族でうなぎをと土浦に遠征。 以前にも訪れたことのある小松屋さんへ。 特上、並をお願いし、じっと待つ。 この時間もまた良いのです。

  • Sobadokoro Komachian
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Pref. Tsuchiurashi Ono 491
    A soba noodle restaurant adjoining Komachi no Yakata located a 30-minute drive from Tsuchiura Station on the JR Joban Line in Ibaraki Prefecture. The restaurant's aromatic, slippery noodles are made by hand using local Hitachi Aki buckwheat. In addition to standard mori soba chilled noodles, the restaurant also offers soba with seasonal vegetable tempura, hot kake soba noodles in broth, and soba with mushrooms. At the adjoining Komachi no Yakata, visitors can learn about the local legend concerning the famous ancient poet Ono no Komachi, try making soba noodles themselves, and purchase farm-fresh produce.
  • Yoshoku Okawa
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    4.0
    17 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Pref. Tsuchiurashi Sakuramachi 3-11-14
    "A ""yoshoku"" Japanese-style Western food restaurant located not far from the west exit of Tsuchiura Station on the JR Joban Line. The restaurant's decor gives it a retro atmosphere. The establishment is so popular, it quickly becomes filled with customers after opening for lunch. The restaurant's demi-glace, the foundation of any ""yoshoku"" restaurant,"" is lovingly prepared over a full month. The ""Delux Lunch"" meal is particularly popular and comes with a juicy hamburg steak and plump deep fried, battered shrimp. The restaurant's simple omelet rice-a fluffy egg omelet served over ketchup rice-is also a customer favorite."

    Loved this place. The crab croquettes were creamy and tasty. The tonkatsu was well fried with crispy batter. The hamburger was juicy and not too salty.

  • Tsukuba Yabusoba
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    4.0
    4 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Pref. Tsukubashi Furuku 544-1
    "A soba noodle restaurant located an eight-minute drive from the Tsuchiura-kita interchange on the Joban Expressway. Here diners can enjoy Tokyo-style soba noodles lovingly prepared using select ingredients. The buckwheat flour the restaurant uses to make its noodles is specially ordered and has a faintly sweet and fragrance. Tsuyu dipping sauce is the foundation of any soba noodle restaurant, and this establishment offers two varieties-a strongly flavored karajiru sauce made with high grade katsuobushi (dried bonito) and natural konbu, and a more lightly flavored amajiru sauce made with a blend of standard katsuobushi (dried bonito) and dried top quality katsuobushi (dried bonito). The ""Hirame Tenzaru"" set, which includes crispy flounder tempura and chilled zaru soba noodles, is one of the restaurant's most popular menu selections."

    Ive been to this restaurant for 25 years. This is one of the best Soba restaurants in Tsukuba. Not only its Soba noodle is great but also their Tempura is wonderful as well.

  • Tenshi no Oyatsu
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    4.0
    5 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Pref. Ushikushi Chuou 5-11-3
    "A Western confectionary shop fun for children and adults located a three-minute walk from Ushiku Station on the JR Joban Line. The shop is dedicated to being a place where a child can come by themselves to purchase sweets. White walled, with large, floor-to-ceiling windows, the shop is bright and airy, and its many colorful, attractive sweets fill its display cases. The shop's ""Meromero Kumacchi, limited to just 50 children a day, and its illustrated cookies available in a variety of designs are particularly popular. The shop also offers an abundant array of other choice sweets like tarts made with domestically grown strawberries and ""Queen"" decorated cakes perfect for a special day."

    9月初旬、レジ袋有料になって初めてお店へ。ビニール袋は有料、保冷材は30分まで無料、保冷袋持参お勧めと入口にありました。「30分で大丈夫ですか?」と念を押されました。大きな保冷剤、保冷袋も積んで準備万端してたので大丈夫でした。今年はお誕生日は果物と言ってたので、予定外のケーキに孫も大喜びでした。甘さ程よいケーキで美味しかったです。

  • Fukuraiken
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    3.5
    5 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Pref. Tsuchiurashi Chuou 1-12-23
    "A Chinese restaurant located southwest of the ruins of Tsuchiura Castle. Known for its dishes made with Tsuchiura-grown lotus root, the restaurant serves lotus root ramen, lotus root tsukemen dipping noodles, and lotus root curry ramen. The restaurant's carefully crafted noodles are made with a unique three flour blend and are aged for more than a day. The restaurant also serves a variety of curry dishes, including ""Fukuraiken Zeppelin Curry Croquettes,"" which won the top prize in the C-1 Grand Prix creative dish division at the Tsuchiura Curry Festival."

    家庭的な感じで、地元の人に愛されているラーメン屋さん ボリューミーで、お値段お安く、また地元ならではのレンコンを 使った、メニューがあります。レンコンコロッケもおいしかったです。

  • Tsukubasan Enmusubi
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    4.0
    5 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Tsukuba-shi Tsukuba 1223-8

    ふっくらと握ってあり、海苔も風味があって美味しいです。 バイクラックもあり、サイクリングで立ち寄ってます。 前回、前々回とも風が強かったので、柵に風除けを設置してもらえると嬉しいです。

  • Pâtissier française ARLES
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Tsukuba-shi Sakura 3-1-8
    This western-style confectionery store is located along Prefectural Route 128, in 3-chome, Sakura, Tsukuba City. It sells 9 regular Macaron Parisian, which are made with the very popular almonds produced in the Italian island of Sicily, as well as amonthly-alternating special macaron. In addition to macarons, the store sells cakes, baked sweets, chocolate and other confections, and also accepts orders for custom-made cakes with designs such as character drawings (orders must be made at least 2 weeks in advance).
  • PALETTE..
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    4.5
    2 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Tsukuba-shi Ichinodai 120-8

    妻とランチで利用しました。お店の外観も店内も清潔感を感じる雰囲気でした。 ランチメニューから、ポーク肩ロースのポアレを注文。まずは、前菜のサラダがたっぷり。ポアレもレンコン、アスパラなどの野菜がたっぷりで、盛りつけもビューティフル! 同じく美しいデザートにコーヒーが付いて、おそらく東京の30%引きの価格でした。

  • Anbai International Cuisine
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    4.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ibaraki Tsukuba-shi Kangori 366-1
    A restaurant in Kangori, Tsukuba City serving creative international cuisine in a refurbished traditional minka house at the foot of Mt. Tsukuba. It specializes in Asian fare made with seasonal vegetables. At night they serve multi-course meals for groups of two or more, and at lunch they take private bookings for groups of five or more. They require reservations at least two days in advance.

    四周佈置及氣氛都很好,餐具也整齊乾淨沒有圬槽,容易找到位置,有禮貌,服務好,很友善,價錢合理,於上菜時都會跟顧客傾談幾句,親切友善,食物鮮甜爽口,選材好,好耐沒有食過甘好味

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Just a stone’s throw from Tokyo, Ibaraki is a coastal prefecture that has mastered juxtapositions, where old shrines meet new scientific discoveries and traditional gardens are frequented by the inventors of some of the newest technology. Head to Mito City's Kairakuen - one of Japan's Three Great Gardens - in spring to experience the cellestial blooming of fantastic cherry blossoms at the annual sakura festival.

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