Japanese Food Spots in Niigata Area

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Niigata
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Category

Gourmet / Alcohol

Japanese Food

Sushi-Benkei (Niigata Pier Bandai Store)

4.0

278 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Bandaijima In 2-4 peers bandai

This popular kaiten-zushi restaurant sources all of its fish and rice from Sado. It is located in Pier Bandai, in Chuo Ward, Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture. The restaurant expertly selects fish freshly caught in the morning off the coast of Sado, and uses them that very same day. The many different types of sushi prepared by the chefs in front of their customers are a harmony of fresh fish and plump, glossy rice. For customers interested in the individual dishes, the salt-grilled blackthroat perch and assorted sashimi set are popular. There are both table seating and counter seats available, and the restaurant is very convenient for families and group.

This is my favourite sushi restaurant in Niigata. Though you ave to wait in line for a while( sometimes an hour), it’s worth waiting. You have 3 options of seating. Sushi counter when you are alone...
Tonjiru Tachibana

4.0

35 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nigata Pref. Myoukoushi Kurihara 2-3-10

Tonjiru Tachibana located on National Route 292 at 2 Chome, Kurihara, Myoko City is a specialty tonjiru (pork soup) restaurant. Its simple tonjiru made from pork, onions, tofu and white miso (soybean paste) features a mild sweetness while having a stew-like richness. It offers noodles such as tonjiru ramen noodles and tonjiru soba noodles as well as a tonjiru set meal served with Koshihikari rice produced in Yashiro.

Do you know TONJIRU? It is a Japanese soup made with pork and vegetables, flavored with miso! It’s definitely a soul food of Japan. A TONJIRU specialty restaurant ‘Tachibana’ serve exquisite...
Shunno Sankai Ryori Yururi

4.5

44 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nigata Pref. Murakamishi Shiomachi 4-5

Shunno Sankai Ryori Yururi on Prefectural Route 3 in Shiomachi Town, Murakami City is a Japanese cuisine restaurant. It is under the direct management of Nagatoku which processes and sells salmon products such as salted salmon, and situated next to the shop area of the head office. It offers soba noodles, salmon dishes such as a special harakodon as well as rice bowls and set meals using local seafood and Murakami beef. It also offers full-course meals in the evening.

日曜日の利用だったので、予約をしていきました。2回目の利用です。受付け、オーダー、会計のスタッフは皆、ソフトな対応が気持ちよかったですはらこ丼を食べましたが、とても美味しく、満足です。ソフトは北海道ソフトと書いてありましたが、滑らかででかつクリームっぽく濃厚でした。
Sekai Sushi

4.0

11 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Nuttarihigashi 4-8-34

This sushi restaurant is located in Chuo Ward, Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture. Customers to the restaurant can enjoy the famous rice and fish of Niigata. The restaurant is popular not only with locals, but also with tourists. The sushi that is the pride of the restaurant is made mainly with seasonal fish, Nanban shrimp, blackthroat seaperch, squid, mackerel and horse mackerel. The Niigata local cuisine, called Noppe, is also well-liked. The restaurant’s most popular menu item is the incredible “Niigata Sushi Zanmai Kiwami,” which comes with 10 nigiri-zushi and bowls of side dishes.

新潟駅より徒歩15分。昼時に予約し入店、「新潟すし極みにぎり」を注文。朱の品のある盆に旬のネタが10貫が並び見とれてしまいました。お気に入りは、大きめののどぐろ、軽く炙られ旨味が際立ち絶品。甘味が濃いズワイ。南蛮海老の旨味が口に広がります。雲丹の旨味たまりません。次回は夜にじっくりおじゃまさせていただきます。ごちそうさまです。
Tonkatsu Taro

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Furumachidori 6-973

This restaurant located in Chuo Ward, Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture, specializing in tonkatsu (breaded, deep-fried pork cutlet) was founded in the early Showa period and is famous for being the birthplace of the Niigata specialty tarekatsu-don. They continued to open many more branches and franchises while safeguarding the unique taste created on the food stall where it all began. The tarekatsu-don with five thinly cut, tender pork cutlets dipped in a sweet soy-sauce based tare, or sauce, and combined with a piping hot bowl of rice, is a unique Niigata taste popular with many people outside of the prefecture. Upstairs you’ll find seating at tables while downstairs it’s all at the counter, making it an easy place to grab some food even when you’re by yourself.
Umi no Sachi Ajidokoro Gunchan Naoetsu Restaurant

4.0

42 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Joetsu-shi Nishihoncho 1-14-2

A casual izakaya pub just a five-minute walk from Naoetsu Station. Enjoy the flavors of Niigata in a lively atmosphere reminiscent of a sushi restaurant. Enjoy the seasonal local seafood flavors caught from the Sea of Japan right nearby. Come taste the changing seasonal seafood cuisine that varies as they deal only in whatever they can source from what's caught. Their menu includes a wide variety of dishes including assorted sashimi, grilled fish, poached fish, and fried fish and no matter how many times you visit there will always be something new to try. They also offer rice bowls and local sake made with their own home-grown rice.

Had a great lunch during a visit to Joetsu. As English speakers the staff were very helpful assisting us with our selections. Food was fantastic, small venue but well appointed.
Tonkatsu Masachan Nuttari Main Restaurant

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Nuttarihigashi 5-12-1

Tonkatsu Masachan Nuttari Main Restaurant on Prefectural Route 464, in Nuttari-Higashi, Chuo Ward, Niigata City is a pork cutlet restaurant. The hallmark menu item is Niigata tarekatsudon, a Niigata-style rice bowl in which pork cutlets marinated in a secret sauce handed down over the generations are on top of the rice. It also offers a three flavors of Niigata unmemon set meal in which a pork cutlet rice bowl is combined with noppe soup and sasadango ice cream.
Wappameshi Inakaya Niigata Furumachi Main Shop

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nigata Pref. Nigatashi Chuou-ku Furumachidori Kyubanchou 1457

This Japanese restaurant is located in Chuo Ward, Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture and is said to be the birthplace of “Wappameshi” rice, one of Niigata’s signature dishes. The restaurant founder conceived of the dish with Kitaoji Rosanjin. It involves bending a thin piece of cedar to create a “wappa” container, into which is placed rice boiled in soup stock, seasonal seafood, and other ingredients. The “sake oyako” dish, made with Murakami-produced salmon and salmon roe, is quite popular. There’s also “noppe (soup with fried tofu and other ingredients),” tender Namban shrimp, oysters, and other types of Niigata cuisine, not to mention a great lineup of local brews.
Sushi Chozaburo

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nigata Pref. Sadoshi Nibo 81-4

Sushi Chozaburo located on Prefectural Route 81 in Niibo, Sado City is a sushi restaurant. It offers sushi using seafood from the Japan Sea, set meals, and rice bowls as well as ramen noodles. A new local Sado gourmet dish, Sado Tennen Buri Katsudon for which natural Japanese amberjack from Sado is coated with local rice flour and marinated in soy based sauce using stock from flying fish and topped on Sado rice is also served in season.
Horinouchi Yanaba

4.0

5 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nigata Pref. Uonumashi Negoya 726-1

This restaurant, located a one-minute drive from the Horinouchi Interchange in Uonuma City, Niigata Prefecture, primarily serves river fish. Featured in various television programs in Japan, it is visited by many famous people. From April to December when it is open, customers can enjoy ayu set meals. The restaurant has private rooms as well as table and chair seating. The restaurant's entranceway is level with the ground, making it easy for senior citizens to enter. In addition to ayu broiled with salt, other recommendations include the springtime Japanese salmon; the always-available rainbow trout, char, and carp sashimi; and the tender kanroni sweet glazed fish. Note that the restaurant is not open in the evening.

美味しかったです！次回もまた食べに行きたいと思います！堀之内やな場さんへ行くことが出来ました！食べ仲間のお誘い受けての初訪問！堀之内インターからすぐの所にあります。とても雰囲気の良い店内へ！店内からも良い風景が見えて良い景色でした！そして、お料理とご対面！見るからに美味しそうなお料理です！炭火焼きのあゆ塩焼き！炭火焼きのにじマス塩焼き！こいのあらい！甘露煮と...
Seaside Isogai

4.0

1 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Nigata Pref. Itoigawashi Touzaki 1-1

Located along National Route 8 in the city of Itoigawa in Niigata Prefecture, Seaside Isogai is a seafood restaurant owned and operated by Isogai Seafood Shop. Its specials, which make use of fresh seafood caught in the nearby Japan Sea, change daily and are available only in limited quantities. Diners can enjoy fried seafood dinners or sashimi dinners featuring seasonal local fish, such as fire-tail devil and spiny red gurnard. Rice dishes with generous helpings of red snow crab from just down the coast at Nou and a three-colored rice dish with sea urchin are also available. In addition, group use such as banquets and memorial services is also accepted.

さすが、魚屋さん！具だくさんの海鮮丼！お手頃価格。テーブルにクイズの紙があって、正解者の中から抽選で商品券が当たる。1ヶ月後、2千円の商品券が届いた！磯貝鮮魚店で美味しいお魚を買いました！
Kinpuku

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Sado-shi Aikawa 2-9

A well-known kushiyaki grilled bamboo skewer restaurant which serves food so tasty, people are willing to cross an ocean to enjoy it. In this bar-like establishment, lit by indirect lighting, you can eat authentic charcoal fire-grilled kushiyaki skewers. Only counter seating is available and no reservations are accepted whatsoever. Aikawa’s most popular dining establishment, it is always filled with customers despite the fact you won’t know whether you’ll be able to get in that day until you go. In addition to standards such as regular meat cuts, gizzards, and cartilage, many locals come here to enjoy the novel special daily skewers. Also great is the restaurant’s large selection of beers and Sado sakes, as well as wines, which go surprisingly well with kushiyaki.
SADO Futatsugame View Hotel Restaurant Sunset

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Sado-shi Washizaki 1116-2

A restaurant adjoining the Sado Futatsugame View Hotel, a resorthotel standing on the northernmost tip of Sado. Identifiable by its red, triangular roof, inside customers can enjoy fresh seafood just brought in at Washizaki Fishing Port. Customers rave that here, you can enjoy all the delights that the delicacy treasure trove of Sado has to offer, including Koshihikari rice certified to have been grown without harming the Japanese crested ibises which make their habitat in the area, plump seafood, local shiokara fermented squid paste, and Sado wakame seaweed. The restaurant’s large windows command a view of Sado’s picturesque Futatsukame, and many customers who come here try to get a window seat.
Miyoya

5.0

3 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Santo-gun Izumozaki Machi Hagurocho 101-1

A Japanese kappo cuisine restaurant and inn operating out of a two-story building adorned with two plaster angels and characters spelling the establishment’s name. Here you can stay in a room commanding a view of the Sea of Japan just outside. The establishment is also renowned as one of the leading restaurants in the prefecture, and customers rave about the outstanding seafood, bought fresh from Izumozaki Fishing Port just a stone’s throw away. The restaurant serves food from the Sea of Japan prepared with as little manipulation as possible in order to draw out the innate flavors of the high quality, fresh ingredients. The establishment’s eastern facade, facing the Hokkoku Highway, is 37 square meters in area and is a registered Tangible Cultural Property. The establishment two-story structure is capped by a tiled, gabled roof and is acclaimed as an excellent example of Western-style architecture prevalent between the late Meiji period and the Taisho period.

食事は旬の魚料理が食べられ、部屋は三人で泊まるには十分の広さでくつろげます。日本海を眺められる、景色もオススメです。
Ryori-ya Kurofune

4.0

3 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Joetsu-shi Koyasu 1195

An authentic Japanese restaurant in a residential area off the Joshin Bypass. Guests dine on contemporary kaiseki banquet cuisine among chic, dark toned decor. Their creative dishes add Western and Chinese-style arrangements to Japanese fare featuring regional, seasonal ingredients. Their ample lunch menu includes Shinshu soba noodles, sashimi sets, tempura sets, stone cooked wagyu beef sets, etc. Everything they serve is made with great care and is a feast for the eyes. The restaurant is decorated with a Taisho period pendulum clock, pottery, antiques, and more. Lots of people drop by for drinks at night.

落ち着いた店内でとても良い雰囲気を出しています。ランチタイムに行きましたが、料理が美味しく、特に刺身が美味しい。
Sennari

3.0

1 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Joetsu-shi Koyasu 1363

This Japanese restaurant is so popular with locals, ask about where to get good kamameshi rice dishes in Echigo and its name is sure to come up. Situated on a corner of the Koyasu apartment complex intersection close to Niigata Prefectural Central Hospital, here customers can enjoy piping hot kamameshi. The restaurant notably uses salts as the base flavor for its kamameshi instead of soy sauce. The resulting kamameshi is simple and thus conversely allows the innate flavors of the ingredients used to make it shine through. The restaurant makes its kamameshi to order, and on weekends it fills up with customers practically instantaneously. In addition to kamameshi, the restaurant also serves eel and chicken dishes as well as tempura and donburi rice bowls.

接客も丁寧で釜めしが有名なお店。完全に好みだけど、少しお出汁の味が濃いかな。定食はコースの様に色々ついててお値打ち。いつも食べ過ぎて単品にしておけばよかったと後悔する。定食のいか天と西瓜の食べ合わせは毎度気になる。一度も大変な目にあったことはないんだけどねー。
Kotobuki-zushi Uchino Restaurant

3.5

3 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Niigata-shi Nishi-ku Makio 22-1

This conveyor belt sushi chain which refuses to be “just” a conveyor belt sushi restaurant takes great pride in the freshness of its sushi. Seeking to deliver to its customers the freshest seafood possible, the chain is headquartered in the Niigata Central Wholesale Market. Here in the Uchino branch, you can enjoy seafood purchased that very day at the auctions held at 5 a. m. in front of the chain’s headquarters. The restaurant’s spectacular tuna butchering shows, held every Saturday evening, entrance children and adults alike. Also great is that you can eat kamatoro, fatty tuna from around the collar bone which can only be gathered in very small amounts from any one fish, at reasonable prices.

回転すしではありますが、非常にクオリティが高いお寿司を提供するお店です。毎週土曜日夕方六時半頃よりマグロの解体ショーをやっています。
Sasakawa Nagare Jizakana Dokoro Tenpiya

4.0

3 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Murakami-shi Kuwagawa 975-44

A restaurant adjoining the waiting room for the Sasagawa Nagare Steamship. Here customers can enjoy choice dishes made with fresh seafood from the local Kuwakawa Fishing Port and produce from local farms. The popular and hearty Sasagawa Nagare Onigiri Set comes with onigiri rice balls made with Niigata-grown Koshihikari rice and salt from the Sasagawa Nagare coast, sun dried local fish, and seasonal sides. Diners are recommended to eat on the second floor where they can enjoy their meal along with a view of fish being dried in the area. The establishment also serves rich, cream Iwagaki oysters and plump broiled squid.

民宿の主人から聞いて訪ねた。レストランが併設されていて焼きたての魚介なども食べられるが、お目当ては干物。開店前についてしまい少し待ったが、普通の店では売っていない地魚も含め、見るからに美味しそうな干物がずらり。ワンパック500円、小ぶりだが山盛りにパックされている。カナガシラと小鯛とハタハタを買い求めた。店内の冷蔵ケースに、期間限定のモズクがあり、店の人に美味しいよと勧められこれも購入。自宅に帰っ...
Yoshigen

4.5

2 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Murakami-shi Teramachi 4-18

This long-standing Japanese kappo cuisine restaurant has been in business for over 180 years, since the late Edo period. Here you can enjoy the bounties of Murakami’s land and sea, including salmon and Murakami beef. Both the lunch and dinner menu consist exclusively of course meals. The full salmon course and toubanyaki Murakami beef course each come with over 10 dishes. The restaurant is reservation-only, with the exact contents of your meal being determined based on your preferences and budget. The establishment is replete with tatami mat rooms of varying sizes and can accommodate everything from individual diners to large groups and can be used for engagement ceremonies, Buddhist memorials, and all manner of engagements. The restaurant’s stately Japanese building bears walls and ceilings crafted by master artisans, and windows made with old glass, and the structure has been registered a National Tangible Cultural Property.

雰囲気、味、空間、サービス、価格、全て満足です。季節料理コース5500円、席、デザート、ビールで1人8000円強。現金のみ、が、少し残念。広いお部屋で、贅沢なひと時をすごせました。駐車場もかなり広いです
Shiosai

3.5

4 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Niigata Nagaoka-shi Teradomari Shimo Aramachi 9772-35

A restaurant on the second floor of the Teradomari Hamayaki Center situated along the Teradomari Fish Market Street, also known as the “Ameyoko of Fish.” Here you can enjoy the same fresh-caught fish sold in the market, which is visited by 5,000 tourists a day on average. The only establishment in the Teradomari Fish Market Street which has its own fish preserve for crabs, many customers find themselves unconsciously stopping to look at the large snow crabs shipped straight to the restaurant each day. The fresh-boiled crab served inside is not only outstandingly tasty, it’s perfectly cooked as well. The establishment is also located close to a tourist bus parking area, ensuring it bustles with customers no matter the season.

寺泊内にある鮮魚のお店です。お刺身がとってもおいしいです。また、以前食べたかに丼は本当に絶品でした。

Niigata

Murakami / Shibata Niigata / Aga Yahiko / Sanjo Nagaoka Yuzawa / Uonuma Myoko / Joetsu Sado

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Sushi / Conveyor Belt Sushi Kaiseki/Kappo Traditional Japanese Cuisine Eel Yakitori Grilled Chicken / Chicken Dishes Charcoal/Fireside/Teppan Grilling Okonomiyaki / Monjayaki / Takoyaki Tonkatsu Pork Cutlets Tempura Kushiage/Kushikatsu Fried Skewer Cuisine Crab / Blowfish / Seafood Sukiyaki / Shabu-shabu Hot Pot Cuisine / Oden Hot Pot Creative Cuisine Local Cuisine Kyoto Cuisine Okinawan Cuisine Gyutan Beef Tongue Other Japanese Food

Niigata Areas

Found along the northwestern coast of Japan, Niigata prefecture is celebrated for its high-quality rice and breathtaking nature, most notably its spectacular mountains, whose white peaks draw in snow sports lovers from far and wide over the winter months. Hit the slopes at Yuzawa, pick out your favourite modern artist at Echigo Tsumari, or take a ferry over to Sado Island for an extra adventure.