Gourmet / Alcohol Spots in Nagano Area

  • Sonmin Shokudo
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    4.0
    189 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Kitasakugunkaruizawamachi Nagakura 2148
    This casual restaurant is close to Hoshino Onsen Tombo-no-Yu, a famous hot spring in Karuizawa Town, Kitasaku County, Nagano Prefecture. While enjoying the spacious environment surrounded by greenery, guests can enjoy set meals and a la carte items based on Japanese food that makes use of seasonal ingredients. The popular menu item is the Shinshu-no-Irodori-Gozen, which packs in plenty of Shinshu food’s appeal. There are many reasonably-priced items on the menu such as the Shinshu salmon rice bowl and soba (buckwheat noodles), and the restaurant can be used for a wide range of situations from lunch to dinner.

    As many have noted, this is a very popular restaurant in the Hoshino Area of Karuizawa. We went in at just past 11am, which is when they open, as their first customers that day. Ordered a lunch set...

  • Meijitei Komagane Main Store
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    4.0
    117 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Komaganeshi Akaho 898-6
    This is a particularly famous eatery serving Komagane specialty Sauce Katsudon (pork cutlet rice bowl with sauce) in Akaho, Komagane City, Nagano Prefecture. It is a satisfyingly voluminous rice bowl topped with sliced cabbage, juicy pork meat with a crispy coating, and an original fruity sauce in perfect harmony. It is a shop specialty that draws a large number of fans from far and wide. The menu is full of other options including set meals and seasonal fish dishes. The Donman pork cutlet & sauce sandwich is a popular takeout choice.

    ソースカツ丼で有名なお店。遅くまで混んでいました。シンプルなロースソースかつ丼を注文。衣はサクサクで、とても美味しかったです!ご飯は大盛にしましたが、かなりのボリュームでなんとか食べきりました。ソースカツ丼の草分け的なお店で、有名店です。駒ケ根に来たら、立ち寄りたい場所ですね!

  • Korobokkuru Hutte
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    4.5
    30 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano prefecture Suwa City Kirigamine championship shoulder
    This is a small mountain hut offering lodging on Mt. Kuruma in Kirigamine, Suwa City, Nagano Prefecture, and it provides a cafe service as well between the end of April to the end of November. The rooms all require prior booking. The cafe has a wooden deck terrace from which one can look out over the Mt. Kuruma wetlands while enjoying the fresh mountain air along with a light meal or sweets. Popular menu items include the limited cheesecake, special siphon coffee, and warm borscht. They also sell souvenirs and original goods.

    ボルシチが定番。テラスで景色を眺めながら食べると良い。車山のバイキングコース沿いにあるので、ランチにちょうど良い。ニッコウキスゲの時間は特に混み合う。夏の土日は無料の駐車場の収容台数は少ないので注意。

  • Uzuraya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Nagano-shi Togakushi 3229
    A veteran soba noodle restaurant that's revisiting the roots of Japanese food culture and continues to refine its ambition of being the best in the business. It's in an old-fashioned Japanese-style house near Togakushi Shrine Chusha's large torii gate. The shop recommends their chilled zaru soba noodles. Simple and unadorned, they embody the restaurant's values. Made with carefully selected ingredients by skilled craftsmen, the noodles are firm, fine, and have a full-bodied flavor. Their tempura has a light texture with the fragrant scent of sesame oil and people say it's worth eating there just to get some.
  • Kusakaru Kotsu Shiraito no Taki Store
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Kitasakugunkaruizawamachi Nagakura Mountain National Forest Inner Shiraito Falls
    This souvenir shop is located at the entrance to Shiraito Falls. They sell a wide variety of souvenirs such as food items including pickles and jam from Karuizawa, folk crafts and picture postcards. Many tourists visit to rest or eat since there are food booths where you can have udon (white flour noodles) or soba (buckwheat noodles) and outdoor benches. Their popular menus are handmade tofu made from the spring water from Shiraito Falls and soybeans from Nagano Prefecture, and salt-grilled white-spotted char.
  • PATISSERIE HIRANO
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    4.5
    23 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Iiyama-shi Iiyama 2228-3
    A Western confectionary shop which started as a Japanese confectionary shop when the original owner, a samurai from Iiyama Castle, started it. The shop's Hirano Roll cakes consist of a fine, moist sponge cake rolled around whipped cream made with condensed milk; customers love its delicate, melt-in-your-mouth flavor. The marble cheesecake, chocolat, and popular shortcake made according to a recipe unchanged since the shop opened its doors are also recommended.

    The patiserrie sells cakes and choux, as well as have a sit down area for eating coffee and cakes on premises. Cash Only. Pre-order for larger cakes recommened.

  • Villa d’Est Gardenfarm and Winery
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    4.5
    35 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Toumishi Kanou 6027
    This winery located in the Kano district of Nagano Prefecture, Tomi City was opened in 2004 by the celebrated essayist and painter Toyoo Tamamura. It also includes a café, shop, and gallery on the premises. More than 15,000 grape plants are being cultivated in the vineyards, and the wine brewed at the winery has earned itself high praise, having won at domestic wine competitions for example. The café with its open kitchen offers cuisines with a French base made using fresh-picked vegetables and Shinshu-produced ingredients. From the terrace seats one can enjoy an outstanding tea time while looking out at the beautiful sunset.

    5 minutes into the mountains of Tomi youll get to the small winery. The view looking down into the valley and the mountains across it tells you youre in the heart of Nagano. Nice botanical garden...

  • Mikuriya
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    4.5
    21 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Kitasakugunkaruizawamachi Hocchi 2127
    "This eatery is in Hotchi, Karuizawa Town. Their dishes include buckwheat soba noodles, and gozen Japanese-style meals sets like their ""Onigiri Gozen"" with fluffy rice cooked on their traditional aino kamado stove, ""Tororo-jiru Gozen"" with grated yam soup, and a Nagano-raised chicken gozen. They also serve breakfast until 10:30 a.m. with items like a raw egg and rice meal set."

    店の詳細のお支払に、クレジットカード利用可と、なっていますが、実際は、PayPayか現金のみです。他のグループ店(パン屋等)も、同様に、なっています。

  • Onihira Main Restaurant
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    4.0
    48 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Shimoinagunachimura Chisato 4405-1
    A soba restaurant located in Achi Village, Shimoina County. Here you can enjoy vaunted, flavorful soba noodles made from buckwheat flour ground from unhulled kernels using a stone mill. The unique, silky texture of the noodles and the flavor of the restaurant's original tsuyu dipping sauce has won it much popularity. The restaurant is also adjoined by a farm-fresh shop. The shop sells local vegetables, fruits, and processed foods and is a great place to find a souvenir.

    1月10日 三連休の中日に行ってきました。 忙しい時間帯に行ったからかもしれませんが、後から席に着いた人に先に提供されたり、なんかなぁという感じでした。特に蕎麦がいまいちで、みなさんの評判が良かったので、ちょっとがっかりでした。天婦羅はおいしかったです。

  • Sobanomi
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    4.5
    88 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Nagano-shi Togakushi 3510-25
    A soba noodle restaurant located close to Kotorigaike Pond along Prefectural Route 36. The restaurant crafts its noodles by hand with the utmost care, adjusting the recipe based on the current temperature and humidity and using flour home ground with a stone mill to maximize aroma. The restaurant also uses underground spring water from Mt. Togakushi and a variety of other ingredients from Togakushi. The restaurant's juwari soba noodles, made with 100% buckwheat flour, are limited to just a few customers each day. Other menu selections include cold zaru soba noodles, kake soba hot noodles in broth, and soba-gaki dumplings, as well as sweets like soba cheesecake.

    This soba restaurant uses local soba and changes the way to grind soba depending on air temperature and humidity. The owners commitment to making soba is excellent. The best part of this restaurant...

  • Bakery & Restaurant Sawamura Kyu-Karuizawa Branch
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    Nagano Pref. Kitasakugunkaruizawamachi Karuizawa 12-18
    At the Kyu-Karuizawa Branch of Bakery & Restaurant Sawamura you’ll find a bakery, cafe and restaurant. The store is a calm and spacious place covering two floors. The open terrace also has a large number of seats. Bread is made with carefully selected ingredients and appears from the oven in all sorts of fanciful shapes and flavors. The deliciously drawn out flavors and rich aroma is characteristic of the bread baked here. All day long, from morning through to dinner, you can enjoy wonderful food and tea. Morning opening times vary depending on the season so please check ahead.
  • Hoshino Resort Karuizawa Hotel Bleston Court Restaurant No One’s Recipe
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    5.0
    12 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Prefecture Kitasaku-gun Karuizawa Town Hoshino
    This restaurant is located inside Hotel Bleston Court in Hoshino, Karuizawa Town and is administered by the Hoshino Resort. Let the morning light from the Karuizawa highlands wash over you as you enjoy a breakfast made with seasonal vegetables. In addition to the main courses, they offer tapas-style appetizers on a buffet board as well as desserts, soups, salads, and drinks, offering a feast for the eyes. Those only stopping by for the day need to make a reservation in advance. They also host wedding parties.

    My hotel arranged reservations for breakfast one morning and it did not disappoint! The crepe was on point and they served a delicious calvados to top it off! The buffet was wonderful and had a...

  • Pyrenees
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    4.0
    83 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Prefecture Kitasaku-gun Karuizawa-cho 1181-8
    This restaurant is located in Karuizawa-machi, Kitasaku County, Nagano Prefecture. The interior reimagines a house in the Pyrenees, known as a treasure house of ingredients. It is characterized by its cooking fireplace. You can enjoy select Shinshu beef, appetizers using pesticide-free vegetables from local farmers and fireplace cooking. They offer many course meals for both lunch and dinner.

    A disgrace of a restaurant. We did not have a reservation and were told to wait 30 mins. We asked if we could have drinks while waiting and some arrogant person with limited English came out and...

  • Chikufudo Obuse Main Store
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    973 Obuse-cho, Kamakitai-gun, Nagano Prefecture
    This famous Japanese confection shop uses Japanese chestnuts, a local Obuse specialty, in place of the more common sweet red bean paste. The shop on the first floor sells delicious sweets such as kuri yokan (chestnut jelly blocks), kuri dorayaki (sponge cake with chestnut paste), and kuri kanoko (chestnut paste with molasses). In the second floor restaurant, diners can enjoy fresh-made sweets, rice with chestnuts, and traditional Shinshu (Nagano) cuisine. The restaurant’s parking lot is free for customers for the first two hours.
  • Kawakamian
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Kitasakugunkaruizawamachi Karuizawa 6-10
    This stylish and airy soba (buckwheat noodle) restaurant is located at the entrance to Karuizawa's Ginza shopping district. In addition to carefully prepared, homemade soba, the restaurant is also popular thanks to its tasteful selection of food and beverages as well as an abundant list of renown sake, and has fans throughout the country. Kawakamian's duck cuisine, with just the right amount of fat on the meat, is exquisite and brings many a repeat customer. Dining in the terrace seating in summer is recommended.
  • Maruyama Coffee (Harunire Terrace Shop)
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    4.0
    65 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Kitasaku-gun Karuizawamachi
    "Maruyama Coffee's fourth shop is located in the Harunire Terrace with its concept of ""everyday Karuizawa."" They use a metal filtered French press to extract the inherent goodness of the coffee. This lets you enjoy their high quality specialty coffee in Karuizawa's open air surrounded by its natural abundance. It is also the only Maruyama Coffee branch with an on-site bookstore, featuring carefully selected titles you can purchase on the spot. We also recommend grabbing a coffee to go and strolling around Harunire Terrace, which is on the Yukawa River."

    Stopped by after lunch at Harunireterrace. Place is simple but stylish with great choice of coffee beans. Coffee beans are quite expensive but you got 2 free drink with each purchase so it was a...

  • Kusabue Komoro Honten
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    4.0
    98 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Komoroshi Kojou 1-1-10
    Since its founding, this home-grower of soba in Asama foothills has been dedicated to local production-local consumption, as well as safety. It has been featured in a variety of media due to its efforts and delicious results. The soba is a 70% soba blend handed down since Hidehisa Sengoku, the first Lord of Shinshu Komoro clan. This percentage is said to be the best for health. The most highly rated dish would be the “walnut soba” eaten with a sauce meticulously ground from carefully-selected walnuts.

    美味しかったけど食べ終わったあと器から100円玉がでてきてびっくり!更に店員さんはお客さんが入れたんじゃないよね?の発言に追い討ちをかけるような酷いひと言!100円玉が入っていた蕎麦だけお代はいいです、と言われましたがお金払ってももう行きません、草笛さんのお蕎麦を食べたく遠方より来ているお客さんだっているということ、もう少し大事にしてほしい。

  • Kamikochi Imperial Hotel - Casual Dining Alpenrose
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    4.0
    57 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Matsumoto-shi Azumi Kamikochi Kamikochi Imperial Hotel
    This restaurant is inside the “Kamikochi Imperial Hotel” in Kamikochi, which opened in 1933. Both lunch and dinner feature Western-style a la carte options using Shinshu ingredients, and for dinner, you can also enjoy the “Alpenrose Dinner Course” and “Cheese Fondue Dinner.”

    12年前にバスツアーで来たときは3時間の自由時間でバスターミナルから明神池まで往復したので帝国ホテルには立ち寄っただけでした。今回もバスツアーで3時間の自由時間でしたが、ゆっくり帝国ホテルでお昼を食べることにしました。午後1時過ぎだったせいかコロナ禍のせいか席は空いていたのですぐに座れました。お昼の1プレートとしては良いお値段ですが、帝国ホテルだけあってとてもおいしかったです。

  • Komatsu Pan
    Shopping
    Nagano Pref. Matsumotoshi Ote 4-9-13
    "A long-standing bread bakery established in the Taisho period located in Ote, Matsumoto City. The bakery sells shokupan, sandwiches, and a variety of other bread goods, but its signature product is its ""gyunyu pan"" milk bread. Consisting of milk cream sandwiched between fluffy slices of bread, gyunyu pan is considered a local Nagano bread variety."
  • Sukitei
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Naganoshi Minaminaganotsumashina 112-1
    "This restaurant in Tsumashina Minaminagano, Nagano City specializes in beef-based cuisine. They serve dishes such as sukiyaki, shabu-shabu, steak, roast beef, and beef sushi (by reservation). All their cuisine features ""Apple Raised Shinshu Beef,"" Japanese black beef from cattle brought up on fermented feed with apple. In addition to regular seating, they also offer private rooms with tatami mat floor seating and larger halls. They provide course meals when reserved in advance."

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Nagano prefecture is an exciting mix of mountains, hot spring monkeys, and preserved Edo history. At the heart of the Japanese Alps, Nagano is one of the country’s most popular destinations, whether in winter for its snow sports and the much-loved Jigokudani Monkey Park or in the warmer months for discovering the undulating hills on foot. For fantastic Edo architecture, head to the Kiso Valley for a 60-kilometer stretch of quaint wooden buildings that marked the Nakasendo route 200 years ago.

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