Japanese Food Spots in Gifu Area

  • Maruhachi Shokudo
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    3.0
    9 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Geroshi Mimayano 139
    This restaurant sells “Keichan”, a local specialty of Gifu Prefecture. It is located close to National Route 257 heading for Butai Pass. Keichan is seasoned chicken grilled with cabbage and other vegetables, and is said to have originated from Jingisukan (grilled mutton) cuisine. Their most popular menu item is the “Keichan set” that has a traditional taste going back more than 50 years. Cooking it yourself is what makes it distinctive, and there is also a detailed manual for first-timers. The rich chicken flavor goes well with rice and also great as a snack with sake. The store is very popular with locals as well as tourists.

    下呂温泉からは少し離れてるけどまた戻りました とても美味しかったです 服に匂いがつくかも 焼肉屋と同じ感じでおしゃれしていかないほうが良いです マイエプロン持参か 沢山お客さんが来てました

  • Nagarahonke Bakuroichidai
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Gifushi Yashiro 2-7-10
    This restaurant specializing in Hida beef, the most historic location of this nationwide chain, offers Saitobi beef, which is superior even to A5-grade beef. We recommend their course meals, as well as their lunches, which let you choose from one of three Hida beef main dishes: classic chargrilled barbeque, ultimate shabu-shabu (Japanese hot pot), and traditional sukiyaki. Whether it’s their fresh homemade tofu, their Okuminokojidori chicken, which gets more savory with every bite, or their locally-grown vegetables, the restaurant pays great attention to all of their ingredients, not just their beef. You’re sure to enjoy the restaurant’s relaxed atmosphere, created in part by the torch near the entrance.
  • Kyoya restaurant
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    4.5
    403 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Oushinmachi 1-77
    Kyoya is a restaurant in Takayama City, Gifu Prefecture that offers delicious local cuisine made using Hida beef and other local ingredients, as well as seasonal delicacies. Kyoya is located in a traditional house that was specially relocated to the site from the Echigo (Niigata) region, giving it a fascinating retro-style ambience; as diners pass through the entrance curtain, they are greeted with the sight of huge beams that create a friendly, welcoming space. Seated around Irori (hearths constructed in the floor), diners can enjoy steak or sukiyaki made from high-quality Hida beef, Shabu-shabu hotpot, a wide range of other top-notch dishes, and local Sake brands. Kyoya is also a convenient place to drop in for lunch, with a lunch menu featuring a wide range of set meals such as “Hida Takayama Go-zen (Gourmet) Meal” and “Hida Beef Yakishabu (thinly-sliced beef marinated in a delicious sauce) Set Meal.” Kyoya is situated around 15 minutes’ walk from Takayama Station on the JR Takayama Line.

    Our sons ate here years ago and encouraged us to give it a try. We are so glad we did! The beef was amazing, the interior authentic and the staff friendly. My 200g A5 steak was the best dish I ate...

  • Irori restaurant
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    4.0
    77 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Onogunshirakawamura Ogimachi 374-1
    Irori is a restaurant in a traditional thatched-roof house located in Shirakawa-go village (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) in Gifu Prefecture. Diners can enjoy traditional local dishes made using mountain herbs and vegetables etc. picked locally in Hida, the Shirakawa-go and Gokayama district, while seated round an Irori (a hearth constructed in a depression in the floor). Popular menu items include the “Hida Beef Cooked on a Ceramic Board–Set Meal” for which diners can specify how well-cooked they want the premium Hida beef to be, the “Grilled Tofu Set Meal” made with the unique local Shirakawa-ko Tofu, and the “Hoba Miso Set Meal” made using Hoba Miso, a famous Hida-Takayama region specialty.

    We took a bus from Takayama and had lunch at Shirakawa-go. It was very delicious. It is also a restaurant I want to visit. is.

  • Ayuya
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    4.5
    7 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Sekishi Horadoabe 1522-3
    Located on the banks of the Itadori River, about a 30-minute drive from the Seki-Hiromi and Mino Interchanges, Ayuya is a restaurant that specializes in ayu (sweetfish). It has a great location close to famous places like Koga Shinsui-an and Monet's Pond. In addition to serving daily specials throughout the year, it has four types of complete dinners from mid April to November, with Course C being the most popular. In the fall, diners can enjoy sweetfish cooked with its roe inside. Seats on a terrace overlooking the river are available, with a roof that can be retracted or not, depending on the weather. Guests who make reservations have priority for these seats.

    鮎がどうしても食べたくなり、色々検索し「鮎や」さんに来ました! ここは板取川のほとりにある鮎専門の料理屋で、今回はコロナ禍ということもあり限定料理のみ営業でしたが食べに来ちゃいました! お店に着くとスタッフのおばちゃんからあじさいコース2950円と日替り定食980円のみと言われ日替り定食+鮎の塩焼きは1660円と少し迷いましたが鮎料理を堪能したかったのであじさいコースを頼むと川床で...

  • Kawaguchi Yana (Ibi River)
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Ibigunibigawachou Kitagata Kawaguchi 1235-4
    A tourism fish trap located at the foot of the Kawaguchi Bridge spanning the Ibi River 40 minutes from the Ogaki interchange on the Meishin Expressway. The traditional fish trapping techniques used on the Ibi River have been designated a National Intangible Folk-Cultural Property. All of the seats in the adjoining restaurant building have a view of the beautiful Ibi River, and customers can check out the fish trap or play in the river while they wait for their meal. The fresh caught sweetfish can be ordered charcoal grilled; the restaurant is also famous for its sweetfish zosui rice gruel. The sweetfish course meal, which comes with two sweetfish cooked shioyaki style (grilled with salt) and two fish cooked gyoden style (skewered and covered with miso) plus other dishes; and the Saturday, Sunday, and holiday-only sweetfish oshi sushi are also recommended. The facility is only open from the summer to the fall.
  • Usho no Ie Iwasa
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    5.0
    2 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Seki-shi Ikejiri 74
    "This shop near Ayunose Bridge serves sweetfish cuisine and is also a good spot to view cormorant fishing. Guests can board a boat to take in the Gifu summer tradition after a meal of high-quality natural sweetfish. Their most popular meal is their ""Tennen Ayu Full Course,"" that could only be served by real master craftsmen. It features a starter of candied sweetfish, salt-grilled sweetfish, and broiled sweetfish with miso paste all arriving in succession. You can also dine on sushi made with young sweetfish when in season. It's about 200 meters from the shop to the boarding point for the boat. A shuttle will bring you back after the cormorant fishing is finished."

    関観光ホテルのすぐ奥に位置するので、余程常連さんでないと利用しないような穴場の高級料亭です。店の造りが洒落ていて、川沿いの風景が素晴らしく、都会の雑音から遮断された雰囲気が何とも言えず素敵です。鵜匠の店であり天然鮎のフルコースはこの上なく美味しい。

  • Daihachi
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    4.5
    11 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Gujo-shi Hachimancho Sakanamachi 883-1
    A restaurant serving local cuisine about a 18-minute walk from Gujo Hachiman Station with an imposing old Japanese folk house where you can feel the it's long history. They serve typical Gujo Hachiman fare like Hida beef Japanese barbecue in a classic atmosphere with antique clocks, chests of drawers, and more. The Gujo Misoni Set Meal is a healthy dish that warms your body from the core with vegetables simmered in rich Gujo miso on rice. This Gujo home fare contains vegetables like onions and eggplant, as well as tofu and konjac. They also feature wild sweetfish salt-grilled, sashimi style, fried, and in rice soup.

    Though we traveled to Japan many times, this is our first time to Nagoya-Gifu. We heard that Hida beef is famous here so we had them a few times this trip. This place has a very good Hida beef in...

  • Oshokuji-dokoro YUYU
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Gujo-shi Meiho Okuzumi 3428-1 Meiho Onsen Yu Hoshi
    A restaurant at Meiho Onsen Yuseikan, a day-use hot spring bathhouse with a simple and mildly radioactive alkaline spring. After a soak in their wide-open baths, sit down to a healthy meal made with local ingredients. Their kei-chan meal sets are popular, featuring heaps of vegetables and chicken topped with miso sauce served sizzling on an iron plate. This local dish is popular in Okumino, including Gujo. Their sizzling teppanyaki meal sets with A5 ranked Hida beef and their Yuyu Lunch with a number of colorful side dishes are also popular and available in limited quantities.
  • MEIHO BBQ PARK
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Gujo-shi Meiho Okuzumi Mizusawa Jo 3447-1
    A leisure facility on the Meiho Highland in the midst of the great outdoors. The Meiho Ski Resort operates there in winter, and in the summer, you can enjoy activities like barbecuing, camping, and a canoeing. They have various barbecue plans to choose from depending on your needs and the number in your party. Their Regular Plan consists of beef sirloin, pork shoulder roast, local vegetables, and marshmallows. Other plans include their Meiho Plan featuring a set meal with kei-chan, a local Gujo dish, and their Hida Beef Plan with Hida beef sirloin. It's a great way to enjoy a casual, authentic cookout without dealing with the preparation and cleaning-up.
  • Amakara
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    4.5
    14 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Ena-shi Oicho 295-12
    This goheimochi (broiled rice cake skewers) specialty shop has been in business for 64 years. Here you can buy goheimochi, a local Tono region dish, starting from just a single skewer. Goheimochi is made by rolling mashed rice into balls; skewering them on a stick; covering them with a sweet sauce made with ingredients such as soy sauce, sugar, sesame seeds; and walnuts, and broiling them. Goheimochi is a local specialty that has been a favorite in eastern Mino since ancient times. Containing an abundance of protein, iron, calcium, and vitamin B complex, goheimochi is renowned not only for its flavor but also for being good for the body. Located in front of Ena station, you can also order the Goheimochi Teishoku (set meal), which comes with six goheimochi skewers, miso soup, Japanese pickles, edible wild plants, and fruit.

    地元の方が中で食事していたり、お土産がてら買っていったり。 うちは、両親が子供の運動会に持ってきてくれたこともありました。 たまに義両親に頼まれることもあります。 老人ホームや、地域のお祭り、イベントにも参加されていて、恵那で長く親しまれている老舗です。

  • Hatoya
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    4.5
    7 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Takayama-shi Oshinmachi 3-110
    This Hida beef specialty store is in Hida Takayama, a town that conveys the atmosphere of the old capitol to the present. You can eat shabu-shabu, sukiyaki and steak made from soft Hida beef that melts in your mouth. The majestic building emanates a sense of history is a townhouse structure that retains an image of samurai politics. Situated next to the Etchu Highway, it has been designated as a traditional building and won the Takayama City Landscaping Design Award as the building most representative of Takayama. Steak baked on a 10-kilogram iron-cast plate is a proud gem explodes with taste and sweetness the moment it comes into contact with your mouth.

    Went to this restaurant on the recommendation of a friend and definitely wasnt disappointed. We had the personal attention from the daughter of the owner of the house who cooked the food for us on...

  • Kanameya
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    4.0
    7 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Nakatsugawa-shi Magome 4291-1
    This confectionery is located about 100 meters from the Toson Memorial Museum. It is a specialty store that serves the local Kiso dish Goheimochi, which is made by crushing rice, wrapping it around a skewer, applying sauce to it, and cooking it. Goeheimochi comes in all kinds of shapes depending on the region and its culture. For example, there are waraji, dango, rice balls, and kiritanpo shaped Goheimochi, but at this store only waraji and dango shaped Goheimochi is offered. The sauce is made with ingredients such as sesame, walnut, or peanuts, which makes the Goheimochi irresistible when served fresh. In addition, it has many different souvenirs including jizake manju, karasumi (salted and dried mullet roe) and yokan.

    五平餅の専門店である「かなめ屋」へ訪問しました。 五平餅は、小判型で、甘辛だれがぬられ、香ばしく焼かれています。

  • Okabe Yana
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    5.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Ibi-gun Ibigawa Cho Tanigumi Nagase 1724-4
    "This river fish restaurant is located in the Tanigumi-nagase, Ibigawa Town, Ibi County. It uses the town's great tradition of ""yanaryou"" (pier fishing). The shop has a structure called a ""yanaba"" (pier) in the Neo River that flows nearby, and the freshly caught freshwater fish are used to create a variety of cuisines, such as shioyaki (grilled fish with salt)."

    鮎のコース料理を食べに行きました。 川のすぐ横に建てた食事場所は、暑い夏も気持ちよかったです! コースは、甘露煮ーフライや刺身 もちろん焼き物ー雑炊まであり ボリューム満点でした!

  • Uohatsu
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Ibi-gun Ibigawa Cho Tanigumi Nagase 2028-1
    "This restaurant is located along Nishimino's Momiji Road in Taniguminagase and specializes in sweetfish cuisine. Menu items include the ""ayu feast"" which lets you enjoy pickled fish, sweet-simmered fish, fried fish, ikizukuri, and charcoal-grilled shioyaki. The restaurant also has pier seating where you can enjoy meals while looking at the Neo River. It is open from the end of April until early November."
  • Daikokuya Sabo
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    4.0
    23 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Nakatsugawashi Magome 4255-1
    A long-standing local cuisine restaurant Toson Memorial Museum near the center of Magome-juku in Nakatsugawa City, Gifu Prefecture. Daikokuya’s stately building, heavy with the air of tradition, houses a restaurant area, folk craft exhibition space, and gallery. Once the home of “Oyufu-san”, the first love of Toson Shimazaki and also subject of his poetry, the restaurant’s famed chestnut rice also made an appearance in Shimazaki’s novel, Before the Dawn. Here you can take your time and enjoy this culinary delight long-beloved by travelers.

    馬籠宿の中央部に位置するカフェで雑貨の販売もされています。 平日のお昼に利用しましたが、お客さんの入りは少なかったです。 妻籠から歩いて来て汗を掻いたので、かき氷の大黒屋スペシャル(1000円)を頂いた後、名物の栗こわめしのAセット(1500円)を頂きました。 かき氷は南アルプスの天然氷との事、美味しく頂きました。 栗こわめしはチョッとお高い感じ、観光地価格ですかね。 支払いは現金のみです。

  • Shinbashi-tei
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    4.0
    12 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Gujoushi Hachimanchousakuramachi 268-3
    This eatery in Hachiman-cho, Gujo City, Gifu Prefecture opened in 1937. It's near Shinbashi Bridge that spans the Yoshida River, a branch of the Nagaragawa River. Guests dine there while watching the flow of the river and listening to it rushing along. From June to mid-October they serve their seasonal Gujo Wild Sweetfish Set Meal, featuring three kinds of succulent cooked ayu sweetfish (salt grilled one, miso grilled one, and fried one). Their wintertime Kokorozashi Nabe stewed in an earthenware pot is also popular. Dishes like mountain stream caught amago red-spotted trout and hobamiso-yaki (magnolia leaves grilled with miso and onion) are available year-round.

    観光しながらいただくランチスポットとしておすすめです。私は飛騨牛の朴葉焼きをいただきました。味噌を絡めて焼く朴葉焼き、期待以上に美味でした。

  • Jugemu
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    3.5
    22 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Takayamashi Kamisannomachi 72
    A souvenir-oriented fresh food stand located next to the Fujii Folk Museum. The stand’s signature Hida beef croquettes can be eaten fresh made and piping hot, and this is the best way to savor the unique flavor of the Hida beef used. The stand’s Hida beef kushiyaki grilled meat skewers are also very popular, and customers can choose between three varieties—sirloin, marbled, and lean. The marbled is the most popular. Meanwhile, the sirloin variety is a bit more exclusive, as it is limited to just 20 skewers a day. The stand also sell’s sets of 10 skewers slathered in sauce for taking home. Other items on offer include soft serve ice cream and alcoholic beverages, and much of what the shop makes is perfect for enjoying on the go while exploring the area. The stand is open year-round.

    ... Jugemu :หนึ่งในร้านยอดนิยมของนักท่องเที่ยว เนื้อฮิดะนุ่มๆ ย่างไฟร้อนๆ แค่มองแวะมองก็กระตุ้นความอยาก ชิมลิ้มลิงรสชาติ หรือจะชิมครอกเก้ กรอบนอก ด้านในนุ่มชุ่มฉ่ำละมุมลิ้น. * การสั่งอาหาร...

  • Hakusuien
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    4.0
    30 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Onogunshirakawamura Ogimachi 354
    About a two-minute walk from the Shirakawa-go Bus Terminal, this restaurant built with a gassho (large thatched roof) style is located in the world heritage site called Shirakawa-go. You can enjoy simple and warm regional cuisine made with local ingredients. One recommended dish is the “oyaji wazen (Japanese hot pot with bear meat).” It has a wild animal taste that they have offered for more than 30 years, but they finish it with miso to remove the smell so that tourists not used to bear meat can eat it more easily. One of their other popular menu items is the “hoba miso wazen (Hida beef)” with a traditional flavor they have guarded since their opening. It also has a parking lot that can be used by large buses.

    Went in for lunch. There is an array of set lunches. However, we were short of time, so we only ordered ramen. Very quickly, we were served the ramen. Awesome ramen.

  • Keichan Suginoko
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Gifu Pref. Geroshi Ogawa 1311
    Keichan is a regional dish from the Hida and Gero areas of Gifu Prefecture, and Suginoko is a great place to try it. The shop is five minutes south of JR Gero Station by car via Prefectural Route 440 along the Hida River, near the Masuda Highway overpass. Their superb keichan consists of chicken thigh meat cooked with cabbage and their secret sauce in a Genghis Kan grill pan. It goes great with rice and Japanese shochu, and we recommend finishing off the meal by mixing in fried yakisoba noodles. There are also a variety of other local dishes on their menu such as Gero’s konyaku gelatin sashimi and Hida beef grilled with miso.

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Tucked away in the very center of Japan, Gifu prefecture houses mountains, old towns, and one of Japan’s greatest hot springs, Gero Onsen. A tour of the prefecture’s traditional architecture will take you from the mountain-enveloped wooden streets of Takayama to the mountain village of Shirakawago, where visitors can explore 250-year-old thatched roofed houses known as gassho-zukuri.

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