Japanese Food Spots in Kyoto Area

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Category

Gourmet / Alcohol

Japanese Food

Murasaki no Wakuden Daitokuji Branch

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Kita-ku Murasakinonrinincho 28

This gift shop is on Kita-oji street, near the Kyoto Botanical Garden and Kamo river, about ten minutes' drive from Kitaoji subway station. The word Omotase in the name is how one refers to gifts received, rather than gifts given, and this shop offers a variety of bento lunchboxes and stewed foods from venerable Kyoto restaurant Wakuden to receive. Their Wataboshi, based on the traditional Japanese bridal hood, is a manju bun made with chestnut paste wrapped in thin gyuhi mochi. The smooth chestnut paste and fluffy gyuhi earn them great popularity. The second floor of the same building also has a soba restaurant with counter seating.
Morikawa

4.0

2 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Kita-ku Kamigamoikebatacho 23-2

This sushi and Japanese dining restaurant is found in a quiet residential district about ten minutes' walk from Kitayama Station. The cozy space is centered around the counter seating, and perfect for enjoying drinks and food. The hand-written menus describe the day's sashimi, grilled food, stewed food, fried foods and many other dishes, giving the image of a restaurant rather than a sushi place. The chef built his experience at Kyoto's preeminent sushi shop Matsuzushi. This shop is best enjoyed savoring their exquisitely flavored dishes with a drink and finishing up with nigiri sushi.

池波正太郎ひいきのすし屋で修行されたお寿司屋さん。握りやアナゴ寿司は超有名店で修業された味がします。本来の握りずしとはこういう味なのかと思います。美味しい。
Ryokan Nenrinbo

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Kita-ku Takagaminekitatakagaminecho 40

This restaurant is about 30 minutes' drive from Kyoto Station, inside a hotel in the Takagamine area, near to a number of ancient temples like Genko-an or Koetsu-ji. It is surrounded by the beauty of the foothills of the Kitayama mountain range, known as Kitayama Cedars, and offers the fruits of the mountains all year round in various seasonal dishes. In summer they have hamo pike conger, in fall matsutake mushrooms, and in winter they have blowfish, all served in dishes that are as pleasing to the eye as they are to the palate. The shop is loved for how its dishes bring out the flavor of their ingredients to their utmost, whether it's hamo shabu-shabu hotpot or sushi, matsutake rice, or boiled blowfish. Their mini-kaiseki Nenju Manpuku Zen and Koetsu dim sum meals, featuring the flavor of the seasons with a Kyoto flair, are also quite popular.
Ippukutei

3.5

12 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Nagaokakyo-shi Ao Saijo 4-1

This restaurant is ten minutes' drive from Nagaoka-Tenjin Station, and next to Komyo-ji temple, which is famous as a fall foliage spot. Located inside a sukiya-style house, it offers Kyo-kaiseki, tofu cuisine, and bamboo-shoot dishes. Their popular Shirako Takenoko Kaiseki menu is available only from late March through early May. It's a full meal of tender spring bamboo shoots: tempura, sashimi, grilled, and steak style. They also offer smooth, fluffy Sesame Tofu, which is popular with visitors sightseeing in Kyoto's Nishiyama Sanzan mountains.

この施設の住所が違っている。正しくは長岡京市粟生川久保３番地ですよ。同字・同音の食堂は全国区であちこちにある、経営は別だと思うのだが・・・。ここへは最初じゃなくて何度か昼食に訪れている。何れも、セット旅行の昼食として。たしか、年とった仲居の対応が酷くて苦情云ったことが一度あったと記憶している。今回は対応は問題なかった、但し、食事も何の誉め言葉も浮かばない程度の内容、セット旅行であり、価格詳細は不詳...
Yururi

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Nantan-shi Miyamacho Morisato Sanomae 15

This restaurant is in Miyama, a town embraced by beautiful natural scenery and famous for the Kayabuki no Sato historical village. Located inside a 150-year-old thatch-roof cottage, this shop serves open flame cooking, and multi-course meals centered around Miyamakyo jidori free-range chicken. The menu changes with the seasons. In spring they have mountain herbs and amago salmon, in summer there is ayu sweetfish, and in fall they serve seasonal mushrooms, while winter sees jidori hotpot. The menu has a wide variety of treats, including birthday cake, children's meals, and variety platters that can be altered to fit your budget. Reservations are required, and the shop closes on any days without reservations.
Fresh Restaurant Uori

3.5

5 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Maizuru-shi Fuki 158-2

This seafood restaurant is on Shiratori-dori Avenue. Look for the large purple flag. Every morning, the owners head to the Maizuru port auctions to select seafood with the uncompromising eyes of pros. The shop's top selling dish is the Bikkuri! Seafood rice bowl made with fresh-cooked Maizuru rice and over 12 kinds of seasonal seafood. The fresh seafood overflows from the bowl for a satisfying, luxurious meal. The morning fish is delivered to shops in order, so sashimi is only available after 12. They also make their own dried seafood goods available in the shop.

ボリューム満点器からはみ出るお刺身！美味しい魚介日本料理のお店「びっくり海鮮丼（1.480円）」が評判のお店。ボリューム満点で、器からはみ出るほど豪快に刺身が盛られた海鮮丼は新鮮で美味しく、甘口の醤油がさらに旨味を引き立てている。これが食べたいと、遠方からわざわざ訪れる客も多い。毎朝店主がせりに直接出向き、鮮魚を持ち帰るのが11時頃なので、刺身料理を調理して提供するのが12時以降となるそう。揚げ...
Restaurant Funaya

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Yosa-gun Inecho Kameshima 459 Roadside Station

This restaurant is part of roadside station Funaya no Sato, which is a great source of travel information. Funaya (boat house) is a type of house construction where the first floor is at sea level as a boat dock, the second floor is a living area. Ine is known as one of the most beautiful villages in Japan, and is a designated Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings, and you can take in a view of it as you enjoy the fruits of the Sea of Japan. Their most popular dish is the Funaya Kaisendon seafood rice bowl with a different topping every day. They use fresh fish direct from Ine fishing harbor for reliable flavor. Their Ara-ni Teishoku meal, a stew of the head and bony parts of seasonal fish, is for a limited number a day of popular menu.
Okuine Onsen Aburaya

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Yosa-gun Inecho Tsumo 570

This restaurant is inside the day trip onsen facility Aburaya, in Kyoto's seaside onsen village Tango-Okuine Onsen. They have a Day trip Meal Plan, so even if you're not an overnight guest you can enjoy the seasonal flavors of local Ine seafood. They offer a Sakana-kaiseki lunch plan featuring kaiseki dishes filled with color and the flavors of the sea, as well as limited time only lunches like the Iwagaki Kaiseki lunch with rock oysters direct from Ine port (from early May through mid-July), a full course snow crab meal, or Ine yellowtail shabu-shabu hotpot in their winter-only lunch plans (November 1-March 31).
AWOMB

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Nakagyou-ku Ubayanagichou 189

A sushi restaurant located in the Ubayanagi-cho neighborhood of Nakagyo Ward. The restaurant is famed for its obanzai, a type of Kyoto cuisine in which numerous bite-sized dishes are served together; and its hand rolled sushi, in which diners are provided with the ingredients and condiments to roll their own sushi combinations as they like. Located inside a renovated old Kyoto townhouse, lines form outside the door even before the restaurant opens.
Seizan Sodo

4.5

20 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Ukyou-ku Sagatenryujisusukinobabachou 63

The Tenryuji Temple, founded in 1339, is a Rinzai Zen Buddhist temple located in Arashiyama and a registered World Heritage site. The Seizan Sodo offers a boiled tofu set meal in the tatami study of the Myochiin, a sub-temple of the Tenryuji. The tofu is from Morika, a venerable Saga tofu shop.

Stumbled on to this place and so thankful we did. Sit on the floor kind of restaurant with traditional sliding doors and a garden surrounding the building. Really relaxing and mellow.
Taro-ya

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City Nakagyo Ward Shijyo Town Shinchoncho Kaeru First Eye East Entrance Kannondo Town 473

This izakaya is located a four-minute walk from Karasuma Station in Kannondo-cho, Nakagyo District, Kyoto City. It features a wide selection of Kyoto-style home cooking, from standards to seasonal recommendations, and of course the “obanzai” in large pots lined up on the counter. In particular, the croquette with special demi-glace sauce is popular.
Kinkaku Japanese restaurant

3.5

16 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Kita-ku Kinugasababachou 43

A restaurant located a one minute walk from the bus stop in front of the Kinkaku-ji Temple. In addition to the restaurant’s famed Kinkaku-ji bento box lunch, the all-you-can-eat Kyoto gourmet buffet features such tasty delights as obanzai cuisine made with Kyoto vegetables and boiled tofu made with tofu from the renowned Toyoukeya Yamamoto tofu shop located in front of the Kitano Tenmangu Shrine. The restaurant also accepts reservations for large parties up to 100 people.

昔は団体客でもっていたような和食店です。数年振りに訪れたが、やはりインバウンドで大儲けした名残りがあるのか、個々の客に対しての「おもてなし」の精神がすっかり消えてしまっていた。食べさせさえすればいい、とか、和食として出せば何でもいい、と云うような荒っぽい雰囲気が溢れた店になっていて・・・至極、残念。料理の味付けも板前が変わった？のか、全く以前とは比較出来ない程度に不味かった。コスパもダメ。地道に...
Kokoraya Pontocho Branch

2.0

1 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Nakagyou-ku Shijoupontochou Kamiya Nabeya-cho 209 - 12 House number 51

A popular machiya izakaya (traditional Japanese-style pub) located quietly in the elegant town of Ponto-cho, where you can enjoy a variety of Japanese dishes using Kyoto vegetables, yuba (bean curd), tofu, etc., and a wide selection of Japanese sake, including Kyoto's locally brewed sake, at reasonable prices in a relaxing atmosphere unique to machiya.

Nos llamó la atención el encanto del local y que apenas había turistas. Cuando entramos, por ser extranjeros, solo nos ofrecieron dos “menus típicos” que consistían en sashimi, tempura y arroz...
Kisaki

4.0

25 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Joudojishimominamidachou 173-19

Located near Honen-in Temple along the Philosopher's Path, one of the top 100 roads in Japan, this popular yudofu restaurant has been in business for 40 years and offers a variety of Kyoto-style dishes, including specially selected yudofu with a smooth texture and rich flavor, handmade sesame tofu, and other dishes that make full use of the flavors of the ingredients.

This is my second visit with a long gap between. So stylish, so calm and so tasty. Everything is perfectly fresh. The atmosphere floats tourist hub-bub. Staff are helpful but unfussy. Tofu hot, tofu...
Gion Kurashita

4.5

82 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Higashiyama-ku Gionmachiminamigawa 570-157

A traditional kaiseki course cuisine restaurant located in the Gionmachi Minamigawa neighborhood of Higashiyama Ward. The restaurant offers kaiseki dishes made with seasonal ingredients, plain boiled mizutaki dishes, and, in winter only, tecchiri (boiled fugu). The shop’s boiled tofu is made with specially ordered dashi soy sauce and tofu from Hattori, a venerable shop established in 1910 famed as the official provider of the Nanzen-ji Zen Temple. The boiled tofu can be ordered a la carte in addition to the boiled tofu meal.

I ate here on Christmas day which is also the same day as my brothers birthday. They were able to give us a reservation a few days in advance so we were really grateful for that. Upon entering we...
Yudoufu Chikusen

4.0

24 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Ukyou-ku Sagashakadoufujinokichou 46 Shakado Shingoji temple precincts

A Kyoto cuisine restaurant located on the grounds of the Seiryo-ji Temple, famed for its Saga Shakado (Gautama Buddha Hall). The restaurant’s renowned boiled tofu is made with tofu from the venerable Morika Saga tofu shop and goes perfectly with Chikusen’s kaiseki course cuisine prepared with carefully selected seasonal ingredients. The restaurant’s goma-dofu tofu mixed with sesame seeds according to a unique method is also sold as a souvenir along with other exclusive goods like dashi for tofu and Japanese sake.

I visit there every time when I visit Arashiyama. That restaurant is located Seiryoji. Not expensive. Highly recommended restaurant
Tofu Cuisine Matsugae

4.0

46 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Ukyou-ku Sagatenryujisusukinobabachou 3

The Former Manshu Residence, located a three minute walk from Keifuku Arashiyama Station, was once the home and studio of Meiji period painter Kawamura Manshu. Matsugae is located on the grounds of this mansion which once served as a gathering space for cultured persons like Kitaoji Rosanjin. The offers two types of rich, flavorful tofu—buckwheat tofu and matcha green tea tofu. These are served in an alternating, checkerboard pattern. There are two other establishments on the grounds—the Arashiyama Yoshimura soba restaurant and the Nunoasobi Yoshimra kimono and Japanese knickknack shop.

Honestly, we had high expectation for this restaurant. We ordered 1 seasonal menu and 1 tofu set. To be honest, it was so torturing to finish all the food. Everything tasted the same and so bland...
Gohanya Shinkiro

4.0

25 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Higashiyama-ku Miyakawasuji 6-361

A Japanese restaurant located along Miyagawa-cho Street a three minute walk from Kiyomizu-Gojo Station. The restaurant is situated inside a former tea house. As the restaurant’s name implies (“Rice Shop”), the restaurant takes great care in preparing a fluffy rice blending grains from Kyotamba and Omi. During the day, the restaurant serves obanzai Kyoto home-style cuisine meal sets. At night, the shop makes use of its tea house atmosphere to serve a la carte items and course meals together with choice sakes.

The chef was amazing and his staff were very hospitable, going out of their way to welcome us. Sea Bream great. Sea urchin and squid were great. You can trust the chef and his menu snd his...
Yubanzai Komame-ya Nishiki Branch

4.0

41 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Nakagyou-ku Nishikikoujihigashinotouin Nishi Ogiya cho to the east 619 Libertas Nishikiji 3F

A yuba (tofu skin) restaurant located in the Nishiki Market. Produced by the renowned Ueda Yuba-ten, famed for its handmade yuba, the restaurant serves yuba cuisine made with Kyoto vegetables and 100% domestic soybean yuba. All of the tables in the shop are sunken kotatsu-style. In the daytime, the shop serves yuba set meals. At night, it offers courses and a la carte menu options. Either way, diners can stretch their legs, relax, and enjoy delicious yuba cuisine.

夕食に4人家族で最安の雪コースをオーダーしましたが、ボリューミーで湯葉の食感だけでなく味にも大変満足できました。掘りごたつのテーブルで隣席とも十分離れていると感じました。
Kyoto cuisine Mishou

4.5

4 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Ukyou-ku Sagashakadoumonzenurayanagichou 7

Located in a quiet residential area along Prefectural Highway 29, this Kyoto-style restaurant offers a course menu of Kyoto-style cuisine featuring seasonal ingredients at a reasonable price.

こちらの料理は、自分にとって、どんな時でも食べられます。春夏秋冬、法事の時でも、結構式の披露宴の時でも、どんな時でも食べられます。

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Kyoto Areas

Its wooden tea houses, shuffling geisha, and spiritual sights have seen Kyoto hailed as the heart of traditional Japan, a world apart from ultramodern Tokyo. Despite being the Japanese capital for over a century, Kyoto escaped destruction during World War II, leaving behind a fascinating history which can be felt at every turn, from the fully gold-plated Kinkakuji Temple down to traditional customs such as geisha performances and tea ceremonies, which are still practiced to this day.