Other Japanese Food Spots in Kyoto Area

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Category

Gourmet / Alcohol

Japanese Food

Other Japanese Food

Ao Onigiri

4.5

29 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Joudojishimominamidachou 39-3

This handmade rice ball shop in a residential area of Jodoji Temple in Sakyo Ward is a few minutes on foot from Kinrin Shako Mae bus stop. The charming exterior and a counter seat like a sushi shop compliments the simplicity of the rice balls they serve. The rice balls are each made freshly after taking your order using rice cooked in a special iron traditional style rice cooking pot. The popular rice balls are delicious served hot as well as cold. Guests can enjoy their rice balls with a variety of side dishes in the restaurant. There are many fillings to choose from and if you take out three or more rice balls they will be wrapped in bamboo skin.

Excellent food, incredibly well priced and located. Food cooked to order by the chef in front of you!
GYATEI

4.0

70 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Ukyou-ku Sagatenryujitsukurimichichou 19-8

"Produced by Arashiyama Benkei, a long-established ryokan with a first-class Japanese restaurant, this restaurant specializes in Kyoto's traditional home-style cooking ""obanzai"". It serves a colorful ""gozen"" (meal set) with obanzai using an abundance of seasonal ingredients and vegetables from Kyoto, as well as ""nama-fu dengaku"" (a fresh gluten cake baked and served on a skewer) with a special homemade miso flavor. The restaurant also serves Kyoto's locally brewed beer and sake. The sales space offers a wide range of original souvenirs, including ""yuba"" (delicacy made from the skin of gently boiled soybean milk) and ""Saikyo-zuke (pickled in sweet Kyoto-style miso) roast beef"", which are popular among tourists."

Wanted to try this place but couldn’t find it right away. It is upstairs. Got the set menu. We got the yuba porridge which was a kind of congee almost, and delicious (instead of the rice). Fun and...
Machiya Cafe Roji Usagi

4.5

11 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Higashiyama-ku Shimoyanagichou 176

A hidden café located in a back alley in Kyoto City’s Higashiyama Ward housed inside a charming and retro over 100-year-old townhouse. Particularly popular menu options include the Kyo-no asa-gohan breakfast, a set which comes with an abundant variety of dishes like grilled fish, numerous sides, and a dashimaki omelet; as well as the daily Roji uzen lunch special. The café is filled with books on Kyoto tourism and history, giving patrons the chance to enjoy a slow breakfast while planning their itinerary. In addition to tatami mat seating, the café also has counter seating easy for individual customers to use.

Tucked away in a little side lane in Gion, not a difficult place to find with Google Map. The menu was simple, for breakfast it was either the Japanese Style Breakfast with grill fish or Japanese...
Mametanuki

3.0

20 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Okazakienshoujichou 149-3

This restaurant serving Kyoto cuisine is located approximately 10 minutes from Higashiyama Station, and allows guests to enjoy kaiseki (course) cuisine and other dishes prepared with fresh squid and fish caught in the Sea of Japan. The deciding factor in the degree of freshness is the huge fish-tank inside the shop in which swim marine animals delivered directly from the fishing grounds. Since the fish are scooped up and prepared quickly after receiving the order, both the taste and texture remain fresh. They offer a full menu with which one can sense the four seasons and the traditional skill of Kyoto, such as the Kyomai Gozen where small dishes unique to Kyoto are spread all over a basket tray. Their boiled tofu course made with tofu that is also supplied to Nanzenji Temple is also popular.

コロナ禍では全く採算が取れるような客の入りではない。小まめに日本人相手に堅い商売をしていれば問題なかったのに。放っておいても東アジア系のインバウンドとか小団体バス旅行客が来るから、ついつい目先の商売に目が眩んで先行きを見誤った典型的な食堂と云える。店内配置等は単に豆狸と云っていた時よりは進歩していたが、料理そのものと店員の顧客ＣＳは低下の一方で・・・観光業界、旅行業界がどうこうじゃなくて、インバウ...
Kyoto Kotokoto (The CUBE shop)

3.5

28 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto Ward Karasuma Salinous Road Down Le Le Higashi Salokoji Town 901 Kyoto Station Building Specialty Store District TheCUBE 11F

This Japanese restaurant is located on the 11th floor of the Kyoto Station Building Specialty Mall (The CUBE) in Shimogyo Ward, Kyoto City. Its guests dine on Kyoto's traditional obanzai (home cooking) made with locally grown vegetables. At lunchtime there is an all-you-can-eat obanzai set menu that's popular with the locals and tourists who come to enjoy Kyoto.

Had a quick dinner here on way back to Osaka. Very poor food and for non-Japanese tourists the staff were not very helpful in terms of how to prepare the food served at the table.
Hashidate Daimaru Main Shop

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kanagawa Prefecture Miyazu City Amanohashidate Bungo Coast

Hashidate Daimaru Main Shop is located at the best location for walking around Amanohashidate. Right at the entrance to Amanohashidate at Kaisenkyo Bridge, this is a convenient and delicious place for a meal when sea bathing in summer. It's all-you-can-eat and reservations are required. It's extravagant menu changes with the seasons. Spring features sea bream shabu shabu, northern shrimp, and bamboo shoot rice, and in the summer, guests dine on nigiri sushi, northern shrimp, somen noodles, and melon. In autumn, they serve a gozen set with seasonal delicacies and matsutake mushroom rice, while winter features snow crab, steak, and fugu hot-pot.
Gion Mitoko

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto-shi Higashiyama-ku Gion Hanami Kojiro Shijo Ru

Located in Kyoto's Higashiyama Ward, a five-minute walk from Gion Shijo Station on the Keihan Main Line, Gion Mitoko serves traditional Kyoto cuisine, especially Kyo kaiseki, a formal style of cuisine that uses seasonal ingredients. Reservations are required to have the restaurant summon geiko (geisha) and maiko (apprentice geisha) so that you and your group can experience a geisha party. This restaurant is especially popular with tourists who want to savor a genuine Kyoto experience.
Yamabana Heihachi Teahouse

4.0

16 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Sakyou-ku Yamabanakawagishichou 8-1

Yamabana Heihachi Teahouse serves Japanese food in Kyoto's Sakyo Ward. It began as a roadside teahouse along the Wakasa Road and, and as a venerable establishment, it provides Kyoto-style cuisine prepared according to exacting standards. Its thick, rich barley and rice tororo soup made with mountain yams is especially popular, but customers can also enjoy traditional kaiseki cuisine made from painstakingly selected ingredients, and buy mugitoro manju as a souvenir.

天正年間に創業された老舗の茶屋です。夜は完全予約制なので、予約してから訪問された方が良いと思います。高野川のせせらぎと日本庭園を眺めながら麦飯とろろ汁は心地よかったですね。
Suzuri Ishi-tei

3.5

15 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Ukyou-ku Umegahata Kaohsiung 5

This restaurant is in Kyoto Ward, Kyoto City. Here guests dine on delicious udon and soba noodles while getting in touch with the natural scenery of Kyoto. In autumn, you can try seasonal items like their wild vegetable rice and a Yudofu Set with tempura. It is located about half way along the stone steps leading to Jingoji Temple, so temple patrons often stop here for some refreshment.

高雄山神護寺の門前で硯石の傍にある茶店。食事メニューは大半が麺類です、今の時期は昔ながらのかき氷(400~600円)が頂けます、このお店の名物はもみじ餅(9個650円)です、もみじ餅はお餅でなく”おはぎ”の感じでモチ米をお寿司の様に握ってその上に練り餡が載っているもので、一口サイズで食べやすく美味しかったです。店内には、芸能人が来訪時の写真や色紙が多数飾られてました。秋は紅葉を楽しみながら食...
Kyoto Gion Tempura Yasaka Endo

4.5

436 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

566 Komatsu-cho , Higashiyama, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto

Had kaiseki Tempura many times, this was the best so far. the selection of dish was perfect. the mushroom with truffles, the uni wrapped with seaweed, quite a number of selection that was our first...
Hyotei Main Branch

4.0

152 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

35, Nanzenjikusagawa-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto

It is impressive to eat in restaurant that has been around for 450 years. It is nothing like other traditional 3 star restaurants in the world. This is a once in a lifetime experience. The...
Mirei

4.5

3 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoutoshi Nakagyou-ku Kameyachou 143-2

と言うべきか、比較的新しいお店、かつ店主もお若い。で、お料理。使われてる食器も料理も季節を彩っていて目にも味にも爽やかに活きる。アラカルトでオーダー。白和え。おかださんでも修行されていた？と聞く、流石のバランス。火の通った大豆が口の中でフワッと香り、他の食材も尖らず火入れがされている。造りも鯛、鯵、イカ他をいただいたが、鯛は明石か？特有のハリ、甘み。アジは極めて新鮮。角が立っている...
Kyoto Katsugyu Kiyomizu Gojozaka

4.5

115 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Higashiyama-ku Gojohashihigashi 6-583-106

Lets each try different things! was my wifes suggestion so she took our two young female friends for sushi while our 18 year old son and I searched for something with beef. We didnt have to look...
UDONMAIN

5.0

13 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Higashiyama-ku Nishinocho 201-1

This is a fantastic little japanese restaurant with small but amazingly tasty menu. We had the chicken udon soup and gyoza and both were excellent. Service was good and the atmosphere lovely...
Me Nami

4.0

46 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kyoto Kyoto-shi Nakagyo-ku Kiyacho Sanjo Agaru Nakajima 96

The service was not friendly at all, food is tasteless, really average. The place is overpriced. There are so many good restaurants in Kyoto, this is not one of them.
Kikunoihonten

4.5

296 Reviews

Accommodations / Hot Spring

Shimogawara town 459 go down Kyoto, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto City Shimogawaradori Yasaka Toriimae

Kikunoi honten is very disappointing. One could never imagine that they servic sharkfin soups in Kyoto. No style. Dishes are more than disappointing for the price.
Ginnan

Gourmet / Alcohol

114-2 Nakai-cho, Kita-gawa, Shichi-jo Nishi Hairu, Karasuma-dori, , Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto
Torisei Kyoto Tower Sando branch

3.5

9 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

721-1, Higashishio-Koji Cho, Karasuma Dori Shichijo Sagaru, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto

京都駅にあり気になっていたので少しの時間だけ利用しました。居酒屋と言うか地下にあり大きなスペースにあるひとつのお店です。しっかりとした焼き鳥です。
Katsukura

Gourmet / Alcohol

721-1, Higashishio-Koji Cho, Karasuma Dori Shichijo Sagaru, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto
VEGE DELI Kanna

4.5

15 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

721-1 Karasuma-dori Shichijo-sagaru Higashi Shiokoji-cho, Simogyo-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto

Wonderful break from the seemingly endless offerings of meat, meant and more meat in Japan. Lovely quick lunch spot with all veggie options under Kyoto tower a few minutes walk from Kyoto station...

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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.