Izakaya Pub Spots in Osaka Area

  • Izakaya Toyo
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osaka-shi Miyakojima-ku Higashi-nodamachi 3-2-26
    This standing Japanese izakaya pub is located in Kyobashi. So popular a snaking line of customers waiting to get in can form, many of its customers are also women. In addition to the recommended lean and fatty tuna courses, the recommendations of the day are written on a signboard, and you can enjoy whatever you like. The pub can be enjoyed by individuals out on their own but you are recommended to come with a small group to really get things going.
  • Ura-Namba Torame Yokocho
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Chuou-ku Sennichimae 2-3-15
    Ura-Namba Torame Yokocho located right next to Namba Station and Nippombashi Station is a food theme park with a food stall village, and the red torii (archway) at the entrance is the landmark. Inside the yokocho building, there is a row of nine restaurants, including Osaka gourmet dishes such as barbecued offal, sushi, izakaya (a Japanese style pub), grilled skewered chicken, Italian, kushikatsu (grilled skewers) and okonomiyaki (Japanese pancake). A delivery service between the restaurants in the yokocho building is available. It is attractive as you can enjoy a small amount of food from several restaurants. You draw a fortune card in all the restaurants when you enter and receive an extra service if you draw a lucky card. It is a popular gourmet place with both Japanese and overseas tourists.
  • Sake Bar Sawara Grand Front Osaka
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Ofukachou 3-1 Grand Front Osaka North Building 6F
    Sake Bar Sawara is a place where you can enjoy local sake varieties and shochu liquors that have been carefully sourced from regions throughout Japan by expert sake sommeliers, in a casual, modern bar environment. Sawara's most famous offering is “Cask Fragrance Sake,” which is stored in a wooden cask made from the Sawara cypress tree, and which can be enjoyed together with Obanzai (light Kyoto-style home cooking using boiled vegetables and marinated food) made using seasonal ingredients sourced directly from the areas where they are produced. Sawara is located on the sixth floor of Grand Front Osaka (North Building), around one minute's walk from JR Osaka Station and around three minutes' walk from Umeda Station (Hankyu Railway and Midosuji Subway Line).
  • luv wine Tenma Main Store
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Ikedachou 5-8
    This restaurant is roughly a three-minute walk from JR Temma Station. It is a European courtyard style wine bar. It has a casual atmosphere with counter and table seats, and you can enjoy it at your ease even going there alone. High quality wines are offered by country of origin, these are changed on a weekly basis, and it is also appealing to come across new wine flavors. You can enjoy anything from a glass to a bottle of wine at a low price. Besides the specialty cuisine of oven grilled smoked spare ribs, you can also taste chic cuisine matched with wine. The wine bar is open from 22:00 or from 15:00 on Saturdays.
  • Kaientai Okinawa Chimdon (Namba Store)
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Chuou-ku Sennichimae 15-8
    This is the Namba store of this bar chain from Okinawa. The beer is very inexpensive, and is offered year-round at the same price. There are faucets inside the store that pour out shochu, and you can pour shochu for yourself as much as you like after ordering. The menu has mainly seafood dishes. In particular, their Okinawan food such as deep-fried mozuku seaweed, deep-fried banana fish and taco omelets are made by a chef who trained in Okinawa, allowing you to enjoy authentic flavors.
  • Dogyan
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    3.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Chuou-ku Tanimachi 4-9-11
    These shaved ice specialists are only open on the weekend but offer a unique variety of this chilled dessert all year round. Try their Chocolate Fromage with chocolate shaved ice sprinkled with mascarpone cheese, or their Strawberry Milk made with strawberry condensed milk, or the Princess Condensed Milk coated in a layer of espum foam. Each shaved ice treat has an unforgettably novel design.

    たまたま近くを通りかかった時にオープンしたてのようだったので来店しました。オープンしたてとあって綺麗な店内でした。まぜそばを注文。私には少し油ぽかったですがガツンと食べたいサラリーマンの方にはオススメです。

  • Umeda Kojimuro Hoshuku
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    4.0
    17 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Umeda 3-1-3 Lukuaele B2F in Balchika
    This izakaya Japanese-style bar serves mostly Japanese sake and is located in Lucua 1100 Barchica in Osaka's Umeda district. The specialty store of Nara Toyosawa Sake Brewery, they offer savory daiginjo Hoshuku super premium sake, Mushohai and Kisenju Kiccho ginjo pure rice premium sake with great aromas and the taste of rice. They also have fruit sake with plum wine and yuzu wine using these sakes as a base, and you can enjoy them together with seafood dishes such as fresh seasonal sashimi, simmered fish head, and green tea pour over thoroughly simmered sea bream. During lunchtime, they also have tempura rice bowls and seafood rice bowls.

    かわいい利き酒セット¥450を注文。 おつまみには鶏の天ぷら黒七味がけ¥450。 サクッと飲んでササッと帰るのがいい感じのお店です。 立ち飲みです。お店は小さめです。 お会計は席ごとではなく会計カウンターで済ませるタイプです。

  • Sakanaya Hidezo Tachinomi Store
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Chuou-ku Nambasennichimae 9-1
    This standing-style izakaya Japanese pub is located nearby Nankai Electric Railway's Namba Station. It is popular mainly with young people because of their low prices and delicious taste. They offer at reasonable standing-bar prices a mainly seafood menu with sashimi assortments and broiled fish head, in addition to standard izakaya pub fare including large original potato salad and the Osaka specialty of slowly simmered beef tendons. They also have a large selection of beer from many makers, shochu including Kurokirishima and Dabada Hiburi, sake such as Dassai, and shochu highballs.
  • Izakaya Oozawa (Kita Branch)
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    3.5
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Kakudachou Umeida Underground Town 2-3
    The at-home izakaya pub with a charming atmosphere was open in 1964 in the North Mall 1 of Whity Umeda directly linked with Hanshin Electric Railway's Umeda Station East Ticket Gate. In addition to the popular tuna sashimi and squid and vegetable stirfry recommended by the owner, they also offer kushikatsu (skewers of fried food), oden hot pots and a wide range of other dishes at a reasonable price. A substantial lineup of beer and sake is available as well.

    大阪駅から徒歩5分ほどの居酒屋さん。 かなり低価格であても美味しくとても美味しい居酒屋メニューを楽しめます

  • Izakaya Jube
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osaka-shi Chuo-ku Minamisenba 3-8-1
    This Japanese izakaya pub is renowned for its delicious yakitori grilled chicken skewers. All of the pub's cuisine, diligently prepared one dish at a time by chefs, is exquisite. Famous for its yakitori as well as its kushikatsu deep-fried skewers and oden hotpot, everything on the menu are also reasonably priced. Whether with colleagues, friends, or on your own, this is a great place where you can just show up and enjoy a satisfying dining experience.
  • Tachinomidokoro Tonryo
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    4.0
    5 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osaka-shi Miyakojima-ku Higashi-nodamachi 3-2-11
    This Japanese izakaya pub is located close to JR Kyobashi Station. A place you can drop by on the way home from work, the menu is filled with things like croquettes, sukiyaki, and beef stew made with Omi beef. Highly popular thanks to its reasonable prices and delicious food, it is often fully occupied. Come ease away the cares of the day with a beer or Kyobashi highball.

    Ok gonna hold my hand up and say we did actually come to visit the famous Toyo izakaya around the corner. But as the queue looked like it’d take an hour we decided to find somewhere nearby. This...

  • Mikagego Fukuju
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    4.0
    10 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osaka-shi Kita-ku Umeda 1-3-1 Osaka Ekimae Dai1 Building B2F
    This restaurant is owned and operated by Fukuju, a sake brewing company which has been in business for over 250 years. Here you can enjoy the company's popular frozen sake and choice, hand crafted unfiltered and unpasteurized sake alongside vaunted cuisine which includes fluffy dashi rolled omelets; hiyayakko chilled tofu made with homemade tofu and soymilk; and the Fukuju assortment which comes with handmade shiokara fermented squid paste, mackerel pickled in rice bran, and tofu pickled in miso.

    とても安くて美味しいお店です。店内は狭く、直ぐに満席になるのでタイミングが合わないと入れないかもしれません。おでんやだし巻き玉子が美味です。福寿のお酒も安く飲めます。

  • uratenman chouchindori niku Sushi
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    5.0
    5 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osaka-shi Kita-ku Ikedacho 8-5

    天満に呼ばれて2件目解散後に気になってたこちらに✨ とても丁寧な板前に美味しいお肉&寿司♪ また再訪したいお店です。

  • PALM GARDEN MAISHIMA by WBF
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    2-3-57, Hokuko Ryokuchi, Konohana-ku, Osaka, Osaka
  • Kitcho Shitennoji
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osaka-shi Tennoji-ku Rokumantaicho 5-21
  • Tenzankakuhaihaiyokochouehonmachihaihaitaunten
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    4.0
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Tennouji-ku Uehonmachi 6-3-31-124 Uehonmachihaihaitaun B1F

    少し前に「日本一長いカウンターの飲み屋さん」とテレビで取り上げられて、懐かしくて行きました。健在ですね。酒量をわきまえた常連さんが、良い雰囲気を醸し出しています。

  • tachinomi Jack To Matilda
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Fukushima-ku Fukushima 5-6-8
  • Cassieva E ma umeda
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    3.5
    3 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osakashi Kita-ku Umeda 1-12-6E-ma5F

    焼鳥屋さんですがオシャレで、ずーっと行ってみたかったお店です 焼鳥屋さんですがイタリアン?なかんじでした フォアグラのパテの最中や前菜の盛り合わせ、名物のつくねなどなどコースでいただきました

  • Sakanhigashi Umeda
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    4.0
    5 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka-shi, Osaka, Kita-ku, 2-11-8 Sonezaki

    ネットで予約をして伺いました。お酒(日本酒が結構豊富でした)に馬刺しなどで楽しんだあと、しめにいただいた稲庭うどんがとても美味しかったです。

  • Bokusui
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Osaka Osaka-shi Chuo-ku Nanba 1-chome 6-6

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