Gourmet / Alcohol Spots in Kumamoto Area

  • Imakin Restaurant
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kumamoto Pref. Asoshi Uchinomaki 290
    This popular eatery boasting over one hundred years of history is frequently featured in magazines and television shows. In the famous Aka beef bowl, chewy, rare-cooked lean fresh meat is packed onto a voluminous bowl of rice, a wonderful dish where umami flavor flows over the palette after just one mouthful. On holidays and in sightseeing seasons, visitors form a long line even before opening.
  • KOKUTEI Kumamoto Ramen (Main Restaurant)
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    4.0
    157 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshinishiku Nihongi 2-1-23
    This ramen shop in Nishi Ward, Kumamoto City serves Kumamoto ramen made with garlic oil, noodles, and chashu pork they produce themselves. Their noodles are medium-thick and nicely textured. They go great with the shop's fragrant charred garlic oil which is slightly bitter and pork bone broth, which isn't too fatty and has a smooth aftertaste. Their carefully selected fresh eggs with beautiful yolks make the perfect addition.

    I was told the ramen in Kumamoto is known for their garlic tasting ramen.... that being said made me very leary as garlic doesnt agree with my tummy these days. When re received the bowl, the...

  • Kumamoto Castle Sakuranobaba Josaien
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshichuouku Ninomaru 1-1-2
    This is a sightseeing facility located in Sakuranobaba, at the foot of Kumamoto Castle, the symbol of Kumamoto. The facility consists of an area of souvenir shops, and eateries where you can try local Kumamoto cuisine, and Wakuwakuza, an experiential type exhibit, where you can learn about the history of Kumamoto Castle. A volunteer guide, who can show you Kumamoto Castle in about an hour, is always present at the general Tourist Information Center in the facility. It is a seven-minute walk from the “Hanabata-cho” tram stop.
  • Katsuretsu Tei (Shinshigai Main Restaurant)
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    4.5
    439 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshichuouku Shinshigai 8-18 Hayashi Building 1F
    This Japanese restaurant specializing in pork cutlets is in Chuo Ward, Kumamoto City. They use high-quality Roppaku Kurobuta brand pork raised on Kagoshima's Kirishima Highlands. Their signature tonkatsu fried cutlets are served piping hot and have a savoriness you're going to love. Extra helpings of rice, cabbage salad, and akadashi miso soup are included with the price of your meal.

    We ordered combo loin and fillet sets with premium ebi. The portions were so large that we were filled to the brim. Though many items are free-flow, we had no need for it. We also had hot sake and...

  • Sanzoku Tabiji
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kumamoto Aso-shi Kurokawa 2127
  • Takamori Dengaku no Sato
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    4.5
    52 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kumamoto Pref. Asoguntakamorimachi Takamori 2685-2
    This is a regional restaurant located in a quiet wooded area located a five-minute walk from Takamori Station. Traditional Dengaku cuisine can be enjoyed in an old thatched-roof house built 200 years ago. A special characteristic of dengaku grilled in front of you robata-yaki style is that you can taste it with various types of miso including yuzu (citrus) miso, Japanese pepper miso, and chicken miso, etc. To finish the meal, fragrant Dengaku-miso grilled rice balls are recommended.

    This is one of the highlights so far on our second trip to Japan. The restaurant is set in a traditional house with charcoals at each table and fresh meat and fish to eat. The service is great...

  • Koran-tei Shimotori Main Store
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kumamoto Kumamoto-shi Chuo-ku Anseimachi 5-26
  • Aso Daikanbo Tea House
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    3.5
    39 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kumamoto Aso-shi Yamada 2090-8

    九州産交ツーリズムのバスツアーで立ち寄りましたが、大観峰は肌寒かったです。雲も出ていて眺めはいまいちでしたね。新型コロナの影響で利用客が減っているため、茶店の料理も少なかったです。カレーパンを食べました。

  • Takamori Dengaku Hozonkai
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    4.5
    47 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kumamoto Pref. Asoguntakamorimachi Kamishikimi 2639
    This restaurant in Takamori-machi, Aso County serves regional cuisine. It's a great place to try authentic Takamori dengaku, skewers made with salt grilled yamame salmon, tofu, konnyaku gelatin, taro, and seasonal wild vegetables smothered in a special miso sauce and cooked over a charcoal fire. You'll love eating this local favorite while chatting around the restaurant's traditional hearth. Their Takamori dengaku multi-course meal comes with fried bean curd, wild vegetable and dango dumpling soup, and tokibi rice.

    Super friendly English speaking owner who welcomed us warmly. An authentic traditional barbecue which you cook yourself. An English menu and some set courses. The owner explains how to cook things...

  • Keika Ramen (Main Restaurant)
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    4.0
    139 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshichuouku Hanabatachou 11-9K-1 Building 1F
    This ramen shop in Chuo Ward, Kumamoto City is the main store of a national chain specializing in Kumamoto ramen noodles. The ramen features heaps of raw cabbage and Taarou, cubed pork belly simmered in soy-sauce based sauce. Taking full advantage of natural ingredients, they serve remarkably savory, aromatic and fresh ramen noodles. In addition to their hallmark Keika Ramen, their hearty bowls of noodles include their Taarou-men and Chashu-men.

    Tasty and favorful ramen in Kumamoto. Just try one bowl. The noodle is in good condition (au dente) The gyoza is great as well. Close to Kumamoto Castle. You have to use the kiosk for ordering...

  • Restaurant Kitayama
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    4.0
    9 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kumamoto Aso-shi Nishiyunoura 1452

    阿蘇に行く前に、こちらでランチ。倍喰丼が名物と聞いていたので、迷わず注文。脂がのっているのに、意外とさっぱりした味で、とても美味しかったです。

  • Komurasaki Kamitori Chuo Branch
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    4.0
    68 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshichuouku Kamitorichou 8-16
    Founded in 1954, this is a popular Kumamoto ramen shop located in the Kamitori arcade shopping area. Although pork bones are used as stock, the ramen is light and healthy with not so much fat content and mixes well with the thin noodles. The taste has been handed down from the first generation. The balance of fine bean sprouts, chashu (a thin roasted pork fillet), and charred garlic as soup toppings is exquisite. It is a seven-minute walk from the “Torichosuji” tram stop.

    We were recommended by a staff from Hotel Wing International to try Tonkatsu ramen in this shop. Overall ramen is nice except the soup was a too salty for me. The pork was nice, melting and tender...

  • Amakusa Kaisen-Kura / Dolphin Watching Center
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    4.0
    25 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kumamoto Pref. Amakusashi Itsuwamachionike 4733-1
    The Amakusa Dolphin Watching Center has a seafood restaurant attached with meal plans available that are popular with tourists. They hold seafood bakes featuring the fresh and seasonal bounty of the sea from around Amakusa. Their hearty awabi-odoriyaki (grilled live abalone) and raw sea urchin on rice is popular. The restaurant's right on the beach, so you can dine with a view of the sea.

    焼き牡蠣、アワビの刺身、生ウニ丼、スペシャル丼を 頂きました! 盛り付けは綺麗! お値段は観光地価格! 丼は酢飯で無かった! 海鮮として味は普通でした!

  • RAKUDAYAMA
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kumamoto Pref. Asoguntakamorimachi Takamori 2693-4
    This shop in Takamori Town, Aso County specializes in charcoal grilled chicken. The name of the store comes from Rakudayama (“Rakuda” means “camel”, and “yama” means “mountain” in Japanese), a nearby mountain that looks like a camel's hump. Smothered in their secret sauce, the taste is like no other. People usually eat it by cutting up the chicken with special scissors.
  • Aoyagi
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshichuouku Shimotori 1-4-26 Link Place Building 1F
    This restaurant located in Chuo Ward, Kumamoto City serves local cuisine. They offer a variety of raw horse meat sashimi dishes, spicy mustard filled lotus root, fresh Amakusa seafood, and seasonal Kumamoto fare. Their Honmaru Gozen Japanese style meal sets featuring local heirloom varieties of komatsuna greens, bean sprouts, and bobura squash revive the Edo period cuisine of the region.
  • EAT730
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    3.5
    7 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kumamoto Pref. Amakusashi Kawauramachimatomi Umegawa Hara 1630-4
    The “Sunset Line” (National Route 389), which runs through Kawaura Town in Amakusa City, Kumamoto Prefecture, is a well-known driving route, and this champon (noodles with seafood and vegetables) restaurant can be found alongside it. It uses soup made from a chicken bone and fish base as opposed to pork bones, giving it a soy sauce-like flavor distinct from typical champon. The light taste and seafood aroma will make you feel like you’re eating a homecooked meal. It comes with a generous helping of chewy, straight noodles and toppings that complement the soup perfectly.

    出汁の酒類が二種類(魚の燻製or鶏)から選べ、珍しい前者を選択し、大正解。半分程度食べ、かぼす?による味変も美味しかった。炒飯も美味。また、食べたいと思えるお店。 店主がユニークで笑わせてくれる人柄でかつなぜか鳶を呼べる。 支払い後の謎のじゃんけんあり。

  • Yakiniku NURUBON GARDEN Arao
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kumamoto Arao-shi Honide 1518-90
    Located about 3 minutes by car from the Arao Cultural Center, this yakiniku restaurant offers all-you-can-eat Korean cuisine and yakiniku meat directly from the butcher shop in the beer factory facility. The high ceiling gives the restaurant a sense of openness, making it suitable for a variety of occasions such as dates, business entertainment, family dinners, and banquets, etc. A wide variety of dishes are available, including a three-piece selection of strictly selected Japanese beef, beef tongue, and Hakata Jidori chicken thighs.
  • Tengoku Horse Meat Specialty Restaurant
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    4.0
    25 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshinishiku Nihongi 2-13-12 Heaven Building 2F
    This restaurant in Nihongi, Kumamoto City serves local fare with a focus on cuisine featuring horse meat. Items include horse steak, horse shabushabu (a Japanese hotpot dish of thinly sliced meat boiled with vegetables and dipped in sauce) and horse intestine stew, as well as raw horse sashimi. Their Special Selection Course provides the chance to try a variety of horse dishes.

    熊本名物の馬肉料理を提供するレストラン。 人気店との事ですが、平日のオープンと同時だったの直ぐに席に着けました。 ミニ馬刺盛6種とひれステーキのスペシャル定食(3300円)をオーダー、ステーキは細切れで食べ応えが乏しかったです。 Paypayなどの電子マネーは使えませんでした。

  • Unryuken
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    4.0
    5 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kumamoto Pref. Tamanashi Yamada 1954-1
    Located in Tamana City, this noodle shop's ramen has a delicate flavor; that's quite popular. Its features a thick and rich tonkotsu pork bone stock made with carefully selected water. Even so, it's light on the palate and just salty enough to bring out the savoriness. The noodles are made with local wheat and have a firm texture.

    天琴の評判の悪さや大輪ラーメンの獣臭いラーメンは、もはや玉名ラーメンを名乗る資格なし。千龍と桃園がやっと玉名ラーメンの面目を引き継いでいる。 寂しくなったと思っていたら、口コミで雲龍亭を知り食べに行った。店内は小綺麗。女性だけで運営されている。名店は重苦しい雰囲気の所が多いが、ここは明るい。駐車場も小道をはさんで拡張され、空きの有無を心配することはない。スープが若干塩辛いが、地産地消の小麦を使...

  • Ebino Miyagawa (Shikaki Shop)
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    4.0
    14 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kumamoto Pref. Amakusashi Shikakimachi Takagaki 2698-1
    This seafood restaurant in Amakusa City serves fresh Japanese tiger prawns they farm themselves in the waters off Amakusa. The reasonably priced menu includes their popular Prawn Kaiseki banquet cuisine and their Miyagawa Gozen Japanese meal sets featuring prawn and other local marine bounty. These sets are limited to 10 meals per day.

    天草観光後、天草で聞いて立ち寄った。 定休日は決まっていないようだが、訪問日では店前に「しばらくの間、火水木休み」と、今日は金曜日ラッキー! 基本テーブル席のみ、メニューを見ると天ぷら・天丼・焼き海老・刺身・フライと料理は何でもあれ!という状態であった。 好きな物を注文できる。 折角なので、海老会席+エビフライ付きを注文。各単品の海老料理にご飯、味噌汁、新香それにデザート?としてわらび餅がついてい...

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Kumamoto lies in the center of Kyushu, a calm prefecture perfect for easy strolls around the historic center and lazy evenings in the natural hot springs at Kurokawa Onsen. For a slightly more strenuous activity, head to Mount Aso, whose surrounding hills offer hiking opportunities aplenty with views over the active volcano.

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