Local Cuisine Spots in Kumamoto Area

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Category

Gourmet / Alcohol

Japanese Food

Local Cuisine

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.
Takamori Dengaku no Sato

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...
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.
Umazakura (Shimotori Shop)

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshichuouku Shimotori 1-12-1 Mitsuen Building 2F

This restaurant located in Chuo Ward, Kumamoto City serves local cuisine. They specialize in fresh and delicious fare featuring horse meat, a Kumamoto local favorite. You can try it raw sashimi style, steamed on a bamboo tray, or in a hot pot. They also have creative dishes you won't find at other shops like horse offal stew and Tataki (seared horse). They're famous for their horse steaks, which are particularly juicy when rare.
Suganoya Horumon Shinshigai Restaurant

4.0

32 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Kumamoto-shi Chuo-ku Shinshigai 2-10 Comfort Hotel Kumamoto 1F

Suganoya Horumon is a restaurant specializing in horsemeat located in Shinshigai 2 Chome, Chuo Ward, in the city of Kumamoto. In addition to the usual raw horsemeat, customers can try unusual organ meats raw, grilled, or in chitterling stews. The most popular menu items are Ganso Suganoya Chitterlings in Soy Sauce and Seven Types of Raw Horsemeat. There are also prix fixe meals featuring grilled horsemeat.

熊本まで来たので、美味しい馬肉が食べたいと思い、「菅乃屋新市街店」さんへやってきました。私はギリギリ入店することができたのですが、私以降の方は満席でお断りされていました。人気のお店ですね。まずは、レモンサワーでスタート！！お通しは、馬のネギトロ、ミートソース味で超美味いっす！！ [レバー刺し] 数量限定というレバー刺しをまずはオーダー！！新鮮なレバー刺しは最初コリコリ食感で、口の中...
Tengoku Horse Meat Specialty Restaurant

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。
Suganoya Ginza-dori Shop

4.0

70 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshichuouku Shimotori 1-9-10 TM 21 building BF

Suganoya is a restaurant specializing in horsemeat, located along Ginza-dori Avenue in Shimotori 1 Chome, Chuo Ward, in the city of Kumamoto. Diners can enjoy horse meat in several forms: raw, grilled, in a stew, or in “sushi.” They can also try raw horse liver or rare organ meats. Full-course meals are available in the evening, and at lunchtime, diners can choose steaks or raw horsemeat set meals.

SUGANOYA offers horse cuisine which they make certain you understand before seating you. This is a nice gesture on their part as I can see being a clueless tourist and not knowing what you are...
Takamori Dengaku Hozonkai

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...
Farmhouse restaurant Tangoyama

5.0

17 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Asoshi Mikubo 285

This restaurant in Aso City serves local cuisine. Their yakiniku Japanese barbecue and country cooking are made with Aso meat and produce they raise themselves. The Aka beef for their yakiniku is light and little extra fat. The rice is home-grown, and the seasonal pickled vegetables are all homemade too. It's a great spot for a relaxing meal while gazing at the mountains of Aso.

The restaurant is along route 149 and easily accessible by car. There are enough parking spaces outside the restaurant. Nice family run restaurant that serve only beef BBQ. We ordered 6 beef sets...
Shiromiyagura

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Kumamotoshichuouku Hanabatachou 1-10 Kumamoto Castle Nagahori-mae

This restaurant located in Chuo Ward, Kumamoto City serves local cuisine including spicy mustard filled lotus root, hitomoji-no-guruguru (boiled green onions tied in a knot), and raw horse meat sashimi, a local Kumamoto favorite. These dishes are featured in their Aso Kaiseki sets which showcase the flavors of Kumamoto. Their Shiromi Kaiseki sets mainly consist of seasonal Japanese fare. All-you-can-drink options and other plans are available, too. They have private rooms and a banquet area where you can dine while gazing out at Kumamoto Castle. Reservations are required.
Tsuji no Chaya

4.5

4 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Asogunminamiogunimachi Manganji 7036

"This local restaurant is located along the Hida Okan in the Manganji area of Minamioguni Town, Aso County. It offers a menu of local dishes such as sukiyaki rice bowls with Aso's ""Aka beef,"" horse sashimi and Dango-jiru (dumpling soup), set meals using local ingredients, noodles, rice bowls and sweets."

ドライブの途中で立ち寄りました。熊本名物のあかうしを頂けました。美味しかったです。定食系のメニューが豊富なので、いろいろ試してみたくなります。
Roadside Station Asobo no Sato Kuginonai Akaushi no Yakata

4.5

15 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Aso-gun Minamiasomura Hisaishi 2815

A yakiniku Japanese-style grill-it-yourself barbecue restaurant adjoining a roadside station located at the foot of Mt. Aso. Taking pride in its use of Aka beef, a local specialty product raised on the abundant grasslands of southern Aso, here customers can enjoy tender, lean, flavorful meat. This meat is particularly popular with women because it has just the right amount of fat and doesn't make you feel heavy even after eating a lot of it. The restaurant's floor-to-ceiling windows provide diners with a panoramic view of the naturally beautiful Aso area, and the scenery created by the outer crater rim and mountain foot is quite popular. The sight of the famous Isshingyo Sakura Tree in full bloom in spring is also stunning. In the restaurant's meat shop, you can purchase meat to take home with you.

ほとんど満杯に近い駐車場からあか牛の館に行くと、まだ窓側の席が残っていて安堵した。窓越しの阿蘇五岳を眺めながら柔らかくて口の中でとろけるあか牛の焼肉を堪能した。たくさん食べてもちっとも胸やけがしなかった。
Yamatake

4.0

30 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Aso-gun Minamiogunimachi Kurokawa Onsen

Located in Kurokawa Onsen, this Japanese yam cuisine restaurant boasts an irori sunken hearth and a soothing atmosphere. The restaurant serves traditional Minamioguni Town cuisine which leverages the innate flavors of the ingredients used, such as dagojiru soup with dumplings made from grated Japanese yam; and chicken soup, a dish usually eaten on special occasions. All of the restaurant's Japanese yam and rice were diligently grown by the owner. The restaurant takes tastes which convey the history and culture of this rural area and brings them into the present while also passing them on to the future.

Things seem to have changed since these reviews from 2019. Rice and yams are good! The meat, however, was a disgrace for an area that prizes good meat. The pork was obviously frozen, and the beef...
Kojiro Buchi

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Aso-shi Kurokawa 1303-2

This local cuisine restaurant is situated on the north side of Aso Station. The restaurant serves dishes made with beef from cows diligently raised by the owner. Dedicated to the concept of neither creating nor serving anything which the owner would not serve to his own grandchildren, almost all of the restaurant's ingredients are produced on his own farm, including the flavorful, highly nutritious beef; chicken, vegetables; and rice. The restaurant also avoids making use of advanced preparation as much as possible and prepares food one dish at a time to order, ensuring customers can enjoy the flavor of truly fresh-made cuisine.
Kuzushi Kappo An

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Kumamoto-shi Chuo-ku

"This horsemeat restaurant stands on Sumo-machi-dori Street. Desiring to make Japanese cuisine lighter and more fun, the restaurant serves authentic Japanese cuisine ""Kuzushi Kappo"" style. The restaurant's popular horsemeat shabushabu comes in three varieties - the spicy and addicting golden broth, the soy milk-based white broth, and the rich tomato red broth. Those who order this dish can savor luxurious shabushabu made with horsemeat so fresh it can be eaten raw. Many of the restaurant's choices can be found nowhere else in Kumamoto Prefecture, such as the special fatty horsemeat sashimi, made with sweet meet from the rib area; and horsemeat nigiri sushi made with rice grown on the restaurant's own farm."
Mutsugoro

4.5

47 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Kumamoto-shi Chuo-ku Hanabatacho 12-11 Green Hotel B1F

This horsemeat restaurant is located a three-minute walk from Hanabatacho Station. Inside the folksy, old-fashioned restaurant, customers can savor Kumamoto's unique horsemeat cuisine, such as basashi horsemeat sashimi, hearty and filling horsemeat tenderloin steaks; and horsemeat seared tataki style. The restaurant stocks only choice, top quality horsemeat. The Gokujo Basashi horsemeat sashimi is particularly exquisite and is thoroughly aged to give it a melt-in-your-mouth texture.

熊本が誇るグルメ＝馬肉。全国どこで食べても同じ、という料理は多いが、熊本で食べる馬刺しは絶対他では食べられない。県内にはたくさんの馬肉専門店があり、特に熊本市は激戦区。だからこそ、絶対ハズしたくないでしょう。そこで、ツウな人たちはマストでここを選ぶ。なぜなら、本気度が違うから。全国からくるアーティストや、バンドマン、有名ギタリスト...
Gorohachi

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Kumamoto-shi Chuo-ku Hanabatacho 12-8 Icho Hall BF 1F

This local cuisine restaurant is located a two-minute walk from Hanabatacho Station on the Kumamoto City Tram. The restaurant serves an abundant variety of Kumamoto's famous horsemeat cuisine, including basashi horsemeat sashimi, horsemeat nigiri sushi, and shabushabu. The restaurant's black decor engenders a luxurious atmosphere befitting the high class ingredients it uses. The restaurant is also replete with quiet, private dining areas and can be used to celebrate a trip to Kumamoto as well as for celebrations, business entertainment, and all manner of dining engagements. The restaurant's vaunted fatty horsemeat nigiri sushi is an exquisite, first-rate dish which melts on the tongue. The restaurant's nigiri sushi and sashimi made with superbly fresh seafood shipped straight from the fishing port is also acclaimed.
Himawari-tei

4.5

2 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Hitoyoshi-shi Yaguromachi 1880-2

A country restaurant on the Kuma River in a relocated and rebuilt traditional kominka house that's over 120-years old. They serve safe and reliably good homemade dishes made with local seasonal ingredients. The popular and hearty Himawari meal set features new potato croquettes, nanbanzuke pickled fish, dumpling soup packed with ingredients, and colorful side dishes. The vegetable-based meal is nutritionally balanced and free of chemical seasonings. Servings of local rice grown with minimal agricultural chemicals is free. They also sell handmade boxed lunches, ideal for events and training programs (must be ordered in advance).

ランチがリーズナブルでしっかりした量が出てくる。味もよく、店内もきれいだけれども、駅から少し遠いのでタクシーで行くと楽。店員さんも働き者で、オーナーさんも顧客重視かつ、雇用を創出して評価されてる人
Sasano

Gourmet / Alcohol

Act 5 birr 2F, 4-2-11, Shinmachi, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto, 860-0004
OENSANNENZAKATEN

4.5

3 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

2 - 4F, 5-4, Anseicho, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto, 860-0801

三年坂にある御縁さんにお邪魔。前から、外から見て綺麗なお店だと思い気になってました。郷土料理から、和食・焼き鳥・居酒屋メニューだと豊富なメニューラインナップですね。店内は、凄い凝ってて落ち着く雰囲気のお店でした。ご馳走さまでした。

Kumamoto

Kumamoto City Kikuchi / Yamaga Arao Tamana Aso Yatsushiro / Uki / Kamimashiki Amakusa

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Kumamoto Areas

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.