Local Cuisine Spots in Kumamoto City Area

  • 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.
  • 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
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    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
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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。

  • Suganoya Ginza-dori Shop
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    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...

  • 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.
  • 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
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    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.
  • Sasano
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Act 5 birr 2F, 4-2-11, Shinmachi, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto, 860-0004
  • OENSANNENZAKATEN
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    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。

  • Kenzo
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    4.5
    43 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Seven Hikari building B1, 1-8-24, Shimodori, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto, 860-0807

    熊本市中央区銀座通りにある[けんぞう]にお邪魔です。 郷土料理や馬肉料理の専門店です。店内には階段でおりて、入って左手にカウンター席、右手と奥にテーブル席があります。 とりあえず、キリン一番搾りで乾杯です♪ オーダー ・キリン一番搾り ・お通し 馬肉のスジ煮込み。スジ感を感じないぐらい柔らかく煮込んでありGOOD。 ・馬刺し 霜降り馬刺しはやっぱり美味しい!口の中で溶けます!2420円で1...

  • Matsukaze
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    4.0
    4 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    1F, 10-9, Hanabatacho, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto, 860-0806

    熊本市役所から少し歩いた所にある...

  • URABE
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    4.5
    4 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Ougi Bldg. 2F, 12-8, Hanabatacho, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto, 860-0806

    特選馬刺、自家製揚げたて辛子蓮根、匠の豚足を、生ビール2杯、白岳しろのロック2杯とともに、美味しく頂きました。今度いく時は、お造りと自家製からすみを食べたいです!事前予約をオススメします。カード不可なのでご注意下さい。

  • Otemoyan
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    5.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Takatsu Building 2F, 1-12-3, Shimodori, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto, 860-0807

    ビルの一階の奥にあるのでやや分かりにくい場所にあります。地元の熊本県のおばんざい料理とお酒をだす店。女将さんが優しくしてくれるので特に単身者には嬉しい。家庭的な料理から馬刺まであります。お酒も美味しい

  • KOUFUKURON
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    4.0
    9 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    1F, 3-8-6, Arayashiki, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto, 862-0975

    原則予約のコースにのみのお店です。まず最初に出される複数の料理が乗った物語運ばれますが、見た目も楽しめ一品一品美味しく頂けます。他の料理も味付けが見事で満足出来ます。使われている器もいいですね。

  • WAKO
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Suehiro Building 1F, 10-10, Hanabatacho, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto, 860-0806
  • Rurikon
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    5.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    1F, 1-17-16, Senbamachishimo, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto, 860-0018

    ミシュラン2つ星店。 ¥6,000のランチをいただきました。 ミシュラン2つ星店ですから,調理,味付けに問題があるはずが,ありません。 私は,食べログ,アドバイザー,さまざまな口コミ,ブログ,ガイドブックなどを見てきた結果,“ミシュラン星付き店...

  • Shunsaiyuzen AZAMI
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    SKY building 2F, 5-6, Anseicho, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto-shi, Kumamoto, 860-0801

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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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