Japanese Food Spots in Aso Area

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Category

Gourmet / Alcohol

Japanese Food

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...
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...
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。
Kamon

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Aso-gun Takamorimachi Takamori 1538-1

"This restaurant is located close to Takamori Station, known as the departure station for Minamiaso Railway's torokko train ""Yusuge-go."" The restaurant operates out of remodeled old Japanese home with eye-catching hand-carved transoms and knot-free alcove post. Surrounded by the restaurant's elegant atmosphere, customers can enjoy choice traditional kaiseki course cuisine made with local edible wild plants and vegetables, dengaku roasted dishes, tempura, and shinjo fish cakes. In addition to the food itself, the restaurant pays fastidious attention to the tableware and atmosphere. The restaurant becomes particularly busy on weekends and prospective customers are encouraged to make an advance reservation before visiting."
Sansuien

4.0

1 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Aso-gun Minamiasomura Kain 3717-1

This restaurant is located on the way from Mt. Tawara to Takamori. A certified local production for local consumption establishment, the restaurant serves local cuisine using an abundance of homemade and local ingredients. Enclosed in the restaurant's relaxing, old-fashioned atmosphere, the dengaku roasted dishes, eaten after being slow-broiled over the fire of an irori sunken hearth, have an exceptional flavor. Here customers can enjoy a view of the seasonal scenery of Mt. Yomine along with the tastes of Aso, such as the Sansui Dengaku Course, which comes with sides; dagojiru soup; and seven varieties of dengaku skewers, including local chicken, yamame trout, tofu, and vegetables.

囲炉裏があり、天井の高くよい雰囲気です。夕食に地鶏飯をいただきました。定食もあるのですが、定食が割高に感じてしまい、単品で。あっさりとしていて、おいしくいただけました。
Hakusui no Kura

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Aso-gun Minamiasomura Shirakawa 445-1

The old-fashioned air of the bygone Showa era hangs around this Japanese restaurant located in Minamiaso Village. The restaurant serves cuisine made with fresh Higo beef and horsemeat, such as a Japanese-style curry made with Higo beef sirloin grilled over a charcoal fire; as well as a local traditional chicken breed set meal made only with meat from chickens no older than three months. The luxurious Kura Teishoku set meal, the most popular item on the menu, gives you the chance to enjoy fresh, charcoal grilled Japanese black beef, local traditional chicken breed meat, and horsemeat, all in one meal. The filling meal also comes with rice, dagojiru soup, and sides. For an added fee, you can change your rice to mustard leaf rice, a dish eaten in the Aso area since ancient times.
Tofu Kissho

4.0

20 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Aso-gun Minamiogunimachi Manganji 6618

This tofu restaurant is located in Kurokawa Onsen in Minamioguni Town. Enclosed in the restaurant's relaxing atmosphere and situated near its sunken irori hearth, you can enjoy cuisine made with simple yet highly nutritious tofu at reasonable prices. The Tofu Teishoku Ume set meal is particularly popular; created using handmade tofu and konnyaku yam cake, the meal consists of dishes which locals have eaten in the region since ancient times on formal days and during Buddhist memorial services. Also great is the fact that you can get free rice and tofu refills. The restaurant's popular tofu soft serve ice cream is made using a mix of botanical ingredients and tofu, giving it a light, refreshing flavor. The restaurant's thick atsuage and Kisshoage deep fried tofu are available for takeout if you ask.

Nice athmosphere. Some of the tofus where very good. For lunch just one or two plates are enough. If you only like hot tofu dishes, remember to ask for them. The ”sushi” is obviously not sushi, but...
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.
Akaushidomburiwasaki

4.5

3 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Asoshi Otohime 2006-2

平日に開店と同時に入店しましたが、どんどんお客さんが入り続けていました。赤身ですがミディアムレアに焼いた肉は柔らかくジューシー。薬味の味噌やワサビもタレにマッチして美味しい。ただ、最近は肉ブームで良質のステーキ丼がどこでも食せるなか、価格を考えると少し肉の量が物足りない。
Ryokoji Jikidoh

Gourmet / Alcohol

427-1, Hisaishi, Minamiaso-mura, Aso-gun, Kumamoto, 869-1412
Asogurirukitchin Musubikazeten

Gourmet / Alcohol

1863, Ichinomiyamachimiyaji, Aso-shi, Kumamoto, 869-2612
Irori Sha Rokugatsu Roku Hi

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Aso-gun Minamiasomura Kawayo 734-1
oshokujisho daikonya

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Asoguntakamorimachi Takamori 2340-1
Shiki no Sato Hira

5.0

1 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Aso-gun Minamiogunimachi Manganji 50

「四季の里比良」に行き、田舎料理定食（2160円）を注文。地元で採れた山の幸が堪能できます。電話予約した時、「美味しくしておきますので、気をつけてお越しください」と言われた時、面白そうな人だなと思いましたが、やはり大将はよく喋り、話が面白くて楽しかったです。阿蘇大観峰や黒川温泉にお越しの際には是非、寄ってみてください。また行きたいです。
Zenya

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Prefecture, Aso-gun, Minamioguni-machi Oda Onsen
sosakukateiryori chikyuya

4.0

1 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Pref. Asogunminamiasomura Hisaishi 2972-5

あそ望の郷久木野の道を挟んだ向かい側です。阿蘇山を眺めながら食事を楽しむことができます。熊本市役所近くにあった頃から唐揚げが有名でしたが、場所が変わった今でもなかなかのボリュームで美味でした。
Tashiro Ya

4.0

5 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kumamoto Aso-shi Ichinomiyamachi Miyaji 3054

阿蘇神社の南側の鳥居の目の前にあるおまんじゅう屋さんです。回転焼きのような感じで白あん黒あんの２種類ありました。生地が薄めでモチっとした食感、お腹に余裕があれば白も黒も両方いただきたいと思える味でした。１個90円という観光地なのにお財布にやさしいお値段も〇

Kumamoto Aso

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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.