Japanese Food Spots in Oita Area

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Category

Gourmet / Alcohol

Japanese Food

Sofuren Main Restaurant

4.0

91 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Oita Hita-shi Wakamiyamachi 416-1

"This restaurant invented and serves Hita yakisoba noodles. The longstanding establishment is also the flagship location of a chain of restaurants with franchises across the Kyushu region and the rest of Japan. The restaurant's previous owner is believed to have invented the word ""yakisoba."" The restaurant is most notable for making everything in-house, including not only the noodles and sauce but even the toppings. In addition to set meals, you can also order toppings like a raw egg a la carte. The restaurant also offers a full array of sides and desserts, and even sells yakisoba noodles packaged to give as a gift and in chilled packs which you can take home and enjoy at your leisure."

The yakisoba with bean sprouts is a famous dish in Hita area. However I was not impressed though I love bean sprouts. just so-so.
Toyotsune

Gourmet / Alcohol

Oita Pref. Beppushi Kitahama 2-13-11

A popular restaurant founded over 90 years ago which serves tendon tempura rice bowls covered with a secret sauce handed down by the original proprietor. The hearty tokudai tendon comes topped with two extra large shrimp and four kinds of vegetables. Diners can also enjoy sashimi made with fresh, plump seafood caught in the Bungo Channel; such Oita specialties as toriten chicken tempura, ryukyu marinated sashimi, and dangojiru dumpling soup. A 10-minute walk from JR Beppu Station.
Taketa Marufuku

Gourmet / Alcohol

Oita Taketa-shi Taketamachi 550-6

This restaurant, a five-minute walk from JR Bungo-Taketa Station, continues to be a local favorite and is notably popular for its karaage fried chicken, which stands out from the herd even in the mecca for karaage that is Oita. The restaurant's famous karaage, which has won the grand prize at the OBS Food Stadium competition, is crisp on the outside and juicy on the inside. This exquisite karaage is hearty and filling as well, being made with an entire chicken thigh. The restaurant's zuri miso chicken gizzard pickled in miso, chicken nanban deep fried chicken with vinegar and tartar sauce, and toriten chicken tempura, which are prepared to order, are also popular. The restaurant offers set meals and a la carte dishes, and takeout is also available. Order takeout over the phone and you'll be able to pay and pick up your meal without having to wait.
Wakaeya

4.0

21 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Oita Pref. Kitsukishi Kitsuki 665-429

A long-standing restaurant established in the early Edo period and located in Kitsuki, Kitsuki City. The restaurant is famous for its “Ureshino” sea bream chazuke (sea bream on rice covered in tea) made with Kitsuki tea and sea bream marinated in a sesame sauce crafted according to a secret family recipe. The dish derived its name from a phrase from a former lord of Kitsuki. It is said that he murmured “ureshii noo” (“I am happy”) upon eating sea bream chazuke. The flavor of this tasty dish has been passed down unchanged for generations.

こちらのお店は、天皇陛下もお越しになって、お食事された有名店。鯛茶漬けが有名だそうですが、一緒に頂いた日本酒「智恵美人」も美味しかったです。鯛茶漬けは、あまりにも美味しかったので、『おかわり』したいくらいでした。
Port Station Beppu Traffic Center

3.5

50 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Oita Pref. Beppushi Shinminatomachi 6-46

A souvenir and gift store standing on the Kokura Kaido Highway in Shinminato-machi, Beppu City. The store sells specialty products, seafood, local sake, and arts and crafts from Oita and throughout Kyushu. The adjoining Take Miraikan museum displays examples of traditional Beppu takezaiku bamboo work. Local dishes are served in the facility’s two restaurants—Take no Restaurant Chikushi and Umibe no Restaurant Shiosai, which boasts a sweeping view of Beppu Bay.

別府温泉のおみやげが揃っていると、わざわざ駐車料金まで払って買いに行った。880円で買った商品が道の駅で650円で売っていた。約35％高であった。こんなにも高く売るのは消費者として納得し難い。二度と行かない。
Kappo Heike

Gourmet / Alcohol

Oita Pref. Beppushi Ishigakihigashi 7-2-14

A kappo Japanese cuisine restaurant located in 7 Chome Ishigakihigashi, Beppu City. The restaurant’s seafood is made with fish from the restaurant’s own live tank as well as mackerel and horse mackerel caught with a fishing pool in the sea of Saganoseki. The establishment serves local Seki mackerel and Seki horse mackerel ikizukuri; local cuisine meals which include dishes like chicken tempura and Ryukyu; and seafood course meals. A reservation only all-you-can-eat buffet is located on the third floor; the restaurant also operates a rooftop beer garden in summer.
Kaisen Izutsu

4.0

146 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Oita Pref. Beppushi Kusunokimachi 5-5

A seafood restaurant located in Kusunoki-machi, Beppu City. The restaurant serves dishes made with local Seki mackerel, Seki horse mackerel, blow fish, and other fresh, seasonal seafood. Popular lunch selections include a seafood rice bowl topped with around 10 different varieties of seasonable seafood, and Ryukyu, a local dish consisting of marinated sashimi.

A steal especially during lunch:980y for the kaisen don, which came with soup, tofu and an appetizer. There was a limited English menu provided, which didnt include translations for the ala carte...
Yamadaya

4.0

1 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Oita Pref. Bungotakadashi Usuno 3558-1

"This seafood restaurant is located along National Road 213 in Usuno, Bungotakada City. It offers seafood dishes such as sashimi, sushi, grilled dishes, simmered dishes and tempura using the seasonal seafood of Oita. It is also an authorized shop of the local Bungotakada gourmet ""Misaki kakiage don"" (mixed tempura bowl), and you can also taste the Bungotakada specialty ""Misaki gazami"" (blue crab) when it's in season."

海鮮系ならだいたい揃っています。日替わり定食を食べましたが、値段の割に結構品数も多く満足でした。ただ、お昼は混み合うので、注文をしてからだいぶ待たされました。急ぎの時は余りおすすめできません。
Kakumasa

Gourmet / Alcohol

Oita Usa-shi Minami-usa 2213-1

A restaurant and gift shop situated along the approach to Usa-jingu Shrine in Minamiusa, Usa City. The restaurant serves set meals consisting of local Oita cuisine such as toriten chicken tempura and dangojiru dumpling soup; noodles like chabamen made with tea leaves from Yabakei Gorge; donburi rice bowls; and more. The adjoining gift shop sells popular confections like Usa Ikkon, local vegetables, and specialty products from Oita and Kyushu. Customers can also enjoy matcha powdered green tea manju steamed dumplings made with local Toyonoka green tea.
Hamachaya

3.5

14 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Oita Tsukumi-shi Chinu 6029

A Japanese seafood restaurant situated along National Route 217 in Chinu, Tsukumi City. This establishment is one of the area's restaurant's which serve the Tsukumi hyuga-don, a local Tsukumi City specialty consisting of a bowl of rice topped with lean red tuna garnished with a special sesame sauce. The restaurant is also famous for its tuna steaks.

家族旅行で大分を訪れ、お魚が食べたいと思いネットで検索して浜茶屋が良さそうだったので訪れました。メニューはどれも美味しそうで、家族も注文した料理が楽しみでワクワクしていました。待つこと数分後、子供達の料理、次に妻と私の料理が出て来ました。そこまでは、楽しんでいたのですが・・・。出てきた私のご飯の蓋を外したら、ご飯の上に黒い物が。一瞬、一緒に出てきた小鉢のヒジキ料理が入ってしまった？と思ったので...
Ohara Chaya

4.5

7 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Oita Hita-shi Tashima 2 Ohara Jinja Agaru

"A Japanese restaurant located in Tashima 2-Chome, Hita City. This restaurant is famous for its hanatebo bentos, which consists of a variety of dishes made with local, seasonal vegetables and edible wild plants served in a regional type of basket called a ""hanatebo."" Here customers can enjoy lunchtime a la carte dishes and set meals such as the hanatebo bento with local grilled chicken, and the hanatebo bento with Bungo beef served kuwayaki style; as well as kuzukiri made with Yoshino kuzu and Okinawan brown sugar syrup."

We come from Taiwan. First time here. This restaurant is excellent. Reasonable price. Very good quality food, nice service, must come and try.
Sanshoro

Gourmet / Alcohol

Oita Pref. Yufushi Yufuinchoukawakami Tanaka 2850-5

A Japanese restaurant opened in 2013 by Yufuin Food Research Institute representative Ken’ichi Shin’ei. Here you can enjoy cuisine made with delicious Yufuin vegetables. Particularly popular are the Bungo beef, Kanmuri chicken, and mountain and ocean-themed “awase-bako” (boxed) meals which hide the local seafood dish known as “Ryukyu.” An eight-minute walk from JR Yufuin Station.
Yufu Mabushi Shin Ekimae Branch

Gourmet / Alcohol

Oita Pref. Yufushi Yufuinchoukawakita 5-32F

A restaurant famous for its mabushi gohan, rice topped with meat. Shin offers mabushi gohan topped with Yufuin eel, Oita Bungo beef, and Toyo shamo chicken raised in Yufuin’s Shonai-cho neighborhood. Preparing its rice in proper earthenware pots, diners are encouraged to enjoy their first serving of lavishly topped mabushi gohan plain, the second with condiments of their choice, and the third chazuke-style with dashi. The shop’s hearty pickles, served as appetizers and palate-cleansers between courses, will make sure you go home satisfied. A one-minute walk from Yufuin Station on the Kyudai Main Line.
Fukuju Tsukasa

Gourmet / Alcohol

Oita Saiki Nakamurahigashimachi 4-11
Ajimutei

4.5

5 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Oita Usa-shi Ajimumachi Niibaru 59-4

This soft-shelled turtle cuisine restaurant is a three-minute drive from the Ajimu Interchange on the Higashikyushu Expressway. Located in Ajimu, an area known for its soft-shelled turtle production, the restaurant does everything in-house, from turtle cultivation to sales. Soft-shelled turtle meat is highly nutritious and popular as a beauty-enhancing food because of the abundance of collagen it contains, and here you can enjoy soft-shelled turtle cuisine at reasonable prices. The full course soft-shelled turtle meal is particularly recommended and comes with mizutaki plain-boiled soft-shelled turtle with dipping sauce, kakketsu medicinal turtle blood tonic, sashimi, karaage deep-fried turtle, and more. The restaurant also offers a lower-priced mini course meal, and a la carte dishes such as chawanmushi savory egg custard with either soft-shelled turtle egg or shell edge meat.

Had a group lunch here. We were greeted with smiles and professional service throughout the meal. The turtle soup was spectacular and they had special arrangements for the kids as well. Definitely...
Takimien

5.0

2 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Oita Usa-shi Ajimumachi Higashi-shiiya 802

This restaurant is located next to Higashi Shiiya Falls, included in the 100 Views of New Japan list, a 20-minute drive from the Ajimu Interchange on the Higashikyushu Expressway. Customers can enjoy local cuisine and a view of the falls as well as the surrounding natural, seasonal beauty. The restaurant's soft-shelled turtle hotpot is made with the shell and meat of the turtle cooked in pure underground spring water and sake; you can also enjoy zosui rice gruel made with the leftover broth when you're done. The restaurant's soft-shelled turtle course meal is particularly popular and comes with soft-shelled turtle hotpot, sashimi, karaage deep-fried turtle, pickled turtle, kakketsu medicinal turtle blood tonic, and zosui rice gruel. Other recommendations include the restaurant's Japanese salmon and other river fish cuisine, charcoal grilled local chicken, and exquisite pond snail sauteed with miso.

すっぽんのコースが食べられて宿泊出来、低料金です。宿泊施設には小さなタオルが1枚なので持参をおすすめします。浴衣や歯ブラシあり。部屋に冷蔵庫はありません。
Uodokoro Maruman

4.0

1 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Oita Usa-shi Takamori 737-2

This Japanese kaiseki course cuisine restaurant, a 10-minute drive from Usa-jingu Shrine as well as the Usa Interchange on the Higashikyushu Expressway (Usa-Beppu Road), is located next to the Oita Prefectural Museum of History. Here customers can enjoy the unique beauty and flavors of Japanese cuisine crafted using fresh seafood caught in the Buzen Sea and ingredients cultivated in Usa. The lunchtime Okesa Mori Gozen meal is particularly recommended and comes with local seasonal fish prepared nitsuke-style stewed in soy sauce or flame broiled. The Kaguya-hime Gozen meal is also popular and comes with flavorful, old-fashioned bread gratin.

地元の方のおすすめできました。とても建物も内装も上品なつくりで、落ち着いた雰囲気があります。接待でも使えます。バリアフリーにはなっていないので、座敷に入るときは靴を脱いで、段差を上がります。料理も上品な味でした。とても美味しかったです。
Horikawa Omoya

4.5

3 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Oita Usuki-shi Gion Nishi 5 Kumi

This locally popular fugu cuisine restaurant, a seven-minute drive from the Usuki Interchange on the Higashikyushu Expressway, operates out of an old Japanese home which blends in with the surrounding townscape of the former castle town of Usuki. Here customers can enjoy a relaxing meal in a private dining room while taking in a view of a scrupulously maintained garden. The restaurant offers a wide selection of choices, from a full course fugu meal which includes things like fugu sashimi served with a homemade ponzu citrus sauce and other condiments, and luxurious karaage deep fried fugu made with some of the meatiest parts of the fish; to a reasonably-priced, casual fugu mini kaiseki course meal.

臼杵のフグは福岡のフグ料理よりもリーズナブルです。わざわざ臼杵まで行き食べる価値はあります。フグ刺しは量が多くて肉厚ですから食べ応えがあります。大分では肝も食べますので、その食感は絶品です。フグの唐揚げはプリプリした身をジューシーさを保って揚げてあります。てっちりも美味しいのですが、お腹が一杯で食べるのがやっとというところです。味わうどころじゃなかったです（次回はペース配分を考えます）。福岡のフグ...
Mikakuto Komorebi

3.5

3 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Oita Usuki-shi Tatamiyamachi 8 Kumi

This Japanese restaurant, a 15-minute walk from JR Usuki Station, operates out of an old Japanese home over a century old standing on a lane near the atmospheric stone-paved Nioza Historical Road. The restaurant has counter and table seating as well as tatami mat seating with a view of an inner garden. The Mikaku Gozen meal is particularly popular and comes with white fish carpaccio served in a large lacquered bowl, three recommended side dishes, a vegetable assortment, the agemono deep fried dish of the day, and five pieces of nigiri sushi. The Himesama Gozen meal comes with health-oriented dishes such as soba noodles and a Japanese dessert, and is particularly popular with women.

午後２時すぎに昼食を探すと、みんな終えている。通りから小路地の目立たぬところに、あったのれん。なかは、手作りの和風居酒屋？姫御膳と大名御膳をいただく、姫御膳は、１０００円で品数、味も良くて、コーヒーとゼリー付き。大名御膳は、直径３０ｃｍほどの大器で提供。本当にかわいい寿司が５個とアジのたたき、揚げ物、ポテトサラダ１２００円と姫より高く、おなかは膨れないし、コーヒーもない。大名御膳...
Seigetsuan

5.0

4 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Oita Usuki-shi Nioza Kiridoshi 132 no 2

This traditional shojin Buddhist vegetarian cuisine restaurant, a 10-minute walk from Usuki Station on the JR Nippo Main Line, stands on the Nioza Historical Road, a stretch of historic castle town lined with old samurai residences and Buddhist temples. The restaurant serves cuisine crafted on the principle of self-sufficiency which combines traditional Zen recipes mastered by the owner, a Rinzai Myoshinji Buddhist priest, when in training; with new, creative recipes he has invented. The restaurant is famous for its goma-dofu crafted with sesame paste personally ground by the owner over an hour-long period. The restaurant offers meals to suit a variety of budgets and also serves desserts and beverages such as matcha green tea.

精進料理が好きなので、数多くの場所で頂いております。これまでの飲食店や寺院での献立や品数などは、だいたいが平均化しています。立地場所によっては温泉地や都心であるが故に、プレミア価格の割に内容が伴わず、稀に手抜きにしか見えない献立で呆れることもあります。この大分県臼杵市の武家屋敷が残る街並みにある星月庵では、創意工夫が献立の随所に見受けられ、見た目も美しく、調理に非常に手間暇が掛かっています。さ...

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Oita Areas

A trip to Oita is tantamount to a long soak in the Beppu baths. The mountainous, coastal prefecture of Oita is renowned for having more onsen than any other prefecture in Japan, most of which lie in the city of Beppu on the west coast of Kyushu, recognizable by its pungent sulphuric aroma and the clouds of steam that puff up across the hillside. Away from the Beppu hot springs await mountains, waterfalls, and temples, so don’t hesitate to explore Oita a little further.