Bread / Dessert / Other Food Shop Spots in Oita Area

  • Jigoku-Mushi Kobo Kannawa
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    4.0
    433 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Oita Pref. Beppushi Furomoto 5 pairs
    This is a facility where one can try “jigoku mushi (literally, hell steaming),” a traditional cooking method passed down from the Edo era in which foods are steamed to degrees of up to 98°C using the hot steam from the hot spring water, and the rapid process condenses their flavor. Foodstuffs for hell steaming are available on site, or one can bring their own. Inside the facility are also exhibits on the history of Kanawa, hot springs and hell steaming, a drinking area, and free-to-use foot steamer and bath.

    After reading various online articles for this place, I thought it was simply ~500 yen for 30 mins steam time and you can bring your own food. But it seems that recently theyve changed the prices...

  • Yufuin Yufufu
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    3.0
    83 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Oita Pref. Yufushi Yufuinchoukawakita 2-1
    A Western confectionary shop located in Kawakita, Yufuin-cho, Yufu City. The shop sells sweets made by the hands of seasoned pros using only the choicest ingredients, including fresh milk and eggs stocked daily. In addition to dozens of cakes and baked sweets, the shop sells signature Yufuin egg roll cakes and silky Yufu Highland pudding.

    visited on 11 dec 2019. rude japanese old service man. we ordered one pudding & one roll for 2 of us. As there was no more cake roll on display i ask if there is any. He shouted one or two. I should...

  • Katsura Chaya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Oita Pref. Kusugunkokonoemachi Tano 947-5
    A restaurant standing on Prefectural Route 40 in Tano, Kokonoe Town, Kusu County. The restaurant serves udon and soba noodles, curry, katsudon cutlet rice bowls, and set meals designed to serve large tour groups. The restaurant is adjoined by a souvenir shop and confectionary shop which sells original sweets such as “Oni no Me ni mo Namida,” a biscuit sandwich filled with crimson glory vine cream. Upon request, diners can also get discount admission for day trip bathing at the adjoining hot spring inns Nihiki no Oni and Tsurezure.
  • YUFUIN KASHIKOUBOU GOEMON
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    3.0
    1 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Oita Pref. Yufushi Yufuinchoukawakami 1984-212
    A Western confectionary shop adjoining the Ryokan Yufusan inn situated along Prefectural Route 11 in Kawakami, Yufuin-cho, Yufu City. The shop’s deliciously creamy and smooth signature half-baked cheesecake is made with Australian cheese and fresh eggs. The shop sells other Western style confections, as well, like roll cakes.

    湯布院土産に頂きました。 「甘太さくっとリッチサブレ」は見た目もさつま芋の輪切りっぽくしてあって可愛らしいサブレです。

  • Yamazatoryori Budoya
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Oita Pref. Yufushi Yufuinchoukawakami 2731-1 Yufuin Tamanoyu
    "This restaurant is located inside the hot spring inn ""Yufuin Tama-no-Yu"" in the Kawakami area of Yufuin-cho, Yufu City. They offer Yamazato cuisine using seasonal ingredients including local and mountain vegetables. The restaurant can also be used by guests other than hotel guests, and you can also dine on large tables of ancient cedar or dug out seats with an open hearth depending on the season. In addition, there is also an adjoining store selling homemade food products and pottery inside the facility."
  • Confectionery Hana Koji Kikuya
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    4.0
    17 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Oita Pref. Yufushi Yufuinchoukawakami 1524-1 Yodo no Yoritomo
    Located a 15-minute walk from JR Yufuin Station close to the entrance of Yasuragi Yu no Tsubo Yokocho alley, this confectionary shop offers a variety of famed Oita sweets perfect for buying as souvenirs. Confectionery Hana Koji Kikuya’s own “yufuin sosaku-gashi” is particularly well renowned, and the shop’s pudding dorayaki—pudding sandwiched between two soft dorayaki cakes—is so popular, it has even been featured on television. Hana Koji Kikuya’s selections also make popular snacks for eating on the go. “The Mitsuemon, “sold only when sweet potatoes are in season in fall and winter, has fans nationwide.

    ※正確には湯の坪横丁の菊家ではなく駐車場の前にある店舗のほうの事です。 ぷりんどらをお土産にするべく、花麹菊家をナビで検索したら車が入れない道端沿いでナビ終了して困っていたら、駐車場を見つけたので車を止めてきょろきょろしていると、道を挟んで目の前の大きな和菓子屋さんの入口に「ぷりんどら」ののぼりを発見。入って店員さんに聞くと、駐車場の下に降りて歩いて散策できる小路があり、そこにあるとのこと。でもこ...

  • Hanayori
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    4.0
    16 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Oita Pref. Yufushi Yufuinchoukawakami 1488-1
    A Japanese confection shop located in Yufuincho, Yufu City, Oita Prefecture located a one-minute walk from Lake Kinrin. This elegant shop, surrounded by trees, is filled with sweets masterfully crafted with the choicest of ingredients, such as only the smallest of renowned Hokkaido adzuki beans. The shop’s most popular item is its fresh yokan (sweet bean jelly), which is not overly sweet and leaves a clean aftertaste. The rich egg and honey flavor of Hanayori’s dorayaki (sponge cakes with filling) is perfectly matched by the sweetness of its coarse red bean paste filling; they also make a popular snack to enjoy while strolling about Yufuin.

    After visiting Kinrinko, I was craving for some sweets. I stopped by this cafe. There is indoor and outdoor sitting area. Kushidango is their most selling item. Dozen flavors to choose. I ordered...

  • B-speak
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    4.0
    518 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Oita Pref. Yufushi Yufuinchoukawakami 3040-2
    A roll cake specialty shop opened by Sanso Murata, a high-class ryokan (Japanese style hotel) in Yufuin Onsen in 1999, pioneering the roll cake trend in the nation. The shop’s lightly sweet cakes pay special attention to the balance between the cake and cream, ensuring a delicate flavor that is hard to get tired of. In addition to roll cakes, the shop offers galettes and florentins to customers dining in. A five-minute walk from JR Yufuin Station.

    We got the chocolate roll in small size. It was soooooo good. Not too sweet or too tough. My bf doesnt like dessert much but he seemed to be enjoy eating it!

  • Yufu
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    4.5
    7 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Oita Usuki-shi Tojinmachi 5 Kumi
    This yakitori chicken skewers restaurant, a seven-minute drive from the Usuki Interchange on the Higashikyushu Expressway, operates out of an atmospheric remodeled three story wooden Japanese home built in 1913. The Yufu Teishoku Jou is particularly recommended and comes with chawanmushi savory egg custard; chicken giblets picked in vinegar; and the restaurant's famous Yufu-yaki - choice chicken thigh meat grilled with a secret recipe sauce. The Kamameshi Set Meal is also popular and comes with chicken kamameshi rice and chawanmushi. The restaurant uses handmade, mineral-rich Nazuna sea salt in its dishes. Customers can also mail order the restaurant's Yufu-yaki.

    歴史を感じるお店です。昼食で入りました。豊富な鶏料理のメニューが並んでいますが、その中から「ゆふ定食」をいただきました。サラダ、小鉢(鶏肝の酢のもの)、味噌汁とご飯が先に配膳されて、アツアツの鉄板に乗った地鶏モモ肉が出てきます。焼ける音が食欲を引き出してくれます。地鶏のコリッとした食感にシンプルな塩・胡椒の味付けです。地鶏の美味しさを殺さない味付けで大変美味しくいただきました。

  • Kotegawa Shoten
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    4.0
    15 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Oita Usuki-shi Hamacho 1 Kumi
    This restaurant, a 15-minute walk from Usuki Station on the JR Nippo Main Line, is operated by a miso and soy sauce company now called Fundokin Shoyu Co., Ltd. which has been in business since 1861 at the end of the Edo period. Inside an elegant building as old as the company, customers can enjoy local Usuki cuisine. The Misoshiru Gozen meal is particularly popular and among other things comes with miso soup made with the company's Mukashigatari, a first-rate barley miso slow aged in wooden casks; and ohan yellow rice, a local dish which gets its yellow color from the use of cape jasmine fruit. The Misoshiru Gozen Hanano meal, which requires an advance reservation, comes with kirasumameshi koji carpaccio made with tuna. The restaurant's miso soft-serve ice cream, made with real miso, is also popular.

    こちらのショップでは全国に売っているお醤油やドレッシングなどが様々置いてあり、東京の我が家で普段使っているお醤油も、実はフンドーキンのものだと、ここへ来て初めて知りました。 お向かいの小手川酒店ではたくさんの種類のお酒を試飲することができます。焼酎の樽がいくつも置いてある酒蔵を見せてくださり、説明もしてくださいます。歴史とこの辺りの文化を肌で感じる時間を過ごすことができます。

  • Tomaya
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    4.5
    4 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Oita Kitsuki-shi Shinmachi 385
    "This Japanese tea specialty shop, a five-minute drive from the Kitsuki Interchange on the Oita Airport Road, is located in the valley in Japan's only ""sandwich"" castle town situated between the samurai residences of Kitsuki's Kitadai and Minamidai hills. The longstanding establishment was founded in the mid-Edo period. Operating out of the city's first building to be designated a National Tangible Cultural Property, the shop is filled with Edo period tea utensils, tea chests, tea mortars, and much more. The shop's Hokokuichi deep-steamed tea leaves are particularly popular and are prepared according to a proprietary method using leaves from specially contracted farms. In the shop's cafe space, you can enjoy fresh-brewed tea along with a rakugan candy or other Japanese sweet. Order the Matcha Set and you can also enjoy a simplified tea ceremony experience."

    I saw it on the local brochure that the tea shop gave lessons of the traditional art of tea, so I came. It seemed that they only gave lessons when there were two or more guests. However, they...

  • Futago Kawaraza
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    4.0
    13 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Oita Kunisaki-shi Akimachi Futago 1594-1
    This restaurant and souvenir shop, a 30-minute drive from Oita Airport, is located at the entrance to the approach to the Futago-ji Temple in the center of the Rokugo Manzan temples. The restaurant serves soba noodles made with famous spring water and dishes crafted from fresh local ingredients. Particularly popular selections include the Kaiun Soba meal, which includes cold zaru soba noodles as well as six small side dishes; and the Tenzaru Soba meal, which comes with zaru soba noodles and crispy, piping hot tempura made with seasonal vegetables. The hot Kamo Negi Soba noodles, just the thing to enjoy on a cold day, are served in a broth which perfectly pairs an abundance of locally grown spring onions with the rich flavor of duck. The omelet rice, made with tori meshi chicken rice, is also recommended. Pets are allowed in the restaurant's terrace seating area.

    We went earlier to visit Futagoji Temple. After we toured the temple, we looked for someplace to eat and found this place. Mostly served noodles and the offerings were limited. However, we were...

  • Kabo Izumiya
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    4.5
    8 Reviews
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    Oita Taketa-shi Kujumachi Kuju 4048-15
    This shop, a 30-minute drive from JR Bungo-Taketa Station, is located on the Kuju Highland and makes and sells KUJU'S yogurt as well as premium ice cream. KUJU's is a cheese-like yogurt produced according to a method based on the recipe for making skyr, a cultured dairy product from Iceland. Customers can enjoy it plain as well as flavors such as strawberry and blueberry. Recommended soft-serve ice cream flavors include black sesame, the shop's most popular variety; and the milk ice cream topped with piping hot caramel sauce.

    普段はお客さんが多いらしいのですが、来店した日は寒い上に風が強くお客さんはほぼいなかったです。 初来店だったので、スタンダードにバニラソフトクリームを注文。 ソフトクリームは濃厚だけどもしつこくなく、さっぱりいただけました。 それ以上に好きだったのが、黒ごま入りコーン。 手作りらしく、下の方にいくにつれ、コーンの巻きが多くなり、食べ応えがありました! 今度行くことがあれば黒ごまソフトクリームを注...

  • Tomoshu
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Oita Taketa-shi Taketamachi 284
    "This restaurant, a six-minute walk from JR Bungo-Taketa Station, primarily serves dishes made with seafood from the seas of Oita and vegetables from Taketa. Located in a part of the city which once flourished as the veritable pantry of the town beneath Oka Castle and which was once known as ""Fish Town"", the restaurant is famous for its ""atama ryori,"" a local dish born out of the necessity of life lived here far from the sea. Atama ryori involves boiling the head of a fish as well as its stomach, air bladder, liver, intestines, and lips and eating it with a sanbaizu sauce (equal parts vinegar, soy sauce, and mirin). An advance reservation is required to enjoy the restaurant's atama ryori. The establishment's whole enoha landlocked masu salmon sushi and its kabosu soba noodles are also popular, as is its brown rice soft-serve ice cream, which is sold at the front of the restaurant."
  • Tajimaya Roho
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Oita Taketa-shi Taketamachi 40
    This longstanding Japanese confectionary shop, a 10-minute walk from JR Bungo-Taketa Station, is the oldest such establishment in the prefecture, having been established in 1804. In the Edo period, the shop was an official purveyor of confections to the bygone Oka Domain. The shop's signature Mikasano and Kojo no Tsuki confections were originally officially presented to the lords of the domain; even today, they are popular and are two of Taketa's most well-known Japanese sweets. Depending on the time of day, you can watch Mikasano being made, and enjoy fresh baked ones along with a cup of tea in the adjoining Sabo Dandan cafe. The shop also sells seasonal namagashi fresh Japanese confections.
  • Tenryu
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Oita Nakatsu-shi Yabakei Machi Kakisaka 745-1
    This restaurant primarily serves wild game cuisine and is a 25-minute drive from the Hita Interchange and Kusu Interchange. Located near Yabakei Dam, it can be reached by heading a short distance north on Prefectural Route 28 and will be visible on the left-hand side. One of the restaurant's charms is that you can enjoy your meal along with a view of the Keisekien garden and Yabakei Dam. In addition to wild game, the restaurant also uses sweetfish, eel, and other freshwater fish; edible wild plants; and soft-shelled turtle. The restaurant's signature dish is its wild boar udon noodles. The establishment also serves seasonal dishes. With an advance reservation, you can make use of the restaurant outside of its normal business hours. Prospective customers in groups of five or more people are recommended to contact the establishment in advance.
  • Konditorei MOMO
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Oita Hita-shi Chuo 1-3-5 Katsuki Building 1F
    "This Western confectionary shop is a five-minute walk from Hita Station. The shop sells baked sweets and homemade cakes incorporating an abundance of local specialty products and produce from local farms. The shop's signature products are particularly popular, such as its choux cremes, which became so well-known by word of mouth, they were renamed the ""much talked about"" choux cremes; and Kokoro chocolate cake, which won a Monde Selection award in 2008."
  • Inaka-an
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Oita Hita-shi Mamedamachi 146-1
    This longstanding Japanese-style sweets cafe, established in 1967, stands on the Mamedamachi Shopping Street' Miyuki-dori Street a four-minute drive from the Hita Interchange and a five-minute walk from Hita Station. The cafe's signature ohagi bean jam cakes are made by hand utilizing highly refined production methods and using ingredients chosen with the utmost care, including not just the azuki bean jam filling and glutinous rice exterior, but even the sugar. These ohagi come in three flavors - anko bean jam, kinako toasted soybean flour, and ume Japanese plum; customers can order as few as two ohagi and takeout is also possible. In addition to sweets, the cafe serves savory foods such as an Inaka-an Set meal, and shiitake mushroom curry. The cafe also serves a variety of seasonal items.
  • Asahimanju
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    4.5
    3 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Oita Hita-shi Mamedamachi 5-20
    This longstanding Japanese confectionary shop, established in 1865, stands on the Mamedamachi Shopping Street's Kamimachi-dori Street a five-minute drive from the Hita Interchange and a 20-minute walk from Hita Station as well as the Hita Bus Terminal. As hinted at by its name, the shop only sells manju steamed buns; of particular note are the shop's Kangien buns and Shufuan buns, inspired by the local historic Kangien school, which are filled with a matcha green tea filling. The shop's large and original kuri soba manju buns, stuffed with a large chestnut, are also famous, and have gained widespread popularity through word of mouth. As the shop closes when its stock for the day runs out, prospective customers are recommended to make a reservation in advance.

    豆田上町通りの北端付近にある小さな饅頭屋です。9月下旬久留米からの行楽客として初来店。テイクアウトしたのは「かんぎえん」と「そば饅頭」。2個ずつで460円だった様に覚えています。賞味期限は明後日までですよ念を押されながら退散。当日のオヤツにしましたが、「かんぎえん」の中に栗が丸ごと1個入っていたのは想定外。外皮の白、抹茶餡の緑、栗の黄という割面もインスタ映え。外皮は山芋入らしく、舌触りがかるかん風...

  • Akashi Hita Yokan Honpo
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    4.5
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Oita Hita-shi Mamedamachi 8-15
    This longstanding Western confectionary shop, established in 1891, stands on the Mamedamachi Shopping Street's Miyuki-dori Street a five-minute drive from Hita Station as well as the Hita Interchange. As hinted at by its name, the shop primarily sells yokan jelly. The shop's Akashi Hita Yokan jelly is made by hand according to a traditional recipe. Sold as single large blocks wrapped in attractive packaging, as the jelly nears its best-by date, the surface gradually saccharifies and turns white. Happily, customers can also choose jelly wrapped in packs designed to prevent this saccharification from occurring if they so desire. The shop's exquisite yuzu citrus fruit yokan jelly is only available for a limited time each year.

    まずお店の店構え、雰囲気が好きです。 店内では試食ができて味が選びやすいです。 一枚物の昔ながらの羊羹はお値段も1500円とお高いですが、味も最高です。羊羹の周りが糖化してザラザラになった時に食べると又美味しさ倍増です。おススメです。

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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.

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