Local Cuisine Spots in Kagoshima Area

Area

Kagoshima
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  Kagoshima
  
  Okinawa

Category

Gourmet / Alcohol

Japanese Food

Local Cuisine

Karen (Kagoshima Restaurant)

4.5

118 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Pref. Kagoshimashi Yamanokuchichou 3-12

A traditional ryotei Japanese restaurant located a three-minute walk from Takamibaba Station on the City Tram. Owned and operated by the local JA agricultural cooperative with the aim of promoting sales within the prefecture and beyond, here customers can enjoy meat dishes created based on the concept of local production for local consumption. The restaurant’s shabu-shabu, seiro mushi steamed dishes, and piping hot stone plate sautéed dishes are made with meats like Kagoshima’s vaunted brand Kagoshima black beef, and flavorful Kagoshima Berkshire pork. The seiro mushi steamed dishes, which bring out the innate flavor of the ingredients, are hearty yet light, making them particularly popular with women. This restaurant is a great place to enjoy local Berkshire pork.

Visited the restaurant for dinner on Thurs night, didnt make prior reservation and immediately have a table with tatami seats and place to place legs under the table. Good service as service staff...
Kumaso tei

4.0

119 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Pref. Kagoshimashi Higashisengokuchou 6-10

A restaurant specializing in local Satsuma (Kagoshima) cuisine located on the north side of the Tenmonkan. Diners can enjoy a variety of colorful Kagoshima dishes, including pork bone and belly meat slow stewed for three hours until it can be cut with chopsticks, shabu-shabu with Roppaku Kurobuta pork from Kagoshima, sake-zushi fermented overnight with only local sake, fresh silver-striped round herring sashimi caught in Kagoshima Bay (Kinkou Bay) and served with a homemade mustard and vinegared miso sauce, and satsumaage deep-fried fish paste. Private rooms in a variety of sizes are also available, making this a perfect place to have a party or banquet.

We enjoyed a delicious pork shabu shabu set dinner with attentive and friendly service. All of the courses were delicious, and the lovely server made sure we knew which sauces went with what and that...
Aoba

4.0

92 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Pref. Ibusukishi Minato 1-2-11

A restaurant which serves local, Satsuma (Kagoshima) style cuisine. Dedicated to local flavors, the establishment makes use of Satsuma Roppaku Berkshire pork raised in Ibusuki: Black Satsuma Chicken, a local variety; and high grade honkare katsuobushi produced in Yamakawa, Ibusuki City. In addition to tonkatsu breaded pork cutlet, a local staple, customers can enjoy luxurious Berkshire pork shabu-shabu, and Satsuma Black Chicken tsukune meatloaf and even sashimi. The restaurant offers low priced set meals during lunchtime as well as the “Ontamaran-don,” a local specialty consisting of a bowl of rice topped with salty-sweet Berkshire pork and a custard-like “hot spring” soft boiled egg.

Ate here twice when I was in Ibusuki. The service staff were attentive and the food was served quickly. Prices is reasonable and I enjoyed the food a lot. Even managed to chat with a waitress from...
Ichi Ni San (Main Restaurant)

4.5

38 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Pref. Kagoshimashi Shimoarata 1-21-24

A shabu-shabu specialty restaurant which makes use of Berkshire pork. Produced by “Sobachaya Fukiagean” Japanese soba noodle restaurant chain, here customers can enjoy their shabu-shabu with a soba noodle-style tsuyu sauce flavored with dashi. Customers can also get free refills of this light and tasty tsuyu. The meats on offer primarily consist of cuts of Berkshire pork raised in Kagoshima and fed copious amounts of sweet potatoes. The restaurant’s shabu-shabu is accented with special yuzu pepper. Customers can finish off their meal with the company’s fresh, handmade soba noodles.

Stopped by Ten Park Street in Kagoshima for lunch. Walked around Ten Park St and found OneTwoThree Black Pork restaurant. Went in to try different types of black pork menu. Very delicious and nice...
Satsuma Aji

4.5

42 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Pref. Ibusukishi Minato 2-1-31

A restaurant which serves local Satsuma (Kagoshima) cuisine and a la carte dishes. The establishment’s abundant variety of local meals includes fresh, local Kagoshima chicken sashimi, tonkotsu ramen made with Berkshire pork bones stewed in miso, and vegetable-rich satsuma-jiru soup. The restaurant fresh seafood from Kinko Bay is also popular. The restaurant also offers seafood rice bowls and the “Ontamaran-don,” a local Ibusuki specialty consisting of a bowl of rice topped with a fresh Ibusuki custard-like “hot spring” soft boiled egg.

I went to Satsuma-aji (meaning the flavor of Kagoshima) for dinner because the place I wanted to go happened to be closed for the night, but it turned out to be a good choice. A place thats...
Roadside Station Sakurajima Sakurajima Bussankan

4.0

5 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Kagoshima Pref. Kagoshimashi Sakurajimakamizuchou 1427

A large rest stop, one of the largest in Kagoshima. The facility’s distinctive sign is decorated with a large Sakurajima daikon radish statue. The first floor of the facility is a market where visitors can purchase shochu liquor and other Sakurajima specialty products. In the second-floor restaurant, you can enjoy a meal along with a view of the magnificent, mountainous landscape of Sakurajima. Visitors can also view the volcano from the facility’s observatory, and there’s even a space for taking a commemorative photo.

ツアーバスで立ち寄りました。巨大な桜島大根のオブジェが2か所あるので記念写真の撮影には良いと思います。ちょっと寂れた雰囲気ですが、昭和な感じのドライブインで心が和みます。12月の桜島小ミカンの季節だったのですが、店の中で集配を行っています。1箱2500円くらいなので2箱東京へ送りました。ネットでもなかなか手に入らないのと、現地で味の確認もできるので安心です。とても甘くておいしかったです。贈答用とは...
Juan (Arata Restaurant)

4.5

64 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Pref. Kagoshimashi Arata 1-62-13

A Berkshire pork specialty restaurant located a three-minute walk from Aratahachimandentei Station on the Kagoshima City Tram. The grounds boast a beautiful pond and stone bridge and the stately Japanese style restaurant building is surrounded by seasonal trees and plants. The restaurant uses only select Berkshire pork raised with a specific diet on Watanabe Berkshire Farm. This delicate, elegant meat is used in the restaurant’s shabu-shabu, tonkatsu breaded pork cutlet, and all of its pork dishes. In addition to Berkshire pork hamburg steaks and pork steaks served piping hot on plats of Sakurajima lava stone, the restaurant’s local, Kagoshima style cuisine is also popular, and the establishment sees a constant stream of customers making the journey here from outside the prefecture just to enjoy the food.

Kurobuta, Pork and more pork Expect to pay 4000-6000 per head (including 1-2 drink) depending on what you order - shabu shabu. My take is that if you are not going for the shabu shabu, go...
Keihan Hisakura

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Pref. Oshimaguntatsugouchou Yanyu 516

A restaurant which serves Keihan, a local Amami dish, located a one-minute walk from the “Yanyu Hisakura-mae” bus stop. Keihan consists of chicken, omelet strips, shiitake mushrooms, papaya pickles, and tankan citrus fruit rind served over piping hot rice and covered with a chicken bone broth. This dish, “fit for a feudal lord,” was originally created to serve to government officials from Satsuma. The restaurant raises its own chickens on its own farm, as well as its own eggs, papaya, and other ingredients. Customers can enjoy the rich flavor of chicken and broth covered rice.
Asabana

3.5

21 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Amami-shi Naze Nagahamacho 27-1

ホテル併設のレストランで朝昼晩と同じようなビュッフェが基本です。料理は正直なところあまり美味しくなく、わざわざ奄美大島まで来て朝晩の2食を無駄にした気分です。とにかく何でも良いので腹一杯食べたい部活の合宿向きかな。
Torishin

4.0

112 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Amami-shi Naze Itsubu Cho 12-6

This restaurant in urban Naze City serves chicken dishes including Amami Keihan, a representative regional dish of Amami Oshima Island. Keihan, which means chicken rice, features a bowl of rice topped with chicken and kinshi tamago (shredded egg crepe) poured over with a soup made from a whole chicken. This popular dish was originally created to be served to officials from the Satsuma Domain during its rule over the island. The chicken used to make the soup is shredded and used as a topping, assuring that you can savor all the flavor of the chicken. Another of the restaurant's popular offerings is their kurobuta papaya-don, which features a bowl of rice topped with lots of Amami Oshima kurobuta pork, mozuku seaweed, and papaya.

奄美大島の郷土料理が食べれるお店です。どの料理も普通に美味しく、値段もリーズナブルで飾らないお店です。個人的には、けいはんと油ソーメンおすすめです。お通し（席代）は、正直なくてもよいかと思ってしまいました。
Gintei

4.0

15 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Amami-shi Naze Kanekyu Cho 6-2

This restaurant serving island cuisine is located along Yanigawa-dori Street, the biggest shopping district on Amami Oshima Island. Guests can enjoy the island's regional cuisine while not just watching but also participating in shima uta (local folk songs) and hachigatsu odori (August dance) performances. The songs are led by the restaurant's owner, a previous winner of the Grand Prize at the Amami Folk Song Competition. She performs the songs while playing a chijin, a style of drum unique to the region. She says that she opened the restaurant and performs there because so many people had requested her shima uta performance.

奄美初めての人には雰囲気を感じてもらえるのでお勧めのお店です。名物女将と三線と参加型の島踊り？(笑)これがいやでも盛り上がる。料理も以前より美味しくなっていると思いました。料金も他店より安い。女将のおもてなしの心が伝わります。
Chaya Hirano

4.0

12 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Anbo 2617-3

"This restaurant serves ""Yakuzen Ryori"" cuisine made with lots of ingredients sourced locally on Yakushima Island. It exclusively offers multi-course meals with dishes specifically selected by the chef to allow guests to fully experience the flavors of the island. Guests can enjoy island cuisine made with ingredients characteristic of a Yakushima Island including whole fried flying fish, Japanese goose barnacles, harlequin glorybower, and strawberry geranium. The restaurant sources the local vegetables and edible plants it uses in its food in close cooperation with local farmers and expert foragers."

Probably this is the best restauant I ever tried in Japan - minimum 20 plates of wonderful dishes, freshly prepared and soooo tasty. We were impressed and our Japanese friends as well !
Yakudon

4.0

41 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Anbo 500-46

This restaurant located about a five-minute walk from Anbo Port serves the regional cuisine of Yakushima Island made was local ingredients. Their most popular dish is their crispy fried flying fish, a specialty of Yakushima. Each fish is scaled, gutted, and then fried whole with its wings spread out as if it was flying through the air. Their popular Yaku Udon Mankitsu sets, meanwhile, include a piping-hot fried flying fish, Yakushima-style udon noodles, which are served in a broth made from sababushi (shaved dried and smoked mackerel), and a bowl of soy-marinated flying fish sashimi on rice. Guests are greeted at the entrance by an impressive tiger carved from Yakusugi cedar.

Lovely restaurant with seaside views. They have English friendly menus with large variety of udon to choose from. Noodles were perfectly chewy with a balanced soup at a very reasonable price. There...
Ebisudaikoku Toshi

4.0

15 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Miyanoura 129

This restaurant located about a 10-minute walk from Miyanoura Port in Yakushima Island on serves local fish and shochu. Its most popular dish is fried flying fish, a quintessential delicacy of Yakushima Island that is edible from head to tail. The fish is notable for having firm flesh with a light and savory flavor that is uncharacteristically elegant for a blue-backed fish, a family that includes sardines. Some of the many other characteristic dishes of Yakushima on this popular restaurant's menu include sashimi of kubiore saba (mackerel with its head broken and blood drained immediately after being caught to preserve its freshness), Yakushima tsukiage (fried fish cakes made from flying fish), and more.

Le poisson volant grillé était exceptionnel, les sashimi excellents, le poulpe tendre, un des meilleurs mangé. Le rapport qualité prix est remarquable et les quantités copieuses (attention, les...
Washoku no Kaishu

4.0

10 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Kumage-gun Yakushimacho Miyanoura 2367-7

This restaurant is located on the same grounds as the guesthouse Minshuku Kaishu about a five-minute drive from Miyanoura Port. Guests can enjoy Japanese cuisine made with seasonal local fish. Their most popular dish is fried flying fish, a quintessential Yakushima delicacy consisting of a flying fish that is scaled, gutted, and fried whole. Every part of this crispy dish from the outstretched wings to the backbone is edible. Some of the other local Yakushima flavors available to enjoy including kubiore saba (mackerel with its head broken and blood drained immediately after it is caught to preserve its freshness), venison, and more.

併設のゲストハウスに宿泊した際の夕食で利用。チキンカツ600円、トビウオのから揚げ600円を注文したが量、味共に良し。定食もあるが単品で注文した方が、お得感があるし、種類を多く食べられる。中生600円、チューハイ450円は離島価格。地元民に人気があるらしく結構客が入ってました。
Masunoya

4.0

16 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Ibusuki-shi Kaimonsenta 80

Tosenkyo Gorge, so named because its deep cove was long ago used as a port for the ships of Japanese envoys to China, is a ravine where 100,000 tons of spring water gushes forth per day. Guests at this restaurant can enjoy somen nagashi served in this famous spring water all year long. Somen nagashi refers to thin wheat noodles served in a circular trough of flowing cold water. Somen nagashi is said to have originated when Inoue Hironori, an assistant official of Kaimon Town (now a part of Ibusuki City), created the first water pressure-powered revolving somen nagashi trough. Because the gorge's spring water stays a constant 13 degrees Celsius, the noodles are refreshingly chilly in the summer and can even be eaten cold in a warm room in the winter. Other dishes served by the restaurant include water-chilled carp sashimi, fried carp, salt-grilled rainbow trout, and more.

This is a unique experience. You order noodles (and anything else you like, its all good). You place the noodles in the running water where theyre separated and flowing, and then you take them out...
Yoron no Ajitara

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Oshima-gun Yoroncho Chabana 2904-6

"Located about a ten-minute drive from Yoron Airport and the port, this restaurant is on the grounds of Yoron Island Village. Inheriting the family name ""Tara"" of the previous generation of Yoron Island Village, you can enjoy the healthy and unique cuisine of Yoron Island, which is famous as the island of longevity. In the relaxed space with a sense of luxury, you can taste creative cuisine based on the local cuisine using seasonal ingredients picked locally."
Zensekikanzenkoshitsuizakayashinwafukyushuryorikakomiankagoshimatemmonkanten

Gourmet / Alcohol

Kagoshima Pref. Kagoshimashi Yamanokuchichou 7-2 TM-19 Building (Cybil) 3F
Shokujidokoro Isshin

4.0

1 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

9236-7, Higashikata, Ibusuki-shi, Kagoshima, 891-0404

ふれあいプラザなのはな館の東にある日帰り温泉施設にあるレストランです。車じゃないと厳しい場所です。食事だけ寄るのは珍しいかもしれませんが、予約サイトのキャンペーン対象だったので利用しました。１０００円前後でランチがあって味も悪くなかったです。
HANANKITCHIN SENTERASUTEMMONKANTEN

Gourmet / Alcohol

senterasu astronomy building 2F, 1-1, Sennichicho, Kagoshima-shi, Kagoshima, 892-0843

Kagoshima

Kagoshima Kirishima Kitasatsuma Minamisatsuma Osumi Amami / Okinoerabu Island Tanegashima / Yakushima

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Kagoshima Areas

Over 100 active volcanoes across Kagoshima make it one of the Japan's most exciting prefectures. The prefectural capital, Kagoshima city, looks out to one of the prefecture’s most spectacular volcanoes, Sakurajima, an island of its own that can be visited and seen close up or admired from afar, with the promise of breathtaking sunsets complete with frequent puffs of smoke and ash. Down the Satsuma Peninsula, the most southerly part of mainland Japan, waterfalls, sand onsen, and fascinating history await, while Kagoshima's abundance of satsuma imo (sweet potato) provide a wholesome snack as well as one of Japan's favourite drinks - shochu.