Gourmet / Alcohol Spots in Amami / Okinoerabu Island Area

  • Shimatofu-ya
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    4.5
    114 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Tatsugocho Nakagachi 1561-1
    This longstanding tofu restaurant is located a 40-minute drive from Amami Airport. Looking as if it still exists in Japan's bygone Showa period, the popular establishment has a friendly atmosphere and bustles not only with locals but also many tourists. The shima tofu the restaurant uses is a variety of firm tofu made with Amami seawater bittern containing an abundance of minerals. One of the most popular choices on the menu is the Shimatofu-ya Teishoku set meal, which comes with tofu skin tempura; shiro-ae tofu, white sesame, and white miso salad; and sumashijiru clear soup.

    Extremely delicious tofu dishes. You can experience the variety of flavors and there is an all you can eat tofu bar and tofu drinks. The daily meal contains a tofu desert, too. They have a corner...

  • 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.
  • La Fonte
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    4.5
    106 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Tatsugocho Akaogi 1325-3

    You don’t want to miss out this place. Beside the heart filling friendly service, coffee and gelato made here are for Italians to think about dropping their business;) Always packed no matter of the...

  • Harukaze Do
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kagoshima Amami-shi Nazekusatocho 2-16
  • Maruya Restaurant
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    3.5
    22 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Oshima-gun Setouchicho Koniya Matsue 9-1

    夜あいているのは居酒屋がほとんどで、お酒を飲まない自分たちには入りにくい店が多かった。ここは椅子席、座敷席とも区分けされており、定食の種類は多くないが食事メインの和食レストラン。エビフライ定食のエビ5匹は本当です。 滞在中花火大会が催されたが、当日飲食店はこちらも含めて臨時休業、予約で満員の店が多く、コロナで島民のみの店もあって食事難民になりかけた。要注意。

  • Asabana
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    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。

  • HOT PEPPER
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    5.0
    4 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kagoshima Amami-shi Kasaricho Kise 560-2
    This shaved ice shop is located in the Kise community about a 20-minute drive from Amami Airport. The shop blends into the surrounding residential neighborhood thanks to an exterior designed in the style of an old home. Guests can enjoy shaved served with toppings characteristic of the Amami Islands such as local fruit and brown sugar. The ice is shaved using a manual ice shaver, giving it a fine and fluffy texture. The shop is popular for the addictive flavors of its original syrups, which include passion fruit, brown sugar and milk, and tankan citrus, a specialty of Amami. The shop also serves food such burritos that feature meat and lettuce wrapped in large flour tortillas as well as taco rice.

    値段の割に少し小さいのが残念だが、手作りシロップと、黒糖のダブルがけが最高に美味しい。タコスとタコライスも美味しい。夏季限定。

  • Torishin
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    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。

  • Wakadaisho
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    Kagoshima Amami-shi Naze Kanekyu Cho 4-11
    This izakaya (Japanese pub) with a conspicuous red sign is located in downtown Naze City. Guests can enjoy cuisine made with ingredients sourced locally on Amami Oshima as well as the island's famous brown sugar shochu. Most of the ingredients, which includes not only seafood such as Japanese parrotfish, yellowfin tuna, and double-lined fusilier, but also vegetables such as Okinawan Spinach, are produced locally. The pub has a homey, somehow nostalgic atmosphere. It is equipped with counter seating, table seating, and tatami mat seating, making it well suited for a wide variety of occasions whether you are dining alone or with the whole family.
  • Narabiya
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    3.5
    5 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kagoshima Amami-shi Naze Kanekyu Cho 4-15
    This izakaya (Japanese pub) is located in a corner of the Naze City shopping district. Guests can enjoy cuisine made mostly with local ingredients as well as a massive selection of brown sugar shochu, the distinctive distilled spirit of the Amami Islands. Your eyes will be instantly drawn to the wall of brown sugar shochu bottles the moment you enter the pub. Their selection, which includes as many as 250 varieties from 23 different distilleries, is purported to be the biggest in all of the Amami Islands. Their rich island cuisine pairs perfectly with the refreshing taste of brown sugar shochu. The pub serves a wide variety of quintessential Amami dishes including fresh sashimi, tonkotsu (pork stew), and abura zomen (fried thin wheat noodles).

    2月12日、奄美大島観光ツアーの夕食で行きました。貸し切り状態でした。 ツアーに含まれた食事でしたが、地元料理のコースで天ぷら、煮物など味付けはどれも甘くできてます。刺身醤油も甘醤油です。 飲み物は奄美の黒糖焼酎他色々ありました。 オーナーから食材の説明や沖縄と奄美の民謡の違いなどローカルな話も結構あり知識ももらえました。後半は地元民謡のベテランおかみと息子さんの歌と三線演奏が披露されました。最後...

  • Gintei
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    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。

  • Asunaro Restaurant
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    3.0
    2 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Kikaicho Wan 393-5
    This restaurant is located three minutes by car or bus from Kikai Airport. Built across from the airport, it also functions as a cafe, but it has made its reputation on beef from Kagoshima's black-coated wagyu cattle. Asunaro Steak, flavored with garlic, is served in a prix fixe meal with a special soy-based sauce, salad, and rice. Wagyu beef prix fixe meals are available for customers' enjoyment at both lunchtime and dinnertime.

    喜界島空港付近にある洋食レストラン。ランチで利用しました。 ポークジンジャーを頼んだのですが、これが美味しかった! 一緒に鉄板にのっている玉ねぎは完全に生で口が臭くなるので食べませんでしたが、ポークジンジャーは最高に美味しかったです。

  • Tahara Confectionary
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    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Setouchicho Koniya Matsue 12-8
    A venerable confectionary founded 60 years ago in a town in the southern part of Amami Oshima Island. It began when the founder, who was once a confectioner in Nagoya, used brown sugar from Setouchi to manufacture brown sugar Karinto (a deep-fried snack food made with brown sugar, flour, and yeast). The present owner is from the third generation of his family to operate this shop. Although the shop once made and sold all kinds of confections, it now produces brown sugar Karinto exclusively. The shop opens at 11:30 a.m., but its product is so popular that it is sometimes sold out shortly after noon. Since this Karinto is made with high-quality brown sugar from the neighboring island of Kakeroma and is made by hand according to traditional methods, it makes a fine souvenir of Amami Oshima Island.
  • Kamitaka
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    4.5
    17 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Setouchicho Koniya Ominato 8-14
    Chanko-nabe is a local specialty prepared by the owner, who used to be a sumo wrestler, using fresh local ingredients. The millet vinegar nanban (chicken or fish) using Kakeroma's millet vinegar is another popular menu item.

    GW中コロナ感染拡大で多くの店が閉店中や地元客のみとされている中、こちらは快く受け入れて下さる店でした。 事前に電話で観光客である事を伝え予約して行ったのですが6時過ぎの入店後すぐ満席で何組も断っておられました。 美味しくてリーズナブルで店員の方の対応も良く、流行っていて当然と思わせてくれる良いお店でした。 衝立でテーブルごとに個別空間になってるのでコロナ対策もバッチリです。 滞在中に2度利用させ...

  • Umisho Izakaya Tavern
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    3.5
    9 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Yoroncho Chabana 223
    This izakaya pub is where you can taste the fresh seafood of Yoron and local cuisine. With an at-home atmosphere, it has counters and a raised tatami mat seating area, making it a comfortable place for families to enjoy themselves. It is popular among locals and tourists alike for its friendly atmosphere and dishes made with ingredients that can only be tasted here, such as seasoned rice with Mishiji rice and Aosa seaweed soup, which are unique to Yoron Island. It is also famous as being where the author of Fishing Nut's Diary likes to go.

    釣りバカ日誌の原作者で有ります北見先生御用達のお店です。 壁には釣りバカ日誌のキャラクターを始め、有名な作者の方々の色紙がありました。 味は普通の居酒屋です、味も普通です。

  • Kaigan-dori
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    4.0
    22 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Yoroncho Chabana 235-1
    This coffee shop is located right in front of Chabana Beach. It is a popular store that is loved not only by tourists but also by local residents. You can enjoy the tropical atmosphere to your heart's content in the bright and open restaurant surrounded by an interior using seashells. There are many menu items such as cute sweets with original decorations, colorful drinks and a food menu with large portions. You will never forget them after experiencing them. There are terrace seats where the sea spreads out in front of you and you can enjoy beautiful sunsets, and a bar counter with a tropical feel.

    店の雰囲気もいい感じで料理もおいしくて大当たりのお店でした。思ったほど混んでいなくて窓際の良い席で食事を楽しむことができました。

  • 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."
  • Aoi Sangosho
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    3.5
    42 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Yoron Municipal Cho 638-1
    "This restaurant is located a three-minute walk from Yoron Airport. It is the closest restaurant to the airport, and you can enjoy meals while looking at the blue sea because the beach is behind the restaurant. Their specialty ""mozuku soba"" is a dish of particular acclaim, which is made by using select mozuku seaweed and a unique method. Their fried gyoza dumplings made with Kurobuta black pork, which has an attractive glutinous texture, is also popular. ""Jinen,"" a salt made from the seawater of Yoron Island and boiled down at a low temperature, and ""Ougon-su,"" a vinegar made from sugarcane, are also on sale."

    帰りの便の搭乗前に行きました。こじんまりした与論空港、空港の建物を出て歩いて3分程度(離島の空港だからこその距離感!)なので、チェックイン後の空き時間の利用もOK(レンタカー返却後でも余裕で歩いて行ける距離感です)! 看板商品のもずくそばは、ダシが沁み入りとても美味しい!座席と座敷がある広い店舗で、目の前はパラダイスビーチが見渡せます。 次に与論島に行く際は、到着後・帰る前と、2度でも行こうと...

  • Tougura
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kagoshima Oshima-gun Wadomaricho Wadomari 3-7
    This creative cuisine restaurant is located a 15-minute drive from Okinoerabu Airport. The restaurant's owner personally participates in auctions each morning to stock fresh seafood caught that very day. The vegetables the restaurant uses are also almost exclusively from Okinoerabu Island, and the establishment even uses salt from Yoronjima and sugar from Kikaijima. The lunch-only Shokado Bento box meal is particularly popular and comes with sashimi, tempura, and fresh island vegetables.
  • Mister Donut Amami Oshima Shop
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    4.0
    8 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kagoshima Amami-shi Naze Kohamacho 34

    ミスドが食べたくなったら行きます。100円セールとかは流石にやっていませんが、たまにキャンペーンをやっています。そして安定の美味しさ。 種類が少ないのが残念だけれど、定番メニューはいつもあるので安心です。夕方に行くと品数がないので早めに行くのがオススメ。

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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.

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