Japanese Food Spots in Okinawa Area

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  Okinawa

Category

Gourmet / Alcohol

Japanese Food

Urizun restaurant

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Nahashi Asato 388-5

Urizun is a restaurant specializing in Okinawan cuisine that has been operating for over 40 years; it is located around five minutes’ walk from Asato Station on the Okinawa Monorail (Yui Rail) line. Diners can enjoy the restaurant’s famous Kusu (aged Awamori spirit), which has been specially blended by the restaurant owner using Awamori from an old wine store in Shuri, and then left to age for several more years in earthenware jars. Kusu is served directly from the earthenware jars into small wine-cups, to accompany dishes from a comprehensive menu that includes traditional Okinawan home cooking, Palace recipes dating from the time of the Ryukuan kings, and original modern recipes.
Tirabui traditional Japanese house restaurant

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Urumashi Katsurenhama 56

Tirabui Traditional Japanese House restaurant is an Okinawan cuisine restaurant located near the Hama Community Hall on Hamahiga Island. The restaurant occupies a traditional house with a red tiled roof, which was renovated for the purpose, and serves traditional Okinawan home cuisine with recipes learned from families in the owner's home-town of Uruma on Okinawa Island. One of the most popular items on the menu is the “Hama Tirabui Set Meal,” which includes rice, soup, and a choice of two side dishes.
Ryukyu Dining Matsuo (Okashigoten Matsuo Branch)

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Nahashi Matsuo 1-2-52F

Ryukyu Dining Matsuo (Okashigoten Matsuo Branch) is a restaurant located on the Second Floor of Okashi Goten (a shopping complex on Kokusai Street selling local delicacies that is famous for its Purple Yam Tart). The restaurant offers Okinawan Soba noodles made with home-made noodles, as well as a variety of set meals featuring Okinawan Agu Pork and Okinawan vegetables and seafood, etc. The interior décor, based on traditional Okinawan houses, creates a relaxing atmosphere.
Mukashi Mukashi noodle restaurant

4.0

9 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Nagoshi Nakayama 694-1

Mukashi Mukashi is an Okinawan Soba noodle restaurant located on Prefectural Highway 84 in Nakayama, Nago City. The restaurant’s Okinawan Soba noodles, which use noodles made in-house using charcoal and broth that has a pronounced taste of Bonito fish, are topped with a variety of vegetables grown by the restaurant owner, including mugwort, etc. Mukashi Mukashi’s “Island Vegetables Soba Noodles,” which uses lots of seasonal vegetables, and which enables diners to enjoy the fresh taste of just-picked vegetables, is also a popular menu item.

どんどんラーメンに寄ってきた沖縄そば屋が増えてきた沖縄。一方でタコそば・海ぶどうそば…等、沖縄ちゃんぷるーも見かける。そんな中、ここはヒージャー(山羊)そば。写真を添付おきます。山羊汁と本部っぽい伝統的なアルデンテ麺。山羊専門店はちょっと行きにくいし、沖縄料理屋さんは当たり外れが… という方には良いかもしれない。カップ山羊汁が食べられる方は大丈夫。
Shuri Horikawa

5.0

1 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Nahashi Shurimawashichou 1-27

Horikawa is an Okinawan soba noodle shop, opposite Shuri Castle Park and near Josei Elementary School and Ryutan Pond in Shurimawashi Town. Their Okinawan soba noodles have a clear soup mixed with homemade noodles which are boiled after an order is received. The decoration with condiments such as spring onion and ginger on a porcelain spoon is impressive.

首里城近くの路地裏にある隠れ家的雰囲気のお店。開店と同時に入店しました。お店の入口で靴を脱ぐのが面白いと思ったのですが、後になってそういうお店が沖縄には多いのに気づきました。私は、『ソーキそばのBセット』を注文。沖縄そばとしては、かなり優しい味わい。人によっては、物足りなく感じるかもしれない。でも、お店の雰囲気も含めて再訪したいと思えるお店でした。
Mutsumibashi Kadoya

4.5

36 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Nahashi Makishi 1-3-49

Mutsumibashi Kadoya is a specialty Okinawan soba noodle shop near the intersection of Kokusai-dori and Okiei-odori Street. The long-established shop has been loved mainly by locals for over half a century and is famous for its simple and reasonable Okinawa soba noodles. Thanks to the location, it is convenient to stop off sightseeing while in Kokusai-dori Street.

かけそば（300円）税込※ネギ、紅生姜抜き子どもの為に注文の為、ネギと紅しょうが抜きにしてくれました。優しい味が子どもたちも気にいったみたいであっという間に完食です。いなりずし2ケ（100円）税込特に特徴はないが、普通に美味しいお稲荷さんロースそば（600円）税込私は脂身が苦手なのでロースにしましたが、隣の常連さんの三枚肉が美味しそうでしたのでそちら挑戦すればよかったと後悔。ソ...
Makabechina Tea

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Itomanshi Makabe 223

Makabechina Tea is a restaurant in Makabe, Itoman City. The shop was a traditional Japanese house with a red roof built in the Meiji period (late 19th century) which has been designated as a registered Tangible Cultural Property. It offers a range of menus from popular Okinawan soba noodles, set meals with Okinawan food such as chanpuru, fried noodles topped with seafood sauce, and desserts to herbal tea and coffee.
Okinawan Cuisine Shuri Iroha-tei

4.0

29 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Nahashi Shurikinjouchou 3-34-5

Okinawan Cuisine Shuri Iroha-tei is a specialty Okinawan cuisine restaurant located near the stone tiled road in Shurikanashiro Town. You can enjoy traditional Uchina cuisine (Ryukyu cuisine) prepared from selected Okinawan ingredients. They range from royal dishes to home cooked meals including Chanpuru, rafute (stewed pork cubes) and Tofuyo (Okinawan fermented tofu). A reasonably priced set meal is popular as a variety of Okinawan cuisine can be enjoyed. It is one of the registered “Okinawan ingredients stores” designated by Okinawa Prefecture

The restuarant is in a landed property and our dining area is basically its living room area. The experience was casual and it gave me the feeling that I was eating at my grand-aunts house. I...
Udunyama

4.5

88 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Nahashi Shurishiminechou 1-121-2

Yuntakusuba Udunyama is a specialty Okinawan soba noodle shop in the foothills of Shuri. The shop is a renovated traditional Japanese house with traditional Okinawan architecture which was built 150 years ago. The breeze can pass smoothly through the shop, so it is cool and comfortable even in the hot summer. The Okinawan soba noodles made from noodles using a method passed down from old generations that go down smoothly with an exclusive stock are superb so you may want to finish the soup. Side dishes are also popular such as Udunyama inari sushi, red bean soup with raw sugar and Jyushi (Okinawan style seasoned rice), which is cooked with four ingredients in special stock.

Their motto:Do one thing and do it right. Arrived 1 hr before closing and the noodles were still boiled to order. Broth clear and deep as a 50kg bell and the Orion Beer as cold as a New York winter...
Higashi Shokudo

4.5

49 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Nagoshi Ohigashi 2-7-1

Higashi Shokudo located in a residential district in Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture is an old-fashioned restaurant with an exotic Okinawan atmosphere. You can enjoy Okinawan cuisine such as Okinawan soba noodles, goya chanpuru (stir-fried bitter gourd) and tebichi (pig’s feet), Okinawan red bean soup and about 20 types of shaved ice. Okinawan red bean soup using plump sweetened kidney beans stewed slowly for a long time and the delicate and melt-in-the-mouth ice are superb.

本島北部へ営業で行く時は必ず立ち寄るお店です！夏場は観光客も多く、カキ氷目当てに行列も出来き、何度か断念したこともありますが、冬場はランチタイム以外はそう混んでいることはなく、穴場です。沖縄特有の氷がのったぜんざいは言うまでもなく美味しいのですが、私は食事をお勧めします。ゴーヤチャンプルー、豆腐チャンプルーなどのチャンプルーは私ら地元の人間でも安くて美味しいと思えるお店です。沖縄の地元の人が好...
Renaissance Okinawa Resort Sushi Bar LOY’S

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Kunigamigunonnason Yamada 3425-2 Renaissance Resort Okinawa

This sushi restaurant is where you can enjoy sushi with seasonal ingredients and also umi-budou (sea grapes) and goya bitter gourd. At the dinnertime family sushi buffet, besides eating your favorite sushi using local fish and fresh ingredients, you can also have shabu-shabu or dessert using tropical fruits.
Okinawan cuisine Shimabutaya

4.0

70 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Kunigamigunonnason Onna 6369-1

This restaurant is where you can taste of healthy Agu pork while making the most of the flavor of Yanbaru Island pork. You steam the fresh meat at your table. Although their course with ingredients steamed on bamboo trays is popular, they also have well-reputed menu items such as Agu pork and goya bitter gourd chanpuru, braised Ryubiton pork, which used to be a court dish during the times of the Ryukyu Kingdom, and Agu pork steamed dumpling.

There were many choices for dinner and we ended up in restaurant which was quite empty when we arrived just before 6pm. Various dishes shown in the menu were tempting, and we ordered about 6 main...
Okinawa cuisine Chinuman Onna-son Moon Beach Bettei

4.0

56 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Kunigamigunonnason Maeganeku 523-2

This Okinawan restaurant is where Okinawan folk song and shimauta sanshin lives are held every night. They offer an extensive menu, from authentic Okinawan dishes to seafood dishes using plenty of fresh seafood direct from the fishing port’s morning market and meat dishes using black hair wagyu beef and Agu pork with a homemade taste. They also offer pickups and drop-offs to area hotels near the restaurant in Onna Village. (Reservations are required)

My first experience in Chinuman was ok, food quality is average, and service wasn’t special. Price against quality wasn’t good enough.
Taco Rice Cafe Kijimuna (Onnason Village Branch)

4.0

33 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Kunigamigunonnason Serakaki 475

This store is where you can eat omelets with fluffy eggs on taco rice, which originated in Okinawa in 1984. Taco rice, also known as an Okinawan soul food, is wrapped in fluffy and runny eggs, and you can select either sweet or spicy meat. While standard taco rice is on the menu, it is also possible to add toppings such as avocados, bacon or teriyaki chicken.

After spending time at the beach, taco rice always sounds refreshing. I found this restaurant as it was on the way back home. There is a large parking area nearby. When you get here, you order, pay...
Okinawa cuisine Chinuman (Onna Sunset Mall Nakama Store)

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Prefecture Kunigami-gun Onna Village Naika 299-1

This Okinawan restaurant recognizable from its storefront with red roof tiles like old-fashioned Okinawan houses. They offer an extensive menu, from authentic Okinawan cuisine to meat dishes using black hair wagyu Agu pork and fresh seafood fishes with a homemade taste. They also have a wide variety of drinks, including tropical cocktails that color the nights of tropical Okinawa, awamori, shochu, Japanese sake, wine and soft drinks.
Funakura no Sato

4.0

208 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Ishigakishi Arakawa 2468-1

This local restaurant was created by relocating various small and large kominka (old houses) to premises that are over one hectare. It can meet your needs from extravagant multi-course meals in a relaxing space like Yaeyama, to reasonable a la carte dishes and lunch. The restaurant also has a local cuisine building, teahouse, and gallery shop with Okinawan goods.

The restaurant sits in a culturally decorated site. The atmosphere was luxurious which was partly reflected in the price. Consider coming here for lunch which starts at 11:00. There are two set...
Captain's Inn (Kokusai Street Restaurant)

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Nahashi Kumoji 3-4-1

This restaurant is where you can enjoy a meal while also watching a cooking performance. A teppanyaki grill restaurant for items such as top quality beef, lobster and jumbo shrimp, it is very popular because it can satisfy not only your taste but also your sight. This branch is located on Naha’s main Kokusai-dori Street, making it perfect for meals before or after shopping.
Naha Soba Nahatei

3.5

76 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Nahashi Kanagusuku 2-chome 18-7

This Okinawan soba noodle and local dish restaurant has celebrated its 40th anniversary. Their “Naha soba” is a signature dish where you can enjoy the three flavors of soki soba, nankotsu (cartilage) soki soba and sanmai niku (boneless rib) soba all at once. They also have many out of the ordinary Okinawa soba dishes, making you want to come back again and again. In addition, their top quality black Agu pork cooked on a ceramic grill is superb.

ランチでは、那覇そばをメインに炊き込みご飯やサラダやデザートなどを食べました。パイナップルなどを使ったソフトクリームもフルーツパフェもおいしいです。
Awamori and Okinawa cuisine, Sui Dunchi

4.5

76 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Nahashi Shurikinjouchou 2-81

This awamori and creative Okinawan restaurant that is open day and night is located along the cobbled street of Naha City’s Shuri area. You can enjoy Omoro Agu cuisine using native Ryukyu pigs raised at Omoro ranch. Inside the store where you can experience ancient Ryukyu culture, you can also order banquet meals on the day of your visit.

The place is at the bottom of the old stone road, in a perfect location, with nice seating areas with view as well as garden. Very relaxing with super friendly people with English menu and skills.
Ryotei Naha

3.5

19 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Nahashi Tsuji 2-2-11

This long-established restaurant with a 65-year history is where you can enjoy traditional Okinawan dance and dishes. In addition to the wide-ranging seven kinds of Waryu set menus and four kinds of celebratory set menus, you can also order a special menu list that suits your preferences. The restaurant has a wide variety of seating from private rooms to large halls where customers can enjoy Okinawan cuisine while taking in the magnificent dancing of exclusive Ryukyu dance performers.

表に出ると風俗店の客引きに声かけられて不愉快料亭とグルかもしれません。大人数で行く際気をつけてください

Okinawa

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Okinawa Areas

Let go of your image of a busy, ordered Japan and replace it with crystal-clear waters, white sand beaches, and relaxing folk music: You’ve arrived in Okinawa. A world away from the high intensity of Tokyo, Okinawans appear to live a laid-back beach life on this paradisiacal tropical island that lies in the middle of the East China Sea almost 1,000 kilometers south of mainland Japan’s most southern tip. Home to a spattering of islands, prepare yourself to discover underwater caves, star-shaped sand, and an island culture sometimes unrecognizable from mainland Japan.