Local Cuisine Spots in Okinawa Area

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Category

Gourmet / Alcohol

Japanese Food

Okinawa Soba Hamaya

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Nakagamigunchatanchou Miyagi 2-99

This 36-year-old Okinawa soba noodle restaurant is a symbol of Okinawa. Their traditional salty soup that uses no soy sauce has the condensed savoriness of pork, chicken and skipjack, and is popular for its unique irresistible flavor. Their “Hamaya soba” with pork cartilage soki boiled until soft and their “Okinawa soba” topped with cartilage soki and boneless rib of pork are especially popular.
Ufuya - Okinawa Old Folk House

4.0

624 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Nagoshi Nakayama 90

This local restaurant uses a kominka (old house) centered on Asato residence, constructed in the late Meiji period (1868–1912). In the afternoon, in addition to Okinawan soba wheat noodles, you can enjoy their prided Agu pork dishes and steak using wagyu beef from the prefecture, and reservations are only available for the shabu-shabu course and wagyu steak. They only offer courses of Ryukyu dishes or Agu pork at night.

Make your reservations online as the place can be packed. We ordered the Agu pork shabu shabu set for 3 persons and really enjoyed the meat and the fresh vegetables. The resulting broth at the end...
Shimujo

4.5

62 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Nahashi Shurisueyoshichou 2-124-1

Shimujo near Sueyoshi Park is a restaurant located at 2-chome, Shurisueyoshi Town, Naha City. The shop occupies a traditional Japanese house with red roof tiles which has been designated as a national registered Tangible Cultural Property. It offers set meals of local cuisine such as Okinawan soba noodles, which are thin noodles covered with stock from pork and dried bonito. You can enjoy them in the Okinawan atmosphere which remains the same as in the past.

首里近くの少し細くわかりにくい道にあります。10:45オープンで平日でも満席になる程の人気っぷり。縁側で順番を待ってテラス席か中で食べます。ソーキそばやテビチ、じーまみー豆腐など沖縄の伝統料理を、高いレベルでいただけます。お薦めはソーキそばセット1300円です。これに食べたいものは大体乗ってます。
Ryukyumura (Airport Store)

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Naha-shi Kagamizu 150 Naha Airport Domestic Flight Passenger Terminal Building 4F

"This Okinawa soba specialty shop is located on the 4th floor in the Naha Airport Domestic Terminal in Kagamizu, Naha City. They provide Okinawa soba with a variety of toppings, in particular, ""soki soba."" The set meals featuring ""jushi,"" Okinawan taki-komi gohan (boiled rice seasoned with soy sauce and mixed with boneless pork ribs, hijiki seafood and vegetables) are popular too."
Kunnatou Mozuku seaweed noodle shop

4.0

97 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Nanjoushi Tamagusuku Shikembaru 460-2

Kunnatou Mozuku seaweed noodle shop is a specialty mozuku seaweed noodle shop on the shore before crossing to Ojima Island located in Shikenbaru Tamagusuku Aza, Nanjo City. It offers mozuku seaweed noodles and mozuku tempura both using Ojima Island produce as well as unlimited fresh mozuku seaweed. It also sells processed products. “Kunnatou set meal” including soba noodles, tempura and vinegared mozuku and mozuku jelly are popular. On the “gajumaru terrace” you can enjoy them while gazing at the sea.

Simple seaweed food. There is not many options so if you are not particular with the choice this restaurant is just nice. View is nice as it is near a harbour.
Okinawa Soba Nakamura Soba

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Kunigamigunonnason Serakaki 1669-1

Okinawa soba noodles have various tastes depending on the region. At this store, their hand-prepared and thin 100% wheat flour sea lettuce noodles using homemade sea lettuce without preservatives are popular. The soup base is rich with pork and bonito, but the noodles go perfectly with the simple soup. Fish cakes with sea lettuce, pork ribs, sea lettuce and red pickled ginger are used as topping.
Airport Restaurant

4.0

1238 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Nahashi Kagamizu 150 Naha Airport Building 1F

The Airport Restaurant is located on the left-hand side of the first floor in the Arrivals building at Naha Airport. Although mainly intended for airport employees, non-employees are welcome to use the Restaurant, and many tourists eat there. Diners can enjoy classic Okinawa dishes such as Okinawa-style Soba Noodles, Chanpuru (a stir-fried dish), Champon (rice with fried vegetables, meat and eggs), etc. for very reasonable prices (around 600 yen).

I had a transit flight for Ishigaki Island, I looked forward to trying this restaurant as I heard about positive feedback. Soki soba was good maybe because of super reasonable price. Other local...
Kishimoto Cafeteria flagship store

4.0

263 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Kunigamigunmotobuchou Toguchi 5

Kishimoto Cafeteria is a long-established (founded in 1905) Okinawan Soba Noodles restaurant located in Motobu Town. The restaurant’s signature dish is its hand-made “Ash Soba Noodles,” made with broth derived from the clear upper layer of water that has had rice straw ash dissolved in it. The rich-flavored dried bonito soup stock and thick hand-made noodles have remained largely unchanged since the restaurant was first established. Kishimoto Cafeteria is very popular with both tourists and locals.

If you are exploring the northeast of Okinawa island you owe it to yourself to try and have lunch here. They specialise in the local Okinawan soba noodles and it was one of the best lunches we had on...
Yanbaru Soba

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Kunigamigunmotobuchou Izumi 70-1

Despite being located a two-hour drive from Naha Airport in Motobu Town, Kunigami District, Okinawa Prefecture, this Okinawa soba noodle restaurant is so popular, lines of waiting customers form outside its door. Operating out of an Okinawan style wooden Japanese home with a red tile roof, the restaurant's tatami mat seating gives it an old fashioned, Showa period atmosphere. The establishment's medium thick noodles are served in a fairly thick skipjack tuna based broth. Here customers can enjoy soki soba noodles topped with sweet and salty stewed spare rib, and san-mai niku soba topped with three strips of sweet and salty stewed boneless pork rib. Lines often form outside the door before the restaurant even opens and the establishment closes when supplies run out. This popular restaurant is frequently featured on television and in magazines.
Hanagasa Shokudo

3.5

199 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Nahashi Makishi 3-2-48

The locals love this place for providing Okinawan cuisine at affordable prices. All menu items come in sets, and many popular options include generous side dishes. The Ryukyu Set includes goya tempura, mozuku seaweed tempura, rafute (Okinawan pork rib), sashimi, and more. There are also five kinds of soup and three kinds of rice to choose from. The closest station is Makishi Station on Yui Rail.

This local eatery is located in Heiwa Dori market off Kokusai Dori. There are models of food on display outside. Picture menu is also available. A soba (noodle) set meal costs around ¥1000-1100 with...
Emi no Mise

4.5

29 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Pref. Kunigamigunogimison Oganeku 61

Sample the various vegetables of the island at this restaurant. Each vegetable has a unique scent and level of bitterness, and the meals use them in such a way to provide maximum enjoyment. The lunchtime pasta features multicolored noodles with shekwasha (flat lemon), vegetables, and dragon fruit. The “Emi Andagi” dish, available for takeout, is popular as well. With the exception of lunches left up to the chef and light meals, reservations must be made a day in advance.

I am so grateful we found this place as it does not market itself, but is truly a heart-based project from the owner. We were wanting to eat some local Okinawan food that was known for its longevity...
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。
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...
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...
Wa-Ya

4.5

32 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Kunigami-gun Kunigamison Okuma 1605

沖縄北部全般で、食事ができる場所が非常に限られているのと割と早い時間にしまったりするため、そんなに店を選べません。そういう点でいうと、この店の存在は助かりますが、猪豚野菜そばは１０００円です。ラーメンで１０００円ってありえないと思いますしボリュームのあるトッピングは肉がほとんど入っていないもやしいためです。イノブタの味なんて全くわからないです。営業時間が長くて助かる以外でお勧...
Buta Saburo

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Kunigami-gun Onnason Nakadomari 1656-9

"This food stand specializing in tebichi (pig's feet) is located inside the Onna no Eki roadside station. Their specialty ""tebichi karaage,"" is tebichi that have been stewed in a cauldron for about six hours, before being fried in hot oil and tossed in an original sweet and spicy chili and black vinegar sauce. This visually striking dish has an addictive flavor that has earned the shop many fans who come from all over. The shop also serves noodle dishes such as their soki karasoba agu no abura tare, which is an original take on soupless Okinawa soba, a favorite dish of the Yaeyama region."
Tofu no Higa

4.0

363 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Ishigaki-shi Ishigaki 570

This tofu shop in Ishigaki, Ishigaki City makes and sells yushi-dofu, a style of tofu unique to Okinawa. The shop also has a restaurant where guests can enjoy dishes featuring freshly-made yushi-dofu. Offerings include their yushi-dofu sets, which include yushi-dofu, seasoned rice, and other items, as well as yushi-dofu soba, which features yushi-dofu served in a bowl of Okinawa soba.

By knowing the restaurant reputation, we reached there earlier by 11:30am for lunch. We ordered Yushi Tofu set and Yushi Tofu soba. I must admit the full of natural flavor from soya beans and it...
Kabira Park Chaya

4.0

132 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Ishigaki-shi Kabira 934-37

This restaurant is located inside Kabira Park along Prefectural Route 207 in Kabira, Ishigaki City. They serve a menu focused on Okinawan cuisine including Yaeyama soba (a local style of wheat noodles), soki soba (Yaeyama soba with pork sparerib), and pork tamago (Spam and eggs). The restaurant is also a bed and breakfast that offers accommodations with or without meals.

Pretty average noodles. Nothing special. Better restaurants around. Child friendly. Cash only. Car park available.
Painushima

4.0

82 Reviews

Gourmet / Alcohol

Okinawa Ishigaki-shi Okawa 224

This diner and izakaya (Japanese pub) located inside a house with a red tiled roof in Okawa, Ishigaki City serves a media focused on island cuisine. During the day it is a diner that serves set meals featuring chanpuru and other dishes, Yaeyama soba (a local style of wheat noodles), and more. During the evening it is an izakaya where guests can enjoy a dishes made with its local seafood and other ingredients together with awamori.

This is a lovely restaurant to have small plates of local dishes. We came last year and this time, it was just as good. My favourite dishes were squid ink noodles, chicken cartilage, and their...

Okinawa

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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.