Best Japanese Restaurants (Washoku)

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There are fish, vegetables, and meat tempura. The rice can be refilled, so you can sprinkle the soup stock steamed in a clay bottle to make the soup stock chazuke. It's also good for girls and dates.

Address:45-1 Sagayanagida-cho, Arashiyama, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, Japan

Access:10 min walk, from Arashiyama station

Tel:075-871-5108

Hours:11:00-15:00

Closed:Thu

2

Itsukichaya

11 Review

I had a "Kyoto bowl eating comparison set" at Arashiyama Itsuki Chaya. The bowl that was renewed to the autumn menu has a shabu-shabu, and an additional menu, the super-luxury "Five Grains Fertility Tamatebako". It is a luxurious dish with crab meat and karasumi hidden under the matsutake mushrooms.

Address:10 Saganakanoshima, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, Japan

Access:4 min walk, from Arashiyama Station

Tel:075-862-0729

Hours:11:00-15:00

3

Yoshimura

2 Review

Address:3 Sagatenryu-ji Susukinobaba-cho Ukyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto

Tel:075-863-5700

Hours:11:00-17:00

4

Just boiled udon with butter matches the black pepper very much.

Address:1-6-7 Taga-cho, Takamatsu-shi, Kagawa

Tel:087-862-4705

Hours:6:00-18:00

5

Arashi

2 Review

Thick cut sashimi is very delicious. Wakame seaweed soup with sea bream extract is also recommended.

Address:51 Kitanohama Okuwajima Muya-cho, Naruto-shi, Tokushima

Access:8 min by car, from Naruto IC

Tel:088-686-0005

Hours:11:00-21:30

Closed:Wed

6

Iyosuigun

3 Review

Different from what I expected! Mix the sea bream sashimi and ground with yolk, then take them into a big mouthful with rice. You may say how many bowls of rice won't be enough.

Address:2-6-37 Minato-cho, Imabari-shi, Ehime

Tel:0898-32-2000

Hours:11:00-21:30

Closed:Wed

7

Gennai

3 Review

A famous udon restaurant in Kagawa. Specially, curry udon is the most popular but I like zaru-udon with tempura, too.

Address:1597-10 Shido, Sanuki-shi, Kagawa

Tel:087-894-0180

Hours:10:00-20:00

Closed:Mon

8

Tokyo boast the specialty dish 'Tendon'. There is unbelievable queue at front of the restaurant at a lunch time and you have to wait. But it is worth waiting. It has many crispy shrimps, large congers, eggs, shellfishes with a secret sauce. The tendon is ultimate delicious.

Address:1-11-15 Nihonbashimuromachi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

Tel:03-3243-0707

Hours:11:00-22:00 [Sat・Sun・Holidays]10:00-21:00

9

Yamagoe Udon

3 Review

A udon restaurant famous for its hot "Kamatama". A popular shop where there are always lines. The photo is "Kamatamayama" with yam on udon noodles. You can also sit outside and eat.

Address:602−2 Hayukakami Ayagawa-cho, Ayauta-gun, Kagawa

Access:20 min by car, from Takamatsu Airport

Tel:087-878-0420

Hours:9:00-13:30

Closed:Sun

10

Kaiho

2 Review

There are two natural grown big shrimps that cannot stay in a bowl. Very nice fresh and chewy shrimp. It can't be eaten such a dynamic tendon except in Setouchi.

Address:2028 Tsunomura Takamatsu-cho, Takamatsu-shi, Kagawa

Tel:087-841-6969

Hours:11:30-13:30,17:00-22:00

Closed:Mon

11

Tenyasu

2 Review

Cover is crunchy and foodstuffs are soft. If you eat it at once, you'll never forget.

Address:2-5 Hyakken-machi, Takamatsu-shi, Kagawa

Access:2 min walk from Kataharamachi Station. By car or taxi, 5 min from Takamatsu Station.

Tel:087-821-7634

Hours:11:00-14:00,17:00-21:00 [Sat・Sun・Holidays]11:00-21:00

Closed:Mon

12

Irodori

2 Review

You can eat Tokushima's local food at this restaurant. Well known Natuto-dai (sea bream) and Naruto Kintoki (sweet potato), and Shabu-shabu style Wakame sea weed which you can't eat elsewhere. Let's try here.

Address:2F 16-45 Oge Narutochotosadomariura, Naruto-shi, Tokushima

Access:10 min by car, from Naruto Station

Tel:088-687-2913

Hours:6:30-10:00,11:30-14:30,17:30-21:00

13

Kama-age udon's values are certainly its chewiness of noodle and dipping sauce. They are rumored to be the best of Kama-age restaurant. You can enjoy the very genuine udon noodle's texture because they always provide us with freshly boiled udon. In addition, their dipping sauce was instructed by Masaru Doi who was a leading figure on Japanese food and born in Kagawa. It's not too much to say that the dipping sauce is a kind of cultural asset!

Address:1180 Konzoji-cho, Zentsuji-shi, Kagawa

Tel:0877-63-5921

Hours:9:00-17:00

Closed:Wed・Thu

14

An architecture Takeshi Hosaka's design. A spacious room with 300 seats in a building like cloud. 'Houtou' has handmade noodle in soup seasoned to miso tastes. With a secret spice, you can enjoy different taste. It's certain for you to become addicted the unsophisticated but deep taste once you eat it.◎Menu: Fudou Houtou ¥1080, local specialty, horseflesh ¥1080 300 seats are available for groups of tourists

Address:2458 Higashi-koiji Funatsu Fujikawaguchiko-machi, Minamitsuru-gun, Yamanashi

Tel:0555-72-8511

Hours:11:00-20:00

15

A historical sushi restaurant of the original 'Tsukami Zushi' made from freshly cooked warm rice and supreme seafood bought in the adjoining market. I love this sushi like malting in my mouth! ◎Their best-seller 'Uwamaze' has five sushi (1050 yen for lunch), and you can order more by five. Every seafood they use is excellent! There're people waiting in a line.

Address:1-1-86 Noda Fukushima-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka

Access:15 min by car or taxi from Osaka Station.

Tel: 06-6469-7108

Hours:5:00-14:00

Closed:7,8

16

Teori Zushi (a kind of sushi which is colorful and arranged beautifully) of Kamado Saryo, a Japanese style cafe whose building were renovated from an old house built 70 years ago. Many kinds of foodstuff are all so colorful and beautiful that I want to appreciate them more without eating them. To roll the vinegared rice and seafood with laver by myself is also one of the attractions. Maruyama Teori Zushi is offered while stocks last, so you should make a reservation beforehand.

Address:25-1-31 Nishi, Minami 2-jo, Chu'ou-ku, Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido

Access:2 min walk from Maruyama Koen Park Station. 15 min by car or taxi from Sapporo Station.

Tel:011-616-0440

Hours:11:00-17:30

Closed:Mon

17

Kirin

3 Review

This sushi restaurant has a great panoramic view of Akashi Strait Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge, spreading over the counter seats. The room, with a wine cellar, is filled in a modern atmosphere. With this great view in front of your eyes, you can have Edomae Zushi of mainly the fish caught in this sea around Awaji Island that is called a treasure house of seafood. The lunch is reservation only, and in 2-shift service.

Address:1871 Iwaya, Awaji-shi, Hyogo

Access:5 min by car from Awaji IC.

Tel:0799-72-3811

Hours:11:30-14:30,17:30-22:00

18

Maruyoshi's most-seller is Niku Kama-tama Udon Noodle (freshly boiled udon noodle mixed with egg and meat). To eat just only noodle, and roll the noodle with meat, you can eat as you like. When you finish to eat noodle, you can take a bite of rice to eat with the egg and meat left in your bowl.

Address:1-5-12 Higashimachi, Hotarugaike, Toyonaka-shi, Osaka

Access:1 min walk, from Hotarugaike Station

Tel:06-7509-6819

Hours:11:00-15:00,17:00-21:30

Closed:Tue

19

Soft and creamy Oyako-don (soft stewed egg and chicken on rice) is very delicious. The meringue is fizzy in my mouth, and the stock is also wonderful. It's only 890 yen with salad, side dish, and Akadashi miso soup. I like this lunch very much.

Address:1st floor, 14-25 Sen'nichimae, Namba, Chuou-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka

Access:1 min walk from Namba Station

Tel:06-6647-8988

Hours:11:30-3:00

20

It's a limited menu for only summer, which looks cool and makes us forget the hot climate of Kyoto. The dashi soup and sudachi (refreshing citrus fruit) has good gentle fragrances, and smooth soba noodle can bring my chopsticks continuously. The soup is really delicious that I want to drink all of it.

Address:398 Kombuya-cho, Nishi-iru, Fuya-cho, Maruta-machi, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto

Access:8 min walk from Maruta-machi Station

Tel:075-212-7787

Hours:11:00-18:30

Closed:Mon,4th Sun

21

Yoridokoro

2 Review

Egg-cooked rice made with selected eggs while looking at the Enoden. Egg-cooked rice made with carefully selected eggs while looking at the Enoden! Unique breakfast rice with fluffy fluffy egg whites until it becomes meringue-shaped and served with dried fish.

Address:Inamuragasaki 1-12-16, Kamakura-shi, Kanagawa.

Access:3 min walk, from Inamuragasaki Sta.

Tel:0467-40-5737

Hours:7:00-9:00,11:00-17:00

22

This is a popular restaurant with lines even on weekdays. Each item is big, delicious, and reasonably priced. As it is a sushi bar, sake is available from 190 yen.

Address:1-2-2 Umeda, Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan

Access:1 min walk, from Kitashinchi Station

Tel:050-5597-9470

23

At "Hokkaido Menkoi Nabe Kuma-chan Onsen" in Sapporo, Hokkaido, you can eat a cute hot pot that looks like a bear in a hot spring. It's the size of one person, so you can enjoy it even if you come alone or have a different soup (different bear color) from your friends. A popular shop in Sapporo opened in Shibuya last year, so be sure to check it out.

Address:4-1-10 Minami6jo-nishi, Sapporo-shi, Hokkaido, Japan

Access:3 min walk, from Susukino Station

Tel:011-213-1416

Hours:17:00-23:00

24

Mimikou (Ajimika) in EKIZO Kobe Sannomiya is a curry udon specialty store that has been loved in Kiyamachi, Kyoto. A cool and soothing goldfish that swims close to you. Amazing visuals ... Actually, it's an artistic curry udon noodle. The white one is a potato cream potage. Mellow creamy. Goldfish curry udon in love.

Address:4-2-1, Kano-cho, Kobe-shi, Hyogo, Japan

Access:Soon, from Sannomiya Station

Tel:078-333-0335

Hours:11:00-20:00

25

Abon

2 Review

Probably the most difficult and most delicious kushikatsu restaurant in Japan. Make reservations by calling thousands of times on the day of the reservation. A mysterious fried food that feels like it can be eaten forever without any stomach upset.

Address:6-8 Kusunoki-cho, Ashiya-shi, Hyogo, Japan

Access:10 min walk, from Ashiya Station

Tel:0797-22-2030

Hours:18:00-,20:30-

Closed:Wed

26

Mentoan

2 Review

Arrived in about 5 minutes on foot from Kintetsu Nara Station. Udon shop where you can line up Mentouan's specialty is this reverse kitsune udon, "Kinchaku kitsune". When you break the sweet purse-aged fried tofu cooked with soup stock, you will find delicious udon noodles that are chewy. It also has a curry flavor. You can also take out, so it's also a souvenir from Nara.

Address:30-1 Hashimoto-cho, Nara-shi, Nara, Japan

Access:4 min walk, from Nara Station

Tel:0742-25-3581

Hours:11:00-19:00

Closed:Tue

27

There are many items on the menu that look good on Instagram, and the "Banken Samon" made with cream cheese is so real that you feel sorry for eating it. On the other hand, you can also eat authentic Edomae sushi, and the price is very reasonable starting from 99 yen.

Address:14-17 Nanbasennichimae, Osaka-shi, Osaka, Japan

Access:2 min walk, from Namba Station

28

Shiogama-ya

2 Review

Address:86-2-15 Rokuban-cho Hama Utadu-cho, Ayauta-gun, Kagawa

Tel:0877-49-2582

Hours:11:00-21:00

Closed:Thu

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Sukiyaki Restaurants

Edogiku

1 Reviews

If you eat Sukiyaki in Osaka, you have to visit here. It has a good aftertaste of miso and Matsuzaka beef with egg is delicious.

Steak House Chacha

2 Reviews

You can also choose Sukiyaki and Shabushabu using super Sanuki beef and they are as delicious as a steak. Of Course, Last course is Udon.

Rinsui

2 Reviews

Tosa Aka-ushi is called rare wagyu because of the small amount of shipment. You can enjoy it in the Japanese style inn. Tosa wagyu that grows in the great nature in Kochi, has a good chewiness and the more you chew the meat, more juicy flavor comes out. It's the superb sukiyaki.

Yakiniku Restaurants

Tendan Ginza Store

2 Reviews

It melts in my mouth. You have to eat the special beef once.

YAKINIKU FUTAGO 37West 17th St

3 Reviews

A gorgeous room and atmosphere, that you never think it as Yakiniku restaurant, are like an entertainment of meat. Each dish has unique taste and display, especially the highlight is the first-rate Japanese black beef (wagyu) coming out from a treasure box! I like both its tastes and looking of this yakiniku restaurant.◎YAKINIKU FUTAGO 37West 17th St could overturn the idea of Japanese Yakiniku restaurant. They have a branch restaurant in New York, and it's reverse-imported to Japan with the popular style among New Yorkers. Course: Union Square 7000yen.

Rousu Tei

2 Reviews

Osaka's only pure black beef 'Naniwa Kuroushi' has strong taste but also has light aftertaste. You can eat the Osaka local beef that has high scarcity value at this restaurant.◎Assorted Red Meat 1600yen. You can grill them on clay stove with charcoal.

Udon Noodle Restaurants

Teuchi Udon Bakaichidai

2 Reviews

Just boiled udon with butter matches the black pepper very much.

Yamagoe Udon

3 Reviews

A udon restaurant famous for its hot "Kamatama". A popular shop where there are always lines. The photo is "Kamatamayama" with yam on udon noodles. You can also sit outside and eat.

Nagata in Kanoka

2 Reviews

Kama-age udon's values are certainly its chewiness of noodle and dipping sauce. They are rumored to be the best of Kama-age restaurant. You can enjoy the very genuine udon noodle's texture because they always provide us with freshly boiled udon. In addition, their dipping sauce was instructed by Masaru Doi who was a leading figure on Japanese food and born in Kagawa. It's not too much to say that the dipping sauce is a kind of cultural asset!

Kushikatsu Restaurants

Abon

2 Reviews

Probably the most difficult and most delicious kushikatsu restaurant in Japan. Make reservations by calling thousands of times on the day of the reservation. A mysterious fried food that feels like it can be eaten forever without any stomach upset.

Shun

2 Reviews

Their kushi-age(deep fried skewered foodstuffs) is refined taste and made elaborate to become a wonderful dish.

Naniwa Tachibana

2 Reviews

Kushiage (skewered and deep fried food) is a local specialty in Osaka. When you want to eat quality one, visit here! Duck meat with mustard, pork fillet with miso, you can eat creative kushiage here.

Tempura Restaurants

Kaneko Hannosuke

2 Reviews

Tokyo boast the specialty dish 'Tendon'. There is unbelievable queue at front of the restaurant at a lunch time and you have to wait. But it is worth waiting. It has many crispy shrimps, large congers, eggs, shellfishes with a secret sauce. The tendon is ultimate delicious.

Tenyasu

2 Reviews

Cover is crunchy and foodstuffs are soft. If you eat it at once, you'll never forget.

Maikohan Arashiyama Store

3 Reviews

There are fish, vegetables, and meat tempura. The rice can be refilled, so you can sprinkle the soup stock steamed in a clay bottle to make the soup stock chazuke. It's also good for girls and dates.

Onigiri Shops

Omusubi Cafe Panino-ni

1 Reviews

Omusubi Cafe is very popular for its Omusubi Plate with rice ball of tasty rice cooked in earthen pot. Surprisingly, their sweets are also delicious! The seasonal strawberry sweets are all very lovely, specially, I like French Toast. The cookie served with drink for free, adds more loveliness!

MISOJYU

1 Reviews

It's a recommendable restaurant when you visit Asakusa. There's a calligraphy art by Soun Takeda. And we can have a delicious Japanese food culture, such as miso soup of organic vegetables and stewed pork, and various rice ball of originally blended organic rice.

Gungen-dou Iwami Ginzan Honten

1 Reviews

Gungen-dou Honten is an old merchant house in Omori, a town of world heritage 'Iwami Ginzan'. Their 'Satoyama Omusubi Set' has rice balls made from rice boiled in earthen pot and rolled to good firmness not to break when you hold it. Wrap them with nori (laver sheet), ant eat together.

Takoyaki Restaurants

Takoyaki Fu-chan

1 Reviews

In front of the ferry terminal. With the beautiful Seto Inland Sea's scenery, I ate the freshly made takoyaki.

Otako Main-Store

1 Reviews

Otako's proud of the fresh and big octopus in their takoyaki. Piping hot and soft dough, taste is kind of traditional. By the way, I was happy to see the big octopus!

KOUGARYU Main Store

1 Reviews

Everyone knows this shop for Takoyaki, a local specialty of Osaka, and people make a line to eat it. The fluffy dough with grated yam and crispy surface are excellent, and it's an originator of Sauce-mayo Takoyaki.◎450yen for ten Sauce-mayo Takoyaki

Soba Noodle Restaurants

Yoshimura

2 Reviews

Teuchi Soba HANAMOMO

2 Reviews

It's a limited menu for only summer, which looks cool and makes us forget the hot climate of Kyoto. The dashi soup and sudachi (refreshing citrus fruit) has good gentle fragrances, and smooth soba noodle can bring my chopsticks continuously. The soup is really delicious that I want to drink all of it.

Namikiyabusoba

1 Reviews

A traditional restaurant opened in Taisyo era. A soba tsuyu, a sauce here is strong and salty (I wonder this expression of taste is right ..) that has attracted Edokko (people long-living in Tokyo) and been admired as the best one in Japan. This is the genuine taste of Edokko.

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