Best Local Specialty Restaurants In Japan
Here're best Local Specialty Restaurants in Japan. We released a ranking of reviews about Local Specialty Restaurants posted by travel influencers who have actually been to Japan.
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Anmochi (a rice cake with azuki bean jam) really works well with white miso and stock soup. People live in Kagawa love this combination. This rice cake is also hand made here, Momotaro jaya. The side dish, shoyu mame (a broad bean soaked in soy sause) is also the local specialty.
Name
Momotarojaya
Address
1821 Yashimahigashi-machi, Takamatsu-shi, KagawaGoogle Map
Tel
087-841-9464
Hours
10:00-17:00
How to get there
Seasoned with say sauce, and egg, dried bonito and leek mixed with udon noodle. And dynamically Americanized hamburger. It remains the udon taste strongly but is the new feeling of flour gourmet. Limited only Saturday, Sunday and holidays.
Name
Tuda no Matsubara Service Area
Address
935-5 Tsuruwa Tsudamachi, Sanuki-shi, KagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0879-42-1777
Hours
7:00-22:00
Hishio Don is a local specialty food made with seafood and soy sauce in Shodoshima Island. Osakaya is a local favorite dinner located just near Sakate Port. You can eat 'Sashimi Hishio Don' with tasty sashimi of young yellowtail and octopus.◎An islander told me this dinner to eat delicious lunch.
Name
Inakasyokudo Osakaya
Address
1842-4 Sakate Shodoshima-cho, Shozu-gun, KagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0879－82－2219
Hours
11:00-16:00
Closed
Wed
How to get there
Just near Sakate Port, parking area is available.
Parking
Parking area is available
At the foot of Nagahama Castle of Hideyoshi Toyotomi. You can eat 'Saba (mackerel) Somen Noodle' in a historical restaurant. The mackerel and somen noodle are cooked to be salted and sweetened, and it's a familiar taste for all Japanese people.◎Open: 10:30~ Regular holiday: Mondays Access: 3min walk from JR Nagahama Station, along the Hokkoku Kaido Street.
Let's eat euglena food and take many nutritions in a nice restaurant.
Name
Euglena Garden
Address
270-2 Okawa, Ishigaki-shi, OkinawaGoogle Map
Tel
0980-87-5711
Hours
11:00-22:00
It's near the ferry and you may want to eat this mild taste as soon as you arrive. Oboro kombu is thin sliced tangle weed.
Name
Jyokenbo
Address
494-1 Tomari Honjima-cho, Marugame-shi, KagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0877-27-3728
Hours
8:30-16:30
Closed
Thu
A genuine Berkshire is rare. Soft and really tasty though it's cut thick.
Name
Hoshigoe no Sato
Address
925-1 Maeyama, Sanuki-shi, KagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0879-52-2544
Hours
10:00-17:00
Closed
Tue
How to get there
Parking
Free parking area is available
Yuzu is a Japanese small citrus fruit. Kochi's specialty.
Name
Yuzu mou-ippai yogurt
Address
3-18-18 Nichi-machi Azono, Kochi-shi, KochiGoogle Map
Beef's plentiful, and personally I like thin noodle better than thick.
Name
Shiogama-ya
Address
86-2-15 Rokuban-cho Hama Utadu-cho, Ayauta-gun, KagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0877-49-2582
Hours
11:00-21:00
Closed
Thu
How to get there
Parking
Free parking area is available
Kagoshima's specialty Shirokuma (means white bear) is shaved fluffy ice with homemade condense milk and colorful fruits like jewels. It's gorgeous but a familiar taste somehow, a comfort food of people in Kagoshima.
Name
Tenmonkan Mujyaki Main-Store
Address
5-8 Sennichi-cho, Kagoshima-shi, KagoshimaGoogle Map
Tel
099-222-6904
Hours
10:00-22:00,11:00-22:00
How to get there
At a well-known Sunday market in Kochi, there's always a line in front of this booth. My family loves and buy one person one bag. Simple but unforgettable!
Name
Sunday Market Imoten
Address
1Outesuji, Kochi-shi, KochiGoogle Map
Hours
[Sun]5:00-18:00
How to get there
Kagawa's brand 'olive beef' for a croquette and you can eat only here in Kanka Valley. One of the three most beautiful valleys in Japan you can enjoy with the hamburger.
Name
Kanka-kei Gorge
Address
168 Kankakedori Shodoshima-cho, Shozu-gun, KagawaGoogle Map
Parking
Parking area is available
In front of Okubo Temple, the last one of the 88 temples in Shikoku and called Kechigan (expiration of a vow) temple. Homemade miso makes it mild and, in cold season, you would feel it more delicious.
Name
Yasoba-an
Address
93-1 Tawakanewari, Sanuki-shi, KagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0879-56-2160
Hours
8:00-17:00
How to get there
Parking
Parking area is available
With soft-boiled egg and sesame spicy sauce. Ryuun Udon restaurant's orthodox udon is good, but some kinds of new style are tasty, too.
Name
Ryuun
Address
3208-9 Ko Busshozan-cho, Takamatsu-shi, KagawaGoogle Map
Tel
087-889-1217
Hours
11:00-15:00 [Sat・Sun・Holidays]11:30-15:00
Closed
Tue
How to get there
Parking
Free parking area is available
They add powdered olive leaves as feed to make a quality and unfading meat of young yellow tails. Soaked them in soy sauce and eat with rice.
Name
Sea food restaurant Jyako-ya
Address
631-7 Hara Mure-cho, Takamatsu-shi, KagawaGoogle Map
Tel
087-845-6080
Hours
11:00-14:00 [Sat・Sun・Holidays]11:00-15:00
How to get there
They're so particular about the oil and sauce that we can eat the fried pork very lightly. Be careful eating to much and don't dip in the sauce twice.
Name
Ganso Kushikatsu Daruma Shinsekai Main Store
Address
2-3-9 Ebisuhigashi Naniwa-ku, Osaka-shi, OsakaGoogle Map
Tel
06-6645-7056
Hours
11：00-22：30
How to get there
A fluffy egg and octopus with a stock soup! Also as a snack. You can eat them with tako-yaki sauce.
Name
Tachibana
Address
3-9-4 Sannomiya-cho Chuo-ku, Kobe-shi, HyogoGoogle Map
Tel
078-331-0572
Hours
11:00-19:30
How to get there
Just boiled udon with butter matches the black pepper very much.
Name
Teuchi Udon Bakaichidai
Address
1-6-7 Taga-cho, Takamatsu-shi, KagawaGoogle Map
Tel
087-862-4705
Hours
6:00-18:00
How to get there
Parking
Free parking area is available
It's not only the appealing look, their proud udon noodle uses the highest ranked flour. It's a rare restaurant serving mainly Kama-age udon in Kagawa.
Name
Wara-ya
Address
91 Yashimanaka-machi, Takamatsu-shi, KagawaGoogle Map
Tel
087-843-3115
Hours
10:00-19:00 [Sat・Sun・Holidays]9:00-19:00
How to get there
Parking
Free parking area is available
An uncured ham is ordinally made from pork, but this is beef. What is more, it uses a quality beef called Sanuki olive beef (fed olive lees), it's very rare to find like it within the city.
Name
Otona no Hamburg
Address
2F Kajiya-machi, Takamatsu-shi, KagawaGoogle Map
They start to boil the noodle after they take the order, so the noodle is firm and smooth. With fukujin-zuke (pickled vegetables for curry), the genuine curry udon is the most popular in Kagawa.
Name
Gennai
Address
1597-10 Shido, Sanuki-shi, KagawaGoogle Map
Tel
087-894-0180
Hours
10:00-20:00
Closed
Mon
How to get there
Parking
Free parking area is available
You can enjoy the proud beef in Ishigaki Island at a reasonable price. Also for the side dish, they use Ishigaki foodstuffs you can't meet elsewhere.
Name
Ishigaki-ya
Address
547-7 Maezato, Ishigaki-shi, OkinawaGoogle Map
Tel
0980-82-4400
Hours
11:30-14:00,17:00-21:30
Closed
Tue
It's a kind of custard gratin. Like a mountain whose top coverd with brown. Thanks to the marriage of sweetness and sourness, you can eat whole of it easily.
Name
Manger Sasa Takasone-Store
Address
20-5 Takasone, Kochi-shi, KochiGoogle Map
Tel
088-861-8020
Hours
9:30-20:00
How to get there
Parking
Free parking area is available
The rare sugar has been developed actively in Kagawa. It has sweet but approximately 0 calorie, so it's like a dream for women. But this drink is a secret menu of the cafe.
Name
Playa
Address
2973-1 Tsuda Tsuda-cho, Sanuki-shi, KagawaGoogle Map
Tel
0879-42-3131
Hours
[Sat・Sun・Holidays]11:00-18:00
How to get there
Parking
Free parking area is available
I visit here when I eager to eat the good giblets. Vegetables and noodles are delicious, too.
Name
Hakata Motsunabe Yamanaka Akasakaten
Address
1-9-1 Akasaka Chuo-ku, Fukuoka-shi, FukuokaGoogle Map
Tel
092-716-2263
Hours
17:00-23:30
Closed
Wed
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