B-grade Gourmet Spots in Japan

  • Frozen Sweets Fujiya Tomari Main Shop
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    4.0
    105 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Okinawa Pref. Nahashi Tomari 2-10-9
    Fujiya is a specialty red bean soup shop near the Tomari Primary School in Tomari, Naha City. Red bean soup in Okinawa is a mixture of sweetened boiled beans, sticky rice balls and shaved ice. In addition, red bean soup at Fujiya uses ice cubes made from water used to boil kidney beans in order to stop the soup going thin as a result of melting. It also offers food menus including Taco-rice apart than sweets such as red bean soup as well as delivery services.

    Came across this by accident, but it was excellent. Ice coffee and Shaved Ice, its a ticket service system, but fast and friendly staff. Shaved ice came out like flavored snow with ice-cream on...

  • Yasudaya Hinoda branch
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Saitama Pref. Chichibushi Hinodamachi 1-6-9
    A restaurant situated along the Saikai Highway in Hinoda-machi, Chichibu City. The restaurant's popular waraji katsudon rice bowls are a local Chichibu favorite and consist of two large breaded pork cutlets shaped like waraji straw sandals stewed in a soy sauce-based stock and served over rice. The restaurant's main location in Ogano Town is famously where waraji katsudon was invented.
  • Hitachi
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    4.0
    20 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Chiba Pref. Choushishi Araoichou 1-36
    Hitachi, a fishmarket seafood restaurant, is an excellent choice for a meetingor a banquet. Diners can enjoy fresh, seasonal seafood caught in the waters of Choshi Port,which boasts the nation's largest landing volumein Japan, while taking in a view of the Tonegawa River and Choshi's municipal fish market. The restaurant creates splendid combinations of seafood, including carefully prepared prix fixe meals, stewed fish, seafood on rice, sushi, and sashimi. Customers can taste the full flavor of these superb ingredients.

    บรรยากาศร้านชาวประมงท้องถิ่นที่เรียบง่าย ข้าวหน้าไข่หอยเม่นเครื่องเยอะ ชุดอาหารแนะนำคุ้มค่า หม้อไฟซีฟู้ดให้เยอะดูดี และ หอยฮามากุริตัวใหญ่ที่อร่อยสุดๆ

  • Towa Shokudo
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    4.0
    15 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kouchi Pref. Takaokagunshimantochou Towakawaguchi 62-9
    This diner is located inside Roadside Station Shimanto Towa on the side of National Route 381 in Towakawaguchi, Shimanto Town, Takaoka County. Their Towa Shiki Gozen set meal features a number of regional items made with Towa’s seasonal ingredients. The menu also includes set meals, donburi (rice bowls), udon noodles, curry, and more made with ingredients including eel sourced locally in Kochi Prefecture, Shimantodori chicken, and Shimanto pork. Every Sunday, the diner offers a lunch buffet that includes items such as the Towa delicacy shiitake no tataki (fried shiitake mushrooms with vegetables).

    料理はおいしかった。ポークカツカレーがおすすめです。 The food was delicious, I recommend the pork katsu curry. The view from the restaurant is beautiful.

  • Mucchan Manju (Hakata Bus Terminal Shop)
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    3.0
    16 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukuoka Pref. Fukuokashihakataku Hakataekichuougai 2-1 Hakata Bus Terminal
    A sweets stall located on the first floor of the Hakata Bus Terminal in Hakata Ward, Fukuoka City. The stall sells Mucchan manju, a local favorite cheap snack similar to taiyaki but shaped like a mudskipper. In addition to custard and sweet black bean paste, the stall offers savory fillings like ham and egg. The stall is frequented by many locals and tourists alike.

    博多バスターミナルにあるむっちゃん万十です。バスターミナルを利用するときは必ず寄ってしまいます。 レトロな店構え、年季入ってます。定番のハムエッグを購入。ここのマヨネーズ濃厚で卵と良く合います。

  • Tsuzuki Seafood Restaurant
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    4.5
    11 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kouchi Pref. Kouchishi Harimayachou 1-4-12F
    Tsuzuki Seafood Restaurant serves fresh seafood and regional cuisine in a location about a ten-minute walk from JR Kochi Station near Harimayabashi Bridge. It is said to be the restaurant that invented Yakikiri no Tataki, in which bonito is seared over a fire, seasoned, and then sliced thinly to be eaten while hot. Customers can choose either counter or table service. A selection of the catch of the day is offered at the counter, including thickly-sliced Bonito Tataki, dishes made with octopus, and moray eel. This restaurant is popular not only with tourists but also with local residents. In addition to seafood, Ryukyu Island-style marinated dishes, Tosa-style sushi roll, and other simple local dishes are available, along with local Tosa sake.

    情報によると塩たたき発祥の店ということ。 間違いなく旨い、他の店では味わうことのできない美味しさ。ポン酢などは邪魔に思えるくらいにかつおのうまみが味わえる。店主のこだわりでチェーン店のようには品物は出てきません。それが駄目な人と一緒には僕は食べたくない、と言いたくなるくらいそのこだわりと一緒に味わえる気持ちです。

  • Hashimoto Shokudo
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    Kouchi Pref. Susakishi Yokomachi 4-19
    About 10 minutes on foot from Tosa-Shinjo Station on the JR Dosan Line, this shop is famous for local Susaki cuisine and nabe-yaki ramen. The unpretentious shop maintains a cozy feel, and you can sit and enjoy steaming hot nabe-yaki ramen at either the counter or the tables/raised seating. The chicken-based stock is a pleasant soy flavor, with thin straight noodles, and completed with chicken, fish cakes, onions, and raw egg. The remaining soup makes great porridge if you add in some rice. Souvenir ramen is also available for purchase.
  • Ichiba no Meshiya Hama-chan
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    4.0
    11 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kouchi Pref. Takaokagunnakatosachou Kure 6370-2
    This diner is located inside the Kure Taisho Town Market in Kure, Nakatosa Town, Takaoka County. It offers set meals and donburi (rice bowls) featuring fresh seasonal seafood including their katsuodon (skipjack tuna on rice), seared skipjack tuna set meals, and more. Restaurant’s staff char-grills a dried fish at the restaurant’s entrance and guests can eat it.

    いつも行列の絶えないお店です。中でも、一押しメニューはカツオ丼です。新鮮なカツオをふんだんに使い、ご飯が見えなくなるほど。極力、地元産のカツオを使用しているので、絶品です。

  • Kamahiko
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    3.5
    24 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Tochigi Pref. Nasushiobarashi Shiobara 2611
    This diner in Nasushiobara City, Tochigi Prefecture is famous for being the originator of the local cheap but tasty soup-iri yakisoba. Their take on this dish of fried noodles in soup is notable for its use of specially-ordered wavy noodles and the spicy flavor of its soup. Lines sometimes form at the popular restaurant, which is equipped with table and tatami seating. It is visited by long-time repeat customers as well as many people who come from great distances away.

    店構えからして上等な金額を取るのかと思っていましたが、非常にリーズナブルな価格でした。スープ入り焼きそば...

  • Heitaro
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    4.0
    10 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Aichi Pref. Okazakishi Idanishimachi 6-4
    A taiyaki (fish-shaped sweet cake) shop located on the premises of Sake no Sugita liquor shop in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture. The restaurant is renowned for its taiyaki filled with a homemade anko sweet bean paste crafted using famous Hokkaido adzuki beans. The shop's cheese taiyaki are also gaining in popularity attracting people from far and wide. The shop closes when supplies run out, so be sure to come early.

    期間限定で、チョコたい焼き150円で売っていたので、初めて買いました。 濃厚過ぎぐらいのチョコが入っていて、ちょっと重い感じでしたが美味しかったです。 タコ焼きも売っていて、いつもソース味を買うって美味しいのですが、今回は醤油味を買ったら、味が薄いし物足りない! やっぱりタコ焼きはソース味が良いです。

  • Fujinomiya Yakisoba Academy Antenna Shop
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    Shizuoka Pref. Fujinomiyashi Miyachou 4-23 inside the Old Palace
    Located in the bar & dining district Omiyayokocho of Miyacho Town, Fujinomiya City, this shop specializes in Shizuoka's local cuisine Fujinomiya yakisoba. In addition to Fujinomiya yakisoba and super spicy yakisoba, they offer noodles blanc-limited to 30 orders per day-with noodles and flavored French bread packed in a cup.
  • Irohado
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagano Pref. Naganoshi Kinasa 1687-1
    An oyaki dumpling specialty shop located in Kinasa, Nagano City, Nagano Prefecture, a mountain hamlet with a view of the beautiful Hida Mountains. Irohado’s popular oyaki are prepared one at a time by hand, the wheat and buckwheat flour dough stuffed with local farm and mountain vegetables, mushrooms, and other fillings. Oven baked rather than steamed, Irohado’s oyaki have an addictively crisp crust. Inside, you can enjoy your oyaki with a cup of tea near the shop’s old-fashioned sunken hearth. There is also a café and gallery in the back of the building.
  • EAT730
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    3.5
    7 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kumamoto Pref. Amakusashi Kawauramachimatomi Umegawa Hara 1630-4
    The “Sunset Line” (National Route 389), which runs through Kawaura Town in Amakusa City, Kumamoto Prefecture, is a well-known driving route, and this champon (noodles with seafood and vegetables) restaurant can be found alongside it. It uses soup made from a chicken bone and fish base as opposed to pork bones, giving it a soy sauce-like flavor distinct from typical champon. The light taste and seafood aroma will make you feel like you’re eating a homecooked meal. It comes with a generous helping of chewy, straight noodles and toppings that complement the soup perfectly.

    出汁の酒類が二種類(魚の燻製or鶏)から選べ、珍しい前者を選択し、大正解。半分程度食べ、かぼす?による味変も美味しかった。炒飯も美味。また、食べたいと思えるお店。 店主がユニークで笑わせてくれる人柄でかつなぜか鳶を呼べる。 支払い後の謎のじゃんけんあり。

  • Chinese Food Chuka Saikan Dejimatei
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    3.5
    6 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Nagasaki Pref. Nagasakishi Shinchimachi 9-13
    "This Chinese food restaurant is located in Nagasaki's Chinatown in Shinchi-machi, Nagasaki City. It offers menu items such as champon, ""sara udon"" noodles, Nagasaki's specialty edible milkshakes, mapo rice bowls and shrimp chili sauce rice bowls. Their original curry-flavored ""Curry Champon"" is a popular dish."

    新地中華街の中にある中華料理店ですが、店頭の横にある露店のようなところで手軽に肉まんやゴマ団子などを販売もしています。中華街をウロウロしていて小腹が空いたときに食べ歩きにも最適な食べ物です。色鮮やか桃あんまんは、ふかふかの生地でこし餡を包んでいます。アツアツのものがいただけますが、桃の風味は全くないです。この他にいただいた春巻き、豚角煮まんが美味しかったです。

  • Ganso Perayaki Nishimura
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    4.5
    4 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Kochi Tosashimizu-shi Chuocho 6-1-1
    This shop is famous for serving the local “soul food” perayaki, a kind of savory griddle cake. It's like a thin okonomiyaki made with scallions and dried whitebait tempura, and it's topped with Soda-bushi katsuo flakes. There are four flavors of sauce: sweet, normal, spicy, and soy. Prices vary by size. This shop first made pera yaki in 1957. You can sit around a large iron griddle and enjoy it piping hot.

    夏の盛りにランチで行きました。炭火焼とのことで、お店の方は冷房も入れず、厚さに負けず、作っていらっしゃいます。暑いので持ち帰りにしました。お店の方と距離が近いので、涼しい時期にお店で食べることができるなら、地元情報とか教えてくれそうだな、と思いました。

  • Takaichi Seikaten
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    4.0
    4 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Akita Yuzawa-shi Omotemachi 1-1-28
    Operated as a greengrocer in the prewar-period but started selling fried food including fried sweet potatoes in the latter half of the 1920s. Then, nearly 30-years ago, they started selling Oban-yaki and Oranda-yaki fried pastries. Now it's a soul food shop selling shaved ice in the summer and Oban-yaki and Oranda-yaki in the winter. It's got a reputation as being delicious and easy to eat as either a light meal or as a snack.

    関西ではまずないオランダ焼のお店。今川焼きの生地にハムとチーズが入っていて、甘塩風味で美味しかったです。お値段も100円と手ごろ。

  • Ahotaleeno
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    3.5
    3 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukuoka Pref. Fukuokashichuouku Tenjin 1-4-1
    This popular food stand in Chuo Ward of Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, has a menu with a diverse array of offerings. In addition to motsunabe (offal hotpot) made with Japanese beef, ramen, and other Hakata-esque dishes, the garlic fried rice filled with fluffy scrambled eggs and the homemade jumbo croquettes available only on Saturdays are popular options as well. The spicy tacos, featuring salsa made with a Mexican recipe, go well with beer. The stand is popular with women and families in addition to the normal crowd, and it’s perfect for dropping by after work or experiencing Hakata at night.

    今夜は屋台巡り。一軒目にこの店を見つけ入りました。タコスという変わり種がありましたが、居心地は普通でしょうか。人気だけどね。

  • Nakachan
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    4.5
    2 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukuoka Pref. Fukuokashichuouku Tenjin 2-2-1 Fukuoka Mitsukoshi front
    A popular food stand located in Chuo Ward in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture which serves a variety of items with a focus on teppanyaki—dishes prepared on a hot steel plate in front of customers. The stand is able to adjust portion sizes for those with smaller appetites and is famous for being easy for women to enjoy. With women comprising over half of the stand’s customers, it has an easy-going atmosphere which makes even tourists and strangers to the town on business trips feel welcome. The stand’s teppanyaki chicken, made with Hokkaido pedigree chicken sautéed to perfection with crisp skin, is particularly popular. Nakachan also offers a variety of other food stand favorites, including oden, ramen, and Japanese beef hormone (offal).

    博多といえば屋台! 2軒目にどこに行こうか、と悩んでいたら、 1軒目の屋台で地元の方に勧められて行きました。 屋台としては結構な人が入れますが満席で大賑わいでしたが、 たまたま教えてくれた地元の方に会ったので、 その人のお陰で少し待って座る事が出来ました。 気さくな大将なので、お客さんとも楽しくお喋りし、 お客さん同士も和気あいあいと楽しめる屋台で、 これぞ屋台の醍醐味!が感じられるお店です。 あ...

  • Keyaki
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Chiba Pref. Katsurashi Tona 293-8
    "This eatery is in Tona, Katsuura City serves Katsuura tantan-men noodles, a local specialty. Their version won the ""Gold Grand Prix"" at the 10th B-1 Grand Prix regional food festival in 2015. They also have fried tantan-yakisoba noodles."
  • Curry Honpo Mojiko Retro Restaurant
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    4.0
    76 Reviews
    Gourmet / Alcohol
    Fukuoka Pref. Kitakyushushimojiku Minatomachi 9-2 Abaya Building 2F
    A curry restaurant located in Moji Ward, Kitakyushu City. Specializing in baked curry, a local favorite cheap eat, this establishment is also known as the only place serving baked curry in the Mojiko area. Customers can enjoy an abundant variety of baked curries, include seafood curries made with seasonal fish; and an extravagant triple meat curry made with chicken, pork, and Japanese black beef.

    The curry rice is very delicious.all of us had a good meal even it was running late. The price is reasonable n the view from the restaurant is great too. If you are in Mojiko port tis curry house you...

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