Local Guide
From fresh seafood to famous local delicacies, 4 famous lunches in Hachinohe

Hachinohe, the eastern gateway to Aomori Prefecture, is one of the prefecture's best gourmet towns. Hachinohe, the eastern gateway to Aomori Prefecture, is a gourmet town in the prefecture, and is home to a variety of high-end lunch spots, including restaurants where you can taste freshly caught seafood as only a port town can, as well as stylish restaurants that focus on local ingredients. Here are four of our favorites from the Japanese, Western, and ethnic categories.

Ichiba-tei Kaisen-don (fresh seafood bowl) 2,980 yen, plus 800 yen for a small Ichigo-ni (stew) set, a local dish of Hachinohe.
Ichiba-tei Kaisen-don (fresh seafood bowl) 2,980 yen, plus 800 yen for a small Ichigo-ni (stew) set, a local dish of Hachinohe.

This food market offers a wide variety of Hachinohe and Aomori Prefecture's famous gourmet specialties. Centered around the fresh fish market, there is also a collection of Restaurants where you can taste fresh local fish.
Among them, "Ichibatei" is a popular restaurant where you can enjoy a variety of delicious fish dishes including Kaisen-don, sushi, sashimi, fried fish, and more. Ichibatei Kaisen-don" is recommended for lunch, a gorgeous bowl of rice topped with more than 10 different kinds of fish, including tuna, squid, sea urchin, and homemade shime saba (mackerel). You can choose between white rice or sushi rice, and the set's soup can be replaced with Ichigo-ni-ni, a tidal soup with sea urchin and abalone as ingredients (for an additional charge).
Another reason for the restaurant's popularity is that it becomes an all-you-can-eat sushi and shabu-shabu restaurant after 5:00 p.m.

Local Guide Comment
I always take my friends and family there when they come to visit Aomori! The standard course is to have lunch and buy souvenirs.

Seafood Restaurant also offers a wide variety of seafood.

Fresh fish is available at Ichibatei. Delivery is also available, so you can enjoy shopping without worrying about the weight of your luggage!
Fresh fish is available at Ichibatei. Delivery is also available, so you can enjoy shopping without worrying about the weight of your luggage!

Because of its proximity to Hachinohe Port and the availability of freshly landed quality seafood, the main tenants in the building are fresh fish stores. Stores selling seafood are lined endlessly along the 170-meter-long main street.
In addition to Ichiba-tei, there are a total of 10 restaurants in three corners, including Kuriya Stadium, which has conveyor-belt sushi and seafood bowl restaurants; Aji Yokocho, which has Hachinohe ramen and local gourmet restaurants; and Shichirinmura, where fish and meat purchased on the premises can be grilled over charcoal.
In addition, there are stores selling processed marine products, prefectural vegetables, fruits, meat, Aomori's famous sweets including Nanbu senbei (rice crackers), and local sake, making this a major gourmet park in Hachinohe.

Hakko Center
  • Address 22-2 Aza-Kamisai, Kawaraki, Hachinohe City MAP
  • Direction Approximately 8 minutes by cab from Hachinohe Station
  • Direction Approx. 11 min. by 100-yen bus from Hachinohe Stn. bound for Hachishoku Center, short walk from the last stop.
  • Business Hours Kitchen Stadium 9:00 - 21:00 (Ichibatei from 10:00), Aji Yokocho 9:00 - 18:00 (L.O. 17:30), Market Building 9:00 - 18:00 *Subject to change during Obon and New Year holidays.
  • Closed Wednesdays (open on national holidays and during peak season), 1/1, Kitchen stadium open daily (except 1/1)
  • TEL 0178-28-9311, Ichibatei direct 0178-28-8748
  • Parking Free of charge
An example of the lunch course
An example of the lunch course "MENU B" for 1,850 yen. Includes appetizer, pasta, dessert, homemade focaccia, and drink.

This Italian restaurant offers Hachinohe ingredients arranged into refined items that are both tasty and well-prepared for your enjoyment. Three types of lunch courses are available. Among the choices, the menu featuring seafood is the most popular.
For example, in the spring, the menu includes marinated cherry salmon, a salad with spiny crab, pasta with whelk, and more. In summer, Hachinohe's specialty squid and sea urchin are available, and in fall, mackerel, salmon, sea eel, and a wide variety of other seafood dishes are available.

Local Guide Comment
The dishes are all delicious, using many local ingredients, and the delicate presentation is very attractive.

Hachinohe ingredients attract even the best chefs.

The restaurant opened with his wife, a sommelier. Tables in the restaurant are selected to be round tables for easy conversation.
The restaurant opened with his wife, a sommelier. Tables in the restaurant are selected to be round tables for easy conversation.

The chef trained at a number of famous Restaurants in Tokyo and opened this restaurant in 2011. In recent years, he has also worked as a chef on the luxury TRAIN SUITE Shikishima train.
Even for a chef who has honed his skills in such prestigious places, Hachinohe's seasonal ingredients such as fresh local fish and lush organic vegetables are very appealing. He comes up with his menus through direct contact with the producers and ingredients, and sometimes encounters ingredients unique to Hachinohe that are new to him.
The name of the restaurant, which means "house of food" in Italian, expresses our wish that our customers will enjoy the richness of local ingredients in our dishes.

Italian Cuisine Casa del cibo
  • Address 1-19-6 Minatotakadai, Hachinohe City, Aomori Prefecture MAP
  • Direction Approximately 20 minutes by cab from Hachinohe Station
  • Direction From Hachinohe Station, take the Hachinohe City Bus bound for Asahigaoka Office (approx. 32-43 min.); approx. 2 min. walk from Heiwa Byoin-mae Bus Stop.
  • Business hours 11:30 - L.O. 13:30, 18:00 - L.O. 20:30
  • Closed Sundays, 1st and 2nd Mondays
  • TEL 0178-20-9646
  • Parking Free of charge
An example of the
An example of the "Bistro Lunch Set" (1,500 yen). In addition to appetizers, sauces for meat dishes are also rich in vegetables and herbs. The soup in the photo is based on cauliflower.

This casual French restaurant is run by a chef from a farming family in Nanbu-cho, a town next to Hachinohe City. The concept of the restaurant is "local production for local consumption," and dishes are filled with vegetables grown by farmers in the suburbs.
The "Bistro Lunch Set" is a popular menu item that includes "assorted seasonal vegetables" as an appetizer, and allows you to enjoy more than 10 kinds of vegetables, with fresh cucumbers for their texture, grilled zucchini for its sweetness, and marinated bell peppers for its flavor. The restaurant's naming is based on the importance of the bond between the customers and the restaurant.

Local Guide Comment
The dishes using seasonal ingredients change with the seasons, making this a Restaurant you will want to visit every season. The cost performance is excellent not only for lunch but also at night.

The reason for the delicious taste is vegetables and fruits that you can see the face of.

Chic atmosphere. Inside the restaurant, there is a corner with posters of farmers.
Chic atmosphere. Inside the restaurant, there is a corner with posters of farmers.

The restaurant's name comes from the concept of "yui," which is an agricultural concept that emphasizes the importance of bonds. It is only through the strong ties between the chef and the producers that one can enjoy delicious vegetables.
One of the producers' friends is the chef's brother, who also delivers vegetables and fruits to the restaurant, and the ingredients are featured on the menu as "my brother's grape squash.
Other soft drinks include "Mr. Mizuno's Carrot and Orange Juice" and "Mr. Yukki's Apple Juice" made with organic carrots, and are half price during lunch time.

Local Guide Comment
Private rooms are available, so you can dine in peace even with children.
Yui, a farmhouse-style kitchen
  • Address MOTOBLD1F, 25 Bancho, Hachinohe City, Aomori Prefecture (former Grace Bancho) MAP
  • Direction Approximately 8 minutes walk from Hachinohe Station
  • Business hours 11:30 - 15:00 (L.O. 14:00), 17:30 - 23:00 (L.O. 22:00, closed if no customers come after 21:00)
  • Closed Sundays and the 3rd Monday of the month
  • TEL 0178-44-3035
  • Parking Not available (use the nearby private parking lot)
Beef pho
Beef pho" (1,090 yen) and "Chicken Bahn Mee (L)" (600 yen) with chicken liver paste in the back.

This restaurant specializes in pho, a typical Vietnamese noodle. Pho is a noodle dish made of flat rice flour and topped with meat, seafood, and other ingredients.
The restaurant's most popular dish is the "beef pho" topped with a generous portion of boiled beef belly. The juicy flavor of the meat is a perfect match for the light noodle soup, which is made from beef bones and is a direct descendant of the Vietnamese chef.
The dish can be enjoyed with seasonings such as sriracha sauce, which contains garlic, vinegar, and chili peppers, or hoisin sauce, a sweet miso paste-like sauce, to give it a more Vietnamese flavor.

We also recommend the "Bain Mee," a Vietnamese-style sandwich.

Vietnamese restaurants are rare in the prefecture, so people come from far and wide. Cold pho can also be tasted in summer.
Vietnamese restaurants are rare in the prefecture, so people come from far and wide. Cold pho can also be tasted in summer.

Along with pho, the restaurant's specialty is "bahn mi," a sandwich made with French bread. The "Chicken Baing Mee" and "Egg Baing Mee" sandwiched with steamed chicken and red and white mustard are also available, and the crisp flavor of the mustard is sure to satisfy your appetite.
The interior is designed in a monotone café-bar style. The interior is designed in a monotone café-bar style, with a counter-style open kitchen at the center, as well as tables with comfortable seating and counter seats.
The atmosphere on the second floor is completely different, with a fantastic interior. Numerous lampshades in red, yellow, green, and blue, each with a lantern motif, colorfully decorate the ceiling.

Local Guide Comment
The restaurant is stylish and comfortable with a DIY feel. It is easy to come in alone, so I often visit.
ROB PHOTONS
  • Address 1-2 Juyakkamachi, Hachinohe City, Aomori Prefecture MAP
  • Direction 10 min. walk from Hachinohe Station
  • Business hours 10:00 - L.O. 22:00, Friday and Saturday - L.O. 23:30
  • Closed No holidays
  • TEL 0178-51-8622
  • Parking Free of charge

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