Aizu-wakamatsu (Fukushima)
Local Guide
The recommendation launch which can enjoy Aizu-wakamatsu fully

There are also many spots recommended to lunch in Aizuwakamatsu-shi dotted with tourist attraction Nanokamachi street" a building of "crane KE castle", "Iimoriyama" and Taisho Era equals. I'll introduce 6 stores of careful selection which would like to drop in at the way of the sightseeing tour of the city by all means from a local cuisine store to the gourmet burger shop.

The delicacy transmitted to Aizu is satisfied with deep local cuisine.

"Festival Onmae Crane" 2200 yen
"Festival Onmae Crane" 2200 yen

Store of the local cuisine in "Nanokamachi street". The meal transmitted to Aizu from the old days can be enjoyed at the building where the taste built from Meiji to the Taisho Era is here. Various dried goods were used for a dish instead of fresh fish in the Aizu area located in an inland, and the dish which makes the head of herring, the internal organs and the "body lack herring" by which I passed the egg and took dried fish Japanese pepper immerse, rolled tangle with dried fish in it and tempura was born. Then popular "festival table crane" can taste the "by the near grain, YU" etc. by which those boiled Makoto of Buckweat of "stick tala boiling" and Aizu rural areas which dried and simmered the cod which became solid like a stick in addition to 3 kinds of herring cooking.

Some special time I spend at the building where history is here

When I pass through goodwill, a garden is spread in space of the West and the inside in space of a total and the left to the right.
When I pass through goodwill, a garden is spread in space of the West and the inside in space of a total and the left to the right.

Shibukawa factor starts the business as a seafood wholesale store in 1887 's. Wholesale business is finished in 1965 's and it's reborn as a store of local cuisine and stay Property at present. The building where a small grid is striking makes history which takes pride in the size which catches eye remarkably and prospers as an emporium in Aizu (It's OO.) find "Nanokamachi street".
A meal can use reservation nothing, and Irori (open fireplace) (hearth made in the floor) is here, "during big catch" bustles with many people every day. When making a preliminary reservation, the "warehouse Japanese-style room" etc. which wishes for a beautiful courtyard is also available. You can spend extraordinary time.

Shibukawa wholesale store (SHIBU KAWADON and)
  • The address3-28, Nanokamachi, Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima MAP
  • DirectionFrom JR Nanukamachi Station, about 2 minutes on foot
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, tour embussment and "in front of Nanukamachi Station" getting off, immediately.
  • Business hours11:00-21:00 (L.O.20:00)
  • Days closedThe regular holiday-lessness
  • Admission0242-28-4000
  • ParkingFree

The dish which is also beautiful in an eye with vegetables in season

The "sweets launch" of 2090 yen which can color it and enjoy abundant dish and 5-6 kinds of sweets
The "sweets launch" of 2090 yen which can color it and enjoy abundant dish and 5-6 kinds of sweets

Restaurant near "Iimoriyama" learned about as a place by the Byakko-tai troop relation. The leading roles of a dish are vegetables and vegetables in season as much as about 20 kinds are used in an appetizer of a course lunch. The contents change a little every day, but it's charm that terrine, potage and ratatouille can taste various dishes with one dish.
The one recommended to a lady, "sweets lunch". Of a vegetable appetizer, pasta and sweets 5-6 kinds, heap, drink and volume perfection. The one by which all sweets is homemade and is sweetness humbleness is also a wonderful point.

Gusto of Fukushima's vegetables is realized.

Popular Restaurant where a lady accounts for about 90 percent of the coming visitor
Popular Restaurant where a lady accounts for about 90 percent of the coming visitor

The one by which much of the vegetables you use in a dish was grown at in Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Aizubange-machi and Kita-aizu area. To utilize the feature of the vegetables from Fukushima-ken which says "The sweetness is strong and the taste is strong." to the full, the seasoning of a dish is all simple. I'm also particular about the seasoning such as the olive oil excellent in quality, the salt made in Italy or the local "mountain salt". It's also charm that you can meet a new dish every time to change every day, stocking comes. How about going out to enjoy a dish of vegetables in season?

Restaurant POTAJIE of vegetables
  • The addressIkkimachiyahata, Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima letter cow KE grave 14-1 MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, about 6 minutes
  • Bus DirectionTour embussment and "Meshimori Yamashita" get off JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, about 3 minutes on foot
  • Business hours11:00-14:30 (L.O.) and 17:30-20:00 (L.O.)
  • Days closedNight on Monday and Sunday
  • TEL0242-93-8404
  • ParkingFree

I receive the rice-planting dance with the rich kind by traditional Miso.

The "rice-planting dance tour" of 1400 yen which can taste 6 kinds of rice-planting dance
The "rice-planting dance tour" of 1400 yen which can taste 6 kinds of rice-planting dance

Miso shop in the long-established store near "Nanokamachi street". Various kinds of rice-planting dance can be ordered from 1 in Dining Area. The "rice-planting dance course" where recommendation can enjoy 6 kinds of taste. In a body lack herring in addition to deep-fried bean curd of tofu, konnyaku (2), taro potato and rice cake (dried fish), pith wax (the one which crushed and rounded half of cooked nonglutinous rice) and the ingredients Aizu, 4 kinds of Miso in Manda shop (sweet miso, Yuzu citrus fermented soybean paste, Japanese pepper fermented soybean paste and JUUNEN fermented soybean paste). The food texture and fragrance made a grain will add EGOMA which also ruined at the inside to Miso, and are a habit for crowded "JUUNEN Miso".

The very popular store where holiday can line up

Irori (open fireplace) near the counter seat (hearth made in the floor). It's also fun to wait for finish while talking with a young hostess.
Irori (open fireplace) near the counter seat (hearth made in the floor). It's also fun to wait for finish while talking with a young hostess.

Foundation sails up history in Manda shop in 1834 (1834) in the old days. It was being loved locally as a store of homemade Miso, but a leap started to offer rice-planting dance the time of the places charge, and became famous.
When an order of the rice-planting dance enters, the young hostess who becomes seven generation eye will stick a skewer into Irori (open fireplace) and warm over a fire by charcoal. Miso changes the kind and applied timing according to the ingredients, I'm particular, YOU. I'm chosen exquisite angle and suitability, baked up and offered in the hot state so that it isn't scorched. For holiday to become a line, I'll have a plenty of leeway in time and go out.

Manda shop (It's seen and it goes along.)
  • The address1-1-25, Omachi, Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima MAP
  • DirectionFrom JR Nanukamachi Station, about 10 minutes on foot
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, tour embussment and "in front of Nanokamachi plain wood shop" getting off for about 3 minutes on foot
  • Business hours10:00-17:00 (Dining Area "fermented soybean paste rice-planting dance" 10:30-16:30※ large. O.16:20)
  • Days closed1 Monday-March: Every Wednesday
    4 Monday-December: 1st 3rd Wednesday* 2nd*
  • TEL0120-30-8803
  • ParkingFree

The very popular lunch I have at luxurious space

The "Rikyu box lunch" of 2200 yen which can taste a dish of month replacement is weekday lunch limitation.
The "Rikyu box lunch" of 2200 yen which can taste a dish of month replacement is weekday lunch limitation.

Nihon Ryoriten where the thatched gate near "crane KE castle" is a mark. Taste is some main building and separation, and when I can receive, a dish of the elegant taste is famous.
The "Rikyu box lunch" by which popularity can taste a seasonal dish most. Rice and miso soup are the contents of the substantiality which comes with a dessert in 6 pieces, an appetizer, a small bowl, sashimi, pottery, cooked vegetables and deep fried food, and many local vegetables in season are used. A container also changes every month according to the dish of month replacement again, so it's also one of pleasantness to love the beautiful capacity such as the bowl of Aizu lacquer ware and the dish of Arita and Imari. I'll make a reservation and visit beforehand.

A meal as well as the atmosphere of the total are enjoyed.

Each table is settled by a bamboo blind (It's seen and done.)
Each table is settled by a bamboo blind (It's seen and done.)

When I enter a main building, space is the equipment which can enjoy a meal comfortably every table while having it stolen and looking at the garden which was often cared for widely. A private room is recommended to a meal by a small group. A private sense is high and the private room in separation in particular can forget and spend time.
It seems at the store I feel awkward in visiting seemingly, but the price is reasonable relatively. The "Aizu, a whole, table" (4400 yen and Reservation required) etc. which can enjoy KOZUYU and carp fish and vegetables boiled in thick soy with sugar for a course is immersed in a mini KAI Local Flavors table 7 seasonal dishes of month replacement equal "the teahouse table" (3100 yen) and Japanese pepper of the raw horse meat and the herring which are local cuisine in Aizu, and is also popular.

Crane KE hill teahouse
  • The address8-47, Higashisakaemachi, Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, about 8 minutes
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, tour embussment and "Kitaide Marudai street" getting off walking, immediately.
  • Business hours11:30-15:00 (last store entry 13:40) and 17:00-22:00 (last store entry 20:00)
  • Days closedMonday (It's absent from business on the next day in case of a holiday.)
  • TEL0242-26-6052
  • ParkingFree

I have various local food a little at an old private house.

"The taste of Aizu Circle nibble set (snow)" 2200 yen. I also pay attention to the capacity of the Aizu-hongo baking and the Aizu lacquer ware.
"The taste of Aizu Circle nibble set (snow)" 2200 yen. I also pay attention to the capacity of the Aizu-hongo baking and the Aizu lacquer ware.

Store of the Aizu dish which is immediately near "Aizu Samurai residence". Aizu rural areas has a word as "Buckweat, rice cake and GOTTSU OU (treat)", and the custom entertained with soba and rice cake can taste the dish I had by "the taste of Aizu Circle nibble set (snow)". The dish which represents Aizu where I was born because it was left from a sea in cod Kanroni (stick cod) and Japanese pepper of herring, and I didn't get fresh seafoods. It's one necessary to the seat where you're celebrating "KOZUYU" of a soup bowl and is Clear Soup with Jew's-ear, root vegetable and mini-breadlike pieces of dried wheat gluten. Additionally rice-planting dance of thick fried tofu, sesame, soybean flour rice cake and Soba Noodle Soup with Edible Wild Plants can be enjoyed.

It's in great landowner's feeling in 1897 's at sake brewer's palatial residence of construction.

When I enter in the store, Irori (open fireplace) (hearth made in the floor) is in immediateness. In the great hall as much as 32 mats where Oku has a meal.
When I enter in the store, Irori (open fireplace) (hearth made in the floor) is in immediateness. In the great hall as much as 32 mats where Oku has a meal.

A necessary one is "bean jam bun tempura" by Aizu local specialty as well as a circle nibble set. For the appetizer which is liquor frying a bean jam bun with bean paste, and when putting soy sauce with that and eating. There is more Kitakata Ramen and the taste of Aizu rural areas can be enjoyed fully.
The one in which a building reconstructed the sake brewer's main building which was in Kitakata-shi Yamato-machi. Thick beam and mainstay of 3 of Irori (open fireplace) and zelkova serrata are striking. 32 tatami-flooreds of great hall where it's in the inside in the store to have a meal. The taste by which Japanese-style painter's painting from Aizu was hung is abundant space.

Crane well curb
  • The address109-1 in the Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima Higashiyama-cho hospital MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Nishi-wakamatsu Station, about 10 minutes
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, tour embussment and "in front of Aizu Samurai residence" getting off for about 1 minute on foot
  • Business hours11:00-16:00 (17: After 00 runs reservation.)
  • Days closedNon-regular holiday ※ January 6-March first ten days winter suspension of business
  • TEL0242-26-5629
  • ParkingFree

The gourmet burger over which the flavor of the meat spreads with JUWA

"Aizu beauty (beauty) burger" is with a rusk, 880 yen. A course lunch is plus 250 yen and soup and a drink are included.
"Aizu beauty (beauty) burger" is with a rusk, 880 yen. A course lunch is plus 250 yen and soup and a drink are included.

Hamburger Restaurant in Nanokamachi street. The name for the localness equals "Inawashiro burger" and "crane KE castle burger" on the menu. A homemade buns is 3 kinds. I'm using custom-made cow roughness BIKI meat in pate and am getting vegetables from a local farmer.
A buns of the rice cake rice cake which added the maturity tomato which has abundant lycopene in rice flour of Koshihikari made in Aizu to "Aizu beauty burger" popular with ladies and fabricated is the feature. A creamy cheese source gathers the taste of the vegetables and the juicy pate of avocado, tomato and fried onion excellently.

The lunchtime fun in the pop store.

I wait for completion of a hamburger while playing by a toy which equals a table.
I wait for completion of a hamburger while playing by a toy which equals a table.

A balloon, a record player and an old toy line up and have the fun atmosphere in the store.
It's said that they did original goods making aiming at the gourmet burger which is only in Aizu because there are also a lot of situation called Nanokamachi and coming of a tourist and school trip draft beer. Only the fascinating one with which about 15 kinds of hamburger-combined 3 kinds of buns (rice flour, tomato, rye and onion whole wheat flour) and colorful topping data. The taste of one of the sugar, the caramel and the almonds can also enjoy not French Fries, but a rusk's being added to a hamburger again by the feature.

Aizu burger Lucky Smile (lucky smile)
  • The address3-45, Nanokamachi, Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima MAP
  • DirectionFrom JR Aizu Nanukamachi Station, about 5 minutes on foot
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, tour embussment and "Nanokamachi, center" getting off walking, immediately.
  • Business hours11:00-20:00 (L.O.19:30)
  • Days closedMonday (It's absent from business on the next day in case of a holiday.)
  • TEL0242-23-8241
  • ParkingFree
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