Fukushima
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6 elections of noted store the raw horse meat and the sake recommended at Aizu-wakamatsu can taste

The Aizu area where horse meat culture roots from the old days as well as Nagano and Kumamoto. There are also a lot of horse beef specialty restaurants in Aizu-wakamatsu, and Horse Meat Sashimi can be tasted at most pubs. The selection it's dotted with more than 30 and by which a brewery of sake is Local Sakes every store is also original in Aizu. If Aizu was visited, I'll introduce a noted store of the Horse Meat Sashimi and the Local Sakes I'd like to taste by all means.

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Work for the former sushi craftsman is satisfied with the raw horse meat which shines and sake.

From front, "cherry tree sashimi" of 880 yen, cherry tree and fried bean curd of 770 yen
From front, "cherry tree sashimi" of 880 yen, cherry tree and fried bean curd of 770 yen

The business is started as a sushi shop in 1970 (1970) and it 3 years later, is remodeled in a horse meat speciality store. The "cherry tree and fried bean curd" etc. which has hit horse meat with a kitchen knife including the menu using the capacity of the former sushi shop such as horse meat sashimi and sushi and has built it into minced meat wind is also popular. Sake selects the name of the brewery in Aizu-wakamatsu carefully. It has complete set of sake of a simple lip of the cup compatible with horse meat such as "month bow (GE, suddenly)" and "floral spring Daiginjo" of limitation liquor of Junmai Sake. When luck in addition to lean avoids Horse Meat Sashimi, it's also possible to taste "mane" and "marbled beef" of a rare part.

1 menu of horse rendering service enriches from a dish to the set menu.

The atmosphere 1 person tends to enter from a visitor a group
The atmosphere 1 person tends to enter from a visitor a group

The open make a Japanese-style room is also with a table seat including the counter seat where the sushi shop ages are remains in the store. 2 generations of eye equals the first in the cozy atmosphere of the family-run, and a kitchen is being managed. Popular Set Meal with horse meat such as "Sashimi Dinner" and "cherry tree source cutlet Set Meal" is offered to a weekday lunchtime at the service price. A piece of "cherry tree linear boiling" and "cherry tree steak" also have complete set of dish richly in the evening. 10-April also appears on "Horse Meat Hot Pot". Sake advances horse meat towards a sukiyaki wind by seasoning outrigger local specialty.

Horse Meat Hot Pot A good luck is done, many (It's a stop.)
  • The address5-14, Higashisakaemachi, Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, about 6 minutes
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, embussment and "in front of Aizu-wakamatsu city office" getting off for about 2 minutes on foot
  • Business hours11:00-13:30 (L.O.) and 17:00-21:30 (L.O.)
  • Days closedSunday (It's run in case of a three-day weekend.)
  • TEL0242-28-5533
  • ParkingFree

Brand horse meat from Aizu is offered by various how to eat.

"Aizu Horse Meat Hot Pot W Boneless Beef Short Rib table" of 1870 yen of local specialty
"Aizu Horse Meat Hot Pot W Boneless Beef Short Rib table" of 1870 yen of local specialty

Horse meat of the Aizu brand authorization which reaches every morning from a horse pasture in Aizu-wakamatsu is used. Even sashimi makes sauce of a Sukiyaki (Japanese stew) wind pass through eaten horse meat of the freshness quickly, and proud "Aizu Horse Meat Hot Pot W Boneless Beef Short Rib table" can involve meringue-like dissolution egg, and is tasted original food served in a pot. Horse meat is 2 kinds of Boneless Beef Short Rib best and Special Boneless Beef Short Rib called lid egoism, and the flavor of the fat is special. If it's added to sake, "cherry tree summer stabbing of eight items" is also recommended. An eating bout of 8 kinds of rare part from which the taste and the food texture are different in lean best, the special tongue and a spinal cord of a horse can be done.

Local Sakes in Fukushima and the Aizu area which bring out the flavor of the horse meat assembles.

6 singles and a wide Japanese-style room are prepared in the Japanese space.
6 singles and a wide Japanese-style room are prepared in the Japanese space.

There is "6 stores of Tsuruga" centering on Fukushima, and 2 stores are developed in Aizu-wakamatsu. Noon and night can use "Aizu main store" casually in the "Aizu-wakamatsu town hall street" where a restaurant stands in a row. The selection of the Local Sakes is also rich and the person who would like to enjoy the kind recommends the "small sake cup drinking bout set" which can taste 13 kinds of Local Sakes. Difficult "Hiroki" (widely) also receives acquisition periodically.
On the other hand, "Higashiyama head temple" is the atmosphere full of poshness of a perfect reservation system in a stoop in Higashiyama hot spring. It's most suitable for a special day and use on the memorial day at the course menu center.

Tsuruga Aizu main store.
  • The address4-21, Higashisakaemachi, Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, about 6 minutes
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, embussment and "in front of Aizu-wakamatsu city office" getting off for about 1 minute on foot
  • Business hours11:30-14:00 (13:30L.O.) and 17:00-22:00 (21:30L.O.)
  • Days closedThe regular holiday-lessness
  • TEL0242-29-4829
  • ParkingFree

A professional of meat is impressed with the horse meat with outstanding freshness a connoisseur did.

From front, "cherry tree sashimi" of 900 yen and "cherry tree fatty tuna rib" of 900 yen
From front, "cherry tree sashimi" of 900 yen and "cherry tree fatty tuna rib" of 900 yen

Noted store of the Yakiniku BBQ which continues for more than 60 years at Aizu-wakamatsu. A connoisseur of meat is standard because he has started from a butcher originally, and mainly, even a cow, a pig and a chicken have a large selection of horse meat of Aizu specialty widely. Even while there are a lot of people who visit in the horse meat aim, too, the freshness of the Horse Meat Sashimi is special. Only the raw meat which is never frozen is being handled, so soft, the quality of meat can enjoy the food texture which melts. The sign menu, "cherry tree fatty tuna Boneless Beef Short Rib". When I warm over a fire and rare eat quickly by the rare part affected by Beef or Pork Outside Skirt Steak of horse meat, it's gusto of an inveterate habit.

The sacred place of Yakiniku BBQ a fan visits from the whole country

One in the store, a Japanese-style room is the center. I also have a table seat.
One in the store, a Japanese-style room is the center. I also have a table seat.

The residential area where it was a little contrary from a center of Aizu-wakamatsu that there is a store. The inside of store where I have 50 seats is always full success way though it's also location with the distance from the nearest station and bus stop. Therefore reservation is indispensable and it's certain to make a reservation together with the popular menu of the "cherry tree fatty tuna Boneless Beef Short Rib" etc.. In addition to the horse meat and the Local Sakes in Aizu of a lip of the cup where I was also proud of the beef which stuck to 5 ranks of toku A made in Oku-aizu and refreshed are the good chemistry. The taste of the Sanmi unity of sake, horse meat and special garlic fermented soybean paste is special for Horse Meat Sashimi in particular.

Yakiniku BBQ Tadashi Maru (MARUCHUU).
  • The address1-34, Nishikimachi, Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima MAP
  • DirectionFrom JR Nishi-wakamatsu Station, about 13 minutes on foot
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, embussment and "Yunokawacho" getting off for about 6 minutes on foot
  • Business hours17:00-22:00 (21:30L.O. 、 nichishuku 21:00L.O.)
  • Days closedWednesday
  • TEL0242-28-4191
  • ParkingFree

At the noted store loved locally, local cuisine and Local Sakes, to ONE'S heart's content.

From front, "kick (cherry tree stabbing" of 1100 yen and "KOZUYU" 500 yen
From front, "kick (cherry tree stabbing" of 1100 yen and "KOZUYU" 500 yen

The pub where the fan who goes to and from out the prefecture represents a lot of Aizu-wakamatsu, too. Local cuisine uses the local ingredients in a dish abundantly, and is also standard. The taste "KOZUYU" which also boiled taro potato, carrot and Wood Ear Mushroom with soup stock of Adductor Muscle of Shellfish at the inside is domestic and at which relieved. Additionally the Horse Meat Sashimi called "kick" (I kick.) and one piece "Pickled Dried Herring with Sansho Pepper" would like also to order by all means. The Local Sakes a store owner selected carefully and the original Daiginjo pure undiluted sake a brewery in Aizu-wakamatsu "Suehiro sake brewing" makes full of sake of a superior brand "kagota" are popular.

The comfortable space where a Japanese-style restaurant was remodeled

The spatial counter seat which became independent. There are a lot of one visitors, too.
The spatial counter seat which became independent. There are a lot of one visitors, too.

I have, and names that "kagota" was a prosperous store under the name of the tea dealer who existed in Aizu-wakamatsu from the Edo Period to Showa beginnings. It's being prepared from a counter seat to the box seat, the Japanese-style room and the single by the quiet atmosphere in the store where a former Japanese-style restaurant was remodeled. I take off my shoes at the entrance, so it's also charm that you can relax like a house and have a meal. If I'd like to know sake, it's to a counter seat. The sake which isn't on the menu also equals a refrigerator in the kitchen, so it's recommended to order while consulting Staff/staff member.

kagota (KAGOTA)
  • The address8-49, Sakaemachi, Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, about 6 minutes
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, embussment and "in front of Aizu-wakamatsu city office" getting off for about 5 minutes on foot
  • Business hours17:00-22:00
  • Days closedIt's regular holiday-less on Sunday.
  • TEL0242-32-5380
  • ParkingI don't have that (by eating and drinking use, "sunflower parking" 60 minute free ticket service).

The pub where a standard local patriotism floods the selection of the Local Sakes

From front, "Horse Meat Sashimi" of 1320 yen and "Aizu chicken of the place Assorted Grilled Skewers" of 1320 yen
From front, "Horse Meat Sashimi" of 1320 yen and "Aizu chicken of the place Assorted Grilled Skewers" of 1320 yen

The pub where I stick to the ingredients from Aizu and local brand of sake as a shop's name. I'm putting the emphasis on "Aizu chicken of the place" in particular and offer it to from Grilled Skewers a food fried without coat, sukiyaki and an omelet by various styles. Additionally local cuisine in Aizu such as "Horse Meat Sashimi" and "whale soup" can also be enjoyed. Local Sakes has complete set of the dignity of most breweries in Aizu, and "Gihee" in the smallest brewery "no Aisu (KAISHUUICHI) making alcoholic beverages" lines up at Aizu-wakamatsu by something unusual, too. You can choose 3 brands of Aizu sake of a superior brand which was added to the person's taste when "Sake tasting set" was ordered first, and it's possible to know favorite sake.

The space full of wooden warmth which can relax and have a meal

It's the modern atmosphere in the store. I also have a Japanese-style room in addition to a counter seat.
It's the modern atmosphere in the store. I also have a Japanese-style room in addition to a counter seat.

It's to the inside of store from a thin aisle aside of the building in Otemon street" where Japanese style pub stands in a row in Aizu-wakamatsu. When I enter the inside, an indirect lighting feels space of a gentle total is wide, and good of the feeling is made important. The 1st floors are a counter seat and a Japanese-style room of the system which is dug and left, and a Japanese-style room in the great hall and a single are on the 2nd floor, and it's also convenient that they're used appropriately according to the goal and the number of people. The menu and recommendation on the day in addition to a basic appear, so the ingredients in season can be enjoyed fully. "Aizu chicken of the place egg splash feed" and "Aizu chicken of the place egg ice" are recommended to after Shime who drank.

saishokusaisake (SAISHOKUSAISHU) Aizu KKO
  • The address4-49, Sakaemachi, Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, about 6 minutes
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, embussment and "in front of Aizu-wakamatsu city office" getting off for about 4 minutes on foot
  • Business hours17:00-23:00 (22:30L.O.)
  • Days closedSunday
  • TEL0242-32-6232
  • ParkingI don't have that (more than 3000 yen of "angel parking" is free for 60 minutes by use, ticket service).

The Local Sakes Information sake from most breweries in Aizu can enjoy

It's clockwise from front, "Horse Meat Sashimi" of 1280 yen, "KOZUYU" 580 yen and "Aizu chicken of the place and, RIWASA" 680 yen
It's clockwise from front, "Horse Meat Sashimi" of 1280 yen, "KOZUYU" 580 yen and "Aizu chicken of the place and, RIWASA" 680 yen

Sake Ball who can enjoy local brand of sake from Aizu and a dish. It opened in 2014 from the thought that I say "I'd like to make the place where an effort in a brewery in an area and its taste are told tightly." The female storekeeper by which it's also a sake tasting teacher to manage a store by oneself. Most sake in Aizu can be tasted while asking charm of liquor and a story in Aizu including proposal of how to enjoy oneself sake. A dish is also store owner's making by hand and "Horse Meat Sashimi" and "KOZUYU" are preparing the dish which seems to be Aizu and a dish by which Italian goes well with sake from Japanese food.

Conversation with the store owner who is a sake tasting teacher is also an attraction.

It's only 15 seats of counter in the store. Japanese drinkers gather from the whole country.
It's only 15 seats of counter in the store. Japanese drinkers gather from the whole country.

This store was also famous as "gateway of promotion", and represented Japanese style pub did generation after generation store entry of Aizu-wakamatsu "kagota". The whammy street and "Aizu warehouse Takeshi" also increase a local fan by word-of-mouth communication, and a repeater out the prefecture is at a lot of popular stores in now, too. So only a counter is also pleasant for conversation with storekeeper in the store. When I'm interested, you even tell me information on a brewery and the introduction in the store where Local Sakes can be bought and also the recommended Japanese style pub, and when the service the connection was made important to which is remembered for a long time, it's famous. One house which can also be used as a bar as well as the 1st house.

Aizu warehouse Takeshi (KURABU)
  • The address8-44, Sakaemachi, Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, about 7 minutes
  • Bus DirectionFrom JR Aizu-wakamatsu Station, embussment and "in front of Aizu-wakamatsu city office" getting off for about 4 minutes on foot
  • Business hours17:00-22:00 (L.O.)
  • Days closedSunday . Monday (It's run in case of consecutive holidays.)
  • TEL0242-85-6039
  • ParkingI don't have that.
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