Aso (Kumamoto)
Local Guide
6 elections of recommendation launch which can taste Aso and a KUJUU gourmet

Aso which takes pride in a caldera of the world maximum level and a KUJUU area are blessed with great outdoors and spring water, and the agriculture is also popular. Therefore it's also the area of gourmet meals where it's rich in the ingredients blessed with the earth much. I'll introduce 6 lunch spots I'd like to visit by all means to enjoy local palate in such Aso KUJUU.

The kind kaiseki launch which can feel season of Aso

"Ichi's river course" (2530 yen). Photograph is the spring menu. In abundance of the number of articles and homemade gusto by a craftsman, big satisfaction
"Ichi's river course" (2530 yen). Photograph is the spring menu. In abundance of the number of articles and homemade gusto by a craftsman, big satisfaction

The old private house where it's being seen in Mori who entered a little from route 57 of national highway. When the wild vegetable and the ingredients in season blessed with the earth in Aso can be enjoyed for a kaiseki course menu, it's popular Dining Area.
All creation dishes by the master chef who learned at Kyoto and Gion don't use a ready-made article and is homemade from soup stock. Craftsman's technological quintessence is collected by one piece and one piece, and charm of the ingredients from Aso is drawn out to the full. Every time the individuality is served to an abundant dish by the rich number of articles, even a dessert is affected at showy board movement prime and pot from 3 appetizers. The contents of a dish change with a season and stocking.

Please also enjoy nature of Aso at an old private house in chiku 100 nenchou.

The space where the scenery of the abundant garden can be enjoyed naturally from a window
The space where the scenery of the abundant garden can be enjoyed naturally from a window

The course according to the budget in addition to "owl course" where a dish is also included in lava plate baking of sashimi in season and dirt beef including "Ichi's river course" is also possible. The "child lunch plate" by which creation food for children is served (Reservation required).
The one in which a store of "Ichi's river" reconstructed an old private house in chiku 100 nenchou. A site in 8000 tsubo floods abundant nature, and it's possible to enjoy a meal in the quiet and calmness by which I can't think immediately near the national highway.

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A seat is often buried in no time on a weekend in particular, so the coming after making a reservation, is certain. A stream flows to a garden and it's healed by the scenery of the each season such as a fresh green leaf in summer, spring and colored leaves in autumn.

Creation dish Ichi's river
  • The addressKumamoto Aso city Nagakusa letter bank 1983-1 MAP
  • DirectionFrom JR Ichinokawa Station, about 5 minutes on foot
  • Business hoursLunch 11:30-15:00 time (As soon as the material disappears, it ends.)
    According to dinner 17:30-reservation.
  • Days closedWednesday
  • TEL0967-35-6811
  • ParkingFree

They're local food from Aso and Takana Mustard Greens rice, noted store of soup

"Soup Set Meal" (1375 yen). It's also possible to change a Takana Mustard Greens feed to "bandit feed" (bamboo shoot and shiitake mushroom mix rice).
"Soup Set Meal" (1375 yen). It's also possible to change a Takana Mustard Greens feed to "bandit feed" (bamboo shoot and shiitake mushroom mix rice).

Route 57 of national highway where I'd like to come near by all means when I'd like to eat "soup" and "Takana Mustard Greens feed" which are local cuisine of Aso, Dining Area where it's here to meet. "Soup set" can enjoy both of them together.
The rice cake rice cake sense soup increases domestic Wheat Flour by hand elaboration, and which is free (dumpling) is a nonesuch. Rice and the soup stock which dissolved the Miso to which combination is changed in control from wheat and addition are drunk gusto by a day in SAN where a topping holds a vegetable much. The flavor abundant in the Takana Mustard Greens feed which was made with the homemade leaf mustard long pickled vegetables I fermented tightly is also popular by preservative nonuse.

It's a warm country dish in the store colored by an earthen bell of a talisman.

Various people have a Japanese-style room seat and a table seat of small rising, and even visit a couple and a group from one person.
Various people have a Japanese-style room seat and a table seat of small rising, and even visit a couple and a group from one person.

The "Beef or Pork Innards mixed stew" which boiled raw Beef or Pork Innards by Miso and heat, the popular menu from which the "freshly baked stamina Beef or Pork Innards" taken out by an iron plate also hid. The business is started as Dining Area which serves the country food Aso, and, about 50 years. It's the taste which doesn't change and warm service and is the store loved lengthily from a local person as well as a tourist, too.
About 1000 earthen bells in every region of the country an owner is buying and gathering at a travel destination in the store hang in the ceiling. I'll enjoy the country dish of Aso in Dining Area where traditional appearance is left.

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There is Parking for about 50 and it's open, and it's easy to park, so I'm relieved. It's immediately near the theme park of an animal "Aso cadre and DOMINION"!

While traveling Dining Area Bandit journey
  • The addressKumamoto Aso city Kurokawa 2127 MAP
  • DirectionFrom JRAso station, about 15 minutes on foot
  • Business hours11:00-15:00 (L.O.)
  • Days closedWednesday
  • TEL0967-34-2011
  • ParkingFree

It's a secret one and, dirt beef bowls of the fascination seasoned with soy sauce

"Dirt beef bowls set" (1720 yen) are with a miso soup and a pickled vegetables. There is also jollop (2100 yen).
"Dirt beef bowls set" (1720 yen) are with a miso soup and a pickled vegetables. There is also jollop (2100 yen).

Store of the dirt cow dish in the cathedral town shopping area which connects with Sando next to the Aso shrine. "Dirt beef bowls" by which the sign menu baked the surface of the part with the soft inside of a thigh. It's the one from the Miso soy sauce warehouse "Yamauchi main store" which continues from the Edo Period in seasoning and soy sauce dragging is used and the flavor of the abundant bonito and trepang soup stock makes the flavor of the dirt cow outstanding and is producing the original gusto rice also advances.
By hot spring egg and the "the effect hotness SO" etc. which ties and shoulders "dirt beef fermented soybean paste", Japanese horseradish and Yuzu citron with fermented soybean paste of illusion of "Yamauchi main store", ajihen, while, it's recommended to receive.

It is, noodles and curry, even soup has the abundant dirt cow menus.

"Dirt cow soup stock Udon Noodles" (a rice-ball set of 900 yen and a single item of 700 yen)
"Dirt cow soup stock Udon Noodles" (a rice-ball set of 900 yen and a single item of 700 yen)

The said store which also has complete set of particular dirt cow dish besides dirt beef bowls. The "dirt cow soup stock Udon Noodles" on which linear meat of the dirt cow which became a calash calash was cooks for 3 hours, and uses "Shimabara noodles" thinner than ordinary noodles. hosomen is the gusto which can tangle luckily with meat and soup stock and enjoy the taste and the fragrance fully (I also have soba.) "It's a dirt cow, soup", "dirt cow curry" and "seasoned steamed rice with vegetables and meat of a dirt cow" have complete set of dirt cow dish using the flavor of the dirt cow and the flavor of the soup stock richly.
Number 57 of national highway is the spot which can also have a sister store for Aso cadre "and" DOMINION along a line to face and enjoy a dirt cow dish of jewelry casually.

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If I'd like to enjoy the taste of Aso together, "they're dirt beef bowls and dirt beef, soup set" (2100 yen) is recommended. Rice of Rice Bowl is a Takana Mustard Greens feed, and it is, dirt beef and a Takana Mustard Greens feed, soup can be eaten together!

Dirt beef bowls specialty store Goto shop main store
  • The addressKumamoto Aso city 3075-1, Miyaji, Ichinomiya-machi (next to Aso shrine Cathedral town) MAP
  • DirectionFrom JR Miyaji Station, about 15 minutes on foot
  • Business hours11:00-16:00 (L.O.15:30)
  • Days closedTuesday and 3rd Monday
  • TEL0967-22-5080
  • ParkingUse of sightseeing Parking, (payment required)
  • MemoRefund for 1 hour is to the pay sightseeing Parking use, so please offer.

Excellent in quality fresh Horse Meat Sashimi a butcher, for lunch.

"Higo Horse Meat Sashimi table" (2200 yen). It's said that impression is voiced on the table of the small bowl dish you serve as an appetizer.
"Higo Horse Meat Sashimi table" (2200 yen). It's said that impression is voiced on the table of the small bowl dish you serve as an appetizer.

Dining Area which is established attached to "Yao manno meat main shop Huji book" with history in about 100 as meat shop in Oguni-machi where it's in the north in a Aso area. A dish with fresh meat a butcher and vegetables from Aso can be enjoyed.
It's a horse meat dish that it's very popular with a tourist in particular. Horse Meat Sashimi which melts with beautiful gentles equals "Higo Horse Meat Sashimi table". After I take an order, your husband, meat, to cut deep, its freshness is also apparent. The small bowl dish your wife makes by hand with vegetables in season and the rice I got from a local contract farmer by popularity of the leading role order are glossy and are the gusto which tastes sweet.

It's also recommended after meal to buy Horse Meat Sashimi of a gift at a butcher of establishing as an annex.

Dining Area in a building of an old private house style. A barbecue and a meal with a pet can also be enjoyed at the seat which is outside the store.
Dining Area in a building of an old private house style. A barbecue and a meal with a pet can also be enjoyed at the seat which is outside the store.

Fermented soybeans, egg and rice bowl dishes the butcher where "kick Rice Bowl" handles horse meat with pickling of the lid egoism of "cherry tree Rice Bowl" and horse meat taken on as well as allium also gaze at mincing of Horse Meat Sashimi. Besides black pig, chicken of the place and hamburger also have complete set of the various meat menus from a horse meat dish of "horse Sukiyaki (Japanese stew) table" etc..
It's also recommended to move to the next store after meal and buy Horse Meat Sashimi for gifts. As far as a distant person is also glad to ship it off to the whole country while being fresh. It's better to bring a delicious memory at a travel destination back to a home, isn't it?

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Retrospective jazz is the fashionable butcher which flows in the store. I go to the Tsuetate hot spring district from Oguni-machi, Parking has that along a national highway and is wide, so Direction is good.

Dining Area Huji book
  • The addressKumamoto Aso area 218, Shimojo, Oguni-machi MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from JRAso station, about 40 minutes
  • Business hours11:00-15:00 (L.O.14:30)
    ※ A butcher is 9:00-17:00.
  • Days closedWednesday (A holiday is run.)
  • TEL0967-46-2194
  • ParkingFree
  • MemoIt's impossible to make a reservation.

The rice-planting dance which waits to burn at the Irori (open fireplace) end and receives slowly

"Takamori rice-planting dance Set Meal" (1980 yen). The ingredients alimentation is homemade potato protector, country tofu and konnyaku, in Charcoal-broiled Food.
"Takamori rice-planting dance Set Meal" (1980 yen). The ingredients alimentation is homemade potato protector, country tofu and konnyaku, in Charcoal-broiled Food.

Local cuisine in the inside Aso and Takamori-machi "Takamori rice-planting dance". To eat the fished NOKO potatoes" which were staple food for rice at this place well before, it's starting that it was being skewered, Miso was being applied and it was being baked by Irori (open fireplace). The store where you can make such "Takamori rice-planting dance" Charcoal-broiled Food by traditional Irori (open fireplace) and enjoy yourself.
"Takamori rice-planting dance Set Meal" is with rice-planting dance of tofu, konnyaku and a potato protector in addition to the NOKO bumpkin who fishes, soup and a Takana Mustard Greens feed are in a set. The gusto to which the secret rice-planting dance Miso with which spice was mixed gives itself up. Landlocked salmon is taken by Irori (open fireplace) out of the fish preserve just as it is, so complete, foully, the soft body I don't have is charm.

The one of the ideal scenery which wishes for Nekodake and, time, oh, the person who will take a nap.

The Japanese-style room seat where it gets widely comfortably. Nekodake is seen in immediateness from a back window.
The Japanese-style room seat where it gets widely comfortably. Nekodake is seen in immediateness from a back window.

More, the "dirt beef sirloin Set Meal of Aso" etc. by which Charcoal-broiled Food does a dirt cow with a net if I'd like to enjoy the taste of TTSURI Aso. Though both menus sit down on the Irori (open fireplace) end, and I wait the ingredients to be baked by charcoal slowly, I enjoy myself.
A heart gets loose in the calm space where I wish for 1 and Nekodake of Aso Gogaku, and, after meal, only, time, oh, there are a lot of people who lie down, too and. It's possible to spend slow time in the nature of Aso. It's the travel which is often run after by a schedule, but it's the store where I'd like to secure and visit time slowly by all means.

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The potato by which "the NOKO bumpkin who fishes" can adopt the silhouette like the glimpse of the crane only in Takamori-machi. It's the taste of HOKUHOKU like taro potato.

Takamori rice-planting dance village
  • The addressKumamoto Aso area 814-2, Kamishikimi, Takamori-machi MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from Kyushu Expressway "Kumamoto" IC, about 60 minutes
  • Business hours11:00-23:00 ※ 17: After 00 needs reservation.
  • Days closedUnsettled
  • TEL0967-62-1327
  • ParkingFree

It has complete set of the pizza and the pasta to receive wine well.

6 kinds of pasta always has complete set of 2-about 3 kinds for pizza.
6 kinds of pasta always has complete set of 2-about 3 kinds for pizza.

"Kusumi winery" with the vineyard vast in the high plain where a KUJUU mountain range is seen. Hata of our company, the pizza which can enjoy the wine in which plateau vegetable was used abundantly well and a pasta dish can be enjoyed in Restaurant in the site.
The food texture of the fabric made rice cake rice cake is popular though it makes the pizza baked up in homemade Ishigama PARI. "Margarita Pizza" I also have daily pizza with vegetables in season in addition to the regular menu of the etc.. Authentic Italian food such as pasta and a la carte is also charm.

At Shop in a juxtaposed winery, wine and grape juice, for a gift.

The scenery by which a vineyard is spread in a front page outside the window can be enjoyed in summer.
The scenery by which a vineyard is spread in a front page outside the window can be enjoyed in summer.

It's recommended to enjoy a meal with wine from Kusumi winery of course. Even when liquor isn't drinkable, I have grape juice of the said winery original and non-alcoholic wine.
A table on the terrace is wrapped in a grape in the other summer it's possible to wish for a vast vineyard when from the inside of store. He has the private room where it's permitted a pet, so One is popular for companion's tourist, too. The wine which strolls through a vineyard after meal, and it's Kusumi winery at the next Shop is bought for a gift, and if, I'll enjoy myself slowly.

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"2019 Kusumi Chardonnay catwalk" but Kusumi winery which has complete set of wine highly regarded such as winning a gold prize by 2021 Bordeaux liquor wine challenge. As a meal spot, the place I'd like also to check as a gift spot.

Kusumi winery Ishigama atelier
  • The addressTaketa-shi, Oita Kuju-machi large section of a village Kusumi letter Hiraki 3990-1 MAP
  • DirectionIt's a car from Oita-expressway "ninefold" IC, about 50 minutes
  • Business hoursSpring 11:00-17:00 (L.O.16:40)
    The winter 11:00-16:40 (L.O.16:20).
  • Days closedOpen everyday
  • TEL0974-76-1002
  • ParkingFree
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