6 excellent lunches to enjoy nature in Yatsugatake, Kiyosato, and Kobuchizawa
Yatsugatake, a popular summer resort and winter ski resort, is home to many reputable restaurants that are frequented by Guest/customers from outside the prefecture. Here are some lunch spots where you can enjoy the natural beauty of Yatsugatake, including local vegetables, mushrooms, and wild plants.
1bistro Bugaboo
Excellent casual French cuisine with a focus on local production for local consumption.
This restaurant is known for its bistro cuisine using local ingredients. Direction is only a 1-minute walk from Kobuchizawa Station, and the restaurant is always crowded with Guest/customers. The concept of the restaurant is "eat local. The casual dishes are all excellent, using local ingredients such as Yatsugatake vegetables, gibier, and Koshu crystal pork, all nurtured by the delicious highland air and famous water. The restaurant's sommelier selects domestic and French wines, as well as craft beers, to pair perfectly with the dishes.
A bistro for adults where conversation and drinks are a pleasure.
Three types of lunch are available: a simple two-course meal consisting of an appetizer and main course, and a one-plate lunch. The thick "Crystal Pork" sauté is a dish of "Koshu Lactobacillus Crystal Pork," which is raised on a lactobacillus blend feed and grilled on a net. The sweetness of the fat with few peculiarities spreads in your mouth as you chew. The signature dish, homemade ham called charcuterie, is also available as an appetizer for a lunch course or as a one-plate lunch. Sandwiches with charcuterie sandwiched in a bucket can be taken out, so we recommend having a picnic under the blue sky.
- bistro Bugaboo
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1028-1 Kobuchizawa-cho, Hokuto City, Yamanashi MAP
Approx. 1 min. walk from JR Kobuchizawa Station
11:30-15:00 (L.O.14:00), 18:00-22:00 (L.O.21:00)
Tuesdays and Wednesdays
0551-45-6843
None (Please use the coin parking "Kobuchisawa No.3 Parking")
2stove stove
Reputation for dishes that make the most of the deliciousness of the ingredients
This restaurant offers first-rate cuisine in a relaxed atmosphere. The former residence of literary painter Isamu Kobayashi, "Fuyuseian," was relocated from Kamakura and decorated by the New Materials Research Institute, founded by a renowned contemporary artist and architect, to create a special space with a sense of openness and tranquility.
Named after the image of "caressing the ingredients transparently and lovingly," the restaurant buys most of its ingredients, including vegetables, meat, and fish, directly from local producers, and offers simple yet delicate dishes with powerful flavors.
Enjoy a luxurious time eating up the bounty of Yamanashi
Three types of lunch courses are available: 3,500 yen, 5,000 yen, and 7,000 yen (chef's choice *reservations required). The "Pot-au-feu with local vegetables," served with all courses, is the restaurant's signature dish. The natural sweetness of the vegetables and the elegant kombu broth create an exquisite harmony. In addition to food, the restaurant offers a wide variety of drinks made in Yamanashi Prefecture, including wine, local sake, and unsweetened, additive-free grape juice made by pressing grapes for wine only. You can fully enjoy the bounty of Yamanashi at this restaurant.
3Osteria Nana 2
Italian cuisine using an abundance of seasonal vegetables
A popular Italian Restaurant located in downtown Nirasaki. As the restaurant's name "Nana 2" suggests, the dishes served in the bright white and wood-toned restaurant are Italian dishes that will please your body, using plenty of locally grown and carefully selected seasonal vegetables. The chef's goal is to create a gentle flavor that brings out the best of the ingredients. Garlic is rarely used, which is a feature of this restaurant.
A menu that pays particular attention to the color of the ingredients.
Two types of set menus with pasta as the main dish and a course with a choice of fish or meat as the main dish are available for lunch. The pasta set with appetizers and the course with appetizers are both vibrant-looking plates of grilled seasonal vegetables and salads. There are about eight types of pasta to choose from, all of which are hearty. The restaurant offers both regular and seasonal menus, so you can enjoy different dishes any time you visit. Vegetable-based desserts such as pumpkin soup and chiffon cake are also popular for their delicious sweetness.
The courses are also reasonably priced and generous in flavor.
- Osteria Nana 2
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- 1-6-18 Fujimi, Nirasaki City, Fuji, Yamanashi MAP
- 7 min. walk from JR Nirasaki Station
- 11:30 - L.O. 14:00, 17:30 - L.O. 20:30
- Tuesdays (irregular holidays)
- 0551-23-7620
- Free of charge
4Cueillette
Royal French cuisine served in a house on a hill
A stone-built house Restaurant standing in the middle of a vineyard. Fuji from the window. The chef, who trained at a HOSHINOYA Restaurant in the Champagne region of France, uses local ingredients such as organic vegetables, fruits, natural mushrooms, wild vegetables, and wild game to create French cuisine. To maximize the flavor of the ingredients, the cuisine is simple and not too elaborate.
Elegant atmosphere in a classical Western-style house
Lunch (5,000 yen) is a course meal including two appetizers, soup, main dish, dessert and coffee, and petit fours. The chef is proud of the appetizer, which combines home-smoked Kai salmon caught locally with marinated local vegetables. The combination of Kai Salmon's moist texture without any peculiarities and fresh vegetables is exquisite. The "Japanese Chestnut Mont Blanc" is an exquisite cake with a soft marron cream that melts in your mouth, which is worth the additional 800 yen to the course price.
Restaurant.
- Cueillette
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- 1129 Mitsuzawa, Hosaka-cho, Nirasaki City, Yamanashi MAP
- 7 minutes drive from JR Nirasaki Station
- 11:30-14:00, 18:00-20:30
- Tuesdays
- 0551-23-1650
- Free of charge
5Pasta and snacks MoRimoTo
Pasta using homemade ham
Located in Kiyosato, a popular tourist destination, the restaurant is well known for its pasta using seasonal ingredients, homemade cured ham, and a wide variety of snacks. You can taste the seasonal menu using local products such as vegetables, pork, local chicken, eggs, and river fish. The owner's philosophy is to "make as much as possible yourself," so in addition to prosciutto, you can enjoy a variety of homemade ingredients such as bacon, loin ham, salsiccia, and more. A wide variety of alcoholic beverages, mainly Italian wines but also local beers, whiskeys, and Japanese sake, are available to go with the snacks.
Dishes using homemade ham are highly acclaimed
The most popular menu item is the Spaghetti Carbonara with homemade bacon and Nakamura's herb egg. The carbonara is made with specially selected herb eggs from Nakamura Farm, a poultry farm in Yatsugatake, and topped with crispy homemade bacon. The creamy sauce is well mixed with the pasta, giving it a rich flavor. Another must-try is the homemade cured ham. Made from local "Fuji Sakura Pork" and aged for more than 12 months, the cured ham has an addictive taste. In addition to the assortment, you can enjoy it with pizza, pasta, and many other dishes.
- Pasta and snacks MoRimoTo
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- 3545-6402 Kiyosato, Takane-cho, Hokuto City, Yamanashi MAP
- 12 min. walk from JR Kiyosato Station
- 11:30-14:00, 18:00-21:30
- Wednesdays and Thursdays
- 0551-48-2118
- Free of charge
6Terroir Ai to Ibukuro
Yatsugatake Gastronomy: Enjoying Nature's Bounty
The French restaurant "Love and Stomach," which was well-reputed in Sangenjaya, Tokyo, relocated to Yatsugatake and renamed "Terroir Love's Stomach," and opened in 2017. In the 170-year-old old house that was once the main lodge of Nagasawa-juku, you can enjoy classic and modern French cuisine that changes daily and uses plenty of natural ingredients from Yatsugatake.
As the French saying goes, "Love comes from the stomach," and a fun and delicious time around the table with your loved one is truly a blissful moment filled with love.
Brilliant fusion of an old private house and French cuisine
The restaurant uses seasonal ingredients that can only be found at that particular time of the year. Organic vegetables, mushrooms gathered by local masters and sometimes by the chef in the mountains, and sweetfish. Because ingredients are only in season once a year, it can take up to a year from the conception of "Let's cook with this" to the actual serving at the restaurant. The restaurant is a place where you can fully enjoy the bounty of the Yatsugatake land with dishes and cutlery made by Yatsugatake craftsmen and Japanese wines.
- Terroir Ai to Ibukuro
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- 414 Nagasawa, Takane-cho, Hokuto City, Yamanashi MAP
- 20 min. drive from JR Kobuchizawa Station
- 11:30-14:00, 17:30-21:00
- Mon. and Tues.
- 0551-30-9199
- Free of charge
