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Shoueikan

Shoueikan servers international cuisine that was favored by the navy at Japanese-style inns of the Meiji era (1868-1912).
Shoueikan is a restaurant in Maizuru City, home to a historic Japanese naval base. The restaurant reproduces some of the most popular recipes from the "Navy Cooking Reference Book," a recipe book of the former navy. Guests can experience the taste of authentic cooking at Shoueikan, the result of extensive research of the history of this culinary culture.

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Totogen

Totogen was established in the early Showa era (1926-1989) in Maizuru, a location that is as competitive as it gets when it comes to fish markets. Totogen procures local seafood directly from Maizuru’s fishing port, Tsuruga, and Amino Port in Kyotango. Chef Tetsuya Oishi prepares seasonal seafood like rock oysters in summer, shore plovers in spring and autumn, and crab in winter.

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Tsuruya Shokudo

Tsuruya Shokudo specializes in seafood, but also offers purple soba and ancient red rice udon. Look for the teahouse-like shop along the stone-paved street behind Motoise Kono Shrine. The restaurant also has views of Amanohashidate, one of Japan’s Three Scenic Views, which is fitting, since you can order a special rice bowl that uses ingredients from Miyazu Bay (the bay on one side of Amanohashidate).

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Suginoya

Suginoya is a sanuki udon (a type of udon typical of Kagawa Prefecture) specialty shop in Kyoto, on the northern edge of Amanohashidate. After 8 years of studying at a famous udon shop in Kagawa, the fourth generation owner of souvenir shop Suginoya, Masto Yamazaki, opened his own udon shop next to the souvenir shop in 2012. Even as Mr. Yamazaki adheres to the production methods, flavors, and hospitality that he learned at the Kagawa udon shop, he says he uses ingredients and seasoning from Miyazu because, in his own words, "Once I finished my studies are returned home, I felt that the chikuwa fish cakes and little jako fish are tastier here."

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Cucini

Cucini is run by a chef who decided to start his own farm. He continues to further his own education in nutrition and cuisine, and also works educating children about food. His focus on showcasing local ingredients doesn’t just stop at his farm, either: chef Iwanishi sources his ingredients from a variety of local farmers, including Kyotango farmers and fishermen, eggs from Mino Chicken Farm in nearby Ine, Yoka pigs from Toyooka (in neighboring Hyogo Prefecture), Tajima chicken (also from neighboring Hyogo Prefecture), and more. The result is cuisine with deep local flavor, ethical thinking, and close to zero carbon footprint from the food, which is good for the environment as well.

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Haneman Ramen

This popular ramen shop sees a line of people of all ages on weekdays, cyclists who come to Tango on weekends, and bikers touring the Tango Peninsula. Haneman has built a strong reputation for ramen with an excellent, light pork and chicken bone soup base with plenty of savory back fat. With eight types of ramen, including pork bone and soy sauce, Chinese soba, miso, salt, and seafood flavors, there's something for everyone. The noodles used are straight and thin, procured from Hiroshima and selected according to each type of soup.

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Funaya Shokudo Boathouse Dining

Funaya Shokudo is run by a long-established local inn and restaurant with lots of experience cooking local cuisine. The restaurant itself is located on the 2nd floor of the Ine Town Tourism Association, right in front of Ine Bay, so you can enjoy seasonal fish while looking out over the historic boat houses. Since opening in April 2018, it has become a popular spot for domestic and overseas tourists who want to try Ine’s hometown gourmet food.
The town of Ine is a treasure trove of delicious ingredients: in addition to seafood, this area's vegetables and rice are also excellent.

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Café & BB Guri

Guri is a word in the local dialect, meaning a "reef where fish school." The owner's sensibilities can be felt in the combination of the quiet café and and the lively restaurant. Food served here includes sweets and sandwiches that combine local Ine ingredients with the chef's flair. The balance of spices and the savory flavor of the fish in Guri's original flying fish sandwich is not to be missed.

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Yuzuki

At Yuzuki, guests can enjoy seasonal kaiseki course meals, hot pot dishes, summer-only beer gardens, and other meals made with seasonal Kyoto ingredients.
The large garden reflects the changing faces of the season—from cherry blossoms, to deep green, to colored leaves, to white snow—and the elegant dining room offers an out-of-the-ordinary experience for guests, with flowers arranged by the chef himself, "as if they were in the field."
Available drinks include draft beer, Japanese sake, shochu, cocktails, non-alcoholic beverages, and authentic coffee.

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Chatsubo Yoshida

At Chatsubo Yoshida, you can enjoy both matcha and a meal, either by having matcha hand-whisked for you by your seat, or by whisking your own matcha.
The store, which used to be a tea and tea utensil shop, has been renovated and remade as a café where you can casually enjoy matcha and some conversation.
Enjoy authentic matcha tea without worrying about difficult preparation methods.

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Yanagimachi

Yanagimachi is a famous restaurant in Fukuchiyama that showcases Fukuchiyama’s specialties of duck and green onion in a dish known as kamosuki (sukiyaki made with duck meat). The restaurant building is a restored Meiji era (1868-1912) machiya (traditional wooden house, typical of Kyoto) opened in 2015. The dishes showcase local and seasonal produce, and the green onion used in the kamosuki is Fukuchiyama’s own kujo onion (a famous vegetable of the Kyoto region). For lunch, you can enjoy wonderful oyakodon (rice topped with chicken and egg) or kara-age (fried chicken) set meal options, both made using the local Fukuchiyama chicken, and accompanied with seasonal local vegetables. There’s also a select range of alcohol, coffee, and books to enjoy at the café and bar, making it a perfect spot for any occasion.

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Un.donpuri Dessert Shop

Located in Fukuchiyama City, Un.donpuri is a café known for its for puddings that look amazingly like Japanese cuisine. It has puddings in the form of 11 kinds of dishes: katsudon (fried pork cutlet on rice), ramen, seafood bowls, tororodon (grated yam rice bowl), mapo tofu (Sichuan-style bean curd with ground pork spicy taste), Japanese hot pot, beef bowl, loco moco, cold sweet red bean soup, wonton noodles, and Chinese style cold noodles (summer only), each sold for 600 yen including tax. They are not only delicious to taste, but also enjoyable to look at. The idea began when the pastry chef created a pudding that looked like katsudon as a gift for a friend, which later went viral on social media. In addition to the puddings, cakes and baked sweets like cute donuts and cookies for takeout are lined up in the showcase window (there is also an eat-in space within). The pudding containers are made of polypropylene, which is microwavable and can be taken home to use for other purposes. The café is now a famous attraction in Fukuchiyama for sweets-lovers, and while the cafe opens at 11 a.m., the 80 bowls of pudding prepared on weekdays and 120 on weekends are often sold out early.

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