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Hitachi City

Northern Ibaraki

Kurata Wagyu Beef Yakiniku & Steak Restaurant

This restaurant has been serving the highest grade of Hitachi Beef since it opened over 40 years ago. Hitachi Wagyu Beef is unique to Ibaraki, making it a must-try for visitors to the area!
Kurata is officially registered as a Hitachi Wagyu Beef specialty restaurant. This means that the beef can be traced precisely where and when it was produced. Furthermore, over half the menu contains Wagyu Beef dishes, including yakiniku, shabu-shabu hot pot, and steak.

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Mito City

Central Ibaraki

Suifuan Soba Noodles

Suifuan makes soba noodles using Hitachi Akisoba buckwheat flour produced exclusively at three farms in Ibaraki. The buckwheat is ground using a traditional stone flour mill, while the dough is hand-kneaded.
Suifuan’s must-try dish for first-time visitors is cold soba noodles served with a soy-based dipping sauce, duck meat, and vegetables.

Japanese Food

Hitachiota City

Northern Ibaraki

Nishikanasa Soba Noodles

The soba at this restaurant is made fresh from scratch daily. The process begins with grinding Hitachi Akisoba buckwheat flour with a stone mill, kneading the dough by hand, and cooking the noodles on an order-by-order basis.
Juwari Soba, made using 100% locally grown Hitachi Akisoba buckwheat flour, is a great option for first-time visitors.
The restaurant also offers a soba workshop for a memorable way to try the area's famous noodles.

Japanese Food

Mito City

Central Ibaraki

Daikoku Sushi

This sushi restaurant offers regional specialty seafood dishes, most notably anglerfish hotpot.

Japanese Food

Oarai Town

Central Ibaraki

Kurizakiya Sushi

This sushi restaurant offers fresh, seasonal sushi and other seafood dishes, including anglerfish hotpot.

Japanese Food

Northern Ibaraki

Kitaibaraki City

Port Otsu Dining

Port Otsu Dining is operated by a fisher's cooperative. The restaurant serves local specialties using freshly caught seafood, including anglerfish dishes.

Japanese Food

Tsukuba City

Southern Ibaraki

Hitachi Wagyu Beef Hitachino

This restaurant serves a range of beef dishes including yakiniku (Japanese-style grill your own meat), sukiyaki, steak and barbecue dishes. The restaurant uses Hitachi Wagyu Beef and charcoal made from oak trees grown on Mount Tsukuba.
The food isn't the only thing that draws people to Hitachino - the restaurant itself is built in a traditional Japanese style with a steep thatched roof and offers great views of the Mount Tsukuba area, whatever the time of year.

Japanese Food

Mito City

Central Ibaraki

Shirakawa Soba Restaurant

Shirakawa uses locally produced buckwheat flour 'Hitachi Aki Soba' as well as fresh local vegetables in all their dishes.
If you're not sure what to try, go for the 'nabe-yaki udon' (udon noodles fried in an iron pot, available from Autumn to Spring), the Okukuji-shamo chicken and egg bowl or the Okukuji-shamo chicken soba noodles.

Japanese Food

Oarai Town

Central Ibaraki

Japanese Restaurant Miyata

This restaurant offers a variety of seasonal seafood dishes and beef dishes.
Anglerfish hotpot is a popular local specialty dish served during the winter months.

Japanese Food

Hitachi City

Northern Ibaraki

Amimoto Seafood

This restaurant offers fresh seafood dishes, including the regional specialty anglerfish hotpot.

Japanese Food

Kashima City

Eastern Ibaraki

Yamabiko Restaurant

Located in central Kashima City, Yamabiko Restaurant serves wagyu steak made from Hitachi Beef, steak rice bowls, and pork steaks using locally produced meat and vegetables. The restaurant has been serving delicious steaks in its homey location for over 35 years. Piano concerts are also held here, and there are lovely plum trees on site, which bloom in the early spring.
Ibaraki Prefectural Government recognizes Yamabiko as using locally produced agricultural products and seafood.

Japanese Food

Northern Ibaraki

Daigo Town

Nanamagari Japanese Restaurant

Nanamagari serves a range of classic Japanese dishes, including seafood. However, the real specialty here is shamo, a wildfowl local to the northern Ibaraki area.
The "shamo suki" hotpot is a great way to try this wildfowl. This hearty dish features shamo meat simmered alongside green onions and konnyaku (devil's tongue).

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