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Northern Ibaraki

Restaurant Kenbo

Like many restaurants in the rural Daigo area, Restaurant Kenbo serves a range of dishes using farm-fresh local produce alongside shamo, a wildfowl found in northern Ibaraki.
The relaxed atmosphere and private dining rooms truly set this restaurant apart, making for a memorable dining experience.

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Northern Ibaraki

Hide Sushi

This restaurant serves sushi, seafood, and local specialties such as anglerfish dishes.

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Central Ibaraki

Nakamura Restaurant

This seafood restaurant serves dishes made with fresh ingredients from local markets. Anglerfish hotpot, a regional specialty, is particularly popular during the winter months.

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Central Ibaraki

Hitachi Wagyu Beef Restaurant Kikusui

This restaurant specializes in Hitachi Wagyu Beef and combines premium beef with affordable prices. Dishes include sukiyaki, steak, and yakiniku (grilled meat).

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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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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.

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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.

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Central Ibaraki

Daikoku Sushi

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

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Central Ibaraki

Kurizakiya Sushi

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

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Northern Ibaraki

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.

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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.

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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.

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