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Tohoku is a great place for fresh food, whether from the fields, mountains, forests, or seas. Restaurants range from local sake shacks to upscale sushi bars and steak houses, and dress may be street-casual to office attire. Rarely will it be formal. Menus may not always be in English, but you can often find window displays full
Tohoku is a great place for fresh food, whether from the fields, mountains, forests, or seas. Restaurants range from local sake shacks to upscale sushi bars and steak houses, and dress may be street-casual to office attire. Rarely will it be formal. Menus may not always
Tohoku is a great place for fresh food, whether from the fields, mountains, forests, or seas. Restaurants range from loc
Tohoku is a great place for fresh food, whether from the fields, mountains, forests, or seas. Restaurants range from local sake shacks to upscale sushi bars and steak houses, and dress may be street-casual to office attire. Rarely will it be formal. Menus may not always be in English, but you can often find window displays full of plastic representations of the menu. Credit cards are fine in cities, but they are not always accepted in the countryside, so bring along enough cash. In many restaurants you'll take your shoes off at the entry and place them in a cubicle.
Housed in a converted warehouse in the Maruhachi Yatarazuke complex, the Komian Maruhachi restaurant serves traditional Yamagata dishes such as soba noodles and imoni potato hot pot, as well as unusual sushi made with pickles from theYatarazuke shop right next door. You can try them all in the "Three tastes of Yamagata" set (¥1,620). For a drink try Tachinomi-dokoro, the standing bar on the far side of the shop, offering all the pickles you can eat for ¥300.
2-1-5 Hatagomachi, Yamagata, Yamagata-ken, 990-0047, Japan
023-623–0310
Known For
Unique local pickles
A Three Tastes of Yamagata set (soba, potato hot pot, pickle sushi)
Restaurant Details
Rate Includes: Restaurant closed 1st Wed. of month. Bar closed Sun. No lunch
The highlights here are good sushi, tempura, and donburi—bowls with cutlets, tempura, or chicken on top of rice. In this old-fashioned establishment where typical Japanese dishes are served, there is something on the menu to suit anyone's taste.
2-3-7 Nanokamachi, Yamagata, Yamagata-ken, 990-0042, Japan
A short walk from JR Yamagata Station will put you in front of some fine and slightly chewy Yamagata soba noodles. Everything is good here, but in summer try the hiyashi-dori soba (with cold chicken). The eatery is in a traditional black-wood-and-white-stucco building south of the station.
1-1-75 Uwa-machi, Yamagata, Yamagata-ken, 990-2483, Japan
Sagoro will serve you a full dose of some outstanding Yonezawa and Yamagata beef. It will be difficult to forget the beef's impossible tenderness. Although most dishes are pricey in the evenings in this sophisticated, upscale setting, there are some bargains at lunch for under. (Reservations are strongly recommended in the evenings.)
1--6--10 Kasumicho, Yamagata, Yamagata-ken, 990-0039, Japan
023-631–3560
Known For
Delectable, locally sourced beef
Reasonably priced lunches
Local flavor
Restaurant Details
Rate Includes: Closed Sun. (unless the following Mon. is a holiday)
Yamagata is famous for soba, and Shojiya is the oldest soba restaurant in Yamagata. Go for lunch and then wander around the neighborhood. The immediate area is interesting, with restored irrigation channels where five dams were built in 1623 to control flooding, as well as kimono and tea shops, and the historic city hall building.
Nanokamachi 2--7--6, Yamagata, Yamagata-ken, 990-0042, Japan
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