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KIKUCHI

KIKUCHI

A relaxed Japanese-style kappo restaurant. In addition to the counter seats, there are also tatami seats on a small raised floor, providing a comfortable space for the entire family!

Sardine Restaurant OMORI

Sardine Restaurant OMORI

A Japanese restaurant serving excellent local fish and sardine dishes from Oarai. The restaurant’s interior mirrors that of a traditional Japanese restaurant with a serene atmosphere. Private rooms and tatami seating tables are available for a relaxed dining experience.

Seaside Cuisine SANSUI

Seaside Cuisine SANSUI

A seaside restaurant where you can enjoy the beautiful scenery of Oarai Coast. Seafood with a view of the ocean is exceptional! The popular sashimi set menus vary depending on the day’s stock.

Kappo Cuisine SAKANAYA HONTEN

Kappo Cuisine SAKANAYA HONTEN

A Kappo restaurant located in a long-established Japanese inn. You can enjoy hearty local cuisine prepared by the young master, who trained at a Japanese-style restaurant in Tokyo. Reservation required.

Restaurant KOBAYASHI (in Ryokan Kobayashiro)

Restaurant KOBAYASHI (in Ryokan Kobayashiro)

This restaurant is located in a long-established Japanese inn in the Miyashita district, in front of the Oarai Isosaki Shrine. Enjoy a relaxing meal with a view of the magnificent ocean. The omakase set meal, featuring fried fish, sashimi, miso soup, and small side dishes, is recommended!

Restaurant HINOJI

Restaurant HINOJI

A Japanese restaurant located in the Ryokan Street along the Oarai Coast, beneath the Oarai Isosaki Shrine. It offers local fish dishes from Oarai as well as affordable seafood dishes.

Restaurant HAMAYA

Restaurant HAMAYA

A restaurant located on Oarai Ryokan Street, a scenic spot of Oarai. You can enjoy seasonal seaside cuisine including anglerfish hotpot during winter. We highly recommend the anglerfish hotpot with red miso paste! A bit different from other restaurants, it has a spicy flavor that warms the body.

Tsuruchan's Washokuan

Tsuruchan's Washokuan

A Kyoto-style kaiseki restaurant where the young master serves authentic kaiseki cuisine at reasonable prices. A la carte dishes, fresh fish sashimi, and hamburger steak are also available for family enjoyment.

Ajigoyomi MIYATA

Ajigoyomi MIYATA

Authentic Japanese dining where you can enjoy local fish dishes from Oarai in a modern Japanese style space. There is no doubt that the owner, who was born and raised in Oarai, makes a wonderful dish of local production for local consumption.

Restaurant MIZUKI (in Oarai Oshotei)

Restaurant MIZUKI (in Oarai Oshotei)

A restaurant in Oarai Oshotei. Built in traditional Japanese-style restaurant, with private rooms on either side of the corridor, offering a relaxed atmosphere where you can enjoy your meal while overlooking pine trees and the sea.

Kachan no Mise is directly managed by Oarai Fishery Cooperative Association.

Kachan no Mise is directly managed by Oarai Fishery Cooperative Association.

Located next to Oarai Fishing Port, the wives of fishermen serve fresh fish dishes. Only in a port town can you taste the freshness of whitebait rice bowl.

Pickled Fish WAKYU

Pickled Fish WAKYU

A Japanese restaurant directly managed by a seafood processing company that distributes ingredients to famous hotels and supermarkets. The chef’s skill shines through the seafood rice bowls made mainly from local products. Handmade side dishes such as Saikyo fish pickles and simmered sea bream head are also available.

Oarai Cuisine TSUKASA

Oarai Cuisine TSUKASA

An itamae-kappo restaurant where you can casually enjoy fresh seafood, local vegetables, and other high quality food from Hitachinokuni. The restaurant’s carefully selected dishes are exquisite, with fresh “fish” purchased by the owner himself. Using seasonal ingredients, you can enjoy dishes suitable for a variety of occasions.

SUDAAN

SUDAAN

This Japanese restaurant specializes in Hitachi-Aki soba noodles and anglerfish hotpot. It also boasts a winter-only anglerfish hotpot, prepared with a secret broth and abundant anglerfish liver. With set menus including seasonal sashimi, this restaurant is a great place to stop by and enjoy fresh food.

Crab and Seafood Bowl KAJIMA

Crab and Seafood Bowl KAJIMA

A restaurant near the Fishing Port offering excellent crab dishes. Set meals, rice bowls, and daily specials are provided. It boasts reasonable prices, quality of ingredients and volume! The snow crab croquette has won the top prize in Japan.

SHICHIRIN

SHICHIRIN

A restaurant where you can enjoy meat and seasonal seafood dishes. In addition to our famous motsuni stew and various set meals, the fresh seafood caught from our own boat promises to be a delectable treat.

ASAHIDO

ASAHIDO

A creative cuisine restaurant that offers everything from authentic French to simple Japanese dishes, with a focus on seasonal vegetables and fish. This restaurant places particular emphasis on fresh vegetables and seafood, sure to impress even the most discerning female customers.

Kamaya

Kamaya

A Japanese restaurant serving sushi, tempura, kamameshi, and anglerfish hotpot. You can taste delicious local Oarai seafood.

Osakana Tengoku Iki Iki Store

Osakana Tengoku Iki Iki Store

There are plenty of things you can only taste here! Direct from the market! Market price! A truly heavenly conveyor belt sushi restaurant. In winter, you can also enjoy the famous anglerfish hotpot. There is also a seafood Japanese restaurant.

Uochu Shoten / Chushin

Uochu Shoten / Chushin

Directly managed by Uochu, a long-established live fish restaurant. A long-established seafood restaurant where you can enjoy sushi and seafood dishes seasoned with special sauce. Enjoy the fresh seafood caught in Oarai and Nakaminato.

Unagi Matsunobu

Unagi Matsunobu

A famous restaurant of fresh eel dishes. We cook live eels to order, allowing customers to enjoy their taste and texture to the fullest. The taste, color, gloss, and aroma are outstanding.

Handmade Soba HITACHIYA

Handmade Soba HITACHIYA

A local soba restaurant using Ibaraki brand “Hitachi-Aki soba” as an ingredient. The buckwheat is slowly ground on a stone mill and carefully handcrafted using a blend of three buckwheat flours with 10 percent serving as the base. Enjoy our signature soba noodles.

ANBAIYA

ANBAIYA

A traditional soba restaurant that has continued for four generations. The homemade soba, udon and ramen that the owner makes every day are delicious! We recommend Curry Nanban Soba and Nihon Gomoku Soba.

Restaurant WISTALIA (in Oarai Seaside Hotel)

Restaurant WISTALIA (in Oarai Seaside Hotel)

A hotel restaurant where you can enjoy from Western cuisine to fresh fish dishes while overlooking the sea of Oarai. Relax your mind and body with beautiful scenery and delicious food.

Trattoria J Marina

Trattoria J Marina

An authentic Italian restaurant serving oven-baked pizzas and a menu featuring fresh local seafood. Pets are allowed on the terrace seats. You can spend a luxurious time in a resort atmosphere.

Girls und Panzer Cafe Panzer Vor

Girls und Panzer Cafe Panzer Vor

The theme of this cafe, approved by the anime company, is “Girls und Panzer,” which is set in Oarai. The Girls und Panzer goods are scattered throughout the store, including cushions used by the main characters in the anime and wallpaper illustrations featuring the mascot characters.

FUJINOYA

FUJINOYA

A Chinese restaurant where you can enjoy authentic hometown cuisine, featuring homemade noodles and Sichuan cuisine. In addition to standard Chinese dishes such as Mapo Tofu and chili shrimp, ramen and set menus are available.

Yakiniku Restaurant CHUEN

Yakiniku Restaurant CHUEN

A yakiniku restaurant popular among locals. Various menus such as tongue salt, ribs, and stone-roasted bibimbap are offered. We recommend the rib yakiniku set meal! It will undoubtedly be delicious.

Okonomiyaki HANAWA

Okonomiyaki HANAWA

An okonomiyaki restaurant where you can taste Oarai’s local food “Tarashi.” There are many menus such as Oarai’s specialty Tarashi, okonomiyaki, and teppanyaki dishes.

Oarai Seafood Market

Oarai Seafood Market

Right in front of Oarai Fishing Port, this fish shop is marked by a huge yellow sign. In front of the shop, you will find an array of dried fish and fresh fish, and they also offer grilled clams, scallops, shrimp, and more.

Vintage Club Murai

Vintage Club Murai

A liquor store and bar with jazz music in the unique building featuring a protruding yacht. The interior has an antique atmosphere inspired by the interior of a ship. Draft beer and wine served by the owner can be enjoyed at reasonable prices.

Ume cafe WAON

Ume cafe WAON

Japan’s first cafe specializing in plums, run by Yoshidaya, a long-established manufacturer and seller of pickles such as umeboshi.
You can enjoy rice and sweets made with a wide variety of plums.

Oyashio

Oyashio

In winter, this restaurant offers an exquisite anglerfish hotpot, which is the owner’s specialty, and from spring to autumn, it offers various set meals using seasonal ingredients. Reservation required.

Maruto BBQ Barbecue Garden

Maruto BBQ Barbecue Garden

An all-weather outdoor barbecue garden, just a 5-minute walk from Oarai Sun Beach. A barbecue site directly managed by Maruto, a meat wholesaler. You can enjoy fresh meat as well as seafood.

Restaurant SHIOSAI (in Shiosai-no-Yu)

Restaurant SHIOSAI (in Shiosai-no-Yu)

A large panoramic restaurant that can accommodate 230 people. It offers authentic flavors using plenty of freshly caught seafood unique to Oarai. Banquet reservations are available. Dining-only admission is also available.

Osakana Tengoku Oarai Hamakko Shokudo

Osakana Tengoku Oarai Hamakko Shokudo

An affiliate of “Osakana Tengoku” near Oarai Fishing Port. Seafood rice bowls, set menus and a la carte dishes are also available. There is also a terrace where pets can eat and drink together.

Kaisen Donburi-tei

Kaisen Donburi-tei

A restaurant attached to the Oarai Seafood Market. You can enjoy fresh seafood unique to Oarai, such as seafood rice bowls, set meals, and anglerfish hotpot in winter.

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Yottemippe! Sakaten Park

Sakaten Park consists of Sakaten Market and Sakaten Restaurant. In addition to shopping for fresh fish and dried fish, you can enjoy a variety of seafood dishes made with fresh fish and seafood rice bowls.

Nami to Tsuki (KURAGE)

Nami to Tsuki (KURAGE)

Neo-Chinese dining on the first floor of the retreat house “Nami to Tsuki.”
Chinese cuisine with a modern twist using ingredients from Ibaraki Prefecture isexquisite.

Aji-no-mise TAKAHASHI

Aji-no-mise TAKAHASHI

Soul food for Oarai residents. Wheat-based dumplings with plenty of sweet honey