Location: Kumamoto
Top Restaurants in Kumamoto
Kumamoto Food Guide: 10 Must-Eat Restaurants & Street Food Stalls in Kumamoto
Proud Kumamoto Castle is considered one of the most important of its kind. Visitors will be awed as they explore its stone curves, array of turrets, and displays of armor, weapons, and maps. Suizenji Jojuen Garden is downright cinematic, a playground of slopes and dips and trees, in a million shades of green. Cherry blossom season is a lovely time to visit.
Things to do in Kumamoto
1. Aoyagi
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 56 reviews
Reviewed By Kekoa303 - Hilo, Hawaii
For this very popular restaurant, make sure you make Reservations for dinner during high season. Located right next to the Shimotori Shopping arcade just past the Daiei store, this restaurant may have been reviewed by Zagats. Private tatami rooms available for small groups with wells for you to hang your legs. Food is a little pricey, but presentation is very Japanese and tasty. Menu items include tempura, sashimi, sushi, Japanese wagyu beef steaks, basashi (horse sashimi), local speciality karashi renkon (lotus root stuffed with meat and mustard), yakitori (grilled chicken), ika (dancing squid live squid is sliced into sashimi pieces and retruns to the plate and the legs are still moving), to mention a few. The restaurant has excellent nihonshu (premium Japanese sake) such as Kubota senjyu and Hakkaisan ginjyo. Shochu included premium brand Kuro Kirishima and others from the Kyushu area.
2. Tengaiten
Overall Ratings
4 based on 136 reviews
Reviewed By Higuma2017 - Vechta, Germany
This ramen will not be as thick as a Kurume tonkotsu type, but it will have more garlic than any other ramen you have seen around. Its tonkotrsu base is super user-friendly, medium to thin-bodied, crisp ingredients, with excellent soy-base sauce as an option. Noodle is thin and perfectly done, as so is the ramen tamago, sweet and just glorious. Too bad there's no gyoza servings. The place compensates for any fault one may find with the ramen: friendly service, the local accent and great heavy metal music! MENUS IN ENGLISH TOO!
3. Keika Ramen Honten
Overall Ratings
4 based on 101 reviews
4. Korantei Shimotori
Overall Ratings
4 based on 290 reviews
Reviewed By Parinya P
We went to this restaurant and keep waiting for 30 minutes for our seats. The restaurant was good location (in the shopping street) and the menu is one of the famous Chinese food in Kumamoto. We ordered the Taipiien (Vermicelli Soup), the food was not bad but not amazing. But what make us a little feel bad are the staffs keep our dishes before we finished it. Moreover, the seats in the restaurant was available (excepted reserved) but they keep many peoples wait ! So, I did not recommend this branch. Unfortunately, we did not try another branch near our hotel.
5. Suganoya Kamitori
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 123 reviews
6. Kumamotohorakumanju
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 62 reviews
Reviewed By Crescentra - Singapore
They are like a small burger but not bread, with red bean paste in the middle. You can taste the red bean surely but the base somehow lack the wonderful taste I found in Kyoto. So no wow for me
7. Katsuretsutei Shinshigai Honten
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 298 reviews
Reviewed By Kimitaka S
Katsuretsutei is a famous Tonkatsu restaurant in Kumamoto, and therefore it is quite crowded. As we went there, we first took a number and waited about 40 minutes. But anyway it is worth. Their Tonkatsu is delicious, but it is really voluminous.
8. Ramen Akagumi
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 46 reviews
9. Katsuretsutei Minamikumamoto
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 47 reviews
Reviewed By TomJacqu - Chippenham
One of a small local chain, a new building with an attractive interior on fairly nondescript retail park. Best Tonkatsu I've had anywhere, the new restaurant lives up to the reputation of the original.
10. Sumo Sushi Taihou Heya
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 36 reviews
Reviewed By SgpFrequentFlyer - Malaysia
Visited as a couple 25Mar 2017
Location:- Basement 1 of a building
1-typical Japanese Sushi bar square counter.Fits about 18-20 people around a counter with 03 sushi chefs.
2-as what was mentioned the staff waitresses were friendly and tries to communicate with limited English.The Chefs was more boisterous and some had better English while some are limited.But with good food and basic ability to order basic stuffs who needs English!??
3-as with Japanese F&N,u are allowed to smoke,but the ventilation was pretty good so not too bad.
Food
1-we ordered about 16-20 pieces of sushi,01 Crab Miso paste(Kani miso yaki) ,Unagi salted grilled(shio yaki) and abalone,Otoro,hotate,Aji,Saba,Sima Aji,KanpachiToro and few more that I can't remember.had 01 Sochu and 01 Kirin bottle beer
2-Crowded and pretty much 95% locals.And the locals were friendly to foreigners.made a few
Friends with our limited Japanese..:) and Chef was a niceelderly guy who we had a sochu with.
3-ask for seasonal recommendations(Susume) its nice..
4-total cost approx 10'000 yen,but we ordered enough to feed 3-4 with premium items and alcohol...totally worth it if compared to major cities like Tokyo and Osaka...
Pls do visit as it is worth the experience and price is reasonable while people are also friendly..
What more can u ask when u travel?
5 star experience!
