Restaurants in Kyūshū
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Ichiran
Ichiran has been serving noodles for 39 years. Unusually, customers eat at individual cubicles, and fill out forms requesting precisely how they want their noodles prepared. Flavour strength, fat content, noodle tenderness, quantity of special sauce and garlic content can all be regulated. An English language request form is also available.
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Ginnabe
Combining modern and traditional, Ginnabe stands out in Hamano-machi for its style and good value, with generous teishoku set meals like unagi (eel, around 1400) or tempura and sushi (¥1575).
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Eki Ichiba
To see a Beppu few travellers find, head to a long and winding shopping arcade under the tracks out the back of Beppu station. This is where local residents fill their grocery bags with fresh fish and veggies, and also pick up wonderful eki-ben (station lunch boxes) and hot meals to take home. You don't need much English to enjoy this bustling, workaday market, and get a good bargain while you're at it.
It's great fun to wander from stall to stall, savouring the yobuko-ika (squid tempura) or futomaki sushi (rice and seaweed roll). On weekends, you'll find lots of university students stocking up on provisions for the week ahead. During the week many elderly folks who live …
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Jin Robata & Beer Pub
A flashing neon fish sign directs you to this welcoming, international pub. There's plenty of great food to go with your booze. Pick from the rows of fresh fish on display, then watch it being grilled behind the counter.
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Hakata Ippudo Ramen
Hakata Ippudo Ramen; Look for the big red lantern at the entrance to this cosy and bustling rāmen shop, one of several branches in town. The English menu boasts of Hakata-style gyōza dumplings, traditionally made small so dainty Hakata women would not have to suffer the indignity of opening their mouths too wide to eat them.
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IMS building
The IMS building in Tenjin has prime skyline views from its 12th- and 13th-floor restaurants, including No No Budo a busy 'all-you-can-eat' buffet, with fresh fish and meat dishes, noodles, salads, soups and desserts. Nearby is Pietro Corte Mrs Elizabeth Muffin (733-2083) in the basement food court sells sweet muffins with free coffee refills!
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Pietro Corte
The IMS building in Tenjin has prime skyline views from its 12th- and 13th-floor restaurants, including No No Budo a busy 'all-you-can-eat' buffet, with fresh fish and meat dishes, noodles, salads, soups and desserts. Nearby is Pietro Corte Mrs Elizabeth Muffin in the basement food court sells sweet muffins with free coffee refills!
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Izakaya Wakana
The Kagoshima-Chūō branch of this famous local eatery is a two-minute walk from the station's west exit. For tasting, try the kushiage moriawase (barbecue skewer selection; five pieces ¥650) or miso oden moriawase (hotpot selection; five pieces ¥700). Order off a picture menu, or sit and point from the counter. It's across from Tōyoko Inn.
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Yamasaki
Just off busy Oyafuko-dori, this traditional eatery serves up excellent fish, salads and teishoku sets. Grilled sanma (mackerel) or netsuke (red snapper), a salad and beer will cost you about ¥1750. No English sign; look for the small 'Chestnut' signboard. A picture menu is available.
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Toyotsune
Main Branch Beppu Station Toyotsune nails the Beppu specialities: toriten, Bungo-gyū and lots of fresh fish, plus tempura. The main branch is on the corner behind Jolly Pasta, and the second branch is across from Beppu Station.
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Kairaku-en
This place has been serving southern Chinese cuisine since 1950, and there's a distinct possibility that some of the wonderful staff dressed in black with white aprons have been here ever since. For a splurge, try the Peking duck with miso (¥5000). It's just inside the Chinatown North gate.
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Ureshi-ya
You'll get your money's worth at this friendly and busy shokudō with donburi (dishes served over rice), sashimi, oden (hotpot), noodle dishes and more, displayed for you to choose.
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Café Serena
Eaten your fill of rāmen (noodles)? Café Serena, located in Hotel Nikkō Fukuoka, has an unforgettable continental French buffet, as well as an à la carte menu serving succulent roast duck and tropical fruit sorbet.
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Menchan
Menchan is a friendly place that opens as dusk approaches. It's a favourite with noodle-lovers who frequent the place to slurp bowls of soup prepared in famous styles hailing from Hokkaidō all the way to southern Kyūshū.
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Yosso
People have been coming to eat variations on the chawanmushi teishoku (Japanese egg custard set meal, with soboro – chopped meat and julienned egg over rice) since 1866. Look for the traditional shopfront festooned with red lanterns.
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Kuishinbō
A cheerful corner izakaya open till 02:00 serving unusual tofu and daikon steaks, and chawan-mushi (savoury custard), and around ¥100 yakitori skewers - good for a late-night snacking.
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Pik's Coffee Shop
For bacon and eggs with a uniquely Japanese spin, head for this retro-'50s diner where the music and the menu are straight out of Kansas City, but the cook and clientele are local. Plus root beer and free coffee refills.
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Tomonaga Panya
This charming, historic bakery has been in business since 1916, and people still queue for its ever-changing selection of oven-fresh breads and pastries. The wanchan (doggie) bun is filled with custard cream and uses raisins for the eyes and nose. Note: it closes when sold out.
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Tontoro
Chūō-machi Yamanokuchi The homey, bustling shop on Yamanokuchi is a local institution for rāmen in thick tonkotsu pork broth. Look for the old house with the red awning. There's another, more polished branch near JR Kagoshima-Chūō Station.
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Ōshō
Just around the corner from central post office, with excellent (nongreasy!) chicken kara-age, a local favourite, fried rice and gyoza - it's cheap, good and fast. A picture menu is available.
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Tabibitojaya
This charming and tiny café makes perfect sandwiches, fresh juices and coffee that the regulars drink from pottery cups facing the counter. Look for the word 'coffee' and more cups in the window.
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Unryūtei
A Nagasaki standby tucked away at the end of Shian-bashi Gourmet St, this place only seats six and specialises in cheap and tasty gyōza (dumplings), excellent with beer.
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No No Budo
Follow the after-work crowd to this natural food all-you-can-eat buffet with a range of Japanese standards, sashimi and deserts. Hard to beat, and there's a real nonsmoking section.
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Daichi no Table
This is a busy natural-food all-you-can-eat Japanese buffet featuring sashimi, champon, soup and three kinds of rice. Watch the time, too; you're given 90 minutes.
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Kagetsu
A shippoku restaurant that dates back to 1642 when it was a high-class brothel; today it's a rabbit warren of private and pricy dining rooms and tiny gardens.
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