Restaurants in Kyūshū
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Wakana Honten
Come early to avoid the wait at this popular eatery specialising in miso-oden (around ¥650), sashimi and black pork that you cook at your table.
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Shikairō
This huge, freestanding Chinese restaurant (look for the giant red pillars) near Glover Garden is credited as the creator of champon and has been in operation since 1899. There are dead-on harbour views and a small champon museum.
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Fugu Matsu
This friendly shop is the place to try fugu in style (diehards love it).
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Modern Bali
This atmospheric eatery and bar serves authentic Indonesian favourites like gado-gado and nasi goreng.
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Dragon Deli
An import grocery shop selling goodies from all across Asia and the West, this is also a good place to pick up a gift.
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Hamakatsu
Come here if you would like to experience shippoku ryōri and still afford your airfare home. Course menus are filling and varied (the Otakusa Shippoku is served on a dramatic round tray). In addition, there is a choice of either Japanese- or Western-style seating.
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Nazuki
This snappy Oyafuko-dori eatery makes excellent cold Korean rāmen and fried rice bowls.
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Sushi Katsu
Follow the lunch crowd here. Look for white lanterns out front and moving sushi inside.
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Amu Plaza
Beside JR Nagasaki station Amu Plaza has a surprisingly varied restaurant arcade.
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West
Near the Hakata-gawa, this is a steamy noodle shop with excellent tempura.
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Fukusaya Bakery
This famous bakery has been making Portuguese pound cake since 1624.
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Komurasaki
Worth sampling for the rāmen is Komurasaki.
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Chi-na
A Cantonese banquet hall offering all-you-can-eat dim sum.
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Kuroiwa
Worth sampling for the rāmen.
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Wadaya
A Tenmonkan favourite.
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Young Echō
This cheery cafe with a young clientele serves a mix of Western and Japanese foods, including a popular set menu of chicken nanban (¥950). Veggie-friendly options are also available, and some staff speak English. Follow the signs for Takachiho Station (now closed).
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Yokobachi
It's quiet on this backstreet, but energetic in Yokobachi's leafy courtyard and rangey suite of rooms around an open kitchen. Standout small plates include spicy tebasaki (chicken wings), an inventive Caesar salad with sweet potato and lotus root chips, delicately fried mābō-nasu (eggplant in spicy meat sauce) and, if you dare, basashi (¥1200). There are about a dozen shōchū liquors to choose from.
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Xiang Xiang
A short walk from the station, this tidy restaurant serves aromatic Vietnamese cuisine. Some staff speak English. Look for the twin characters on the sign.
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Popular, inexpensive chain for udon (thick white wheat noodles), tempura (often served with udon; ¥280 to ¥680) and yakiniku (all-you-can-eat ¥1980 to ¥3380). Multiple locations.
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Tsuru-chan
You might at first brush by this kissaten (coffee shop) that seems barely changed since the Shōwa era, but you'd miss Nagasaki's most famous torokko rice. This hearty local speciality typically features pork cutlet in hearty brown gravy over pasta and curry-flavoured rice. Creative recent twists include chicken, beef and even cream sauces.
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Togakushi
Workmanlike Togakushi has no English menu, but ordering is easy: delicate, thin kama-age-udon (¥600) in cloudy broth with your choice of negi (green onion), tempura-ko (tempura crispies) and refreshing yuzu (Japanese citron); dip noodles in tangy sauce. Look for the giant red lantern. It's what locals crave after a bender; during the day, there's another branch near city hall.
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Tenmonkan Mujyaki
Slake Kagoshima's steamy summers with highly refreshing kakigori (shaved ice with condensed milk, fruits and beans). Go for the shirokuma, with toppings arranged to look like its namesake polar bear. Look for the polar bear outside.
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Tenjin Nobunaga
Nobunaga is raucous and rowdy, and that's just the chefs. There's no English menu but it's easy to choose from the skewers behind the counter. Another house speciality is potato-mochiage (¥420), a fried dumpling of mashed potato, cheese and mochi (pounded rice). Look for the red lanterns just to the right of Big Echo karaoke hall.
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Taigen Shokudō
Locally popular place for Korean BBQ grilled behind the counter and served on sizzling teppan (steel plates). A great bargain at lunchtime. There's no English menu, but order the yakiniku teishoku (set meal with salad, soup and rice; ¥880) or Taigen teishoku (yakiniku set meal plus hamburger, beef cutlet and sausage; ¥1200). It's next to Core 21 Akasaka.
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Sushikō Minatomachi Honten
Sushi here can be two completely different experiences: elegant and dignified on the 2nd floor, or served together with other dishes in a rollicking upstairs beer garden that's open year-round for dinner only and covered in inclement weather (all you can eat and drink for women/men from ¥2500/3150). Its sister conveyor-belt sushi shop, fresh and friendly Kintarō, is on the ground floor.
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