Best Japanese Food around Kansai Restaurants List

This is a specialty restaurant serving meharizushi (rice balls wrapped in pickled takana (leaf mustard greens)), which is a local specialty that passes down a simple traditional taste to the modern day. This restaurant’s meharizushi is characterized by the rice containing chopped stalks of takana, which is marinated in the special secret sauce. The rice is then wrapped in a large takana leaf. Popular menu items include a pack of four meharizushi (560 JPY) and a sample set containing meharizushi, kushikatsu (deep-fried skewer of meat) and tonjiru (miso soup with pork and vegetables) (1,300 JPY). The meharizuke-making set (1,890 JPY), where you can make your own meharizushi, is an ideal souvenir.

This is a well established unagi (eel) restaurant that has been in business for over 300 years and specializes in unagi grilled in the Kansai style. Osaka Mamushi (from 2,880 JPY), which contains rice and unagi in two layers, is a popular dish. During lunch time, guests with a reservation are served first (you may have to wait even if you made a reservation). Dinner is bookings only. When making a reservation, you need to let the restaurant which items you would like to eat.