Must-see restaurants in Nagasaki

  • Shippoku Hamakatsu

    Nagasaki

    Come here if you'd like to experience shippoku-ryōri (Nagasaki-style kaiseki) and still afford your airfare home. Menus are filling and varied, and there…

  • Organic Restaurant Tia

    Nagasaki

    Tia serves a buffet of mouth-watering home-style Japanese cooking using local, organic products. It's on the 2nd floor, with an entry that's easy to miss…

  • Dejima Wharf

    Nagasaki

    First things first: the wharf's not part of Dejima; the land didn't even exist during those times. Still, Dejima Wharf is a picturesque harbour-side…

  • Hōuntei

    Nagasaki

    Patrons have been ordering the hito-kuchi gyōza (¥380 for 10) at this rustic hole-in-the-wall place since the 1970s. Also try butaniratoji (pork and…

  • Ryōtei Kagetsu

    Nagasaki

    Dating to 1642, this sky-high shippoku-ryōri restaurant started life as a high-class brothel. Japanese skills or a chaperone, and a love of food, will…

  • No no Budo

    Nagasaki

    Come for the buffet, stay for the view at the new Nagasaki branch of this much-loved casual buffet chain. Dozens of savoury and dessert offerings…

  • Higashi-yamate Chikyū-kan

    Nagasaki

    In the Dutch Slopes a quirky 'World Foods Restaurant' operates most weekends; each week a different chef comes to prepare inexpensive meals from their…

  • Yossō

    Nagasaki

    People have flocking to this place, behind a traditional shop front festooned with red lanterns, for chawanmushi (savoury egg custard) since 1866. The…

  • Shikairō

    Nagasaki

    This huge Chinese restaurant (look for the giant red pillars) near Glover Garden is credited as the creator of champon and has been in operation since…

  • Tsuru-chan

    Nagasaki

    Despite the name Toruko (Turkish) rice, there's nothing much Turkish about the hearty Nagasaki signature dish of this retro kissaten (coffee shop): pork…

  • Kairaku-en

    Nagasaki

    At this Shinchi Chinatown standby, the cheerful staff dressed in black with white aprons have been serving southern Chinese cuisine since the Shōwa era…

  • Shōkandō

    Nagasaki

    Fine cake shop across from Megane-bashi; castella (dense sponge cake) supplier to the Japanese imperial family.