Ochazuke is delicious.
However, it is not easy to encounter a restaurant specializing in ochazuke in one's daily life.
However, there are several ochazuke restaurants in Kyoto, and depending on the restaurant, you can enjoy ochazuke that incorporates seasonal vegetables or with Kyoto pickles.
Therefore, we would like to introduce some of the most delicious ochazuke restaurants in Kyoto.
Please stop by during your tour of Kyoto.
Famous Ochazuke Restaurant in Kyoto 1.
○Features
Bubuya is a kyotsukemono Gion Kawakatsu located in Gion.
This restaurant is located under the stone steps of Yasaka Shrine, where you can enjoy Gion Kawakatsu's Kyoto tsukemono with ochazuke.
We offer a wide variety of seasonal pickles and recommend this place for a taste of Kyoto with ochazuke (rice with green tea).
Pickled eel and baby eel are also popular.
For a variety of pickles and delicious ochazuke, visit Bubu-ke.
○Word of mouth
A fashionable restaurant with a great atmosphere. The atmosphere is calm and relaxing, and you can stop by while sightseeing in Kyoto.
Kyoto's pickles, which would be delicious even if eaten as is, are served in chazuke style. It is delicious.
The "Ochazuke Set" is too satisfying with a bowl of rice and 11 kinds of pickles.
I live in Kyoto and have been a frequent customer here. It is really delicious.
The ochazuke is delicious. Pickles are delicious. Pickles with baby sardines are excellent.
Address
Gion Kawakatsu, 297 Gion-cho, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
How to access
Approximately 8 minutes walk from "Gion-Shijo Station" of Keihan Railway
○ Homepage
https://gion-kawakatsu.com/bubuya
2. Famous Ochazuke Restaurant in Kyoto: Tai Takumi HANANA
○Features
A restaurant specializing in tai chazuke.
As a new specialty of Arashiyama, Kyoto, the restaurant sells a luxurious style of thinly sliced sea bream with a special sesame sauce.
Vegetables are locally grown in Arashiyama, and side dishes are also carefully selected.
The menu is limited, however, and this popular restaurant offers simple ochazuke (rice with green tea) with carefully selected sea bream.
A dish of sea bream
Miso
Arashiyama Pudding
Pasta
Matcha ice cream
are also popular, so please take your time to look at the menu and make your selections.
○Word of mouth
First, sashimi. Then, rice bowl style with rice. Finally, ochazuke (rice with green tea).... The sea bream is exquisite.
The taste is simple, with a special sesame sauce. The style is deceptively simple, and the food tastes well.
It will be the new specialty of Arashiyama. It is delicious. I will come again.
Sea bream? I wasn't sure at first, but it was too good lol. I also recommend the Thai sandwich.
The line was long during the fall foliage season. The food was delicious and worth the wait. There was also miso soup, etc.
Address
26-1 Setogawa-cho, Tenryuji Saga, Ukyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto
How to access
Approximately 6 minutes walk from "Trolley Saga Station
○ Homepage
http://hanana-kyoto.com/top.html
3. Famous ochazuke restaurants in Kyoto: Marutamachi Junidanke
○Features
Located in a building that evokes the atmosphere of Kyoto is Marutamachi Junidanke.
The restaurant is very famous for its specialty ochazuke, dashimaki egg rolls that are highly reputed for their fluffiness, wagyu beef steak, beef shabu-shabu, and other a la carte dishes.
This restaurant has a long history dating back to the Taisho era (1912-1926). Originally, ochazuke was served to customers who had drunk too much alcohol to refresh their palates, and it is still a favorite among many local people.
The restaurant has been featured in Kansai Walker and other publications, and it is hard to decide which one to have.
○Word of mouth
The dashimaki was too good. I had the dashimaki tamago and pickles set for lunch, and it was already fluffy and perfect.
The quantity and variety of tsukemono pickles are very satisfying. The building is very Kyoto-like, and the restaurant is very popular.
It was a light ochazuke, but it was all delicious.
The food is very elegant. The dashimaki tamago is amazing. I almost ran out of rice.
The ochazuke is the last thing you want to do. It is a restaurant where you can be very satisfied until the end.
Address
Karasuma Marutamachi Nishiiru, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto
How to access
Approximately 2 minutes walk from Marutamachi Station on the Subway Karasuma Line
○ Homepage
Famous Ochazuke Restaurant in Kyoto 4.Chikatame
○Features
Chikatame was established in 1879.
We grow our own seasonal vegetables with delicious taste and make pickles in the traditional way.
The ume-koboshi and senmaizuke (pickled plums) are unique to this long-established restaurant, and the tsukemono course offers exquisite dishes.
The specialty here is the style of pickles, which are made not by machine but by hand, one by one, and served with ochazuke.
Please try the "Bubu-zuke Course" served in the back room of the Kyoto Main Restaurant, where you can enjoy the taste of ochazuke (rice with green tea).
○Word of mouth
The ochazuke was delicious. Satisfied with miso and other small bowls.
I was able to enjoy a solid amount of food. I would like to come again.
The store has a great atmosphere. At first I didn't know where it was. The taste was delicious.
The ochazuke with a special flavor. Kyoto pickles were excellent.
You can enjoy Kyoto. All the vegetables were delicious.
Address
576 Botanboko-cho, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
How to access
Take Kyoto Bus No. 206 from JR Kyoto Station, get off at "Senbon Imadegawa" and walk about 5 minutes.
○ Homepage
5. Famous ochazuke restaurants in Kyoto: Akoya Chaya
○Features
Akoya Chaya is a restaurant specializing in ochazuke buffets located in Gion Shijo, Kyoto.
More than 20 kinds of Kyoto-style pickles are available for all-you-can-eat, and can be combined with white rice, five-grain rice, or rice porridge.
The classic examples are eggplant, yuzu daikon, cucumber, long potatoes (wasabi and yuzu), bell peppers, sweet potatoes, and eringi mushrooms.
Also available are sencha and hojicha teas, which are recommended to be eaten with ochazuke (rice with green tea).
You can get another serving in buffet style, so please try your favorite pickles and rice with tea.
○Word of mouth
All-you-can-eat tea, rice, and pickles! Miso is also delicious. Unlimited time to enjoy yourself.
They are delicious both eaten as they are and in chazuke (rice with green tea). There are so many kinds of pickles that it is hard to decide which one to choose.
It is a popular restaurant with a great reputation, and many people line up even before the restaurant opens. The ochazuke, which you choose and make yourself, is the best.
I recommend the yam wasabi pickles. All pickles are delicious.
Happiness to take and eat as much as you like by yourself. Too luxurious chazuke. I want to come again.
Address
3-343 Shimizu, Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
How to access
Approximately 5 minutes walk from Shijo-Kawaramachi bus stop No. 207 "Kiyomizu-michi" at Hankyu "Kawaramachi" station.
○ Homepage
https://www.kashogama.com/akoya/
■ Summary
How was it?
We have introduced five famous ochazuke restaurants in Kyoto where you can have a wonderful time.
Ochazuke with Kyoto vegetables and pickles tastes much better.
We hope you will visit the restaurant this time.
