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Recommended spots around Ishiyama-dera Temple

[2023] 6 recommended spots around Ishiyamadera Temple

We pick up spots around Ishiyama-dera Temple that you should definitely stop by before or after visiting the temple. You will find new restaurants that are full of local love, cafes along the Seta River, and revived menus at long-established eateries. Check them out!

1.Enjoy a big bowl of kakuni at Kakuton, a restaurant specializing in kakuni donburi (square rice bowl) with excellent cost performance.

The kaku-ni rice bowls are cooked for two days, and the meat is juicy, lightly seasoned, and topped with a special sauce before serving. The meat is lightly seasoned to make it juicy and refreshing, and before serving, it is seared with a banner and seasoned with a special sauce. We recommend changing the flavor with mustard and spicy spices on the table, as well as a wide variety of toppings that are served on a separate plate for +150 yen.

Kakuni-don Specialty Store Kakton's Kakuni-don

Kakuni Donburi (regular) 990 yen. The large size of the Kakuni is a delight, and the sweet sauce goes perfectly with the rice. Comes with miso soup, a small bowl of cooked food, and pickles.

Appearance of Kakuton, a restaurant specializing in Kakuni-don (square rice bowl)

Kakuton, a restaurant specializing in Kakuni-don (square rice bowl)

  • Kakuninidon-senmonten Kakuton
  • 6-11 Awazu-cho, Otsu-shi, Shiga
  • 3 minutes walk from Ishiyamadera Station, Keihan
  • Tel. 050-8884-3892

2.A long-established specialty restaurant that popularized Omi beef [Hamburger Steak Matsukiya]

Matsukiya, a long-established butcher store that introduced Omi beef to the nation in the early Meiji period, has created a restaurant specializing in hamburgers. The restaurant's interior, with its impressive counter surrounding a large griddle, has an atmosphere similar to that of a luxury hotel. The secret is the use of Omi Hachiman's specialty, choji-fu, as the binding agent. The Omi beef meat sauce is also unique to the butcher store.

Hamburg Steak Matsukiya Hamburg Steak

Hamburger Co. 160g, 3,450 yen. You can choose the size of the hamburger steak. Comes with salad, hash browns, soup, curry and rice.

Interior view of Hamburger Steak Matsukiya

Hamburg Steak Matsukiya

  • Hamburg Steak Matsukiya
  • 2F, 14-17 Karahashi-cho, Otsu-shi, Shiga
  • 1 minute walk from Keihan Karahashi-mae Station
  • Tel.077-534-2901

3.A little bit of this and a little bit of that makes me happy [R's HAPPY BAKE CAFE]

Located on the banks of the Seta River, where outstanding poems and haiku have been written, the café offers a beautiful view from its windows during each of the four seasons. The owner, Ms. Terasaka, who fell in love with this view, serves lunch and sweets with hospitality from a woman's perspective. One of the most popular dishes is the 9-masu lunch plate, which fulfills the desire for "a little bit of everything delicious. You can fully enjoy nine home-style, homemade dishes using seasonal vegetables as the main ingredients.

R's HAPPY BAKE CAFE trout lunch plate

9 trout lunch plate 1800 yen. Fish and meat dishes, mini burgers, mixed rice, etc. are served on this one plate. With soup, dessert and drink

Inside view of R's HAPPYBAKECAFE

R's HAPPY BAKE CAFE

  • Earl's Happy Bake Cafe
  • 1-3-11 Ishiyamadera, Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture
  • 7 minutes on foot from Keihan "Ishiyamadera Station"
  • Tel.077-599-4722

4.Impressed by the thick, juicy eel at a long-established restaurant [Koshun

Kosyu is a restaurant located within the precincts of Ishiyama-dera Temple. The restaurant serves funazushi, honmoroko, sweetfish, shijimi (whitebait), and other delicacies from Lake Biwa. Currently, the main operators of the restaurant are brothers Kanta and Mizuharu Inoue. They use the traditional Kansai grilling method to grill the eel over a high-temperature charcoal fire to crispy perfection. Other popular dishes include charcoal-roasted Omi beef and shijimi clam kamameshi.

Lake boat eel on rice

Superb Unaju (eel) 4,950 yen at Omi Fuji. A single eel so large that it protrudes from the top of the rice stack is served on top. Local delicacies and shijimi clam soup are also included.

Interior view of the lake boat

lake boat

  • adherence (e.g. to ideas, beliefs, a pet theory)
  • 3-2-37, Ishiyamadera, Otsu City, Otsu, Japan Ishiyamadera Kanko Parking Lot
  • 11 min. walk from Ishiyamadera Station, Keihan
  • Tel. 077-537-0127

5.Hard bread filled with love for Shiga [pain prunelle]

Pain Prunelle was established along Route 442 at Setagawa. The main items lined up in the store are baguettes, campagnes, and other hard items with the taste and sweetness of wheat. Matsuoka hopes that the store will "help revitalize Shiga," using Nishinokhaori whole wheat flour from a farmer in Nagahama City (SHIBATA GROUND MUSIC) and vegetables from nearby farmers. The live kitchen, where you can see the sales space from the kitchen, is also a space where you can see the faces of the guests.

Pain Prunelle Bread

Whole wheat 100 half 450 yen. You can feel the rich flavor even if you eat it as it is. Also recommended as a sandwich. Croissant 230 yen. Made with 10% Nishino Kaori whole wheat flour. One bite and you will be addicted to its crispy outside and moist inside.

Interior view of painprunelle

Pain Prunelle

  • pamplunelle
  • 1-2-11, Hiratsu, Otsu-shi, Shiga
  • 2 min. walk from bus stop "Shiga Univ.
  • Tel. 077-572-9830

6.Note the rabbit logo at each of the moon viewing locations [Ishiyama-ji Pudding Honpo].

Located in front of the gate of Yamadera Temple, this take-out pudding store specializes in puddings made with ingredients from Shiga Prefecture. The bottled pudding is made with plenty of fresh cream and has a smooth and mild texture. The shop always offers a rich lineup of about 6 to 7 varieties, using high-quality Shiga Prefecture ingredients such as Moriyama melons and strawberries from Kawanishi Farm, depending on the season. In addition to pudding, we also recommend the soft-serve ice cream with caramel and soft-serve ice cream made with Asamiya's hojicha (roasted green tea), which are perfect for eating on the go.

Ishiyamadera pudding pudding

(Left) Dark tea 450 yen. Smoothly smooth with matcha green tea sauce from Asamiya, Shigaraki. The richness of the egg and the bitterness of the tea are perfectly intertwined in this dish. (Right) Smooth 390 yen. The richness of the egg, the aroma of vanilla beans, and the melt-in-your-mouth texture.

Exterior view of Ishiyamadera Pudding Honpo

Ishiyamadera Pudding Honpo

  • Ishiyama Lara Pudding Honpo
  • 3-1-7 Ishiyamadera, Otsu-shi, Shiga
  • 11 minutes walk from Ishiyamadera Station, Keihan
  • Tel. 077-548-6300
*Please note that the information contained herein is subject to change without notice.
*Since this site uses automatic translation, the translation may differ from the original Japanese content.

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