381.1 km

Review excerpt: The food menu at Otto Knot is limited to a lineup of sandwiches and the restaurant’s dessert of choice: homemade waffles.

381.3 km

Review excerpt: Expect to find a few staples at Kunsei Lover Fumo such as the smoked boiled eggs glazed with soy sauce, smoked bacon and smoked chikuwa fish cake stuffed with tuna.

381.6 km

Review excerpt: Carnivores at Nikusakaba Buzz will want to order 300 grams of gekiyasu (bargain-priced) steak at ¥1,000. The American beef arrives sizzling on a hot stone. It’s by no means as marbled as wagyu (Japanese beef), and it’s minimally flavored, just salt as ...

386.2 km

Cafe Ibaraki Yu was once a public bath, and architect Shigeharu Kuriyama from Design Saho makes no attempt to disguise this legacy.

394.6 km

Review excerpt: Soba purists visiting Imose might want to go with either inaka soba (a dark variety) or the jūwari soba (made with 100-percent soba flour).

395 km

Despite offering only two types of soba there is a lot on offer, both from the set menus and the a la carte menu, which features nonsoba treats such as ayu kanroni (sweetened boiled sweet fish), hotaru-ika okizuke (firefly squid pickled in vinegar, sake ...

395.1 km

You can order an entire bird or half of one. Unless you are dining alone, go all in. The bird comes divided into the breast, thighs, drumsticks and wings, and is served with potatoes, a salad of shredded cabbage with dressing, salsa and sour ...

395.1 km

Review excerpt: Besides the range of beers that includes stout, pale ales, lagers and white beers, Beer Belly has its great food line-up scrawled across a vast blackboard behind the bar.

395.2 km

Review excerpt: Masa specializes in serving affordable sushi in a cheerful atmosphere. The bulk of the sushi is priced from ¥100 to ¥300.

395.2 km

The Japanese take on the venerable burger can sometimes be, well, too sauce-heavy. At Buff, the emphasis was on the meat, piled high and topped with enoki and shiitake mushrooms. There's also plenty besides beef on the menu -- the voluminous stuffed tomato was ...