Houtou Fudou, Kawaguchiko Ekimae

This restaurant has a long history. One of its branches is right across from Kawaguchiko Station. It is very popular. I went there when it just opened at 11am today. When I came out at 12pm after eating, I was surprised to see a long queue at the door. Generally, everyone orders Hoto from Yamanashi Prefecture, which is a bit like thicker udon noodles. The pot is very large. If you have a small appetite, two people can order one portion and some other dishes. There are vegetables such as cabbage, mushrooms, carrots, and pumpkin in the pot, but no meat. It is very warm to eat in winter~ The store sells various specialties, and there are also raw noodles that you can take home and cook yourself.

Right across from Kawaguchiko Station! Wooden decoration, vegetarian iron pot udon, and the Spurs are a must! It feels great! There are several tables full of people if you go early, and there is a queue behind!

It is just opposite Kawaguchiko Station. The decoration is very old-time Japanese. There are Western and Japanese seats inside. The waiters have to run around when they are busy. You need to queue up at noon. The main feature is "vegetable hand-made noodles" (self-summary). It is a big iron pot with chewy and delicious thick noodles, as well as a lot of onions, cabbage, shimeji mushrooms and pumpkin. I also ordered a horse meat sashimi, which has beautiful patterns and tastes better than expected.

This shop is near Kawaguchiko Station. Its specialty is vegetable noodle soup pot, which uses homemade noodles, special sauces, and local pumpkins and vegetables. It is known as a specialty of the Fuji Mountain area. The soup tastes great and is made of vegetables without meat. Many tourists come here for its reputation. A pot serving costs 1,040 yen per person, which is not expensive. There are also local pickled vegetable platters and spurs to order. There are not many choices of dishes, but it is very satisfying to eat a pot of hot soup noodles in the middle of winter.

The indoor environment is very good, and there are exhibitions upstairs. There are many people because it is in a prime location opposite Kawaguchiko Station. After ten minutes, it was indeed a very simple soba cold dipping noodles, but the noodles are not as good as those in other places. It is a ready-made dried noodles from the supermarket. It is not semi-dry and will be more chewy. When I checked out, I was told that it was 750. The set meal with seafood was only 1080. I was drunk, but there are few restaurants to choose from in the Kawaguchiko area, which is not so commercialized, so the prices are high.

The so-called Berto is a kind of thick and wide noodles. It is a special delicacy in the Kawaguchiko area. This store has many chains in Kawaguchiko. There is a store in front of the JR station at the mouth of the river, which is directly opposite the exit of the station. Inside, there are also some dried noodles for sale, which you can take home and cook yourself. But Berto itself is chewy, and there is no meat in the big pot of noodles, so I think it is generally not that delicious.