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Local Restaurants
Top 20 Local Restaurants in Nara [2025]
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Awa Naramachi
4.5
/5
8 reviews
Japanese
From AU$ 66.00
1.9 km from downtown
Address: 1 Shonamicho, Nara, 630-8363, Japan
No.3 of Restaurants for Views & Experiences in Nara
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Li is a Japanese restaurant in Naramachi that has been on TV shows. Their dishes are really exquisite and taste really good. The dining environment is very fresh and elegant. My favorite is sushi!
This is a very good Japanese restaurant. The food there is delicious. I ordered a set meal and didn't have to worry about ordering. The food tasted good. The matcha was very light and the price was very high.
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Okonomiyaki Parco
5.0
/5
3 reviews
Japanese
From AU$ 26.00
2 km from downtown
Address: 1-1 Tsurufukuincho, Nara, 630-8393, Japan
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Small but neat, food comes out quickly, convenient to eat at after visiting Nara Park and shopping in the shops.
The Japanese restaurant has a superior geographical location, elegant environment and rich dishes, making it suitable for couples to date.
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Unakiku
5.0
/5
1 reviews
Japanese
From AU$ 58.00
2.2 km from downtown
Address: 1130 Takabatakecho Kikusuiro Annex 630-8301
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One of the flavors of Kikusuiluo, specializing in eel rice.
You can make a reservation on the Kikusuiluo official website, choose the date, time, restaurant and set menu. Very convenient!
4 small glasses of table wine, a little tipsy, just in time to walk back to the hotel at night
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Grilled Eel Edogawa in Naramachi
4.5
/5
80 reviews
Japanese
From AU$ 44.00
1.8 km from downtown
Address: 奈良県奈良市下御門町43
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They serve Edo cuisine, including tempura and sashimi. The price is reasonable. The environment is decorated in the style of the Edo period. The waiters are all wearing kimonos. The tempura shrimp is the best.
I asked the customer service and found out that this is the same store as the Edogawa Naramachi store! We have been there three times! We must have come for the Maggi eel rice. Of course, the tamagoyaki, tempura and sukiyaki are all very good, especially the three-way eel. The delicious and smooth taste is amazing at first sight, and I will fall in love with it again...
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Tsukihitei Kintetsu-Nara-ekimae
4.3
/5
4 reviews
Japanese
From AU$ 30.00
1.7 km from downtown
Address: 6 Higashimuki Nakamachi, Nara, 630-8215, Japan
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It's right in front of Nara Station. The beef here is really delicious. There are many kinds of beef, some raw and some grilled. I think the beef in Sukiyaki is the best.
The environment and taste of the restaurant are good. The business is very good. When I went there, I had to queue for a while, but it was very quick. The eel rice inside is tender and juicy, and the set meal is still very rich. It tastes very good with Japanese fruit.
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Unagi Notoyokawa
4.0
/5
4 reviews
Japanese
From AU$ 68.00
7.2 km from downtown
Address: 3-3-12 Tomiomotomachi, Nara, Nara Prefecture
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I ordered an eel rice set meal, which comes with soup and a steamed egg. There is eel in every dish. The soup is made from eel liver, so it is particularly delicious, without any MSG or anything like that.
Unagi Notoyokawa is a local Japanese restaurant that has been included in the Ctrip Gourmet Restaurant List. Its specialty is eel rice. We ordered a set meal and were given a bowl of miso soup for free.
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串づ串
5.0
/5
1 reviews
Japanese
From AU$ 68.00
1.4 km from downtown
Address: 31 Yanagicho, Nara, Nara Prefecture
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A Japanese fried skewers shop with great taste, I will come again next time!
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Unagi Kawahara Sanjouya Nara
4.5
/5
6 reviews
Japanese
From AU$ 40.00
1.2 km from downtown
Address: 35 Shimosanjocho, Nara, Nara Prefecture
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A shop selling seafood rice, a must-visit for seafood lovers, I like the sea urchin sashimi rice bowl. The sashimi is very filling, and it makes you drool. The eel rice bowl is also very delicious, and is a good choice for those who don't like to eat raw food.
When I first arrived in Nara, I wandered around Sanjo-cho near the hotel and finally decided to eat at this restaurant. Tea was served immediately after we sat down, and ice water was served for the children. A menu with Chinese instructions was also given. I usually don't know how to order dishes, so I ordered a children's set meal, a whole red grilled eel set meal, and a sukiyaki set meal. What I call the children's set meal is chopped red grilled eel + seaweed rice with soup. The rice in this set meal is actually quite large, and a girl with a small appetite should be able to eat it. The whole grilled eel set meal comes with white rice and soup, a small portion of pickles and two small slices of pineapple, and the white rice can be refilled. The sukiyaki set meal also comes with pickles and fruits. The sukiyaki set was the first set served. The stone pot was very hot, and the raw egg used for dipping was smashed and poured into the soup to scald it half-cooked (it felt too raw to eat raw for the first meal in Japan). The white rice was delicious, and I felt that I couldn't eat enough, but the child didn't like eel rice very much. In the end, I ate all her rice, and only after eating did I realize that I was a little too full.
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9
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Kondou Tofu
4.0
/5
1 reviews
Other Cuisine
From AU$ 31.00
2 km from downtown
Address: 44 Nishinoshinyacho 630-8334, Nara
No.5 of Restaurants for Views & Experiences in Nara
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The tofu dishes in Nara are very good, but the price is a bit expensive, and it is even more expensive when paired with wagyu beef. The portion of beef in the dish is very large and is calculated based on the number of people, so it is super expensive.
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10
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Yatagarasu
4.3
/5
18 reviews
Japanese
From AU$ 39.00
1.4 km from downtown
Address: 13-1 Hayashichoji-cho, Nara-shi, Nara
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The main ingredient here is chicken. There are grilled chicken skewers like those in izakayas, fried chicken steaks, and various chicken salads. I think the chicken steaks and chicken skewers are delicious, and the others are just average.
The space in the store is not very large, but the layout is very centralized and the lighting rendering is also very atmospheric.
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