Kobe beef?

Hi I will travel to Japan in December. We%26#39;ll stay in Kyoto for a big part of the trip. Anyway, I am planning to take a short detour to Kobe to taste the authentic wagyu that Kobe is famous of. Can anyone recommend a good restaurant for this in Kobe? Preferably not hard to find or near a train station.

Kobe beef?

There are quite a few. Maybe a glance on this site will help

http://www.gnavi.co.jp/en/kansai/

Expect to pay at least $100 per person. And that%26#39;s just for the beef!

:-)

Kobe beef?

Any good restaurants for Kobe beef in Kyoto or Osaka?? Will be there in end of Dec as well. Thanks!

In Sannomiya Kobe, there’s Kawamura:

www.bifteck.co.jp/tenpo.html#sannomiyahonten

(Japanese language only)

If you get out of JR Sannomiya Station, head out toward the mountain-side along Flower Road. One block at the corner, there’s an udon-noodle restaurant. Turn here to the left and you’ll soon find Kawamura on your left.

Their Japanese website recommends you to book a table, which can be done in Japanese. But you can do that, I hope, by emailing them: info@bifteck.co.jp

In Osaka Kita, there’s Steakhouse Ron, which I hear Bill Clinton once visited as Arkansas Governor:

…jtb.co.jp/info/restaurant/yo_eng_01.html

bishoku.jp/modules/xnshop/singlelink.php… (Japanese language)

If you get out Central Exit to JR Osaka Station and then go toward Hilton Hotel, you can find Yotsubashi Boulevard located between Hilton Hotel and Hilton Plaza. Go along the boulevard until you find a torii-shaped neon gate on the left-hand side of it. That’s “Kita-Shinchi Main Street,” where bars and clubs abound to cater company employers / employees that are privileged to drink mostly on the company expenses....

If you go under that gate and walk farther ahead, you’ll perhaps find the signboard that says “Steak Ron.”

Both restaurants are authentic teppanyaki establishments providing Kobe Beef and other types of wagyu, or sorta Japanese acronym for black-haired domestic cattle, as well.

If you wish to splurge less in Kita-Shinch Osaka Kita, you may like to dine at “Crystal,” a bit small, yet cozy, teppanyaki wagyu(Imari Beef) restaurant, which, right in the middle of the street, you can find on the right-hand side at the ground level.

But if you prefer to dine in Osaka Minami, after riding a subway or catching a cab from Osaka Kita, you may like to eat at a steak restaurant called Gekko-Kamen, which literally means “a moon-lit mask” and was the title of a kid-oriented TV program broadcast about 45 or so years back. There’s no one in Japan but knows it if they belong to the older generation, I guess. Yes, it was like Pokemon, popularity-wise. Don’ say there you go again sidetracking.

Anyway, if you get out #14 exit at Subway Namba Station, then turn right at the first corner along Midosuji Boulevard, where you’ll see the red awning to a ramen restaurant, and walk past Shinsaibashi Arcade Shopping Street and go dead straight from it about 50m (on Koisan Street), you sure can find the signboard of Gekko Kamen on the wall of a two-storied building. The first floor is for a yakitori (skewered chicken) restaurant and the second is for “Moon-lit Mask.”

Enjoy your dinner.

p.s.

If I were you, I%26#39;d be careful to order wine. Yes, I%26#39;d make do without it and have some beer instead. For a bottle of good wine, sometimes you%26#39;d have to take the tab with a 6 digid number. Of course, that%26#39;s on a yen basis, though.

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For others like me following the thread after the fact, the link above leads to a discussion of where to get Kobe beef in Tokyo, not Kobe. The one I keep seeing the most (and where I guess I%26#39;ll make a reservation) is Wakkoqu: www.wakkoqu.com/english/restaurant.html

Still trying to figure out where it%26#39;s 2 locations are in relation to everything, though...