Shimobe Onsen located in the lower part of Minobu-cho, Minamikoma-gun, Yamanashi Prefecture, has been known as a therapeutic hot spring since ancient times, and has been selected as one of Japan’s 100 best hot springs and 100 best hidden hot springs.
There is a long-established restaurant that has been operating for a long time in the Shimobe Onsen area.
Maruichi Shokudo
Maruichi Shokudo is a long-established restaurant that mainly uses local ingredients such as horse meat, venison, and yamame (yamame trout), and offers a unique menu, as well as a full range of standard menus that locals go to every day.
- Business hours
- [Lunch] 11:00 AM - 2:30 PM
- [Dinner] 5:00pm - 8:30pm
- Regular holidays
- Wednesday/2nd Tuesday
- Telephone number
- +81-556-36-0045
- Parking lot
- Yes
- Access
- 10 seconds walk from Shimobe Onsen Station on the JR Minobu Line
- Location
- 7052-15 Lower Minobu-cho, Minamikoma-gun, Yamanashi Prefecture 409-2936
Maruichi Shokudo - Official Website
Right in front of Shimobe Onsen Station! Excellent location.
Maruichi Shokudo is located in front of Shimobe Onsen Station and has excellent access. If you are traveling to Shimobe Onsen by train, you can easily stop by.
Maruichi Shokudo is located behind the location where the photo was taken. The station is just a stone’s throw away.
A popular restaurant loved by locals
The entrance of Maruichi Shokudo. The food samples on display give you a sense of history.
We arrived around 13:00, and there was already a line forming as it was a popular restaurant.
It seems that not only tourists but also many locals come to eat here, which shows that the restaurant is not just for tourists, but is loved by the locals on a daily basis.
There is a menu outside, so you can see what’s on the menu while you wait.
Popular menu & recommended menu
Maruichi Shokudo is characterized by a menu that uses local ingredients Koshu carefully selected pork, venison and horse meat from Yamanashi Prefecture, and yamame fish.
The following are some of the most popular menu items at Maruichi Shokudo. If you come to Shimobe Onsen for sightseeing, we recommend choosing the menu below that uses local ingredients.
- Umaka bowl: 900 yen
- Horse meat and venison bowl
- Sakura bowl: 1200 yen
- Horse meat bowl
- Loin cutlet set meal: 1400 yen
- Set meal using Koshu carefully selected pork loin
- Yamame soba: 1200 yen
- Soba topped with soft yamame trout carefully stewed for two days from Oshizawa Farm in Fujikawa Town
By the way, many of the locals ordered standard menu items such as curry rice and katsudon. I get the feeling that this restaurant has been loved for a long time, as I can see it being used by locals on a regular basis.
The inside of the store is spacious and very clean.
Although it is a long-established restaurant, the interior is very clean.
I was very happy with the attentiveness of the proprietress who ran the restaurant, and the store was always surrounded by a calm and pleasant atmosphere.
Maruichi Shokudo’s specialty “Umaka bowl”
I ordered Maruichi Shokudo’s specialty, Umaka bowl (900 yen).
It contains about half sweetly boiled horse meat and half venison.
Both the horse meat and the venison were tender and had a gentle flavor that made my chopsticks go well. It was very delicious.
The restaurant is so popular that it closes before the closing time for lunch at 2:30 p.m., so we recommend getting there early.
A long-established restaurant loved by locals, where local ingredients are a delight for travelers.
Horse meat, venison, yamame trout, and Koshu carefully selected pork.
Maruichi Shokudo’s menu is very unique, and all of them are rare for travelers. And everything is delicious.
On the other hand, they also offer standard menu items such as curry rice, katsudon, and soba noodles, which are also loved by locals.
What’s more, it’s a 10-second walk from Shimobe Onsen Station, making it convenient for travelers regardless of their access method.
You can easily go there and enjoy the ingredients of Yamanashi. If you are going to take a walk around Shimobe Onsen, please come and visit us.
You can easily go there and enjoy the ingredients of Yamanashi. If you are going to take a walk around Shimobe Onsen, please come and visit us.
