Gassho home covered in snow

Places To Eat

Top Rated

grilled meat on a hoba leaf

#1 Irori: Hoba Miso

Address: 374-1 Ogimachi Shirakawa, Ōno-gun, Gifu
Business Hours: 10:00-14:00
Regular Holidays: None
Access: Close to Shirakawa-go Gassho-style Village
set of traditional food

#2 Gassho: Traditional Restaurant

Address: 2495-3 Ogimachi Shirakawa, Ōno-gun, Gifu
Business Hours: 9:00-17:00
Regular Holiday: None
Access: Inside Hagicho Gassho-style Village, Seseragi Parking side
barbeque beef

#3 Tenkara: Hida Beef

Address: 296-1 Hatotani, Shirakawa, Ono District, Gifu
Business Hours: 11:00-15:00 / 18:00-20:00
Regular Holidays: Monday night-time-Tuesday
Access: 5-minutes by car from Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama

Local Foods You Need To Try

bowl of noodles

Soba Noodles

Grinding home-grown soba with the stone mill on the spot and boiling it to serve gives soba in Shirakawa-go its superb taste and great aroma.
Japanese tofu in a bowl

Stone Tofu

Tofu is hard, but the texture is smooth like a pudding. Making it as tofu dumplings, or a tofu steak is also popular.
japanese fish rice set

River Fish Dishes

Grilled Iwana (rockfish) with salt and Iwana bone sake are served in many accommodations. Because they are so fresh, you can try Iwana(rockfish), Anago(conger eel) and Nijimasu (rainbow trout) as sashimi.
raw bear meat on a plate

Bear Hot Pot

This hot pot was originally cooked with thinly sliced bear meat with soy sauce, but nowadays, it is cooked and served with miso which can make the meat less gamey and much easier to eat for tourists.
traditional japanee mochi on a stick

Gohei Mochi

Gohei Mochi is a rice dumpling skewer. The rice is cooked until it is half soft, then add miso or walnut sauce. It is a Hida regional dish.
Japanese street vendor

Pickles Stakes

Pickles Stakes (aka Fried pickles) is one of the major regional foods in the Hida area. Pickles are fried with soy sauce or miso, and covered with eggs.