Miyazu, Kyoto, Japan｜Tsuruya Shokudo

Purple soba! Red udon! Great options. Locally sourced seafood and ingredients. All right near Amanohashidate. Of course I'm giving it 5-stars. I love this restaurant. This region is famous throughout Japan for seafood, and Tsuruya has great options ranging from local sardines, to a seafood rice bowl packed with local seafood, and even Ine Yellowtail served shabu-shabu style (which can be really expensive). But for all that seafood, Tsuruya Shokudo also has a good balance, because sometimes you just don't want seafood, especially when it's everywhere. This restaurant also has two really unique noodle dishes, a red udon made with ancient red rice, and purple soba. I love soba, but I also really like sardines, and as luck would have it the sardine rice bowl was served with a small side of soba and miso soup to boot. I think it was around 1500 yen, which is a little higher than I would usually like to pay for lunch, but considering the amount of food, the uniqueness of the food, and that a lot of it is local, I was quite happy. I should also mention that the person I was with is vegan, and they were so accommodating that they even made miso soup using kombu stock instead of fish stock. I didn't even talk about the location. This restaurant is right between Moto Ise Kono Shrine and the Kasamatsu Park cable car, on a really cute street with different shops. It's a 3.6 km walk from Amanohashidate Station across one of the three most scenic views in Japan where no cars are allowed. Just gorgeous. I should have taken more pictures but I was just so excited to start eating.

The food there is delicious.

Highest!