Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan｜Yokosuka Navy Curry Honpo Restaurant

Yokosuka Navy Curry Honpo is a 2 storey establishment where the first floor sells navy curry and other souvenirs while the second floor is the restaurant. Waiting times can be expected to go above 30 minutes for weekends due to higher crowd volume and if it is the peak hours, there is a waiting list by the stairwell on the first floor where you can write your name and number of people dining in. I ordered the special beef navy curry set for 1650円 which comes with 1 curry rice, macaroni salad, a glass of milk, and a after-meal coffee. The curry was mildly spicy and the beef cubes in the curry were good, it also has carrot and potato cubes added for nutritional balance. The milk which comes with the set helps if you find the curry too spicy for your taste. The salad was a nice side palate cleanser while the bitterness of the navy coffee was just right, it comes with a pack of sugar and creamer for those who prefer it sweeter. The restaurant décor has a vintage aesthetic along with the other decorations that are naval-related such as Kantai Collection and Haifuri.

I am a huge curry fan so this place is like a dream come through. The curry was exceptional, words can't describe how unique that blend of flavour was. There were many signatures of what i assume is from the anime industry with lovely posters everywhere.

I come to Yokosuka cause I like in a life of sailor and Japan navy history. And I feel I want to eat a legend of Japanese Navy's curry. It's a lot of restaurant that have a navy's curry in menus. And this restaurant is not make me disappoint. So delicious, so tasty, not spicy too much, and have a lot menus about IJN warship gimmicks in their menus. Such as Tenryuu's set menu have a curry and Tatsuta-age (Tatsuta is Tenryuu's sister ship and serve a menu Karaage that fried with potato-flour, different from ordinary Karaage.), Kongo's set menu have an English curry with potato fried and black tea (cause IJN Kongo built from England and sent to Japan, so they think she might be born from England and grow up in Japan), or Shimakaze's curry set have a curry with sausage 15 pieces! (Cause in history IJN Shimakaze have a torpedo tube on her deck 15 tube). This restaurant is very interested and connect with game online 'Kantai Collection (Kancolle)'. I'll absolutely come back again.