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Ranking

The best places to eat in Nagano

An editorial ranking: grades from A+ to F, price range, and the Tabelog score where one exists.

Places ranked: 69

Fumi no Kura: Hand-Cut Black Inaka Soba from Local Buckwheat
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Fumi no Kura: Hand-Cut Black Inaka Soba from Local Buckwheat

Nagano · Casual Dining

Fumi no Kura (文の蔵) serves thick, near-black hand-cut country soba made from buckwheat grown nearby, in the mountain village of Takayama, Nagano. Worth the drive for soba unlike any other.

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Uzura Ya: Hand-Made Togakushi Soba and Sesame-Oil Tempura
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Uzura Ya: Hand-Made Togakushi Soba and Sesame-Oil Tempura

Nagano · Bar

Uzura Ya (うずら家) is Togakushi's most sought-after soba house, in a traditional house opposite the Chūsha shrine gate outside Nagano. It serves hand-coiled soba with a new-harvest aroma all year and light sesame-oil tempura.

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Kamisuwa Ashizawa: Seasonal Kaiseki at an Eight-Seat Counter
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Kamisuwa Ashizawa: Seasonal Kaiseki at an Eight-Seat Counter

Nagano · Fine Dining

Kamisuwa Ashizawa (上諏訪 芦澤) is a husband-and-wife kaiseki counter in Suwa, Nagano. A local chef trained at Asaba and Ginza's Iseki pairs coastal fish with mountain produce.

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Yakiniku Tokuyama: Old-School Beef, Mutton and Offal Grill
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Yakiniku Tokuyama: Old-School Beef, Mutton and Offal Grill

Nagano · Casual Dining

A long-running yakiniku house in a standalone building in Chuodori, central Iida (Nagano), known for its beef loin, fresh mutton and boiled offal grilled over old gas roasters.

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Chatora Hanten: Chinese Cooking with Venison and Mountain Produce
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Chatora Hanten: Chinese Cooking with Venison and Mountain Produce

Nagano · Casual Dining

Chatora Hanten (茶虎飯店) is a small Chinese restaurant in Fujimi, Nagano, a short walk from Fujimi Station. It cooks with local game and mountain vegetables and is known for its venison mapo tofu.

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Yama Botan: Low-Temperature, Triple-Fried Tonkatsu
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Yama Botan: Low-Temperature, Triple-Fried Tonkatsu

Nagano · Casual Dining

Yama Botan (山ぼたん) is a lunch-only tonkatsu restaurant in Okaya, Nagano, on the 2nd floor of a lakeside dining complex. It serves thick, pale-crusted Iwachu pork cutlets, and some seats look out over Lake Suwa.

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Namaste Tateshina ten: Authentic North Indian Cuisine
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Namaste Tateshina ten: Authentic North Indian Cuisine

Nagano · Fine Dining

Experience authentic, deeply spiced North Indian cuisine at this acclaimed restaurant in the Tokyu Resort Town Tateshina. It's known for its large, bone-on tandoori chicken and oversized, freshly made naan.

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Matsumoto Meeyau Shindai mae ten: Spicy Ethnic Curry House
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Matsumoto Meeyau Shindai mae ten: Spicy Ethnic Curry House

Nagano · Casual Dining

Matsumoto Meeyau Shindai mae ten (松本メーヤウ 信大前店) is a casual curry house in Kiri, Matsumoto, near Shinshu University. It serves fiery Indian, Thai and Sri Lankan-style curries at student prices.

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Suki Tei Honten: Apple-Fed Shinshu Beef Sukiyaki
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Suki Tei Honten: Apple-Fed Shinshu Beef Sukiyaki

Nagano · Fine Dining

Nagano's best-known sukiyaki house, founded in 1972, in Minaminagano near the Prefectural Office. It serves its own apple-fed Shinshu Wagyu, cooked tableside in tatami rooms by the river.

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Kita Alps Bokujou: Dairy-Farm Soft Serve from Its Own Milk
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Kita Alps Bokujou: Dairy-Farm Soft Serve from Its Own Milk

Nagano · Ice Cream Parlor

Kita Alps Bokujou (北アルプス牧場) is a dairy farm's own shop in Azumino, Nagano, serving soft serve made from its own low-temperature-pasteurised milk, eaten on benches facing the Northern Alps.

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Irori Yaki Ooyanagi: Grill-Your-Own Trout and Mochi
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Irori Yaki Ooyanagi: Grill-Your-Own Trout and Mochi

Nagano · Casual Dining

A riverside farmhouse restaurant in Hiraya, a mountain village in southern Nagano, where you grill fresh yamame trout and gohei-mochi yourself over a sunken charcoal hearth. Lunch only, and best reached by car.

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Warabino: Foraged Mountain Cooking, One Party a Day
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Warabino: Foraged Mountain Cooking, One Party a Day

Nagano · Fine Dining

A one-chef restaurant in a restored farmhouse on the Kaida Kogen plateau in Nagano, known for slow salt-grilled iwana and foraged produce. Reported closed since 31 October 2025.

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Sekizawa: Home-Grown Buckwheat Soba, Served as a Three-Tray Flight
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Sekizawa: Home-Grown Buckwheat Soba, Served as a Three-Tray Flight

Nagano · Casual Dining

Sekizawa (せきざわ) is a soba house in a wooden home in Obuse, Nagano. The owner grows, hand-harvests and stone-mills his own organic buckwheat for a signature flight of three soba.

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Unagi Kobayashi: Kanto-Style Steamed and Grilled Eel
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Unagi Kobayashi: Kanto-Style Steamed and Grilled Eel

Nagano · Fine Dining

Unagi Kobayashi (鰻 小林) is an eel house in a timber building in the Shiga district of Suwa, Nagano. Go for very soft Kanto-style eel and the kinkin set, which pairs sauced and unsauced eel.

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Sanjiro: Hand-Cut Zaru Soba in a Fixed Lunch Course
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Sanjiro: Hand-Cut Zaru Soba in a Fixed Lunch Course

Nagano · Casual Dining

Sanjiro (三城) is a silent, menu-less soba house in Ote, central Matsumoto, serving one ¥2,000 lunch course of house sake, thick hand-cut zaru soba, koji pickles and a sweet.

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Usagiya: Local Shinshu Cuisine and Wild Mushrooms
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Usagiya: Local Shinshu Cuisine and Wild Mushrooms

Nagano · Izakaya

A small, family-run izakaya in Matsumoto celebrated for its focus on rare local ingredients. Diners come for Shinshu specialties like wild mushrooms foraged by the chef, horse sashimi, and an excellent local sake list.

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Pyrenees: Wood-Fired French & European Dining
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Pyrenees: Wood-Fired French & European Dining

Nagano · Bistro

A Karuizawa institution known for its grand central fireplace, where chefs grill aged beef and whole chickens in full view of the dining room. Go for the spectacle, the generous lunch buffet, and the extensive on-site wine cellar.

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José Luis Karuizawa: Spanish Classics with Shinshu Produce
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José Luis Karuizawa: Spanish Classics with Shinshu Produce

Nagano · Bar

The first overseas branch of Madrid's José Luis, inside the TWIN-LINE HOTEL in Karuizawa, Nagano. Visitors come for the shrimp-broth fideuà, the soufflé tortilla and a good-value weekday lunch.

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Chimoto Sohonten Karuizawa honten: Classic Sweets and Light Meals
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Chimoto Sohonten Karuizawa honten: Classic Sweets and Light Meals

Nagano · Dessert Shop

A long-established sweet shop in Karuizawa, famous for its signature Chimoto Mochi and kakigori shaved ice. It's a popular stop for unique local sweets and a light soba or udon lunch.

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