"Kouraku" has been serving only tonkatsu for 45 years, with just 8 seats, offering Kurobuta pork loin and fillet set meals.

  Located along Nakadori Street, which connects the bustling Yurakugai and Sakana-machi Streets in the city center, is the small tonkatsu restaurant "Kouraku," judging by its unassuming noren (traditional Japanese curtain). If you ask Hamamatsu residents, "Where's the best tonkatsu restaurant?", this famous establishment is always mentioned. It also ranks highly on Tabelog (a Japanese restaurant review site)...

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Enjoy an early taste of autumn with this sukiyaki hot pot featuring Shizuoka-grown ingredients and matsutake mushrooms from "Shun no Ryori Ouchi".

 Located on the 2nd floor of the FOOD Subaru Building, just a few minutes' walk from Act City and close to Hamamatsu Station, "Shun no Ryori Ouchi" is a restaurant whose owner's motto is "freshly prepared dishes using seasonal ingredients." Owner Tetsuo Ouchi doesn't use inedible decorations, focusing instead on authentic...

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A hidden gem in downtown Hamamatsu, a budget-friendly and welcome diner known only to those in the know.

Tucked away in the heart of Hamamatsu, this is a hidden gem of a diner known only to those in the know. While a raccoon dog statue serves as a landmark, the lack of a traditional Japanese curtain (noren) makes it difficult to tell if it's even open, and at first glance, it's a mysterious place with no idea what kind of shop it is. This is a truly unique establishment in the city center...

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At "Kappo Shinhama," the daily lunch special is a great deal that regulars frequent every day!

Turning onto Futamata Street from Yanagi Street and heading towards Motohama, you'll see the sign for "Kappo Shinhama." Founded in the early Meiji era as "Shinhama Fish Shop," the current owner, Mitsuhiro Nagatani, is the fourth generation, and the restaurant is beloved by its regulars and bustling with customers day and night. The interior offers a view of the kitchen...

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Enjoy freshly fried, crispy, and lightly fried, elegant tempura at the counter of "Mimatsu".

In Chitose, with its small noren (traditional Japanese curtain) hanging low, stands the tempura specialty restaurant "Mimatsu," quietly nestled with the atmosphere of a traditional Japanese inn. The restaurant was originally run as a sushi restaurant by the previous owner, but his son, Kazutaka Takeo, after training at a tempura specialty restaurant in Asakusa, Tokyo, returned to Hamamatsu and opened the tempura specialty restaurant about 20 years ago...

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