The Craft Gyoza Festival OSAKA 2025 will be held from November 19 (Wed) to November 24 (Mon, substitute holiday), 2025, at Tsurumi Ryokuchi Park in Osaka. The vendor lineup for this six-day event has been announced, featuring 13 popular gyoza shops from across Japan.
This year's festival brings together restaurants from Hokkaido to Fukuoka, offering a lineup of 25 types of craft gyoza themed around "flexibility and freedom." The festival showcases diverse cooking methods including pan-fried, boiled, deep-fried, and steamed gyoza, with each shop's unique approach to fillings, wrappers, and sauces. Visitors can enjoy craft gyoza and beer at the autumn foliage-adorned venue.
Makeup Gyoza: Aesthetically Pleasing Creations
The "makeup gyoza" category features colorfully presented gyoza that are as visually appealing as they are delicious. Tamagawa Butcher Shop offers "Strawberry Milk Cheese Gyoza," a dessert-style gyoza with melty cheese and chunky strawberry milk sauce. The dish combines lovely appearance with unique taste.
Gyoza and Wine Kajitsu to An presents "Butter-Soy Sauce Fried Corn Gyoza" using Tokachi Hokkaido corn, creating a playful fried gyoza with aromatic butter-soy sauce and sweet corn kernels. The same shop also serves "Umami-Packed Crunchy Beef Tongue Gyoza," made with beef tongue marinated in Hokkaido kelp and shio-koji.
Gyoza no Miya Denden from Saitama offers "Cheese-Topped Explosive-Juice Round Gyoza," featuring round gyoza with springy wrappers coated in cheese sauce. When bitten, hot meat juices flood the mouth.
Authentic Flavors and Traditional Craftsmanship
Utsunomiya Gyoza Hachiman Gyoza, from the holy land of gyoza, presents "Juice-Exploding Gyoza," a quintessential dish with meticulous attention to ingredient selection and meat juice volume. Each bite bursts with umami, carrying on the culture of Utsunomiya gyoza.
Hakata Hachisuke from Fukuoka brings "Hakata Bite-Size Gyoza" in the characteristic one-bite size. Though small, these gyoza are packed with filling and deliver a satisfying experience.
Gyoza Specialty Shop Fukuyoshi offers "Fukuyoshi Special Fushimi Gyoza" in authentic Chinese style without garlic, combining Kyoto Pork and Kujo green onions for a distinctly Kyoto flavor.
Hong Kong Dim Sum House, boasting 30 years of dim sum chef experience, serves "Plump Shrimp Steamed Gyoza" and "Luxurious Shark Fin Gyoza," allowing visitors to enjoy genuine Cantonese flavors.
Synergy Gyoza: Creative Combinations
The "synergy gyoza" category showcases creative combinations where each shop's dedication meets quality ingredients. Jagena offers "Shinshu Wasabi Beef Gyoza" with Shinshu specialty wasabi powder and "Shinshu Miso-Sauce Green Onion Gyoza" with sweet-and-tangy miso sauce, both pairing perfectly with beer.
Akasaka Chibisuke features gyoza made with Okinawa brand pork Agu, including the juicy "Ryukyu Island Pork Agu Gyoza" and "Chewy Sesame-Sauce Bite-Size Boiled Gyoza" with generous sesame sauce coating.
Nakayoshi Gyoza Elizabeth presents "Spiced Gyoza with Lamb and Cumin," offering addictive flavors from lamb umami and aromatic spices, plus "Soup Pork Gyoza with Hokkaido Scallop and Kelp Broth," a luxurious soup gyoza concentrated with scallop and kelp umami.
Gyoza no Miya Denden also serves "Koedo Black Pork Rich-Flavor Gyoza with Lacy Wings," with lacy wings infused with Chichibu miso from Saitama Prefecture.
Gyoza Specialty Shop Fukuyoshi offers "Kyoto Pork Chicken Paitan Soup Gyoza," where mellow chicken paitan soup melds with gyoza meat juices.
Kou, drawing on former farmer knowledge, presents "Crisp Texture! Lotus Root Gyoza" and "Creamy and Fluffy Field Taro Gyoza," incorporating uncommon gyoza ingredients.
Kyoto xiaolongbao specialist Houbao Shinichi lines up "Kyoto-Style Xiaolongbao with Abalone Broth" and "Rich-Spicy Chinese Soup Xiaolongbao" with tianmianjiang and doubanjiang.
Utsunomiya Gyoza Hachiman Gyoza also features "Shiso-Fragrant Grated Daikon Ponzu Gyoza" with chicken-based filling and shiso leaves, enjoyed with grated daikon ponzu.
Tamagawa Butcher Shop serves "100% Japanese Black Wagyu Coarsely Ground Beef Gyoza" with chunky coarse grind texture reminiscent of hamburger.
Hiroshima Gyoza RED DRAGON offers "Hiroshima Gyoza Eaten with Spicy Hiroshima Tsukemen Sauce," featuring special spicy sauce with Setouchi soy sauce and lemon.
Hakata Hachisuke presents "Seafood Squid Gyoza," a highlight among seafood-style gyoza.
Event Details
- Dates: November 19 (Wed) to November 24 (Mon, substitute holiday), 2025
- Hours: Weekdays 11:00 AM - 7:00 PM, Weekends/Holidays 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM
- Venue: Tsurumi Ryokuchi Park, Large Lawn Area (2-163 Ryokuchi Park, Tsurumi-ku, Osaka City)
- Access: Walk immediately from Osaka Metro Tsurumi-ryokuchi Station Exit 1
- Admission: Free entry (food and drinks sold separately)
- Payment: Meal tickets, electronic money, and credit cards accepted
- Organizers: LAF Entertainment / Kyodo Osaka
- Production Support: SHIFT
- Sponsors: Suntory Draft Beer / Suntory Gin Sui
- Inquiries: 0570-200-888 (Kyodo Information) 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM (closed on weekends and holidays)
- Website: http://craftgyoza.jp
- Social Media: X (formerly Twitter): @craftgyoza / Instagram: craftgyoza.fes
Advance tickets are available through the official app and eplus. For more details, visit the official website.
