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Hotel Kinparo, a seaside hotel in Toyooka, Hyogo, about 5 minutes by car from Kinosaki Onsen, will begin offering a special plan featuring two local tagged matsuba crabs on November 12, 2026, with dishes including sashimi, crab served whole, charcoal-grilled crab, and kani-suki.
Rurubu Kitchen in Shinjuku, Tokyo is holding an autumn food fair from Sunday, November 1 to Saturday, November 28, 2026, serving Himeji's brand mackerel "Bouze Saba" as sashimi and shabu-shabu together with sake from six Harima breweries.
Shin-Furano Prince Hotel in Furano, Hokkaido, will offer its "All-Out Shimaenaga Trip" stay plan from January 8 to March 13, 2027, with a shimaenaga concept room, an original hot pot set and a craft experience, from ¥32,019 per person.
A food festival with about 30 local-gourmet vendors from across Japan serving nabe, oden, grilled skewers and more will be held for the first time in Kanazawa at the Ishikawa Industrial Exhibition Hall from November 21 to 23, 2026, with free admission.
From December 1, 2026 to February 23, 2027, HOSHINOYA Karuizawa in Nagano Prefecture offers the "Healing Winter Retreat," a stay built around three free-flowing hot springs, a sub-zero morning stretch, kotatsu seating with winter-only dishes, a bar on the ice under the stars, and a letter to one's future self.
Following the start of Matsuba crab fishing on November 6, 2026, the Matsuba crab specialty restaurant Kanimatsuba Honten (かにまつば本店) in Tottori City begins its season on November 8 with a new Tokusen Kanimeshi Course at ¥19,800 (tax included), prepared by a head chef who also works as a fisherman.
On October 10, 2026, Sasho (サショウ), a wagyu sukiyaki and shabu-shabu restaurant overlooking a Japanese garden in Kamakura, began serving an autumn-only six-dish matsutake course comparing Kobe beef and Hayama beef, priced at ¥23,430 for dinner and ¥21,010 for lunch.
Tanba Sasayama Ikkyuuan in Hyogo Prefecture is offering natural wild boar botan nabe courses supervised by the long-established Kinmata from October 1. A new course pairing a miso broth with a sansho pepper broth joins the lineup on November 1.
On November 1, 2026, the dashi shabu and obanzai restaurant "Okaka" will open at Huis Ten Bosch in Nagasaki, serving Satsuma Kurobuta pork shabu-shabu in a broth drawn from bonito flakes shaved to 0.01 mm.
Furusato Nabe Grand Prix 2027 in Hibiya Park will run from January 29 to 31, 2027, at Nireno-ki Plaza, gathering regional hot pots from across Japan, with online voting by visitors to choose the year's Grand Prix and a heated tent with a DJ.
いだ天別邸 高山でこなる店, the second location of a Japanese restaurant born at Lake Kawaguchi, opened on October 23, 2026, in Takayama, Gifu. It serves tempura, toban-yaki, hot pot, and wagyu ramen, and has a simple prayer space inside the restaurant.
From November 11, 2026 to February 28, 2027, Luxury Trailers Rikyu Ise in Ise, Mie Prefecture, will offer a winter-only glamping plan with a customizable Matsusaka beef mala tang hot pot, a kotatsu, a campfire, hot water bottles and a morning low-temperature sauna.
Wake Ugaidani Onsen (和気鵜飼谷温泉), a town-run hot spring facility in Wake, Okayama, is celebrating its 31st anniversary. The Miakashi (燈明-みあかし-) light-up begins on November 1, alongside a new three-type nabe plan and a special offer for the third guest in a room.
Groups that book through TABILMO, enjoy hot pot at a whole-house villa and post it on Instagram can receive a ¥3,000 Amazon gift card for stays from November 1 to December 25, 2026.
Dashi to Sushi Tachibana Tenjin, a kappo-style izakaya popular in Tokyo's Ebisu and Yokohama, opens on November 1, 2026 in Fukuoka's Hakata Tenjin area as its first location in Kyushu. Its signature dish is clam shabu-shabu enjoyed with dashi alone, served alongside sushi and a lineup of 61 types of sake.
From December 1, 2026 to January 15, 2027, Japanese restaurant Hanamusashi at Hotel Metropolitan in Ikebukuro serves a ¥17,000 winter kaiseki course featuring kobako crab and yellowtail, with a choice of fugu hot pot or domestic beef sirloin as the main dish.
KEYUCA released its dishwasher-safe donabe clay pot series, with a ceramic-coated interior that makes burnt-on residue easier to remove, on October 3, 2026, along with IH two-handled pots and Mino ware tonsui and renge for hot pot meals.
THE BOTANICAL RESORT Rinne, an overnight botanical garden in Naka, Ibaraki, enters its first full autumn with "Zero-Distance Autumn Leaves," a stay among about 50,000 trees, and a November-only one-night plan.
Five restaurants at Phoenix Seagaia Ocean Tower in Miyazaki serve crab dishes from December 1, 2026 to February 28, 2027, including a dinner buffet with an all-you-can-eat steamed snow crab option, teppanyaki king crab, and snow crab clay-pot rice.
DRAGON HOT POT, a malatang specialty restaurant that originated in Melbourne, Australia, will open its second Tokyo location in Roppongi on November 16, 2026. Diners build their own bowl from more than 100 ingredients, served in a soup simmered for over 12 hours.
The day-trip hot spring Fuji Chobo-no-Yu Yurari in Narusawa Village, Yamanashi, began selling autumn-only dishes on October 13, 2026, and its operator's mascot Fujippi is giving away pair tickets on X.
From October 29, 2026 to March 28, 2027, the 58th-floor "Tenku Garden" at Abeno Harukas hosts "Kakomu de Kotatsu," where guests enjoy oden and hot pot in a warm kotatsu with spectacular views.
From October 26, 2026, Restaurant Cathedréclat at Hotel Indigo Nagasaki Glover Street serves "Nagasaki Sashishabu" for ¥6,600, offering seasonal seafood from waters off Nagasaki first as sashimi and then as shabu-shabu in an ago (flying fish) and mushroom dashi prepared at the table.
Kikusui Shuzo's seasonal nigori sake "Gorohachi," made with 100% Niigata-grown rice, begins shipping nationwide on Tuesday, October 13, 2026. It is a seasonal brew available only while supplies last.
Fourtreat Hakone Sengokuhara in Hakone offers a women-only Ladies Plan for autumn and winter, with a 45-minute yomogi steam session, Micho fruit vinegar and a Hakone-exclusive LULULUN face mask, from ¥11,450 per person.
Wahei Freiz is adding the IH-compatible Almonde Light Two-Flavor Pot 30 cm, a divided pot that cooks two different flavors at once, to its Almonde Light series, with sales starting in October 2026.
From October 1, 2026, Itamae Bar and Choi Oden offer Ultimate Hamo Dashi Seafood Shabu-Shabu, in which fresh seasonal fish such as yellowtail and red sea bream is briefly dipped in hamo broth. It is served at three Tokyo locations for ¥2,750 per person, tax included.
From December 1, 2026 to February 28, 2027, Tsubaki, a ryotei-style ryokan in Okuyugawara Onsen, Yugawara, Kanagawa, is offering a winter-only stay plan that upgrades the main dish to anko (monkfish) hot pot and the white rice to takikomi gohan with crab, kue (longtooth grouper), and salmon roe, limited to 10 guests per day.
Nakasu Hakata-bune, the only yakatabune houseboat in Fukuoka City, is set to begin serving a new mizutaki hot pot made with Kyushu-grown Hanamidori chicken, created in collaboration with Trizen Foods, the company behind the Hakata Hanamidori brand, and paired with the boat's original ponzu sauce.
Kuguru, a shabu-shabu and obanzai restaurant, opens in Akashi, Hyogo on September 14, 2026. The restaurant buys whole Hayashi SPF pigs from Chiba and lets diners compare the loin, belly, shoulder loin, and leg in shabu-shabu, switching to an obanzai menu after midnight.
Norikura Star & Moon Restaurant, a reservation-only outdoor dinner set inside a transparent dome in the Norikura Highlands of Matsumoto, Nagano, has opened bookings for its 2026 season, running from September 1 to October 31.
Kronos Gaia's sumo show restaurant TOKYO SUMO CLUB ENTERTAINMENT opened on August 12 on Tokyo Tower's FootTown 5F, its second location after Sapporo, offering an English-narrated sumo show, a real clay dohyo guests can step onto, and meals built around a chanko nabe endorsed by former yokozuna Asahifuji.
Shin-Furano Prince Hotel will serve a limited-time Japanese course menu themed around the scenes and story of TV drama "From the Northern Country" to mark the show's 45th broadcast anniversary, available from September 8 to October 18, 2026.
A new izakaya, "Zenya Tenjin Nishidori," opens in Fukuoka's Tenjin Nishidori area on July 24, 2026, offering all-you-can-eat oden with every visit alongside Hakata motsunabe, fresh seafood, and sashimi.
AP Holdings' Japanese-style mushroom hot pot restaurant Urano Yamano Kinoko opens its first Tokai-region location in Nagoya on July 8, 2026, serving hot pot built around roughly 14 varieties of rare mushrooms in a kombu-and-shiitake dashi broth.
Shima Oden MIKE in Marunouchi, Tokyo is now serving a summer-limited Awaji Island pike conger dashi shabu-shabu course for ¥7,500 per person, along with a new chilled oden featuring seasonal summer vegetables in dashi sorbet.
HESTIA GINZA, a Ginza restaurant known for herbal hot pot and meat dishes, celebrates its 4th anniversary on June 1, 2026, offering special anniversary courses at discounted prices throughout June.
Starting June 1, the Kyoto-style chicken restaurant on the 12th floor of Ikebukuro Tobu Department Store is rolling out a renewed selection of hot pot dishes for dinner, featuring premium chicken and duck at more accessible prices.
From June 1, 2026, Hachikian Marutamachi, a long-established poultry restaurant in Kyoto's Sakyo Ward, will offer a summer-limited menu featuring Kamo eggplant, Kyoto duck, and Kyoto red ground chicken across three courses.
THE HIRAMATSU HOTELS & RESORTS GINOZA has launched a new 2-night, 3-day plan — limited to two groups per day — featuring a French cuisine full-course dinner on the first night and an Aguu pork shabu-shabu villa dinner on the second.
Kamo Tokidoki Uma Shijo Karasuma Honten opens in Kyoto on May 28, 2026, marking the brand's first Kansai location. The restaurant serves Kyoto brand duck "Kyogamo" and select horse sashimi from Aomori alongside a curated lineup of local sake.
Saburoubei, the beloved Ishikawa Prefecture soul food chain with over 75 years of history, is holding a limited-time "Year Three Gratitude Festival" at its Toyama Kosugi location from May 8 to May 31, 2026, featuring discounted drinks, doubled meat portions, and an exclusive new hot pot dish.
The Chiba location of Osusumeya has relaunched as a yakitori-focused all-you-can-eat restaurant, adding 10 new grilled skewer varieties to an expanded lineup of over 120 dishes and drinks.
The day-trip hot spring facility "Fuji Chobo no Yu Yurari" near Mt. Fuji in Narusawa Village, Yamanashi, has introduced spring-limited menus at its two restaurants starting April 8, 2026.
From March 23 to April 12, 2026, Toriyaki to Torinabe Kakoi in Roppongi is hosting a special cherry blossom event where guests can enjoy grilled chicken and seasonal dishes while viewing Somei Yoshino trees framed by the restaurant's large windows.
DINING & BAR "BAYSIDE" at Yokohama Sakuragicho Washington Hotel is running a Spring Lunch Buffet touring the flavors of Kyushu and Okinawa from March 1 to May 31, 2026. A special strawberry dessert edition is also available during spring break from March 20 to April 5.
Starting March 2, 2026, the dashi shabu-shabu restaurant "Okaka" is serving a spring-limited dish featuring branded sea bream "Madai Mirai" from Kochi Prefecture and fresh Naruto wakame, available at four locations in Tokyo and Osaka through early May.
A new izakaya featuring private sunken kotatsu rooms opens just steps from Ohashi Station's west exit. Enjoy fresh Kyushu tuna, motsu nabe hot pot, and premium horse sashimi in an elegant Japanese setting.
A new Kyushu-style izakaya featuring yakitori and motsunabe opens near Kawasaki Station on January 21, 2026, offering a spacious setting and authentic flavors.
Saisai Malatang, a malatang specialty restaurant in Osaka's Umeda area, has introduced a new menu option featuring a milder, beauty-focused soup. The "Truffle-Infused White Fermented Soy Milk Soup with Collagen" can be added for an extra ¥150.
The rice porridge and noodle specialty restaurant is launching a spicy numbing mala tang dish from February 6 through late March at select locations, featuring customizable noodle options and warming spices.
The beloved Fukuoka motsunabe restaurant Hakata Motsunabe Maedaya will open its first Tokyo branch in Shinjuku East Exit on February 2, 2026, bringing authentic Hakata hot pot to the capital.
LIFE style Co., Ltd. opens Saisai Malatang, a specialty malatang restaurant, at Lazona Kawasaki Plaza on January 17, 2026, marking the first such establishment in the Kanto region with customizable healthy hot pot options.
The day-trip hot spring facility with stunning Mount Fuji views introduces winter limited menus including a new kimchi hot pot set and seasonal dishes at their dining areas.
Yu-toria Etchu inn in Toyama launches a limited winter detox stay plan featuring Toyama Yakuzen-certified fermented medicinal hot pot, specialty seafood including the rare deep-sea fish "genge," natural hot springs, and yomogi-mushi herbal steam therapy.
Family restaurant Joyfull presents a winter menu event featuring hearty hot pot dishes, rich hamburger steak sets, and exclusive desserts made with Fujiya's Milky candy. The fair runs from January 13, 2026.
Japanese Restaurant Mai at The Westin Tokyo presents a seasonal Hot Pot Fair from January 6 to February 28, 2026, featuring four course menus including fugu hot pot, wagyu shabu-shabu, seafood hot pot, and local chicken mizutaki.
Restaurant Ukai's online shop begins pre-orders for a luxurious seasonal hot pot set featuring king crab on January 1st, 2026. The set includes a course-style experience with ginjō crab tofu and king crab in soy milk white miso broth.
Shimoda Prince Hotel launches a limited-time winter accommodation package combining visits to the Tsumekizaki Narcissus Festival with traditional stone-grilled hotpot dining, available from December 20, 2025 to January 31, 2026.
The hunting season has begun in Tamba Sasayama City, Hyogo Prefecture, marking the start of the authentic botan nabe season. This traditional wild boar hot pot features fatty seasonal wild boar meat and local vegetables simmered in miso until tender.
A limited-time winter feast featuring Hokkaido delicacies like snow crab, salmon roe, and warming hot pots is now available at Niku Tokidoki Lemon Sour restaurants across Japan from November 1, 2025 to February 28, 2026.
Ryogoku: A Fascinating Area to Experience Tokyo’s History and Culture Ryogoku is a captivating area where you can experience the history and culture of Tokyo. Known as the sacred ground of sumo wrestling, it is a place where traditional culture coexists with modern tourist attractions. Here, we will introduce the access, tourist spots, gourmet experiences, […]
When sightseeing, you want to include experiences and sights unique to that time of year in your itinerary. This time, we are introducing the February events, recommended spots, and general situation in Aichi Prefecture for those interested. *Please note that the events listed may have date changes. Please check the official websites of the facilities […]
In winter, Fukuoka offers many events and scenery that can be enjoyed only at this time of year. This is the season of illumination, Japanese year-end and New Year’s events, and much more. This article details the highlights of winter travel, from descriptions of the weather and clothing to the best places to visit in […]
This page introduces a collection of local gourmet foods that originated in Tokyo. Don’t miss the recommended restaurants where you can taste each local gourmet! Please check out these traditional local gourmet foods that have been loved for a long time and try them for yourself ✨. Click here to learn more about Tokyo. Chanko […]
Chanko, known as the meal of sumo wrestlers, is a local dish born in Tokyo. In particular, chanko-nabe, which offers a well-balanced taste of meat, fish, and vegetables, is an attractive nabe dish with a gentle flavor and abundant nutrition. Here we introduce the characteristics of chanko, and recommended restaurants! What is “Chanko”? “Chanko” refers […]
Summary Oarai, located in Ibaraki is a coastal town known for its scenic beaches, fresh seafood, and the iconic Oarai Isosaki Shrine. With its tranquil atmosphere, visitors can enjoy seaside strolls, explore the local fish market, and experience the cultural charm of this beautiful coastal destination! This time, my friend and I decided to visit […]
Summary I have the desire to explore a part of Tokyo I haven’t discovered yet, so me and my friend took a stroll in the old town area! We hope this page will be useful for your trip planning:) *Please not that information and prices listed are subject to change. Travel Itinerary 12:50pm Asakusa Station […]
Summary This time, we went out to Ryogoku, the city of sumo wrestlers ✨! As we stepped out of the station, witnessing sumo wrestlers casually strolling about made it feel like stepping into a different world 🎶. For more details, please check this page! *Please note that information and prices listed are subject to change. […]