Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Takasaki from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Takasaki
Spanish cooking, teppanyaki and kaiseki, and wagyu yakiniku feature at these restaurants. Potoro pairs seasonal Spanish cuisine with champagne, Mikumano serves local Gunma ingredients, and Beef Laboratory specializes in female Japanese Black wagyu.
Potoro in Tsuromachi is a modern Spanish restaurant with seasonal cooking, tasting menu service and champagne pairings. Its exceptional wine program also works with an extensive wine list, craft cocktails and a sommelier-led approach.
Mikumano in Yanagawacho is a Japanese teppanyaki and kaiseki restaurant with private rooms, an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list. The chef cooks Akagi beef sukiyaki at the table.
Beef Laboratory in Iizuka-cho is a high-end wagyu yakiniku restaurant with tasting-menu, set-menu and counter formats. The focus is top-grade female Japanese Black wagyu, and the room is built around fully attended grilling with sake, shochu, cocktails and a wine-aware drinks program.
Teuchi Soba Maizuru serves handmade buckwheat noodles with sake, and Jikaseimen Kuromatsu makes its own ramen noodles. Yakiniku Sumikou serves aged Sendai wagyu cuts grilled over charcoal.
Teuchi Soba Maizuru in Takasaki is a handmade soba and izakaya room with counter seating, small plates and a clear sake program. It was selected for Tabelog Soba EAST Top 100 in 2025.
Jikaseimen Kuromatsu in Yanagawamachi, Takasaki is a counter-led ramen shop built around handmade noodles and a highly rated broth. It also pours sake and holds Tabelog Ramen EAST Top 100 recognition in 2024 and 2025.
Yakiniku Sumikou in Shimo-Wada-machi purchases whole A5 Sendai kuroge wagyu heifers and serves aged rare cuts grilled over charcoal. It pours sake and beer and offers a la carte, family style and counter dining. It holds Tabelog Yakiniku EAST Top 100 recognition in 2025.
Tsuromachi and Yanagawacho hold Takasaki’s two exceptional wine programs in our guide. Tsuromachi is home to Potoro, and Yanagawacho is home to Mikumano. Those are the city’s clearest wine-focused rooms, with champagne, an extensive wine list and a sommelier-led approach on the Spanish side, and an extensive wine list with teppanyaki and kaiseki on the other.
Takasaki has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. The Michelin count applies citywide to our coverage of Takasaki, which includes 16 restaurants and has no Michelin stars across those restaurants.
Potoro in Tsuromachi and Mikumano in Yanagawacho have the strongest wine focus in our guide. Potoro pairs modern Spanish cooking with champagne and an exceptional wine program, while Mikumano combines teppanyaki and kaiseki with an exceptional wine program and an extensive wine list.
Potoro in Tsuromachi and Beef Laboratory in Iizuka-cho both use tasting-menu and counter formats. Potoro pairs that structure with champagne and an exceptional wine program, and Beef Laboratory adds a 10-seat counter, private rooms and fully attended grilling of top-grade female Japanese Black wagyu.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Takasaki
Selected entries from the current guide for Takasaki.
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Mokkosu places Takasaki in Japan’s serious tempura conversation rather than treating the city as a stop between Tokyo and hot-spring country. The draw is a compact, reservation-only tempura format with seven counter seats, Tabelog Award Silver recognition in 2026, and a sourcing-led idiom built around fish, sesame oil, sake, shochu and wine.
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Beef Laboratory puts Takasaki’s yakiniku scene into a serious beef-led register, with Tabelog 100 Yakiniku EAST 2025 recognition and a format built around Japanese barbecue rather than casual grill dining. The draw is sourcing discipline: beef as the central argument, supported by sake, shochu, cocktails and a wine-aware drinks program.
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Bommi Sobakiri puts Takasaki’s soba culture in a disciplined setting: buckwheat noodles, tempura, and a house-restaurant format rather than metropolitan tasting-menu theatre. Its repeated selection for Tabelog’s Soba 100, including the EAST 2025 list, gives it a clear signal among serious regional soba addresses in Gunma.
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Brazilian churrasco in Takasaki takes a different rhythm from the city’s ramen, soba, and wagyu counters: slower, more communal, and built around grilled meat rather than a single bowl or set course. BRAZIL GRILL brings that format into a compact 24-seat room in Sayacho, with Tabelog 100 recognition for Asian and ethnic cuisine in East Japan across 2022, 2023, and 2024.
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Takasaki’s ramen scene rewards small-format shops where sourcing, stock discipline, and counter timing matter more than décor. Chuka Soba Narugami Shokudo sits in that serious local bracket: a counter-led ramen and donburi house selected for Tabelog Ramen EAST “Tabelog 100” in 2023, 2024, and 2025, with a low-price format that keeps the focus on the bowl rather than ceremony.
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Jikaseimen Kuromatsu puts Takasaki ramen in the small-shop, ingredient-led lane: house-made noodles, ramen and tsukemen, counter seating, and recognition in Tabelog 100 Ramen EAST 2024 and 2025. It is a low-cost, compact stop rather than a long-dinner address, with a format better suited to focused solo diners and families comfortable with counter service.
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Mishoan belongs to Takasaki’s quieter wagashi circuit, where Japanese sweets are treated as a daily craft rather than a restaurant performance. Its selection for Tabelog’s Japanese traditional sweets and Japanese sweets cafe EAST 100 in 2023 gives it a clear signal in a category often overshadowed by ramen, soba, yakiniku, and destination kaiseki.
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Potoro places Spanish cooking in Takasaki’s quieter high-spend dining tier, with fish-led sourcing, wine and cocktails, and recognition in Tabelog’s Spanish Cuisine 100 for 2024 and 2026. The draw is not metropolitan spectacle but a controlled second-floor room where counter seats, private rooms, and course-focused service make the format useful for serious meals outside Tokyo.
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Takasaki’s yakiniku scene rewards sourcing discipline as much as grill technique, and Sumibi Yakiniku Ichiba Jejuya Honten fits that pattern with A5-ranked Sendai beef, hand-cut preparations, and charcoal grilling. Its Tabelog 100 Yakiniku EAST 2025 selection places it in a regional conversation beyond local convenience dining, while the room remains practical for groups, families, and station-area meals.
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A small Takasaki pizzeria with Tabelog Pizza 100 selections in 2023 and 2025, Takasaki Geijutsu Yasai to Italian Pizza Maro places Italian pizza inside Gunma’s broader appetite for ingredient-led, regional cooking. The appeal is not big-city ceremony; it is a compact, family-friendly room where pizza, Italian cooking, wine and cocktails sit at an accessible local tier.
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Teuchi Soba Maizuru gives Takasaki a compact, late-opening soba address with izakaya habits rather than a formal tasting-menu posture. Its Tabelog 100 Soba EAST 2025 selection, 19-seat room, counter seating and JPY 2,000–2,999 dinner range place it in a useful category: serious hand-cut buckwheat without Tokyo-style ceremony.
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Takasaki’s burger scene sits far from Tokyo’s imported-diner clichés, and The Good Bear Burger makes the case for a local, small-room version of the craft. Its Tabelog Hamburger 100 selections in 2022, 2024, and 2026 put it in a national conversation, while the compact counter-and-table format keeps the experience closer to a neighborhood lunch than a destination dining production.
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Yakiniku Sumikou puts Takasaki into Japan’s serious yakiniku conversation through beef sourcing rather than spectacle. The restaurant’s Tabelog 100 Yakiniku EAST 2025 selection, long-running Hyakumeiten history, private-room setup, and Sendai beef focus make it a useful address for travelers reading Gunma beyond noodles, pork cutlets, and station-area convenience.
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Yakitori Ko no Ji gives Takasaki a serious counterpoint to the city’s broader casual dining map: a 16-seat counter focused on grilled chicken skewers and izakaya drinking culture, priced in the JPY 4,000–4,999 dinner band. Its Tabelog 100 Yakitori EAST selections in 2023, 2024, and 2025 place it in a regional conversation that extends beyond Gunma.
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ファン・ダルクオーレ is a dining address in Tatsumicho, Takasaki, Gunma, operating in a regional city that punches above its size for serious table experiences. For broader context on eating well in the area.
Takasaki, Japan
Mikumano sits in Yanagawacho, Takasaki, within a city that rewards the kind of patient, ingredient-focused cooking that rarely travels far from its source. The address places it in Gunma Prefecture, a region whose agricultural depth, mountain vegetables, cold-water fish, local livestock, shapes the character of serious tables across the area. For dining that draws on what the surrounding land actually produces, Takasaki is a more considered choice than most visitors expect.
Takasaki
Selected entries from the current guide for Takasaki.
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Takasaki
Selected entries from the current guide for Takasaki.
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Takasaki
Selected entries from the current guide for Takasaki.
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