Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Marugame from the En Primeur Club guide.
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These self-service Sanuki udon shops hold Tabelog 100 Udon Kagawa 2024 selections.
Nakamura is a self-service Sanuki udon shop in Iiyama-cho, known for ultra-smooth handmade noodles and kamatama udon. The shop holds a Tabelog 100 Udon Kagawa 2024 selection and serves an a la carte menu.
Udon Okada is a self-service Sanuki udon shop in Iinocho with counter seating and terrace space. It was selected for Tabelog 100 Udon Kagawa 2024 and serves udon bowls on an a la carte menu.
Ayauta Seimen is a self-service Sanuki udon shop in Ayautacho Okadanishi beside rice and wheat fields. Handmade noodles and barn seating set the room in a rural setting, and it was selected for Tabelog 100 Udon Kagawa 2024.
These restaurants serve handmade Sanuki udon, honetsukidori chicken and French cooking with local Kagawa ingredients.
Honetsukidori Ikkaku Marugame honten is the flagship Ikkaku restaurant, serving honetsukidori bone-in roasted chicken and kamameshi. It serves beer and sake, with an a la carte menu, small plates and family-style dishes. It holds a Tabelog 100 Chicken Cuisine 2025 selection.
Maeba Udon is a family-operated Sanuki udon shop and noodle factory in Ayauta-cho Kurikuma. It makes handmade, low-salt udon with domestic wheat flour blended in-house. The restaurant has counter seating and a Tabelog 100 Udon Kagawa 2024 selection.
The restaurant serves local French cooking that emphasises ingredients from Kagawa. It uses an a la carte format and serves sake. Large windows give the dining room panoramic views of the surrounding countryside.
Iiyama-cho has Nakamura and Teuchi Self Udon Kaiji Sonoichi iiyama ten, both serving handmade Sanuki udon. Yamato makes noodles by hand in Doki-cho, Marugame. Mendokoro Wataya Marugame ten in Kitahirayamacho serves noodles made with blended wheat flours and rich dashi broth.
Marugame has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Our citywide coverage includes 15 restaurants, with no Michelin stars awarded across that selection and no Michelin-starred restaurant among the places covered in Marugame.
Examples of shops with Tabelog 100 Udon Kagawa 2024 selections include Ayauta Seimen in Ayautacho Okadanishi, Udon Okada in Iinocho, Nakamura in Iiyama-cho, Yamato in Doki-cho, Marugame, and Mendokoro Wataya Marugame ten in Kitahirayamacho.
Honetsukidori Ikkaku Marugame honten serves beer and sake. Sake is also served at the local French restaurant that emphasises Kagawa ingredients and at the chicken restaurant offering oyadori and hinadori grilled with salt, pepper and garlic.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Marugame
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Marugame, Japan
Ayauta Seimen belongs to Kagawa’s serious udon circuit: handmade wheat noodles in a rural Marugame setting, selected for Tabelog 100 Udon Kagawa 2024 and previously for Tabelog 100 Udon West 2020. The draw is not ceremony but sourcing logic: udon treated as local staple, priced modestly, served in a format that rewards early, purposeful travel.
Marugame, Japan
Marugame is better known to visiting diners for Sanuki udon, but Kagawa’s bone-in chicken tradition gives the city another local register. Honetsukidori Ikkaku Marugame honten belongs in that conversation: a 111-seat chicken, kamameshi and izakaya house near Marugame Station, selected for Tabelog’s 2025 Chicken Cuisine 100 and priced in the JPY 1,000–1,999 bracket.
Marugame, Japan
Iinoya belongs to Kagawa’s everyday udon culture rather than the luxury dining circuit: a Marugame house-style restaurant recognized in the Tabelog 100 Udon Kagawa 2024 selection, with pricing under JPY 999 and a no-reservations format. The appeal is the regional grammar of wheat noodles, quick lunch rhythm, family usability, and a setting that makes sense inside Sanuki udon country.
Marugame, Japan
Jun Teuchi Udon Yoshiya belongs to Kagawa’s serious morning-udon circuit: handmade noodles, tempura, self-added condiments, and a price ceiling under JPY 999. Its repeated Tabelog 100 Udon selections, including Kagawa 2024, place it among Marugame’s better-documented sanuki udon addresses rather than a casual roadside stop.
Marugame, Japan
Kagawa’s udon culture is built on wheat, speed, and local routine rather than ceremony. Kamaage Udon Okajima Marugame ten belongs to the everyday end of that tradition, with Tabelog 100 Udon Kagawa 2024 recognition, a self-service-friendly format, and prices that keep the focus on the noodle rather than the room.
Marugame, Japan
Maeba Udon belongs to Kagawa’s serious udon circuit, where flour, water, kneading, and speed matter more than ornament. Its Tabelog 100 - Udon - KAGAWA - 2024 selection, sub-¥999 pricing, counter seating, take-out, and no-reservations format place it squarely in Marugame’s everyday noodle culture rather than destination dining theatre.
Marugame, Japan
Mendokoro Wataya Marugame ten belongs to Kagawa’s serious udon circuit: inexpensive, functional, and judged by noodle quality rather than ceremony. Its Tabelog 100 - Udon - KAGAWA - 2024 selection, 130-seat scale, cash-only setup, and unusually large 350-gram udon ball make it a useful reference point for understanding how Marugame eats udon at volume.
Marugame, Japan
Nakamura puts Marugame’s udon culture in its plainest, most persuasive form: wheat noodles, fast turnover, and the kind of regional seriousness that makes Kagawa different from almost anywhere else in Japan. Its Tabelog 100 Udon Kagawa 2024 selection and sub-¥999 pricing place it in the essential local category rather than the destination-dining tier.
Marugame, Japan
Nakamura Udon belongs to Marugame’s serious Sanuki udon circuit, where wheat, water, kneading, and speed matter more than ceremony. Its all-counter format and repeated Tabelog 100 Udon selections place it in the city’s practical, craft-led tier: a low-cost bowl, a short service window, and a room built for people who came for noodles, not theatre.
Marugame, Japan
A hill-side self-service udon stop in Marugame that belongs to Kagawa’s serious noodle circuit rather than the tourist checklist. Teuchi Self Udon Kaiji Sonoichi iiyama ten is a Tabelog Udon Kagawa 100 selection for 2024, with low-cost bowls, counter seating, children welcome, and a format that rewards travelers who understand Sanuki udon as a regional staple, not a novelty.
Marugame, Japan
Teuchi Udon Ayumi sits inside Marugame’s serious Sanuki udon circuit, where low prices and high scrutiny coexist. Its Tabelog 100 Udon Kagawa 2024 selection, 40-seat format, counter and tatami seating, take-out service, and sub-¥1,000 average spend place it in the practical, craft-led tier that defines Kagawa’s noodle culture.
Marugame, Japan
Marugame’s udon culture rewards speed, wheat quality, and a clear sense of place over ceremony. Udon Okada belongs in that practical Kagawa bracket: a low-price, daytime-only house restaurant selected for Tabelog 100 Udon Kagawa 2024, with counter seating, terrace space, and a format built for people who came to eat noodles, not linger over theatrics.
Marugame, Japan
Yamato sits inside Kagawa’s udon culture rather than above it: a low-priced, no-reservation Marugame shop selected for Tabelog 100 Udon Kagawa 2024. The appeal is regional specificity, with Sanuki udon treated as daily food, not ceremony, and a format that works for solo diners, families, and anyone mapping a serious noodle route through Marugame.
Marugame, Japan
汐さぎ 庵 occupies a quiet address in Marugame, Kagawa, a prefecture whose culinary identity is inseparable from the Seto Inland Sea and the agricultural rhythms of the Sanuki plain. In a region where ingredient provenance shapes every meal, this address sits within a dining culture defined by proximity to source. Visitors should approach with the same patience the local table demands: plan ahead, arrive curious, and expect the produce to lead.
Marugame
Selected entries from the current guide for Marugame.
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Marugame
Selected entries from the current guide for Marugame.
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Marugame
Selected entries from the current guide for Marugame.
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