Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Shizuoka from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Shizuoka
Shizuoka's tasting-menu dining is concentrated in small counters and omakase rooms, especially in Aoi Ward and Aoi-ku.
Tempura Naruse is a 7-seat itamae tempura counter in Aoi Ward, built around hyper-seasonal ingredients sourced from Shizuoka's fisheries and farms the same morning. It has a wine list and sake programme, plus repeated major recognition from Tabelog and La Liste.
FUJI is a seven-seat omakase counter in Aoi-Ku with a drinks programme and sake programme. The kitchen works with Shizuoka seafood such as Suruga Bay spiny lobster and grilled sweetfish matsukasa-yaki, and the room has repeated Tabelog Silver awards.
Simples in Mariko, Suruga-ku runs a 19-seat omakase and tasting-menu format with a drinks list that includes an extensive wine list and sake programme. Its cooking pairs French influence with Shizuoka seafood and local produce, and the room has earned Tabelog Bronze recognition and OAD inclusion.
Shizuoka's traditional dining includes unagi, soba and sushi rooms that stay close to ingredient-led cooking.
Unagi Shun in Aoi Ward is a charcoal-grilled unagi restaurant with omakase and à la carte formats, plus a wine list and sake programme. Its focus is Lake Hamana eel, roasted in Kansai style, and the room carries Tabelog Gold recognition alongside OAD rankings.
Teuchi Soba Tagata in Aoi Ward is a handmade soba specialist where owner Osamu Tagata mills native Shizuoka buckwheat. It serves sake with the noodles, and the room has repeated Tabelog 100 Soba recognition and a focused counter-dining format.
Suehiro Zushi in Shimizu Ward is a traditional sushi institution built around hagashi-style tuna, counter dining and tatami seating. It serves sake and appears in the Tabelog Sushi EAST 100, with omakase, counter dining and a la carte formats.
Aoi Ward, Aoi-ku, Ito and Imaihama stand out in our guide. Aoi Ward and Aoi-ku hold many of the city’s counter-led Japanese rooms, and Ito adds unagi and hotel dining to the mix.
Shizuoka has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Tempura Naruse and Unagi Shun hold Tabelog Gold awards, FUJI has Tabelog Silver recognition, and Simples holds Tabelog Bronze recognition alongside inclusion in Opinionated About Dining's Japan Recommended list.
Tempura Naruse in Aoi Ward, FUJI in Aoi-Ku and Simples in Mariko, Suruga-ku offer omakase. Simples also serves a tasting menu with French-influenced seafood courses, while Rin in Atami serves kaiseki through tasting and set menus.
Tempura Naruse, FUJI and Simples have wine lists, and Simples also has an extensive wine list. Go in Aoi-ku has an extensive wine list, while Asaba in Shuzenji serves wine and sake with traditional Japanese kaiseki.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
Best of Shizuoka
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Tempura Naruse holds a Tabelog score of 4.65 and consecutive Gold awards from 2023 through 2026, placing it among Japan's most decorated tempura counters outside Tokyo. The eight-seat room in Shizuoka's Aoi Ward operates by reservation only, with dinner running into the JPY 40,000–49,999 range. Chef Takeo Shimura's counter draws serious diners who make the journey specifically for it, not as an afterthought to the city.
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Seirin places Hamamatsu inside Japan’s serious kaiseki conversation rather than treating Shizuoka as a stop between Tokyo and Kyoto. The appeal is its counter-scale reading of seasonal Japanese cuisine, backed by Tabelog Award Silver recognition in 2026, previous Gold recognition, La Liste scoring, and OAD inclusion.
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Shizuoka’s eel tradition gets a serious, reservation-only expression at Unagi Shun, a 12-seat counter-and-table restaurant from chef Kenichi Okada. The case for going is not breadth but focus: unagi, donburi, small-room pacing, and a run of recognition that includes The Tabelog Award 2026 Gold and Opinionated About Dining’s 2026 Japan ranking.
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A seven-seat counter in Shizuoka's Aoi Ward, FUJI holds consecutive Tabelog Silver Awards from 2024 through 2026, a 4.54 score, and selection in the Tabelog Japanese Cuisine EAST Top 100 for both 2023 and 2025. The kitchen focuses on fish-forward Japanese cuisine drawing on Shizuoka's notable local produce. Reservation-only, with both lunch and dinner priced in the JPY 20,000–29,999 range.
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A ten-generation family-run ryokan along the Katsura River in Shuzenji, Asaba occupies a former Buddhist temple and serves kaiseki in a setting where Noh theater performances still take place on the property. Ranked #163 on Opinionated About Dining's Top Restaurants in Japan in 2024, it operates at the intersection of heritage hospitality and seasonal Japanese cuisine at a level few rural properties can match.
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Rin belongs to Hamamatsu’s serious unagi conversation, a city where eel is not a novelty but a civic food language. The draw is its ingredient-led focus, small daily output, and recognition from The Tabelog Award Bronze tier and OAD’s 2026 Recommended list, placing it above routine eel-house dining without turning the experience into ceremony for ceremony’s sake.
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Simples brings Shizuoka’s produce-and-seafood intelligence into Japan’s innovative dining conversation, with a 19-seat counter-led format and recognition from The Tabelog Award 2026 Bronze and OAD’s 2026 Japan Recommended list. The appeal is not Tokyo-style spectacle transplanted to Suruga Ward, but a quieter regional argument: fish, wine service, and contemporary technique handled at intimate scale.
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Aozora gives Shizuoka’s diner culture a sharp local focus: Yui sakura shrimp, shirasu, counter seating, and a price tier that keeps the meal closer to everyday regional eating than destination tasting-menu theatre. Its Tabelog 100 Diner selections in 2024 and 2026 make it a useful reference point for how serious Japan’s humble shokudo format can be.
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Blue Label gives Shizuoka’s cocktail scene a serious late-evening address rather than a casual afterthought. Its Tabelog 100 Bar selection in 2022, cocktail-led format, counter seating, and higher local spend bracket place it closer to Japan’s specialist bar culture than to a hotel-lounge nightcap.
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Chabo places Shizuoka’s yakitori culture in a serious evening register, with counter seating, sake and shochu emphasis, and selection for Tabelog’s Yakitori EAST 100 in 2025. The appeal is less spectacle than discipline: charcoal-grilled chicken as a regional night-out ritual, positioned above casual skewers and closer to destination dining.
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Chinese Muramatsu places Shizuoka’s Chinese dining scene in a tighter, more ingredient-led register: counter seating, seafood as a central category, and recognition in Tabelog’s Chinese EAST “Tabelog 100” selection for 2023, 2024, and 2026. It suits diners who want the precision of a small-format meal rather than a broad hotel-style Chinese menu.
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Go is a compact Shizuoka Japanese restaurant with counter seating, private-room flexibility, and recognition in Tabelog’s Japanese cuisine EAST 100 for 2025. Its reputation sits around fish-led Japanese cooking, grilling credentials, and a drinks program that spans sake, shochu, and wine rather than leaning on a single pairing lane.
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Ichi Unagi gives Shizuoka’s eel tradition a small-counter expression in Itō, where the decision is less about variety than about focus. The case for going rests on format and recognition: nine counter seats, unagi as the sole culinary lane, a Tabelog Award 2026 Bronze citation, and selection for Tabelog Unagi 100 in 2024 and 2022.
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LAT.34°N by Ao brings French and innovative auberge cooking to Ajiro, on Atami’s quieter coastal side, with an 18-seat room oriented toward the sea. The draw is not urban restaurant theatre but provenance: fish-led cooking, breakfast service, and a reservation-only format that fits Shizuoka’s growing appetite for destination dining outside Tokyo’s orbit.
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Oomura places Shizuoka’s everyday tavern culture in a sharper frame: chicken dishes, oden, sake and shochu, with Tabelog 100 Chicken Cuisine 2025 recognition giving the room a national signal rather than a purely local one. The appeal is not luxury theater; it is the way regional drinking food, group seating and ingredient-led comfort cooking sit inside a serious Japanese chicken-cuisine category.
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Ooyakiimo puts Shizuoka’s everyday sweet-shop culture in a sharper frame: Japanese sweets, rice balls and oden, with takeaway available and a house-restaurant setting rather than a formal dining room. Its Tabelog 100 selection for Japanese traditional sweets and sweets cafés in East Japan gives it a credentialed place in the city’s low-key, ingredient-led food circuit.
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OUBAITOURI brings Chinese and Sichuan cooking into Shizuoka’s compact serious-dining circuit, with Tabelog Chinese EAST 100 selection in 2026 giving it a clear trust signal beyond local word of mouth. The appeal is not scale or ceremony, but a focused dinner format where fermentation, fish, Shaoxing wine, and counter seating place Chinese technique inside a distinctly Shizuoka rhythm.
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Sabai Deal gives Shizuoka a Thai address with unusual staying power: open since 1992 and selected for Tabelog’s Asian cuisine / Ethnic cuisine EAST 100 in 2024. The appeal is less about luxury than consistency, accessibility, and a drinks list that places Thai cooking inside a Japanese neighborhood-dining rhythm rather than a destination-only format.
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Sakume places Hamamatsu’s eel culture in its proper setting: close to Lake Hamana, modest in scale, and built around ingredient confidence rather than ceremony. The restaurant’s Tabelog 100 - Unagi - 2024 selection, 17-seat room, and in-store registration format make it a serious stop for travelers who want Shizuoka’s unagi tradition without luxury-restaurant staging.
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Seki Beya belongs to Shizuoka’s quieter wagashi culture, where traditional sweets sit closer to everyday ritual than luxury performance. Its Tabelog 100 selection for Japanese traditional sweets and sweets cafés in EAST 2023 gives it a clear credibility signal, while the modest format keeps the focus on regional habit, takeout, and small-room hospitality.
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Shizuoka Sichuan Hanten gives Shizuoka a serious Sichuan reference point inside a hotel setting, with Tabelog Chinese EAST 100 selections in 2023, 2024, and 2026. The appeal is less about spectacle than about range: fish attention, allergy information, sake, shochu, wine, cocktails, private rooms, and an 80-seat format that suits both family meals and business dining.
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Suehiro Zushi belongs to Shimizu’s fish-first sushi tradition, where proximity to Suruga Bay matters more than theatrical luxury. Its Tabelog Sushi EAST 100 selection in 2025 and 2021, 3.85 score, counter seating, private rooms, and take-out service place it in a practical but serious tier for Shizuoka sushi rather than a Ginza-style performance format.
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Suien Dosai Honten places Shizuoka’s tonkatsu culture in a disciplined, everyday register rather than a luxury-tasting-menu frame. Its Tabelog Tonkatsu 100 selections in 2022, 2024, and 2026 give it national category weight, while the house-restaurant setting and accessible price band keep the meal close to the local rhythm of cutlet, rice, cabbage, and sauce.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Shizuoka.
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Kawana Hotel sits on the Izu Peninsula's eastern coastline, where two championship golf courses face the Pacific and a heritage of grand-hotel hospitality stretches back decades. It carries a cultural footnote, Marilyn Monroe spent her honeymoon here in 1954, that speaks to its long-standing position among Japan's resort institutions. The property occupies a tier between the intimate ryokan tradition and the large international resort format.
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A 134-room resort property on the Izu Peninsula's southeastern coast, Izu-Imaihama Tokyu Hotel sits at the junction of Shizuoka's volcanic coastline and the broader Tokyu Hotels network. It occupies a position between large-scale resort infrastructure and the more intimate ryokan tradition that defines the Izu coast, making it a reference point for travellers weighing scale against character in this part of Japan.
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Shimoda Tokyu Hotel sits at the southern tip of the Izu Peninsula, where Suruga Bay meets the Pacific and the port town that first opened Japan to Western trade still moves at its own unhurried pace. With 112 rooms positioned for sea-facing views and direct access to Shimoda's black-sand coves, the property operates as the peninsula's most established full-service hotel, a reference point for travellers weighing resort comfort against ryokan immersion in this stretch of Shizuoka.
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Selected entries from the current guide for Shizuoka.
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