Restaurants, hotels, bars and wineries in Yufu from the En Primeur Club guide.
Accolades in Yufu
Enowa Yufuin and Budouya serve farm-to-table Japanese cooking and mountain cuisine. Bar Yamaneko pours classic cocktails and wine inside Kamenoi Bessou.
Enowa Yufuin is a modern farm-to-table Japanese restaurant in Yufuincho Kawakami with a tasting menu format and a wine list. Its cooking draws on the property’s own organic farm, and the drinks side includes a sake program. Chef Tashi Gyamtso prepares kaiseki menus inside a botanical eco-resort.
Bar Yamaneko is a bar in Yufuin serving classic cocktails and wine inside Kamenoi Bessou. It shares its space with the café Tenjo-sajiki, which becomes Bar Yamaneko in the evening.
Budouya is a ryokan-attached restaurant in Yufuin-cho with set menu and tasting menu formats. Its traditional Japanese mountain cuisine centres on local beef and vegetables, and the room serves in-house guests.
Yufu also has an Italian hilltop room, a classic café, and a sweets shop in Yufuin Onsen.
Kunugi no Oka is a scenic Italian pizzeria and pasta restaurant in Yufuin with wood-fired pizza and pasta, plus beer and a long wine list. Its hilltop terrace setting and Tabelog Italian WEST 100 recognition in 2025 define the room.
Sabou Tenjou Sajiki is a classic Japanese café in Yufuincho Kawakami with Tabelog 100 recognition in 2022 and 2026. It serves katsu-sando and desserts inside Kamenoi Bessou, in a relocated late-Edo sake brewery.
B-speak is a roll cake and cheesecake specialty shop in Yufuin Onsen, recognized for P Roll Swiss roll cakes. It fits Yufu’s sweets scene and carries Tabelog Sweets WEST 100 recognition in 2023.
Yufuincho Kawakami, Yufuin, and Yufuin-cho have farm-to-table, kaiseki, and mountain-cuisine dining in our guide. Enowa Yufuin in Yufuincho Kawakami serves farm-to-table Japanese tasting menus, Dining at Kai in Yufuin serves kaiseki, and Budouya in Yufuin-cho serves Japanese mountain cuisine with local beef and vegetables.
Yufu has no Michelin-starred restaurants in our guide. Its Michelin hotel distinctions include two Keys for ENOWA Yufu in Yufuincho Kawakami and Kamenoi Besso in Yufuin, and one Key for Yufuin Tamanoyu in Yufuincho Kawakami in the 2026 awards.
The tasting menu format appears at Enowa Yufuin and Budouya. Enowa Yufuin uses produce from its own organic farm in Yufuincho Kawakami, and Budouya serves local beef and vegetables in Yufuin-cho.
Enowa Yufuin and Dining at Kai both have wine lists, while Kunugi no Oka has an extensive wine list and beer. Bar Yamaneko adds classic cocktails and wine in the evening bar scene.
By Emmett Haley · Updated October 8, 2026 · Editorial standards
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Enowa Yufuin sits inside a botanical eco-resort in Oita Prefecture's Yufuin valley, where Tibetan chef Tashi Gyamtso shapes kaiseki menus from produce grown on the property. For kaiseki within a working landscape, this is a considered proposition.
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B-speak belongs to Yufuin’s low-key sweets culture rather than its kaiseki-and-ryokan circuit, a useful counterweight in a town better known for hot springs and long dinners. The draw is a takeout cake format with Tabelog Sweets WEST “Tabelog 100” 2023 recognition, modest spend, and a location that fits naturally into a station-to-town walk.
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Kunugi no Oka brings Italian, pizza, and pasta into the Japanese onsen-town dining vocabulary, with recognition in Tabelog Italian WEST 100 in 2025 and earlier selections for Italian and pizza. Its reputation rests on a hilltop, open-terrace format and a casual, family-friendly style rather than metropolitan tasting-menu formality.
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Sabou Tenjou Sajiki places Yufuin’s kissaten culture inside the slower rhythm of an onsen town, where coffee, sweets, and a house-restaurant setting matter as much as a full meal. Its selection for Tabelog 100 - Kissaten - 2022 gives it a clear marker within Japan’s classic coffee-shop category, while the modest spend keeps it grounded rather than ceremonial.
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Budouya belongs to the quieter side of Yufu dining, where the appeal is less about spectacle than the relationship between hot-spring town hospitality, local produce, and a measured dining-room rhythm. Use it as a lens on Yufuin’s ingredient-led restaurant culture, especially if the trip is built around ryokan stays, rural Oita cooking, and slower meals rather than urban tasting-menu theatre.
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ENOWA Yufu holds a Michelin 2 Keys (2024) and occupies 19 rooms at the foot of Mount Yufu in Oita Prefecture, from around $769 per night. The property operates its own farm, with the restaurant programme led by a chef trained at Blue Hill at Stone Barns in New York. Private onsen, botanical architecture, and a farm-to-table kitchen place it in a compact tier of design-led Japanese retreats.
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A restored 1920s villa at the foot of Mount Yufu, Kamenoi Besso operates as a 17-room ryokan where Japanese craft traditions and mid-century European design share the same walls. Recognized with two Michelin Keys in 2024, it sits at the quieter, more considered end of Yufu's lodging spectrum, with on-request pricing that signals a property calibrated for guests who prioritise experience over rate transparency.
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A former Zen retreat in the forested hills above Yufuin, Yufuin Tamanoyu operates 16 villa-style rooms across a property that still carries the quiet discipline of its monastic origins. Each room combines tatami sitting areas, a separate sleeping space, and a private hot spring tub. Pricing is available on request, and the property sits within easy walking distance of the town's celebrated onsen circuit.
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Gekkoju Yufuin holds a Michelin Selected distinction for 2025, placing it among a narrow tier of recognized ryokan-style properties in the Yufuin valley. Located in the Kawakami district, the quieter northern reaches of Yufu, it operates at a remove from the town's busier commercial core, consistent with the area's preference for understated retreats over resort-scale properties.
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Gettouan sits in Yufuincho Kawakami, the quieter northern reach of Yufu's celebrated onsen corridor in Oita Prefecture. The property occupies a setting shaped by the region's ryokan tradition, where architecture, thermal bathing, and seasonal cuisine converge in a format that resists the volume-driven hospitality of busier resort towns. For travellers calibrating a Kyushu itinerary, it represents the deliberate, slower register that defines Yufuin at its most considered.
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Yufuincho Kawakami sits in Yufu, Oita Prefecture, where the onsen town tradition of Yufuin frames a ryokan experience built around thermal bathing and kaiseki dining. Set against the volcanic backdrop of Yufu-dake, the property represents the quieter, more immersive side of Kyushu's hot spring culture, away from the commercial density of neighbouring Beppu.
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Bar Yamaneko gives Yufuin’s evening scene a small-format drinking address in a town better known for ryokan dinners, hot springs, and slow rural pacing. With, it is better read through context: a local bar option at 2629 Yufuincho Kawakami for travellers comparing Yufu’s quiet after-dark rhythm with Japan’s larger cocktail cities.
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