Unagi Kiya

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Unagi Kiya is a restaurant that specializes in “unagi ryori” (eel cuisine) and is a long-standing restaurant that boasts over 150 years of business and is located near Nagoya Castle. Unagi Kiya’s signature dish which is only known by a few of the hardcore locals is Nagoya’s famous dish with eel over rice, “hitsumabushi.” The eels used here are put straight into well water after purchasing where they are free to swim so you can get the freshest eel possible which are cut after ordering, allowing their exceptional taste to come forth without any of the muddy odor characteristic of eel. There are also many other ways to see the masterful work of the head chef in areas besides eel like brown rice that is milled and kettle cooked in the restaurant, sauce that has been used continually since the restaurant was first founded, and pottery dishes made from the nationally registered traditional crafts of Imari ware.

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Secret sauce that has been continued through the generations for over 150 years

The sauce which has continued to be cooked ever since the restaurant’s beginning is made with tamari soy sauce giving it a striking weight that is both sweet and salty. The trademark dish of hitsumabushi is offered with 3 different flavors which you can eat as is or even pour dashi soup stock made from fish and seaweed over the eel and rice dish making for an amazing delight! The sweet and salty sauce goes perfect with the seafood dashi soup stock!

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Get your fill of eel with this glorious specialty

The most popular item on the menu is the famous, “jo-ohitsumabushi” (3,450 yen). In this dish, an urushi lacquered round wooden rice bowl is filled with steamy hot kettle-cooked brown rice and then covered completely by delicious eel. With the set meal you can also taste the rare “kimosui” soup made with eel liver, a precious organ that each eel only produces one of.

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Eel dish with a refreshing aftertaste

The “uzaku” (750 yen) is one of the most popular items on the menu featuring eel and pickled cucumber and leaves a refreshing aftertaste. This dish also goes great with the strong taste of the hitsumabushi or unagi-don (eel rice bowl).

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Address

11 Higashi Sotobori-cho, Higashi-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi

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Contact No.

+81-52-951-8781

Access

5-minute walk from the No. 2 exit of the Shiyakusho (City Hall) Station on the Meijo Line of the subway.

Opening Hours / Holidays

11:00 – 13:30, 17:30 – 18:30 (Open at night only on Saturdays, reservations required for parties of 2 and over) Closed on Sundays and national holidays (Closed on other various days throughout the year)