Savor Aomori’s Signature Flavors, from Barayaki to Seafood! 11 Popular Restaurants in Aomori

Omiyage to Oshokuji no Mise Morita is located on the shore of Lake Towada, in front of the torii gate of Towada Shrine.
It is a restaurant with an attached souvenir shop founded in 1931.
The dining area offers a menu centered on tempura rice bowls and set meals featuring kokanee salmon and wakasagi smelt, and also serves Towada Barayaki Teishoku, a local dish that originated in Towada City.
Other options include niboshi ramen and Towada garlic pork curry.

A restaurant inside the commercial facility Keiryu no Eki Oirase. It is located at the gateway to Oirase Gorge, midway between Lake Towada and Hakkoda, in a lush green setting.
One of this restaurant’s main draws is that you can enjoy Aomori’s local gourmet dishes such as Towada Barayaki.
It also offers a wide variety of other menu items, including Hachinohe Senbei-jiru, a regional dish from the Hachinohe area.

A local rice bowl served at Aomori Gyosai Center, a 5-minute walk from Aomori Station.
After purchasing a bowl of rice, you can create your own original rice bowl by choosing your preferred toppings and portions from ingredients sold throughout the market.
In addition to fresh seafood such as scallops, rock oysters, sea urchin, tuna, and bonito, grilled fish cooked over charcoal can also be added as a topping.

Tsurukameya Shokudo is a diner located in Asamushi Hotarudani, Aomori City. Its signature menu item is the hon-maguro don.
This dish is made with exceptionally fresh bluefin tuna landed locally.
With cuts ranging from lean meat to fatty toro, the bowl stands out for both the quality of its ingredients and its generous portion size.

A restaurant where you can enjoy dishes made with abundant seafood, with the national park Tanesashi Coast stretching out right before your eyes.
The popular Iso Teishoku lets you enjoy sashimi, ichigo-ni (abalone and sea urchin clear soup), fresh sea urchin, and mizugai abalone all at once.
In addition to meals such as the grilled fish set with sablefish, flounder, and Atka mackerel, excellent rice bowls like the fresh sea urchin and salmon roe don are also available.

A restaurant located along the Sanriku Hama Kaido in front of the Tanesashi Coast, known for its distinctive marine terraces. It offers a wide variety of dishes made with abundant seafood caught in the Sanriku Sea.
The most popular menu item is the Ganso Iso Ramen, packed with 6 to 7 kinds of seafood available at the time, such as shrimp, scallops, and sea urchin.
You can enjoy the rich flavor of the ingredients infused into the salt-based soup.

Akai Ringo Honten is a shop operated by Okinaya, a long-established Japanese sweets maker founded in 1918.
It is known for creating locally inspired sweets that actively incorporate apples grown in Aomori.
One product that has gained many fans both inside and outside Aomori Prefecture is the Heart Apple Pie.
It is made by generously cutting Benidama apples from Aomori Prefecture and baking them raw on top of pie crust.
Every item lets you fully enjoy the flavor of the apples and other ingredients.

Salon de Cafe Ange is located on the first floor of the Former Too Gijuku Foreign Teachers’ House, an Important Cultural Property of Aomori Prefecture.
Known for its elegant atmosphere, this cafe is a place where you can casually enjoy French cuisine.
A popular lunch menu item is the France Gozen (B), which can be eaten with chopsticks.
It is also known for its carefully crafted apple pie made with Eikoga apples grown in the Tsugaru area of Aomori Prefecture.

Taisho Roman Kissashitsu is located inside Fujita Memorial Garden in Hirosaki City, Aomori Prefecture. It is a cafe that uses the first floor of a Western-style building.
The menu features sweets and drinks made with apples from Aomori Prefecture.
Several kinds of signature apple pies from confectionery shops in the city are available. It also serves fragrant galettes made with buckwheat flour from Shirakami.

A popular restaurant that opened in 1991 as an offshoot of the ramen shop Aji no Sapporo, which once operated in Aomori.
Its signature dish is miso curry milk ramen, long loved by locals as one of Aomori’s soul foods.
Based on a pork bone and chicken stock soup, this ramen combines house-made miso paste made with white miso from Hokkaido, curry powder, and milk from Aomori Prefecture, creating an exquisite balance of curry spice, the richness of miso and butter, and the mellow flavor of milk.

Ashigezaki Observatory stands on a cape in front of Samekado Lighthouse. From this observatory, once used by the former Japanese military as a surveillance facility with radar and other equipment, you can enjoy a sweeping view of the Pacific Ocean, and it is known as one of the best viewpoints on the Tanesashi Coast.
The cafe terrace Horonbail, located just before the observatory, offers a wide menu including curry, pasta, and drinks. Its soft serve ice cream is especially popular, so much so that it is said to be one of Aomori’s three great soft serves.