Yakiniku Tsuruhashi appears as a signature dish in 1 Japan cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Yakiniku (Tsuruhashi-style) · Osaka
Charcoal-grilled marinated beef and offal eaten table-side, the canonical Korean-Japanese Osaka meal. The Tsuruhashi district has the country's densest concentration of family-run yakiniku rooms.
Tsuruhashi grew up around Osaka's Korean diaspora after the 1923 Kanto earthquake displaced workers and again after 1945. The black-market food stalls under the JR rail line became a permanent Korean-Japanese quarter; yakiniku as a sit-down genre was formalised here in the 1950s. The Tsuruhashi tradition keeps the meat lightly marinated and the offal varieties wider than the Tokyo branches that followed.
Where to eat in Osaka:
- Tsuruhashi Fugetsu Namba
- Tsuruhashi Korean Back Alleys
- Tsuruhashi Koreatown Market