Japanese in Arashiyama

Kitcho Arashiyama Honten

• ★ 4.9
• 3 MICHELIN stars
• Kaiseki
• ¥¥¥¥

Three-Michelin-star kaiseki on the Hozugawa river bend in Arashiyama, Kyoto, run by chef Kunio Tokuoka in a sukiya-style garden tatami room.

Shigetsu

• ★ 4.5
• Japanese Shojin-ryori
• ¥¥¥

Order Yuki shojin set with the temple's signature sesame tofu

Bib Gourmand-listed shojin-ryori inside Tenryu-ji's precinct in Arashiyama. Three-course set lunches eaten facing the temple's Sogen garden.

Inoue Arashiyama

• ★ 4.5
• Japanese Obanzai
• ¥¥

Order Five-plate obanzai assortment with simmered yuba

A small obanzai room near the Arashiyama tram in Kyoto, dinner-only and locals-favoured. Yuba simmer, Kyo-yasai plates, the chef-owner runs the room solo.

Unagi Hirokawa

• ★ 4.4
• Japanese Unagi
• ¥¥¥

Order Hitsumabushi served three ways with dashi tea-pour finish

A Michelin-listed unagi specialist on the main Arashiyama lane since 1967, rebuilt 2009. Steamed-then-grilled Kanto-style, with a generations-deep tare.