Ikaruga

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Nearby attractions

Hōryū-ji Temple

Worship325 m

Buddhist temple in Nara Prefecture, Japan

Buddhist Monuments in the Hōryū-ji Area

Worship305 m

World Heritage Site in Nara Prefecture, Japan

Hokki-ji Temple

Worship1.6 km

Buddhist temple in Nara Prefecture, Japan

Chūgū-ji Temple

Worship562 m

Buddhist temple in Nara Prefecture, Japan

Hirose Shrine

Worship2.5 km

Shinto shrine in Nara Prefecture, Japan

Tatsuta Shrine

Worship4.8 km

Shinto shrine in Nara Prefecture, Japan

Dining

Noto Toto Teuchisoba Tabiki

RestaurantBib Gourmand¥438 m

Seiji Matsushima grows crops and makes pottery. He doesn’t just knead earth, though, he also kneads soba. The thin juwari soba set out on dishes he made himself exudes rusticity and the way of life of a self-described farmer. He grows the buckwheat berries for the sobagaki himself. Basil picked in the field in the summer is served with soba topped with a thick dashi-rich sauce, and winter yuzu is served with hot soba. Grated daikon is used in place of wasabi.

GENMAIAN

Restaurant¥836 m

The meals here are all based on unpolished rice. Vegetable dishes with no meat or fish are served in small pots with unpolished rice that’s been cooked in a wood-fired oven. The owner-chef calls himself a master of unpolished rice cake, his speciality being rice cake made with a mortar and pestle. He wants his customers to get to know tastes that are being lost in an age of plenty, so he seasons his dishes with soy sauce, miso and mirin made using traditional processes.

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