Tsukitoku-hanten
This Chinese restaurant serves light-tasting dishes such as Chinese style sashimi and steamed white meat fish, which exploits the quality of the fish in season to the best advantage. The cook trained in China town in Yokohama gives full play to his ability.
2-5-18 Oh-machi, Itoigawa-shi / 0255-52-0496
Sushi and Japanese cuisine, Shino
At this restaurant, you can enjoy an abundance of the seasonal local seafood. In the early summer, you can enjoy raw firefly squid and in winter, sashimi of anglerfish, octopus and crab. They have seats at the counter, rooms floored with tatami mats for small groups and a tatami room for a group of up to fifty people.
1-1-30 Oh-machi, Itoigawa-shi / 0255-52-4085
Soba restaurant, Izumi-ya
They take pride in their firm, sweet flavored soba (buckwheat noodles). It is located on Gangi Street (also called Arigataya Street), which is lined with houses typical of a snowy region. (Gangi is a type of eave overhanging the street so that the street won't be covered with snow allowing people to walk in comfort.)
2-3-3 Oh-machi, Itoigawa-shi / 0255-52-0238
Joki-jaya
This restaurant has a good reputation for their set meals with plenty of fresh seafood from the Japan Sea and fried food such as breaded pork cutlets. It is located on Route 8.
2-1-15 Terajima, Itoigawa-shi / 0255-53-1100
Japanese cuisine, Azuma-en
The restaurant serves various dishes, from dishes using local fish, sushi to grilled meat. Having several rooms for big and small groups, the place is good for dinner parties of various sizes.
2-16 Hon-cho, Itoigawa-shi / 0255-52-0073
Echigo Ramen, Toku-jiro
This ramen (Chinese noodles) shop is particular about using local products for their ingredients, such as water, soy sauce and vegetables and meat for the soup stock. Their noodles with calcium from crab shells and eggs are home-made.
1-7-11 Oh-machi, Itoigawa-shi / 0255-53-1708 (In Itoigawa Town Center, Hisui Okoku-kan)