Tonkotsu, tori-sashi, satsuma soup, and sake-zushi are all local specialties.
They are all home made and are sold with reasonable prices.
You can satisfy your appetite well with the local tastes in this cozy, country-style place.
6-29 Higashi-sengoku-cho, Kagoshima-shi / 099-226-0525
It is a long-established restaurant for the local cuisine.
In addition to the Satsuma specialties such as kibinago (a blue fish) sashimi (slices of raw fish with soy sauce), satsuma-age (fried fish balls), and sake-zushi (rice soaked in sake), a pot dish is also popular.
6-10 Higashi-sengoku-cho, Kagoshima-shi / 099-222-6356
Jumbo-mochi, one of the items on the menu, is several pieces of grilled dumpling pierced by two bamboo sticks with soy sauce or miso gravy poured over them.
In old days, samurai used to carry two swords, one long and the other short. They were called Jumbo-zashi or piercing swords. The look of the dumplings with the bamboo sticks are similar to the two swords, and that is where the name Jumbo-mochi came from.
9700-1 Yoshino-cho, Kagoshima-shi / 099-247-1551
