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Update-date: Jan 25 2024

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Winter Delights Await! Experience a Diverse Array of Hotpot Cuisine at These 5 Osaka Restaurants

Hotpot is the perfect cuisine for cold winters! At these restaurants, guests can greatly enjoy a variety of ingredients, such as meat, fish, and vegetables, and they'll be happy to know it's all quite healthy. Here are 5 restaurants where one can enjoy delicious hotpot cuisine in Osaka. They have a lineup of hotpot options that use a rich variety of ingredients, so guests are sure to find their favorite!

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Namba - Mimiu

Guests will smack their lips at the Udon Suki, the signature menu made by this restaurant with an over 200-year history since its founding.

5 restaurants where guests can enjoy a rich variety of hotpot cuisine in winter / Osaka

Located a 3-minute walk from Namba Station. Mimiu is a long-standing restaurant that has a history spanning over 200 years since its founding. Their specialty, Udon Suki, which has been beloved by many people since the restaurant's establishment, has traditional flavors that use specially made udon. These noodles use broth made for over 2 hours every day and are made with a special formula so they don't break apart while being boiled. The courses that add appetizers and sashimi to the Udon Suki are highly recommended.

This restaurant opened in Takashimaya, which is directly connected to Nankai Namba Station. The interior is unified in a relaxing Japanese-style atmosphere that lets guests feel the warmth of wood. They have semi-private rooms for up to 10 people, which can be used for dinner parties and entertaining. Their specialty, Udon Suki, can be ordered as takeout, so guests can enjoy traditional flavors in their own homes.

Mimiu

Open: 11:00 - 22:00 (last order 21:00)
Closed: Irregular
Average price: [Lunch] 2,000 JPY
Access: 3 minutes walk from Namba Station
Address: 7F, Takashimaya Osaka Branch, 5-1-18, Namba, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka Map
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Nipponbashi - Kuromon Hamato

Enjoy copious amounts of high-quality domestic tiger blowfish at affordable prices.

Kuromon Hamato is a long-standing fugu restaurant located a 3-minute walk from Kintetsu Nippombashi Station. The delicious flavors of the carefully selected domestically made tiger blowfish are enhanced by setting it aside for one day. They have several course cuisine options available, but the hama is especially recommended. Guests can enjoy a wide variety of fugu dishes at affordable prices, including the parboiled fugu, sashimi, hotpot dish, and deep-fried style.

This restaurant is located in Kuromon Market, known as the kitchen of Osaka. They have a capacity of up to 150 people for banquets. The 1st floor has table seats, the 2nd floor has a large hall with tatami rooms, and the 3rd floor has four private rooms. The private rooms can seat a minimum of 2 people, and adjusting the partition lets up to 30 people use them. A restaurant that can be flexibly used in a variety of situations.

Kuromon Hamato

Open: [Tuesday - Sunday, National Holidays, Day before National Holidays] 11:00 am - 8:45 pm
Closed: None
Average price: [Dinner] 10,000 JPY
Access: 3 minutes walk from Kintetsu Nihombashi Station on Kintetsu Nanba Line. 3 minutes walk from Nihombashi Station on Osaka Municipal Subway Sennichimae Line/Sakaisuji Line.
Address: 1-21-8, Nippombashi, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka Map
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Toganocho - Kue Nabe Kujira Ryori Shodai

Guests will smack their lips at the carefully selected ingredients, including natural longtooth grouper, yellowtail, and whale.

Kue Nabe Kujira Ryori Shodai is located a 7-minute walk from Osaka Station. It is a Kaiseki cuisine restaurant where guests can taste various hotpot dishes, including longtooth grouper hotpot, whale hotpot, and blackthroat seaperch shabu shabu. The Natural Longtooth Grouper Hotpot Course "Arita," which uses natural longtooth groupers directly shipped from Wakayama and the Goto Islands, is highly recommended. It is a very satisfying course that lets guests enjoy longtooth grouper sashimi and liver.

The interior is a space where one can feel a relaxing Japanese atmosphere. In addition to the counter seats where one can enjoy conversation with the staff, there are table seats, tatami room seats, and large and small private rooms. They can be used for 2 to 28 guests. The Kaiseki cuisine also has all-you-can-drink options available. This restaurant can be used according to guests' needs, such as for dinner parties and entertaining.

Kue Nabe Kujira Ryori Shodai

Address: 12-15 Toganocho, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka

Access: 7 minutes walk from Osaka Station

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Sonezaki Shinchi - Hareya Bettei

Enjoy Fukui local cuisine and Japanese sake in the center of Osaka.

Hareya Bettei is located right outside Kitashinchi Station. This restaurant was opened as a villa ("bettei") of Hareya Ryokan in Fukui. Here, guests can enjoy copious amounts of fresh seafood, local cuisine, and local sake, mainly from Fukui Prefecture. This season, guests will want to try the Live Snow Crab Course, in which they can enjoy crab suki hotpot. Here, guests can luxuriously enjoy crab that has been directly shipped from Hokuriku and has been freshly prepared from the restaurant's fish tank.

The restaurant interior employs a design that uses mullion, which is a specialty product of the Hokuriku region. The fine mullion is made with actual wood, and guests will be excited by the Hokuriku feel. They have table seats where guests can enjoy their food while gazing at the courtyard, as well as tatami rooms with sunken kotatsu seats and individual rooms with a private feel, all of which let guests spend a high-quality time.

Hareya Bettei

Open: [Weekdays, Saturday] Dinner from 6:00 pm (L.O. 10:30 pm)
Closed: Sunday, National Holidays
Average price: [Dinner] 10,000 JPY / [Lunch] 6,000 JPY
Access: 30 seconds walk from Exit 11-21 of Kitashinchi Station on the JR Tozai Line
Address: 5F, Matsuki Kosan Bldg., 1-5-21, Sonezaki Shinchi, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka Map
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Kitashinchi - Tarafuku Kitashinchi Head Branch

A live fugu restaurant where guests can enjoy everything fugu.

Tarafuku Kitashinchi Head Branch is in a location with excellent access, at a 1-minute walk from Kitashinchi Station. They use only fresh tiger blowfish here, 2 kilograms in size, caught in Nagasaki Prefecture. This winter season, guests will certainly want to try the live-boiled fugu. Combine it with the secret homemade ponzu sauce that has been around since the restaurant's founding, and one can fully enjoy the delicious flavors of the fugu.

The restaurant interior, which is unified with a Japanese-style atmosphere, has several table seats, tatami rooms, and private rooms. They can be used by 2 to 26 people, making them perfect for both meals with that special someone as well as banquets with large groups. Spend an extraordinary time with this course of cuisine that lets one enjoy copious amounts of delicious fugu flavors.

Tarafuku Kitashinchi Head Branch

Open: Dinner 17:00 - 00:00 (last order 23:00)
Closed: New Year's Holiday
Average price: [Dinner] 13,000 JPY
Access: 1 minute walk from Kitashinchi Station
Address: 1-11-7, Sonezaki Shinchi, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka Map
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