2023.6.7
[2023] 10 recommended Japanese breakfasts in Kyoto
Starting your day with a nice breakfast will make your day more fulfilling. This time, we will introduce 10 special restaurants where you can enjoy a hearty Japanese breakfast that includes freshly cooked rice and healthy side dishes. We will deliver a lineup that is perfect for hospitality. Let's charge plenty of energy and start the day energetically!
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1.A variety of rice balls that you want to eat every day [meat soba, rice balls, and side dishes Ku-chan] / Kitano Hakubaicho
There are about 30 types of rice balls on standby at all times, ranging from the basic pickled plums and rice balls to unusual items like cheese hamburgers, priced between 100 and 300 yen each. With a diverse lineup that you won't get tired of even if you visit every day, the store manager, Kumi Yokoyama, also known as Ku-chan, will always have freshly prepared food. The morning rice ball set, which comes with rice balls, side dishes, and lees soup, is great value and fills you up.
Morning rice ball set 600 yen, which is served from 7:00 am. You can choose up to two rice balls up to 170 yen and two main side dishes: ham and egg and salad, or salt-grilled salmon and dashi rolls. Comes with lees soup with plenty of ingredients
Meat soba, rice ball and side dish Ku-chan
- Niku soba, rice ball and side dish Ku-chan
- 90 Masuka Heights 1F
- 4 minutes walk from Randen "Kitano Hakubaicho Station"
- Tel.075-462-0454
- 7:00-20:00 (LO/19:30)
2.Enjoy a Japanese set meal at [Shimizu Tate] in a Kyoto-like space/Shimizuzaka
The over 100-year-old townhouse has a calm atmosphere that is typical of things that have passed the time, with antique furniture collected by the owner, who is from Higashiyama, as a hobby, and bookshelves lined with first editions and reprints. Today's breakfast, available only on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays, includes grilled fish, two small side dishes, miso soup, and rice cooked in a clay pot. In addition, there is also a menu that goes well with alcohol, such as today's rice 1500 yen that comes with 3 kinds of small bowls as the main dish.
Today's breakfast is 1000 yen, available only from 8:00 to 9:30 (LO) on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. Earthenware pot rice with fish, side dish, and soup (photo is for illustrative purposes only)
Shimizu stand
- Kiyomizu Tower
- 4-170-6 Shimizu, Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
- 2 minutes on foot from the bus stop "Kiyomizu"
- Tel: None
- Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays around 8:00-10:00 (LO/9:30)
3.Enjoy a mouth full of freshly made rice balls from [Kyoto Gion Omusubiya Sankaku]/Gion
A specialty rice ball restaurant where you can enjoy rice balls cooked in clay pots for both eat-in and take-out. What you can enjoy inside the store is the Ichijuu Omusubi Set, which is a set of two rice balls, soup, and pickled vegetables. You can choose two of your favorite rice balls from a lineup of 23 varieties, including the classic plum and salmon, pork kimchi, and plum natto. It's a popular restaurant, so it's best to make reservations for both eat-in and take-out. Please check SNS for reservation status and store holidays.
One soup rice ball set starts at 1,000 yen. We use rice from contracted farmers in Minami Ward, Kyoto City. The rice ball in the photo is pickled tuna + 100 yen, salmon, and the soup is pork miso soup.
Kyoto Gion Rice Ball Restaurant Triangle
- Kyoto Omusubiya Triangle
- 533 South Gioncho, Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
- 7 minutes on foot from Keihan Gion-Shijo Station
- Tel.050-1283-9708
- 8:00-15:00 (LO/14:00)
4.[Shunsai Mari]'s appetizing freshly cooked rice is perfect for the morning/Karasuma Oike
At night, you can enjoy local sake and shochu along with the obanzai at [Shunsai Imari] in Rokkaku Shinmachi. For this morning-only Japanese set meal, freshly cooked rice in an earthenware pot is prepared for each order. In addition to Kyoto-style side dishes such as Saikyo-yaki fish, dashimaki, and daily obanzai made with seasonal ingredients, you can also enjoy plenty of vegetables.
Kyoto breakfast 1700 yen, suitable for starting the day. Breakfast requires reservations.
Imari
- New Year's Eve Mari
- 108 Nishi Rokkaku-cho, Rokkaku-dori Shinmachi Nishiiri Ru, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
- 6 minutes walk from Subway Karasuma Oike Station
- Tel.075-231-1354
- Morning 7:30-10:00 (LO)
5.Colorful snack sushi from Hanazusa Wabi that you can enjoy from the morning / Kitaoji
Hanazusa Wabi, which has been a beloved Japanese tableware and snack sushi restaurant near Kitayama Street for over 35 years, moved to Kitaoji in January 2021. The tsumami sushi is stuffed into squares one by one, and you will be impressed by its beauty the moment you open the lid. The dishes are rich in color and flavor, such as sea bream seasoned with kelp, grilled conger eel, and Omi konnyaku.
10 pieces of snack sushi with red soup stock and dessert for 2,200 yen. The sushi, which is said to be inspired by Japanese sweets, uses ingredients and decorations to create a seasonal feel, and also uses ingredients typical of Kyoto, such as namafu and yuba.
Hanazu Wabi
- cute
- January 24, 2021 open
- 3-3 Uchikawaramachi, Oyamashita, Kita Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
- 1 minute walk from Kitaoji Station on the subway
- Tel.075-491-7056
- Morning 9:00-10:30 (LO)
6.[Ichijoji Nakaya] Get into the Kyoto mood from the morning with white miso soup / Ichijoji
A Japanese sweets shop that has been in business for three generations and is known for its Ichijoji local confectionery, Decchi Yokan. The breakfast you can enjoy there is a Japanese meal that matches the season. In addition to sekihan, sesame tofu, and obanzai, you can enjoy white miso zoni all year round. If you enjoy the sweet and fragrant Kyoto-style ozoni, you will be wrapped in a warm feeling from the morning.
The white miso zoni and irodori gohan (1,150 yen), which includes the proud masu-tsuki round mochi, is perfect for breakfast on a cold day.
Ichijoji Nakaya
- In the middle of the day
- 5 Ichijoji Hananokicho, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture
- 6 minutes on foot from Eiden Ichijoji Station
- Tel.075-781-5504
- 9:00-18:00 (LO/17:00)
7.Enjoy a bowl of beautiful bonito flakes [BUSHIDO] for breakfast / Karasuma Oike
A restaurant specializing in bonito flakes, where you can enjoy bonito flakes topped to the brim with top-quality dried bonito flakes shaved to 0.01 mm, which is said to be the thinnest in the world. After enjoying the ultimate egg-cooked rice, you can enjoy the dashi chazuke at the end. You can experience a melt-in-your-mouth texture and rich flavor that you have never experienced before.
Set meal breakfast 800 yen (until 11:00), lunch 1000 yen (until 15:00). The famous katsuobushi rice bowl comes with obanzai, soup, condiments, dashi stock, and a raw egg. You can also order bowls individually.
Katsuobushidon specialty store BUSHIDO
- Bonito Bushi Donsen Monten Bushido
- 135-1 Sakaimachi-dori Sanjoshitaru Doyu-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
- 5-minute walk from Subway Karasuma Oike Station
- Tel.075-744-0758
- Morning 7:00-11:00
8.Serving hearty set meals from the beginning of the morning [Cafe Light Food and Drink Seishi]/Umekoji
Next to the central market, a different space that spreads out after going underground. The scent of a pure cafe wafts through the reddish brown sofas and retro lampshades. Many people become regulars, attracted not only by the popular Seishi set meals that can be eaten from the beginning of the morning, but also by the homely atmosphere where you are greeted with a smile.
Daily Seishi set meal 850 yen. We use fresh ingredients purchased from Kyoto Central Market. The main dish of the day was tempura such as shrimp, conger eel, and kisses. You can get a large serving of rice for free.
Cafe Light food Seishi
- Kissa Keinshoku Kiyomi
- B1F, Chuo Building, 122 Suzaku Hozocho, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto Prefecture
- 4 minutes walk from JR San'in Main Line "Umekoji Kyoto Nishi Station"
- Tel.075-314-6330
- 6:30-14:00
9.[LORIMER] One soup and three dishes that make use of the delicious parts of fish/Higashinotoin Rokujo
A Japanese restaurant that landed from New York. The owner, who lives in New York and is a connoisseur of fish, started the restaurant locally because he wanted to ``make the most of the delicious parts of fish,'' and by chance, he also serves a one-soup, three-course meal using fish in Kyoto. The main dishes are made with fish delivered from Maizuru fishing port in Kyoto. Soup and side dishes using Ohara's freshly harvested vegetables are served.
One soup and three side dishes for 1,870 yen. The main dish is fish and seasonal vegetables, making it a modern dish that captures the essence of New York. Uses carefully selected Omi rice
LORIMER
- Lorimer
- Kyoto Prefecture Kyoto City Shimogyo Ward
- 3-minute walk from Subway Gojo Station
- Tel.075-366-5787
- 8:00 (Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays 7:30) - 15:00 (LO/14:30)
10.[Nishiki Market Restaurant Takakuraya Shoten] is a place where you can enjoy a morning drink/Nishiki Market
Mr. Bucky Inoue, who runs Kyoto pickles specialty stores [Nishiki Takakuraya] and [Tachinomikaka], has opened a new store alongside those two stores. "To be a place where you can enjoy breakfast and morning drinks," the store opens at 6:00 in the morning. A variety of set meals, draft beer, pure rice sake, and awamori morning sets are on standby, catering to those who want to eat and drink well in the morning.
Various set meals with rice, miso soup, and Kyoto pickles start at 780 yen. The miso composition of the miso soup is changed regularly so that you don't get tired of it.
Nishiki Market Restaurant Takakuraya Shoten
- Nishiki Ichiba Shokudo Takakura Shoten
- June 15, 2021 open
- 288 Higashidaimonji-cho, Nishiiri-ru, Nishikikoji-doriji-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto Prefecture
- 3 minutes walk from Hankyu "Kyoto Kawaramachi Station"
- Tel.075-256-3124
- 6:00-18:00 (LO/17:30)
The information is subject to change. Please contact each store or facility directly for the latest information.
All prices include tax.
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*Since this site uses automatic translation, the translation may differ from the original Japanese content.
All prices include tax.
※内容の誤りや閉店情報などお気づきの点がございましたら、info@leafkyoto.co.jp までお知らせください。
*Since this site uses automatic translation, the translation may differ from the original Japanese content.
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