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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.