Speaking of Niigata, there are a lot of various local gourmets, as well as rice, local sake, and seafood gourmet! There is no such thing as the mysterious food "Italianate" or "Tale Katsudon" in the list. This time we will introduce a famous restaurant of local gourmet in Niigata town where access is also good!

"Italian"

In 1960, it was born in Furumachi with the slogan "I started a little unusual fried noodles", and the style of eating fried noodles with a fork became popular.

● Offer a surprising combination of yakisoba "Mikazuki Bandai Store"

"Mikazuki Bandai" is the birthplace of "Italian", which is made of homemade thick noodles and noodles, fried cabbage in fried fried fried noodles, and a special sauce. The homemade meat sauce, which features the sour taste of tomatoes and the sweet taste of onions, is a surprising match for the sauce-flavored Chinese noodles. In addition to the classic meat sauce flavor, about 7 kinds of sauces are prepared here. It is also good to order in the mood of the day. Takeout is also possible.

■みかづき 万代店（みかづきばんだいてん）

Address: 1-6-1 Bandai, Chuo-ku, Niigata Bus Center Building 2F
Opening hours: 10-20
Closed: No Closed
Access: 10-minute walk from JR Niigata Station
Parking: None

"Tale and katsudon"

"Tonkatsu Taro" The first shop owner began when he produced a cutlet tangled in soy sauce sauce sauce with a hint of cutlets. Since then, the style of putting sauce cutlets on rice without being clapped with eggs has become a staple.

● Niigata katsudon classic "Tonkatsu Taro"

The "tonkatsu Taro" sauce katsudon, which is fried with a sprinkling of fine-grained breadcrumbs and entwined with soy sauce-based sauce, is a cutlet with a good stain of sweet and spicy sauce, and the rice proceeds. In addition to this menu, you can enjoy the boasting cutlets for 1520 yen, "Tonkatsu set meal", 1360 yen, and "Katsu curry" 970 yen.

■ Tonkatsu Taro

Address: 6-973 Furumachi-dori, Chuo-ku, Niigata
Hours: 11:30-14:30, 17:00-Ends as the ingredients run out
Closed: Third Wednesday, Thursday
Access: 5 minutes walk from the bus Furumachi Hanamachi entrance
Parking: None

"Tochio's Ablage"/Nagaoka Region

Huge oil-fried, about 20cm long and about 3cm thick. Plump-finished twice-fried, the oil-fried is savoury and savored. It's a local gourmet that has continued since the Edo period.

-A store loved for half a century "Abei Honten"

"Abei Honten" is a tavern that has been loved by the local area for half a century since its inception. This deep-fried dish is a popular menu with the sweet taste of selected soybeans that will give you an appetite. It is good to have it simple, but we also recommend an arrangement with green onion miso and natto for frying. In addition, here, there are plenty of menus other than oil-fried, such as fried chicken and falling tuna. You can enjoy drinking and serving from the daytime.

■ Abei Honten (Yasabe Honten)

Address: 1-2-5 Higashi-Odori, Chuo-ku, Niigata
Open: 11:30 to 21:30 LO
Closed: No Closed
Access: 2 minutes from JR Niigata Station
Parking: None

"Hegisoba"/Ominuma, Ojiya region

The traditional industry of fish marshes, the good soba of the throat, which uses the funori used for the puffery used for the gluing of silk textiles, which is served in a vessel called "hegi".

● Sticking with the material "Echigo Hegi Sobaba Ochiya"

"Ego Hegi Soba Osiya", which offers soba noodles with a focus on ingredients, such as buckwheat flour from Sado and Hokkaido, and soy sauce from Murakami and Sado. Among them, the most popular is "Seasonal Tenagi", which has tempura using 5-7 kinds of seasonal prefecture products on the side of the side using Funori from Aomori Prefecture. You can enjoy an elegant taste using rice flour from the prefecture for tempura, as well as fragrant Hagi soba.

■ Echigo Hegi Soba Sashiya

Address: 4-12-20 Omi, Chuo-ku, Niigata, 1st floor DEKKY401
Hours: 11-15: 30 (LO), 17-19: 30 (LO)
Holds: 1st, 3rd, 5th Wednesday
Access: 12 minutes from JR Niigata Station to Niigata Kotsu Bus in front of City Hall, immediately before Kamikomi
Parking: 1200 cars

Local gourmet of Niigata that has been loved since ancient times!
In Niigata, which has the fifth largest area in the whole country, there are traditional local gourmets in each region. Do you want to taste it while feeling the history of each area?

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