Lunch at Sushi Naritaya

I wandered around the zen gardens and bamboo forest of Arashiyama for hours, but before catching the train back I stopped by Sushi Naritaya for lunch. I spotted the sign pointing towards the back of a building. I’m always down for a sushi fix!

Sushi Naritaya

This Way

The small restaurant only had a few tables and there was a group of people waiting outside, but I was able to sit down right away.

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Sushi Bar Naritaya

The sushi sets looked good and I went with the Sakura set which included 8 pieces of sushi for 2,000 yen, around $18.

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Specials

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Wasabi

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Soup

The Sakura set included chutoro (medium fatty tuna), snapper, salmon, akami (lean tuna), ikura (salmon roe) and anago (sea eel).

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Sakura Set

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Salmon, Ikura, Eel

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Chutoro

The sushi was really good. I knew I could order a couple more pieces.

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Soy Sauce

I also ordered two pieces of uni (sea urchin). It was so sweet and delicious. Yummmm.

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Uni

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Sushi Fix

My sushi lunch was great and the service was even better. They let me pick out a sushi magnet to take home for posting a pic on Instagram. Thank you!

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Uni Magnet

Arashiyama was so charming. I walked to the station to take the train back to central Kyoto where I ended up sitting across a local elderly man. I couldn’t speak Japanese and he spoke very little English, but we managed to have a nice chat until I arrived at my stop.

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That night was my final night in Kyoto!


Sushi Naritaya
3-25 Saga Tenryuji Susukinobabacho, Ukyo-ku
West Park, Arashiyama Square, Kyoto 616-8385, Kyoto Prefecture
+81 90 8579 8383

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