The oldest curry restaurant ‘Noda-ya’ in Kurayoshi, Tottori.

A curry restaurant

Noda-ya :: のだ屋

Noda-ya opened 1952.

It has been loved for 60 years by local people and has tradition of curry in Kurayoshi.

It is near in Akagawara.

You can find it easily.

If you want more information about place, refer to Akagawara map.

There are kitchen and counter on first floor.

Then, go up the second floor.

One of the most prominent differences of Noda-ya is that all of menu is omelet curry.

You can add toppings what you want on omelet curry.

If you want more toppings, you can order two or three even!

Two is 1050yen and three is 1300yen.

azz music played in the restaurant.

Chef seems to like music.

The speaker was very nice~!

It is pickles that eat with curry.

I ordered Kara-age curry.

Kara-age is fried chicken.

The decoration is very good!

The decoration of shrimp curry that I ate last time was perfect!

Quite filling!

That is very good when you are hungry on a journey.

Then, mushroom and shrimp curry!!

That is two toppings~!

The taste was very good~!

Grilled mushroom and fried shrimp!

That curry has many kinds of mushrooms.

Noda-ya curry have a bitter taste but is addictive also.

Noda-ya curry is loved by Japanese who are strict about curry.

Try Noda-ya curry when you visit Tottori!

*You can get Noda-ya curry in super market, Tottori.

Do you want to get a taste of Japan in Kurayoshi? ‘Manyoshi’

A naïve flavor of Japan

万よし：Restaurant ‘Manyoshi’

Near Akagawara of Kurayoshi!!

First, go to near Kurayoshi city hall.

And then, if you walk away in the opposite direction of

Kurayoshi St.

on big streets near.  Like below picture!

Can you see the white sign?

And then, turn the right!

So you will find the restaurant ‘Manyoshi’.

Manyoshi is 60year old.





I will taste ‘Taoist fairy luncheon’.

‘Taoist fairy luncheon’ and ‘a bowl of rice topped with seafood’ is limited menu at lunch.

Most of foods are not cheap but lunch time is very reasonable. :)

Hours-11:30~14:00(Last order 13:30)

       17:30~21:00

It is a different atmosphere from usual restaurant.

The restaurant is quite old, Manyoshi has Japanese atmosphere.

Manyoshi’s No-reng(fabric of entrance)

That is today’s menu.

There are private room and counter seat.

That way is on the private room.

That room is for Japanese traditional foods ‘Kaiseki-ryori’.

The inside and small garden of the restaurant is very beautiful!

I went to inside for lunch. :)

There is the place where you take your shoes off.

I thought it is just room.

Yes, it is just traditional room.

But there are some tables.

You can also look the garden from table.

There are rooms across from the garden.

I and my friend ordered Taoist fairy luncheon and a bowl of rice topped with seafood.

I could feel a nicely prepared meal.

The soup comes with a bowl of rice topped with seafood.

It is simple and it tastes sublime.

It was really good!

With white squid that fished in Tottori, salmon roe and seaweed

Boiled tofu

‘Chawang-mushi’

It made by eggs.

Yuzu are on jelly.

If you open it, you can smell yuzu.

So good!

The cup of soup is very small! Cute!!

‘Koshi-hikari’ rice was good as well. :)

That is like a carrot but it was rice cake!

Side dishes

It looks very small.

But I was full~! :)

Green tea was so delicious.

If I go there next time, I want try Kaiseki-ryori! :)

Closed : Mon.

Tottori Sand Dune 2010 Illumination

Tottori Sand Dune features illumination during Christmas season every year.

The theme of this year is ‘Love of Inaba’.

Inaba means the old name of Tottori.

It was raining and strong wind that day.

But illumination was very beautiful!

A sand sculpture of Tottori sand dune is popular as well.

There is sand sculpture gallery.

The lights are on Sand Dune.

I had to take a picture at a distance because it was too dark and I didn’t have time.

There are lined with snack stalls below sand dune.

Rice cake skewer stick

‘Yaki-dango’

I just can’t pass up delicious thing!

I ate that race cake.

It was 300yen.

So delicious!

And then Tako-yaki also!