Miso-katsu at Yabaton and miso-nikomi udon at Yamamotoya
1 / 9Miso-katsu at Yabaton and miso-nikomi udon at YamamotoyaPhoto: 円周率３パーセント / CC BY-SA 4.0
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Two Nagoya dishes, both served at Nagoya Station on the way back to the Aonami Line. Yabaton’s JR Nagoya-eki-ten is inside the station, a minute from the Taiko-dori and Shinkansen exits, 7:00–21:00 with no closing day; the Yabacho main shop in Osu is 11:00–21:00. Yamamotoya Sohonke’s Towers-ten, on JR Central Towers 13F, serves miso-nikomi udon 11:00–23:00, last order 22:00. Its Sakae Honke closes on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, so it is shut on 10 November; the Kinshachi Yokocho branch by the castle is 10:30–17:30.
- It is not only a photo stop: eel in three rounds, pork in dark miso, and toast with red beans at breakfast.
- No single published ride covers this one. Budget for a taxi both ways, or fold it into a guided day.
Why Miso-katsu at Yabaton and miso-nikomi udon at Yamamotoya is famous
Eel in three rounds, pork in dark miso, and toast with red beans at breakfast
This pick pairs two names: Yabaton for miso-katsu and Yamamotoya Sohonke for miso-nikomi udon. Yabaton’s main shop is in Yabacho and opens every day; its station branch opens at 7:00. Yamamotoya’s Honke in Sakae closes on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, but its branch on the 13th floor of JR Central Towers serves until 23:00.
Nagoya sells its cooking under one name, Nagoya-meshi. Most of it runs on dark soybean miso, and most of it has a known shop and a known year behind it.
Flat noodles in tamari broth; the likeliest date is the mid-Edo period
A restaurant in the Tokaido post town of Atsuta; hitsumabushi grows out of its delivery trade
Credited to Cafe Matsuba in Sakae, now closed
Founded in Osu; salt-free noodles in a single clay pot
Eat by the map. Hitsumabushi near Atsuta Jingu (Honten on Tuesdays), miso-katsu and miso-nikomi in Osu and Sakae, kishimen inside the shrine, and the morning service anywhere before 11:00. Tebasaki is mostly an evening dish.
Three places, three different answers
The one the queue agrees on, the one people who live here use instead, and the one nearest your ship. Opening days change; check before you build a day around one.
The miso-katsu main shop, 3-6-18 Osu, Naka-ku, between Osu Kannon and Sakae. 11:00–21:00, no closing day.
Open in Google MapsClosest to the berthYabaton JR Nagoya-eki-ten矢場とん JR名古屋駅店Inside JR Nagoya Station (1-1-4 Meieki), 1 min from the Taiko-dori and Shinkansen exits, at the end of the Aonami Line. 7:00–21:00, no closing day: breakfast on the 06:30 Saturday arrival. The Esca branch underground on the Taiko-dori side is 11:00–22:00 (last order 21:30).
Open in Google MapsClosest to the berthYamamotoya Sohonke Towers-ten山本屋総本家 タワーズ店Miso-nikomi udon on JR Central Towers 13F, at Nagoya Station. 11:00–23:00, last order 22:00; closing days as the Towers. The easiest miso-nikomi on any of the three dates. The Sakae Honke (3-12-19 Sakae) closes Tuesdays and Wednesdays, so not on 10 Nov.
Open in Google MapsWhere locals goYamamotoya Sohonke Kinshachi Yokocho-ten山本屋総本家 金シャチ横丁店Beside Nagoya Castle, 1-2-5 Sannomaru: lunch with the castle visit. 10:30–17:30, last order 17:00; closing days as the castle (29 Dec–1 Jan). The Matsuzakaya branch, main building 9F in Sakae, is 11:00–21:00.
Open in Google MapsWhere locals goSekai no Yamachan, Meieki Shinkansen-guchi-ten世界の山ちゃん 名駅新幹線口店Tebasaki, Nagoya’s fried chicken wings, at lunch: 2F, 15-27 Tsubaki-cho, Nakamura-ku, by the Shinkansen side of the station. Mon–Sat 11:30–0:15 (lunch 11:30–14:00), Sun and holidays to 23:15; closed at New Year only. The only Yamachan confirmed open at lunch; most branches open at 17:00.
Open in Google MapsMiso-katsu at Yabaton and miso-nikomi udon at Yamamotoya and your ship
Both pins on one map, so the distance is a fact rather than a feeling.
Where the 2 hr 30 min goes
Counted from the moment you step off the gangway. The hour before all-aboard is not in this bar; it is already set aside.
24 minutes each way is the measured figure for both at nagoya station: aonami line 24 min, then a few minutes inside the station, not the optimistic one. If your ship is late, cut the 1 hr 42 min in the middle. Never cut the hour at the end.
Routes that already include it
Each one is a finished day we have walked and timed, with this stop in it. Read the route rather than assembling it yourself.
What to put beside it
Each of these still lands you back aboard with the hour to spare.
