Ohkatei Restaurant — Restaurant in Kagoshima

The food was great and since I was a solo diner I got to sit in the bar type area facing the window with a great view of Sakurajima. However, note that this is geared towards tourists and if it so happens you visit at the same time as a tour group, expect to wait quite some time for your table, and expect your meal to be surrounded by some very very loud people.

I got the kuroshi beef shabu shabu set, and the food was good, but it was hard to enjoy it with all the commotion in the restaurant. The staff looked overworked as well, and I kind of feel bad for them. I tried hard but couldn't fully enjoy my meal because there was the pressure of other customers trying to get a table.

Fortunately, they do have a QR queuing system where they give you a slip and you can scan the QR to check if you're about to be called; So I recommend you get this slip at the start of your visit, go around the sites, then have a table (hopefully) ready for you once you finish walking around.

Hopefully the management comes to an agreement with tour operators (esp. those with larger groups) to get advanced reservations so such a commotion doesn't occur and disturb...

A cozy restaurant inside Sengan-en and you see a spectacular view of Sakurajima. Amazing place to take a lunch break during our visit.

The food was even more amazing, the stuffings inside the fish cake, the freshness of the sashimi and the vegetables, the tastiness of the black pock meat. Everything was simply superb. The price for the lunch is between 1700 to 2600, not bad for a great lunch at a...

Very busy restaurant with pretty view over the Sakurajima volcano, if seated by the window. I would recommend taking a queue number and then go to see the garden, restaurant would sent a SMS when the rime comes. We had two sets, pork and beef, the latter was slightly more expensive, but well worth the money since amount of meat was much more than then the one with pork. Food is...