kobe shabu shabu KAIRA — Restaurant in Kobe

Great Shabu Shabu experience close to the train stations!

For tourists, there is an English menu and the manager tries his best to speak and explain everything in English. Even though we were a few minutes early to opening time, he still let us come in and seated us right away. As a result, we’d say that service was great!

Considering the cuts of meat and costs of everything, we found this meal very reasonable. It was delicious with fresh vegetables AND in the back you can actually see (from a window) them prepare and cut slices of the beef.

If you’re not used to light tasting broth for shabu shabu, you might find it too light but there are delicious homemade dipping sauces that you can enjoy.

The finale is a noodle dish that they can...

every person has to order one set meal - 4000Y for regular beef shabu set, 5000Y for wagyu set, 7800Y for kobe beef set.

tables were messy with dishes that he just pushed aside, and only one guy was the server outside.

regular beef shabu meat was tough and dry, shabu soup base was tasteless and the vegetables set was unimpressive.

there were about 6-8 large slices of meat given. it was not impressive for the price.

server was also messy and preparation table dirty and messy with food lying everywhere. both my friend and i found small bugs in our food.

quite a mid place,...

Basically the food is okay. But if considering the price, you will expect higher quality. For example, one Kobe beef meal is ¥9800, but there are only 10 very thin sliced beef, and the quality is not match with the price. We tried a ¥3380 meal in Osaka, it is much better than that. Average, we spent ¥6000 per person, but we were not full at all. The shop is located underground, and the toilet is not clean. No many people at that time, but the people next to us were speaking very loud. All of that cannot match with its high...