Fuji Tempura IDATEN Miyakominami — Restaurant in Miyakojima

Worst food I've ever eaten in Japan in the last 10 years. I was fooled I by the high grades because the restaurant is giving free drink to each person leaving a positive comment on Google Maps. I couldn't chew through the mushroom tempura, nor the tonkatsu because the meat was full of fat. The karaage was disgustingly greasy. The rest of the food was just bland.

Worst of all, it's expensive, there no toilet inside, and the smell of grease premated our clothes.

If you end up in this restaurant, you have 3 options.

#1 leave and go somewhere else, the parking has other options. #2 order a beer, possibly a miso soup in self service, and sweet potao tempura, those were good #3 Try the ramen, udon or soba, we did not try it but it can't be that terrible.

Apart from that, staff was nice and fun, and the...

This place is great! We’ve gone twice and plan to go again. The staff is very friendly and welcoming, and go out of their way to help us in English (we’re foreigners), with a good sense of humor and relaxed vibe. This whole place is very low-stress and easy (parking is easy, ordering is easy, miso/rice bar is easy, paying is easy, etc.). The house special “Fuji big shrimp volcano” is fun (and a good amount of food for two people, add a small veggie tempura plate if you want to be super full). We also like to get one each of the big shrimp bowl if we’re not looking for a huge meal. All the pieces of tempura are...

Keiko was our instructor and she was awesome! We did the Umai ramen class. The ramen was incredible. We started by making noodles from scratch all the way through boiling them. Then we got to add all our toppings and torch our meat choice. Keiko was awesome about taking lots of pictures and making us feel like home. She even wrote out our names in Japanese. Ramen factory is a 10/10 experience and I would highly recommend...