Shizuka — Restaurant in Nara

An authentic local place serving kamameshi, which is a kind of boiled rice dish, similar to the Chinese or Korean stonepot rice bowls. There is a certain method to eating it which the waitress was able to explain clearly in English.

The flavours were delicate and they serve their dishes with local naruzake pickles which I had wanted to try.

The restaurant was popular with locals. We were the only tourists in about 20 diners at the time.

It was a 15 minute wait at 11am but the line was over twice as long when we left. There is another main store over at Nara Park which is a 15 minute...

Really good authentic taste kamameshi. Flavourful and great texture for the rice. I recommend going for the mixed kamameshi it's more flavourful with the unagi sauce. Sashimi also taste really good. Just be prepared to queue and wait a while for the food to be served because it was really crowded. Service was standard because staff was really busy. Be sure to order all you want to try in the beginning because additional orders will take super long or you don't get to add...

About 10 minutes walk from Nara Train Station.

No queue and got seated right away.

Have choices of seating (chair or tatami)

Environment is warm and welcoming.

Ordered two set lunch. Its quite delicious but we could not finish them as the portion of rice was a bit too much.

For those who wants to visit Nara park, there is another branch...