Hirozen 広膳 — Restaurant in Oshino

Overly expensive mediocre food. We only went because our tour guide took us here and ordered for us. In hindsight, the guide was VERY invested in getting us a lot of food and all of the "famous" items. Who knows what agreements the owners and guides have. This restaurant's only customers were groups of tourists being ushered here by their guides. Definitely a tourist trap. Their "famous" eel was the same quality you'd find at a grocery store ready-to-eat section. Everything cost 4x what the quality was worth. The first thing that threw me off was that they gave me a dirty cup, and only had plain water at the table instead of complimentary tea. Then, the waitress refused to let us take our...

We didn’t stay for the food. After sitting down and seeing the prices we realized we were in a tourist trap. 10 times the price for a really REALLY nice restaurant in Tokyo. They must have many people leave because they didn’t ask us why we were leaving. I’m writing this review while on the way back to Tokyo to hopefully save someone the...

A very authentic restaurant – truly a unique atmosphere. The food might not have matched our usual taste, but it was interesting to try something different. A singer was performing live the whole time, and the place was full of people. Definitely worth trying at least once for...