Ajikura tengoku

I love Hida Beef and have visited many nice restaurants on my last visit to Takayama but this place - no words. Perfection! Just that! Everything, from the meat to the soup, just anything on the menu, tasted perfect. The moment I saw the meat, I knew it was of very high quality. The special cuts were extremely marbled, and the meat simply melted inside my mouth. I was very impressed! I would definitely come back if I’m in Takayama!

The only bad thing is that they have a very limited number of seats available every day, so you’ll have to line up quite early before they open. For example, we wanted to secure a table for the 5pm dinner round, so we arrived at 4:15pm to queue up. When we got there, there were already 5 groups queuing up in front of us, so we really thought we couldn’t make it! Once they finish selling tickets for the day, they just stop accepting customers. So please come early!