Katagirisan — Restaurant in Yakushima

On my first visit to the island in about six and a half years I visited Yakushima. During my last meal on the island last time, this restaurant had just opened, but the warm hospitality and delicious food I received was worth it. So I went to this restaurant for the first dinner of this first trip in a long time. It had been upgraded to a very spacious restaurant.

The restaurant seemed to be full as soon as it opened on 7 May, and when I entered, a sign announced that the restaurant was full and that I could not wait in the restaurant.

The sign said to write your name and number of people in a binder if you want to wait. However, the binder was hidden under the sign, and I was unsure what to do with it, but when no one from the hall came out to help me, I picked up the hidden binder. I looked inside the restaurant again, trying to write my name. But there was no one there and the cook in the kitchen told me to wait outside, so I didn't have to write this binders? I confirmed that this was the case. the cook did so, nodded and went back to work, so I was outside on my own. I stood there for a while but no one came out. A little further on, another Korean customers entered the restaurant for the stamp rally, and a hall attendant flew in, smiled, responded, gave them a gift and saw them off. But she completely ignored me standing nearby and went back inside the restaurant. I stood quietly in the space next to the door, a little shocked. But eventually 20 minutes went by and no one approached the clerk. But time was running out and I gave up on dinner at that restaurant and went back hotel.

It was a return visit to a restaurant I had been looking forward to during my time on my favourite island of Yakushima after a long absence. But it was a most sad and disappointing time. I never tried that restaurant again after that. I would have been sad if I had been treated in the same way.

It is great that the restaurant has expanded due to its popularity. But if you are treated like this, the restaurant must have lost its taste. It is obvious from the restaurant's response what they are offering.

As a Japanese person, I feel that Japan has left a lot of things behind with the increase in the number of inbounds. I usually work in the customer service industry in Kyoto, so I feel this...

I was actually quite excited to try flying fish and googled this place to try out, went there at night but they have already sold out, so we decided to try out other dishes instead.

We got ourselves some tonkatsu fried pork cutlet which use local pork and also a uni (sea urchin) and seaweed wasabi pasta and a kaarage chicken.

I really wished I got to try out what they are popular because the tonkatsu and kaarage was not really one of the better ones we had in our trip, the pasta was good with the right amount of wasabi flavour to compliment the uni flavour and there was just the right amount of garlic and olive oil in there to tie everything together.

Hopefully one day I can come back to try what they are great at so till...

Staff were very kind and accommodating in making us vegan and nut-free (allergies) pasta as their menu is not very vegan-friendly. Not sure if they understood entirely what vegan means so show them a list of what you can and can't have. The pasta was actually quite good with some veggies mixed in! Salad on the side had no seasoning but veggies were...