About 31 minutes by car from Naha Airport. This tempura restaurant is located in the northern part of Okutake Island, Nanjo City in the southern part of Okinawa’s main island. Unlike tempura on the mainland, the batter is seasoned so you can eat it as if it were a snack. Eating tempura while looking at the beautiful ocean is the best!
Point 1: Surprisingly close? What is the location of Nakamoto Fresh Fish Tempura Restaurant?
Nakamoto Fresh Fish Tempura Restaurant is located in the northern part of an island called Okujima in Nanjo City, in the southern part of Okinawa’s main island. It is also famous as an island of cats.
It is surprisingly close to Naha Airport, about 31 minutes by car, and by bus: from the airport, take Naha Bus No. 111 bound for International Passenger Terminal (for Naha Bus Terminal), take Toyo Bus No. 37 bound for Nanjo City Hall at “Kuniba”, and transfer to a Nanjo City bus at the final stop at Nanjo City Hall to get to Okubujima. The store is located right next to the bus stop.
Or take the Yui Rail from the airport to Asahibashi or Ryukyu Bus 111 to Naha Bus Terminal, then take Ryukyu Bus No. 50 bound for Kamiizumi (for Yogi Crossroad) from “Naha Bus Terminal Nori-ba 9”,
Get off at “Okutake Iriguchi (for Hyakumei)” and you can walk to the restaurant in 14 minutes without changing buses.
Okutake Island is called the “holy land of tempura,” and the best part is that it is inexpensive, costing only 100 yen per piece! The price used to be about 75 yen, so the price is still on the rise!
Anyway, the cheap price and the delicious taste are so great that there is no end to the number of people who come to the southern part of Japan to eat tempura.
There is a parking lot for about 8 cars 30 meters from the restaurant.
Point 2: Introduction of types of tempura at “Nakamoto Fresh Fish Tempura Restaurant”!
AASANakamoto Fresh Fish Tempura Restaurant offers a wide variety of tempura.
Tempura in Okinawa is different from that in mainland Japan in that the batter is seasoned, so you can eat it as if it were a snack without soup stock. And since the ingredients are freshly harvested, it tastes great!
In addition to the standard Mozuku (seaweed) and fish, there are 19 varieties of squid, potato, vegetable, crab cakes, chikuwa, red sweet potato, taro, red sweet potato croquette, potato, asa, glutinous potato, wiener, shrimp, quail egg, Menchikatsu, fried bread, and Sataa Andagi (Okinawan doughnut cake)!Zindagi (Okinawan doughnut cake)!Andagi (Okinawan doughnut cake)!Andagi (Okinawan doughnut cake)!
Most of them are priced at 100 yen each. Shrimp and Menchikatsu are 150 yen, fried bread is 160 yen, and five pieces of Sata ata Andagi are 500 yen, which is still cheaper than on the mainland. Andagi is 500 yen, which is still cheaper than on the mainland.
Even if you are hungry and don’t want just tempura, the fried bread and Sataa Andagi will fill you up. Zindagi will fill you up.
Point 3: Guide to the Nakamoto Fresh Fish Tempura Restaurant in the vicinity of Okutakejima Island
On the second floor of Nakamoto Fresh Fish Tempura Restaurant, there is a restaurant called “Eatery Maruten,” where you can enjoy “Maruten Gozen” (2,500 yen), which includes tempura, mini seafood rice bowl and Okinawa soba, “Maruten Set Meal” (1,600 yen), which is limited to 15 servings, sashimi, grilled mackerel and other set meals, and dessert such as Okinawa soba Zenzai. You can also enjoy a wide variety of desserts such as Okinawa soba Zenzai (a sweet red bean soup with soy sauce).
It is also recommended for those who want to eat more than just tempura at the restaurant.
Okutake Island is a “mecca for tempura,” and there is also a tempura restaurant in the southern part of the island called “Oshiro Tempura Shop.
This one is slightly more famous, with the same lineup as Nakamoto Fresh Fish Tempura Restaurant, but the crab cakes are said to be the best. The price has also gone up from before, to 100 yen for all.
If you come to Okinawa, you should try their “Tempura”!
