10 Foods to Try at Toei Kyoto Studio Park
At the newly renovated Toei Kyoto Studio Park, you can casually enjoy Kyoto cuisine, traditional sweets, cafés, and other tastes from the old capital.
Another highlight is enjoying them amid streets designed to look like the Edo period.
There are 10 food and drink outlets in Toei Kyoto Studio Park, offering everything from lunch to sweets.
They are gathered along the main street that runs straight from the entrance, so you can compare the atmosphere of different shops
and easily decide where to eat.
Townspeople Visit the Restaurants Too: An Immersive Experience
Characters from the 360° Real-Time Drama may work as restaurant staff and street callers,
or browse the shops as customers, making dining part of the immersive experience.
Lunch and Dinner at Toei Kyoto Studio Park
Many food outlets at Toei Kyoto Studio Park offer items suitable for eating while walking, from light snacks to full lunches. A typical budget is about US$6.25–US$15.63.
Shuiro Maguro
This shop lavishly uses southern bluefin tuna delivered directly from fishing ports, along with several other varieties of tuna.
It is a tuna specialty shop where you can enjoy sashimi, tatsuta-age fried tuna, fries, croquettes, tuna with pickled daikon, and more.
Sake and beer are also available, making it a stylish spot to enjoy tuna with a drink.
The Tuna Parfait is an original Shuiro Maguro item available only at the Studio Park.
It is topped with salmon roe, combining eye-catching presentation with the rich taste of tuna.
Price: US$10.31
Tuna tatsuta-age and fries seasoned with tuna flavor.
The freshly fried tatsuta-age was especially delicious.
Price: US$5.00
Mion
This directly operated shop of Kyoto Brewing Co., a craft brewery in Kyoto’s Minami Ward, pairs spice curry with craft beer.
Mion two-curry plate: US$13.75, plus craft beer
The plate combines chicken curry and bean curry.
Kyoto Brewing craft beer Sukedachi: Small (200 ml) US$4.69; Large (400 ml) US$8.13
Kyoto Niomon Gozaru
This shop serves both meals and sweets, including a yuba rice bowl, fragrant tea soba, and fresh warabi mochi made with roasted kinako and Uji matcha.
Unoya
A popular luxury set lets you enjoy fragrant grilled eel and flavorful beef together.
The menu includes Samurai, Ninja, and Shogun sets; the photo shows the Shogun set.
Three-color dango is also recommended after your meal.
Torisei
A chicken specialty restaurant centered on yakitori.
Simmered chicken rice bowl: US$6.25
Double yakitori: US$10.00; single: US$5.31
Studio Park yakitori rice box: US$9.06
Fried chicken: US$5.63
Spicy Ninja fried chicken: US$6.25
Samurai rice cracker: US$5.31
Grilled rice ball: US$4.69
Ninja Sanzoku-yaki chicken: US$8.13
Mimikou
The signature curry udon uses no curry roux or animal fat. Eleven spices are blended, and potato starch creates a light, gentle thickened broth.
Sweets at Toei Kyoto Studio Park
You can enjoy Kyoto-style Japanese sweets and photogenic desserts.
zarame -gourmet cotton candy-
Using a proprietary sugar blend, each item is carefully topped with selected ingredients, mainly from Kyoto and elsewhere in Japan. These Kyoto cotton candies are designed not only to look cute, but also to highlight aroma and a lingering finish.
The menu includes cotton-candy dango, Kyoto cotton candy, and lattes.
We tried the Uzunosuke matcha latte with brown-sugar warabi mochi, priced at US$5.94.
Its cute expression makes you hesitate before eating it,
but the bittersweet matcha and the mature flavor of brown-sugar warabi mochi make a satisfying combination.
The Beni-Midori cotton-candy dango, priced at US$6.25, has two large cotton candies arranged on a stick.
As the photo shows, it is extremely large,
but the two flavors—sakura milk and Kyoto matcha latte—let you alternate bites without getting tired of it.
It was delicious.
You can sit inside and enjoy it at a relaxed pace,
or take a photogenic picture with the oversized cotton candy.
This photo was taken under a cherry tree.
Sawai Shoyu Honten
This shop is operated by a long-established soy sauce maker and offers items available only here.
Its specialty is sweets and light meals made with soy sauce. The addictive sweet-and-savory flavors are especially popular.
SASAYAIORI + Toei Kyoto Studio Park
Kyoto confectioner Sasaya Iori has opened a Japanese café serving dorayaki and other traditional sweets.
Uzu Chaya
An original teahouse created for the Studio Park.
Uzu Chaya menu
The menu includes Uzu Chaya parfait, ice cream, Uji matcha green tea, chilled Uji matcha ginger syrup drink, gyokuro hojicha, samurai coffee, Uzumasa cider, and alcoholic hiyashi-ame available only at night.
This is the only shop located near the samurai residence.
Its location makes it easy to stop by before or after the bridal procession.
Exchange rate used: US$1 = ¥160.
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