Gomangoku Ochiai store

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Nakatsugawa-shi, Gifu prefecture has a lot to offer: grand mountains, beautiful lake and Magomejuku, a restored old Shukuba town of Edo era. Gomangoku Ochiai store is a long-standing restaurant founded in 1972 in this Nakatsugawa-shi. This place is pretty popular not only among locals but also among travelers for its reasonable priced regional cuisine made with fresh local products. Especially Shoyu Katsu Don is one of the musts, and many people visit this restaurant for this menu.

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Locally grown ingredients

At Gomangoku, many ingredients such as buckwheat flour and Hida Minou Kenton pork are locally produced. The Hida Minou Kenton pork is used for the famous Shoyu Katsu Don. The feeding for these swine includes yomogi herb and the meat has less fat and very tender.

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Unique dish with soba sauce

The most popular menu here is Shoyu Katsu Don （840 yen）. The just-fried tonkatsu, deep fried pork cutlet is crunchy outside, tender and juicy inside. The rice bowl with tonkatsu on top and special soy sauce made with soba sauce and vegetable is a unique dish of Nakatsugawa-shi.

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Delicious soba sauce

Their menu of soba, buckwheat noodles made with Gifu’s buckwheat flour is also popular. Our recommendation is Zaru soba （730 yen） where you can enjoy the aromatic flavor of buckwheat. The soba sauce made with saba fish flakes from Kyoto is so good that you probably want to try to sip itself.