Night view of Kobe from Mount Shisho. Photo: ja:User:Editor0206 / CC0 (Wikimedia Commons) Halal Gourmet Japan lists 27 restaurants and shops in Hyogo Prefecture (as of October 2026). Eighteen are in Kobe, six are in Himeji, and three are on Awaji Island, in Awaji and Minamiawaji. Whether you want to try Kobe beef or are planning to visit Kobe Mosque, checking where places are and what they offer...
The main keep of Nagoya Castle. Photo: Syced / CC0 (Wikimedia Commons) Halal Gourmet Japan lists 44 restaurants in Aichi Prefecture (as of October 2026). Thirty-three of them are in Nagoya City. If you are spending the day around Nagoya Castle, Sakae and Osu, deciding where to eat in advance makes it easier to plan your route. This guide covers 24 places in Nagoya City whose listing pages show...
Mount Fuji above Lake Kawaguchi. Photo: Marion & Christoph Aistleitner / CC0 (Wikimedia Commons) Halal Gourmet Japan lists ten restaurants around Mount Fuji (as of October 2026). Seven are on the Yamanashi side, in Fujiyoshida, Fujikawaguchiko and Narusawa, and three are on the Shizuoka side, in Gotemba and Oyama. The towns around Mount Fuji are spread out, so deciding in advance where you...
Kouri Bridge. Photo: Takuya ASADA / CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons) Halal Gourmet Japan lists 12 restaurants in Okinawa Prefecture (as of October 2026). Four are in Naha and at Naha Airport, three are in Chatan and Nanjo, and five are in the north of the main island, from Nago to Motobu and Kunigami. The main island of Okinawa is long from north to south, so where you can stop to eat depends on...
The Great Buddha Hall of Todai-ji. Photo: ONO Masanobu / CC0 (Wikimedia Commons) Halal Gourmet Japan lists 12 restaurants in Nara Prefecture (as of October 2026). Eleven are in Nara City, and one is in Oji, Kitakatsuragi District. If you are spending the day around Todai-ji and Nara Park, deciding where to eat in advance makes it easier to plan your route. This guide covers the 10 restaurants...
Kenroku-en. Photo: 663highland / CC BY 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons) Halal Gourmet Japan lists six restaurants in Ishikawa Prefecture (as of October 2026). There is one in Kanazawa and one in Nonoichi, and the other four are in Komatsu. Where you eat depends on whether you are exploring Kanazawa or heading out to Komatsu. This guide covers Kanazawa and Nonoichi first, then Komatsu. The descriptions are...
Fukuoka Tower seen across the Muromi River. Photo: Szabolcs Arany / CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons) Halal Gourmet Japan lists 19 restaurants and shops in Fukuoka Prefecture (as of October 2026). Most of them are in Fukuoka City, and there is another cluster in Kokura and Mojiko in Kitakyushu. Where you eat depends on whether you are exploring Hakata and Tenjin or heading out to Kokura and Mojiko...
The walkway to Narita Airport Terminal 3. Photo: Nesnad / CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons) Halal Gourmet Japan lists seven restaurants and shops at Narita and Haneda airports, and both airports also have prayer spaces in their terminals (as of October 2026). This guide is for travelers who want to eat or pray at the airport, whether right after landing or before a flight. It shows which terminal and...
A handwritten menu at an izakaya. Photo: Ryohei Noda from Tokyo, Japan / CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons) At restaurants in Japan, the menu does not always say whether a dish contains pork or alcohol. And when you try to ask, the staff may not speak English. This article gives you a short note in Japanese that tells restaurant staff you are Muslim and cannot eat pork or drink alcohol, and asks them...
Yakiniku cooking over charcoal. Photo: RuinDig/Yuki Uchida / CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons) Yakiniku is mostly about beef, but being beef does not make meat halal. At a yakiniku restaurant, it is worth checking the sauce and the rest of the menu as well as the meat itself. This guide explains what to check when you eat yakiniku, and what to look at on Halal Gourmet Japan listing pages. Yakiniku...