Anagomeshi Ueno あなごめしうえの

The anago was well grilled and you can easily taste the slight smoky burnt. The sauce that’s applied was just right to marinate the eel as it was grill and the rice fragrance wasn’t badly masked by sauce. The star of the anago meshi was the add-on grilled plain anago (shiromi). You really taste the smoky burnt from the grilling. It pairs well with the wasabi and salt provided. As it’s a popular place, you could put down your name and wait in a warm indoor area next door with seats provided. The menu was simple with three sizes of anago meshi to choose from and you can add on the plain grilled or grilled sauced anago.

Very very long wait - we waited almost 2hours on Monday lunch time. However it was delicious!

Lovely little eel place in-between the ferry and the station. Perfect way to end the day! Bento box for takeaway also available.

Hugely popular anago restaurant, and justifiably so. Smokey flavour with a slightly chewy texture - very tasty. Beautiful old building, with wonderful old furniture pieces.

I tried Anago for the first time and it was incredibly delicious. The yuzu sansho? was an amazing spice and absolutely perfect. It might feel a bit light on volume for younger folks.

First time try conger eel. It really surprised me a lot. The charcoal flavor is perfect and the savory taste is awesome. Not very sweet. I am a savory lover and this dish is really really perfect salty with unknown sauce. And the fishy smell is zero!

My first visit was in February 2020, pre-Covid. This time in November 2022 where Japan is still practising social distancing. There are acrylic partitions at the tables for the purpose. Anago in comparison to unagi is less fatty and perhaps our preference in leaning towards a unagi Don. We ordered a large bowl to share, the Anago is pretty charred and lean. I would have preferred more seasoning in the rice. This store is really famous and popular, there is a queue which you may not see outside the shop as once you register your name , you will wait next door . This is a must to try when in Anago town 🫰🏻

A great place to try another Hiroshima favorite, conger eel. However, this place is very popular, so be prepared to wait at least 30min. If you want to avoid the line, you can always skip it if you get take-out. Crowd Size: Very High (35min wait) Payment Method: Credit Card

I love eel so I wanted to try the eel in Hiroshima as it is different from the eel rice elsewhere. This place doesn't take reservations. We came at 5 and only waited a few minutes. The menu is basically just eel- large or small sizes. I wanted so badly to like this dish. The eel itself is interesting- it has a dense, more dry texture, which I did like. My issue with the dish was that it as incredibly salty. I'm not sure if I came on an off day but my tongue was numb from the salt by the end. I also was digging to the bottom trying to get to rice that hadn't touched the eel as the sauce made the rice salty too. I ended up chugging water all night after. Again, I am not sure if I came on an off day but I wouldn't come back here again, let alone line up.

After getting off the train at Miyajimaguchi station, we stopped by here before heading off to Miyajima island. I heard that this restaurant is famous for their salt water eel so we bought 2 bentos at 3,880 yen to eat on the island. The eel was pretty good but not something I would be craving and missing after leaving Japan. I'd get it again because I don't know what else is popular in the area and it was still tasty. The restaurant opens at 10AM and there's usually a line so that's why we opted for the bento box which is 0 wait time.

I came to Anagomeshi Ueno on a Wednesday afternoon with a group of four after a long grueling hike up Mt. Misen on Miyajima island. There was quite a long wait in order to get a table as this restaurant is quite famous for their unagi so my group opted to just order take-out and eat on some "benches" on the sidewalk. Their take-out box comes in some very nice wrapping which makes the whole experience feel somewhat fancy shmancy. The contents are fairly simple though, consisting of a bed of rice with pieces of eel on top. They also put a little bit of pickled vegetables in the corner of the box to add something with a sour taste. The eel is most certainly unique in flavor and texture. It's more dry than the typical unagi so it produces a less mushy texture and adds a bit of chewiness to it. The eel has a lot of char flavor, similar to what one might get from grilling meat atop a charcoal grill. The dry and char attributes of the unagi really makes it stand out from the crowd for a more unique and interesting experience. The rice that comes with the unagi is great as well. It soaks in some of the flavor from the eel, giving the rice a hint of umami flavors. The rice is very similar to sushi rice, and like the eel, is more on the hard and dry side as opposed to moist.

Heard that Miyajima was famous for their anago (conger eel) and that Ueno was one of the top rated anago donburi restaurants in the area. Being a huge fan of unagi, I was really looking forward to trying anago. My friends and I came to Miyajima early (9AM), so we decided to head to the Miyajima island first and hike up to Mt. Misen before returning back to the mainland at about 1:30PM. When we arrived at Ueno, we waited for a short time before the lady took our order. They only had takeout options at the time, we ordered two bento boxes to share for four people. The anago was beautifully presented, lined perfectly on top of the rice. The anago was very fresh, but it was a lot less flavorful than unagi (probably because unagi comes with a lot of sauce) and the texture was more dry and chewy. Overall, the anago bento was very unique and a good experience, but I felt it lacked a bit compared to good unagi meals I had in Japan. Nevertheless, I recommend giving Ueno a try!

When in Rome...get the Eel bento box. We visited Miyajima today and saw the line forming outside this famous restaurant before it even opened at 10 am. We knew it would be the place to stop on the way home. We arrived roughly at 12:15 and when we did, there was more than a 1 hour wait for a table, but a 30 minute wait to take a bento box to go. We opted for the latter and are glad we did. The eel was delicious, as were the pickled accompaniments. We are sad to not have sat down in the restaurant as I imagine there were likely some sauces or other components offered to the "to stay" guests. No matter - it was still worth the visit, despite the hefty 1700 yen price tag (judging by prices for a similar dish at our hotel, conger eel just doesn't come cheap, so be prepared to pay for it no matter where you go). Definitely fun to try something very local and beloved. Do plan on a visit to Ueno if you head to Miyajima, but get there early if you'd like an in-house experience.

This is the famous Ueno restaurant for that delicious conger eel! I didn't want to wait two hours in queue so I just got the Bento box right away and ate it in front of the Torii on the island! It was yummy, but this review is based on on the bento box maybe the taste would be different in the restaurant? I paid about 1,938 Yen or so and got there around 10AM as I was leaving there was a queue forming for the bento boxes, perhaps my good looks or Mumin t-shirt started a trend. Only Japanese speaking people were in queue while the tourists rushed to get to the ferry that comes every 15 minutes, but you know those tourists, running always like there's a Godzilla attack. Just a note there are deer on the island like Nara park so watch out for them while you eat, deers like eels too!

I've never been a fan of eel especially since in Cali they over cook it and it tastes fishy. We headed over here after a day at Miyajima Island. There wasn't a wait when we got there but most of the tables were full. They had an English menu with the set meal pricing. $24 for large, $20 for regular and $17.50 for small. I got the small one and it came out in about 10-15 mins. It came with a tiny bowl of miso soup and a dish of pickled veggies. The rice that came with the eel was delicious. The eel is steamed with it so there was a lot of flavor in the rice. The eel was soft and not fishy tasting at all. Pretty mild flavor. There was a little eel sauce on top. This eel is called a conger eel so it's different from the sushi unagi eel. (I prefer the unagi one more because it's even softer) Seems like there was way more rice than eel haha but I still finished all the rice because it was seasoned so well. They have one bathroom and it's a squatty potty.

Cash Only. We had a small and a medium (nami) Anago Meshi and we loved it. The small size was easily enough to filled me up. We visited at noon on a Thursday and luckily there was no line. Small: 1,512 yen Medium (Nami): 1,728 yen Food: four stars Service: three stars

Great dining experience. The sushi served on Wednesdays was served in a bamboo box. The eel was fresh and tasty without any wasabi. It needed no further flavoring