Kyogoku Kaneyo

Unagi restaurant · Kyoto-shi

Kyogoku Kaneyo

Unagi restaurant · Kyoto-shi

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456 Matsugaecho, Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto, 604-8034, Japan

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Eel & omelet kinshidon bowls, charcoal-grilled eel, tatami seating  

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456 Matsugaecho, Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto, 604-8034, Japan Get directions

kyogoku-kaneyo.co.jp

¥2,000–4,000 · Menu

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456 Matsugaecho, Nakagyo Ward, Kyoto, 604-8034, Japan Get directions

+81 75 221 0669
kyogoku-kaneyo.co.jp

¥2,000–4,000 · Menu

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Oct 8, 2025

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"This eel restaurant has been in business for seven generations, dating back to the Meiji period. Every day finds the shop crowded with customers, many seeking its signature dish of ‘Kinshi Don’: rice covered in dipping sauce and topped with Edo-style eel and a large Kyoto-style omelette. What makes this east-west marriage of flavours work so well is the dipping sauce, a staple since the restaurant’s inception. The Kanto-style kabayaki, which involves steaming eel before grilling and dipping it in sauce, is a technique from a cook recruited from Tokyo during the founder’s generation. In both looks and taste, Kyogoku Kaneyo bears traces of Japan’s east and west." - Michelin Inspector

https://guide.michelin.com/en/kyoto-region/kyoto/restaurant/kyogoku-kaneyo
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Wye Tan

Google
I like the taste of the unagi here. Charcoal grilled, plain and simple. Plenty of seats avaliable on a Saturday evening downstairs. The wonderful smell of charcoal lingers in the restaurant, I suspect from over more than a 100 years of grilling eel. Definitely pricey.

IKM

Google
30 Dec 2024 There is nothing special about this place. Popular, maybe because of the history of this place. It said it has been over 100 years since the end of the Meiji era. The unagi taste just so so, Service is really bad. The waiter who serves our table looks like he has been forced to do the work 😂 For me, seating on the floor and eating is hard and uncomfortable. If you wanna try this place, request sitting on the first floor where the table is. The second floor is all sitting on the floor. And yes, this place is expensive compared to other unagi restaurants.

Aatish Bhatia

Google
Great meal. The eel is very tender and melts in your mouth. I would visit again. My only complaint is that although we arrived before it opened, had a reservation and were at the front of the line, they invited the Japanese guests with reservations to enter before us. But I don't think this was intentional, just an honest mistake.

wen

Google
Came across this place as it’s relatively near hotel. Was told it’s Michelin bib. We ordered a medium size and added a chicken wing as sides. The taste is indeed on a lighter side and i added the pepper and soya to make it tastier.

Amir Amer

Google
The place itself offers an authentic Kyoto experience. It’s a beautiful wooden 2-story building where you can see the eel being grilled through the front window. The service is fast and staff are friendly / welcoming. We went right at dinner reopening time around 5pm and were ushered to a table right away. As for the food: the eel itself seemed fresh and of good quality, yet its preparation didn’t much agree with our taste: the sauce was runny rather than the usually thick unagi sauce and the char was a bit too flavor-dominant. Yet overall consistency/tenderness was good. I would recommend the place for an authentic experience but wouldn’t go too heavy on the food.

Peter Li

Google
I don’t recommend this eel restaurant. The taste is not bad but not match its price the roast eel tastes like salt candle and a little bit bitter. I would rather to have a sukiya eel set. I would like to suggest you to investigate your local restaurant evaluating app to check it before ordering

origami is my army

Google
Wow! The eel! Plain, no sauce, the best way. Omelette, eel on rice was also delectable. Highly recommended. I have to return when I am in Kyoto again.

Miwa Sakurai

Google
Kyogoku Kaneyo is a long-established eel specialty restaurant that has been in business for over 100 years. Originally it was a 3-story store, but the 3rd floor was destroyed in a fire, and now it is open as a 2-story building. Around the Shinkyogoku shopping street, which changes with the times, the historic wooden architecture that reminds us of old Kyoto is now a precious existence.