Places to visit Ono
Find your way around castle town
Small country towns are perfect for an excursion off the beaten track, but the language barrier sometimes prevents visitors from finding the best places to stay, dine and shop. Here's a short guide to Ono, the town around the castle!
Accommodation
Traditional inns ( ryokan ):
- Miuraya ryokan 俵屋旅館
Address: 1-1 Hiyoshi, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81 (0)779-66-3807,
Price: from 5,400 yen per night ($45/40€), 7,020 yen ($57.50/52.50€) with breakfast, and 9,720 yen ($80/75€) with breakfast and dinner.
Good to know: the owners speak English!
- Ogiya ryokan 扇屋旅館
Address: 6-10 Izumi, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81 (0)779-65-5858
Price: from 6,480 yen per night ($55/50€), 7,560 yen ($65/60€) with breakfast, and 11,880 yen ($97.50/92.50€) with breakfast and dinner.
Good to know: view of the castle, near the O-Shozu spring.
- Asahi ryokan 阿さひ旅館
Address: 5-12 Nishiki, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81 (0)779-66-2075,
Price: from 6,000 yen per night ($50/45€), 7,560 yen ($62.50/58.50€) with breakfast, and 10,800 yen ($92.50/87.50€) with breakfast and dinner.
Good to know: a Japanese garden near the temple district.
- Yayoi ryokan 弥生旅館
Address: 10-19 Moto, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81 (0)779-66-2860
Price: from 5,500 yen per night ($47.50/42.50€), 7,000 yen ($57.50/52.50€) with breakfast, and 9,720 yen ($80/75€) with breakfast and dinner.
Good to know: 6 minutes from the station on foot.
Website in Japanese
Youth hostel:
- Cafe & Guest House Name Came Ono カフェ&ゲストハウス ナマケモノ
Address: 7-2 Shinokura, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81 (0)90-5220-5800
Price: from 3,300 yen per night ($27.50/22.50€) for dormitories to 8,000 yen ($67.50/62.50€) for private rooms.
Good to know: Non-coed dormitory in an old refurbished hostel, the hostel team speaks English.
The cafe is open from 11 am to 5 pm and from 6 pm to 10 pm, except on Tuesdays when it closes at 7 pm.
The hostel manager
City of Ono
Bed and breakfast on the farm:
- Konoha 農家民宿このは
Address: 169-52 Minami-rokuroshi, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81 (0)779-67-1217
Price: from 4,500 yen per night ($37.50/32.50€), 5,500 yen ($45/40€) with breakfast, and 7,000 yen ($57.50/52.50€) with breakfast and dinner.
Good to know: closed during the New Year period, and on August 13/14, the host couple offers activities in the heart of nature (cooking lessons, observation of nature, stars, fruit and vegetable picking, organic farming ...).
Konoha Farm
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Restaurants
To taste the best homemade gyoza in town:
- Airaiya 愛来屋
Address: 2-1 Moto, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81 (0)779-65-3686
Opening hours: 6 pm to 11 pm, closed on Sundays
For fans of Japanese sweets, a dango shop:
- Kome no Ka Yumesuke 米の菓ゆめすけ
Address: 110 Yoshino, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81 (0)779-66-3021
Opening hours: 10 am to 6 pm and until 5 pm on Sundays and public holidays, closed on Wednesdays
Eating vegan and vegetarian:
- Tsubame shokudō つばめ食堂
Vegan restaurant specializing in fermented products (macerated vegetables, miso, soy sauce, fruit syrup...).
Address: 11-8 Meirin, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81 (0)779-66-0345
Opening hours: 11:30 am to 6 pm, closed Wednesday and Thursday
To read: Being vegan in Japan
Tsubame Restaurant
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- Uomasa Cafe うおまさCafe
Fish restaurant. Possibility to order a vegetarian dish of Buddhist cuisine (shôjin ryôri) 5 days in advance.
Address: 9-10 Meirin, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81 (0)779-66-4536
Opening hours: 10 am to 6 pm on weekdays, until 10 pm on Saturday and Friday, closed on Tuesday and once in two on Sunday.
menu in Uomasa
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Eat soba noodles:
- Bairin 梅林
Address: 2-6 Tsukimi, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81 (0)779-66-3098
Opening hours: 11 am to 9 pm, closed on Tuesdays
- Meisui Kitchen Oshozu 名水手打ちそばお清水
Address: 3-8 Izumi, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81 (0)779-66-2595
Opening hours: 11 am to 2 pm at noon and 5.30 pm to 11 pm. (10.30 am on Sundays, last entry at 9 pm), closed on Wednesdays and the third Sunday of the month.
See: Visit a soba factory near Ono.
- FUKU SOBA 福そば本店
Address：11-4, Motomachi, Ono, Fukui
Tel：+81 (0)779-66-2930
Hours: 11 am to 2 pm, closed Wednesdays.
You can taste the delicious Echizen oroshi soba, specialties of Fukui prefecture, for 500 yen ($4.25/3.75€).
- EBISUYA ゑびすや
Address：大野市有明町7－18 ariyake
Tel：+81 (0)779-66-3093
Opening hours: 11:30 am to 2 pm and 5:30 pm to 6 pm. Closed on Wednesday.
Website in Japanese
- MEN KOBOKISEYA (有)めん工房木瀬家
Address：大野市中荒井1－804 Narai-cho
Tel：+81 (0)779-66-4513
Hours: 11 am to 2:30 pm and 5 pm to 9 pm. Closed Wednesday and third Tuesday of the month.
- SHICHIKENHONJIN 十割そば処七間本陣
Address：3-20, Motomachi, Ono, Fukui
Tel：+81(0) 779-69-7680
Opening hours: 11 am to 2 pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday.
- Star land SAKADANIスターランドさかだに
Address：福井県大野市蓑道1-4Minomichi
Tel：+81 (0)779-67-7250
Opening hours: 11 am to 2 pm. It is closed on Wednesdays and during the New Year holidays.
The restaurant offers cooking workshops to learn how to make your soba before tasting them (by reservation, 2,500 yen per person, or $20/15€).
Eat sushi:
- Edobun 江戸文
Address: 3-903 Yomei, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81 (0)779-65-4144
Opening hours: 6 pm to 11 pm, closed on Sundays
- Ken-chan けんちゃん
Address: 5-9 Tenjin, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81 (0)779-65-5630
Opening hours: 5:30 pm to 11 am (10 am on Sundays and public holidays), closed on Tuesdays.
- NIKKORI 日古里
Address: 8-16, Motomachi, Ono, Fukui
Tel：+81 (0)779-66-2625
Hours: 10 am to 7 pm.
The oldest sushi restaurant in town.
Read also: The different varieties of sushi.
Public baths
Thermal spring in the middle of nature:
- Hatogayu Onsen 鳩ヶ湯温泉
Address: 6-2 Kamiuchinami, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81 (0)779-65-6808
Opening hours: 11 am to 5 pm on weekdays, from 10 am on weekends, winter closure from the end of November to the end of April
Prices: adult 600 yen ($5/4.50€), over 60 years old 500 yen ($4.25/4€), the possibility of spending the night for 14,000 yen, or $117.50/112.50€ (breakfast and dinner included).
Reservation on the site in Japanese
Neighborhood bath in Ono
City of Ono
Neighborhood public bath ( sentô ):
- Azumayu 東湯
Address: 14-4 Takasago, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81 (0)779-66-2488
Opening hours: 3 pm to 10 pm, closed Tuesday and Friday
Prices: adult 430 yen ($37.50/3.25€), child up to 12 years old 150 yen ($1.25/1€), baby 60 yen ($.50/.40€)
Swimming pool & spa:
- Attaka Land あっ宝んど
Address: 26-101 Minami shinzaike, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81 (0)779-66-7900
Opening hours: 10 am to 11 pm, closed on the second Tuesday of the month
Prices: adult 600 yen ($5/4.50€), child 300 yen ($2.50/2€)
Website in Japanese
Bar and cafe
- Yumeya Bar
Western-style bar, ideal for discovering Ono's nightlife and chatting with the locals who are used to spending their second part of the evening here. The owner is a mountaineering enthusiast, he sometimes takes out his guitar to sing songs, and he invites the inhabitants to do the same one Wednesday a month, leaving a small stage at their disposal.
Address: 11-11 Takasago, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81 (0)779-65-6884
Opening hours: open every day from 7 pm to 2 am.
End your evenings at the Yumeya bar
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- Momonga Coffee モモンガコーヒー
Address: 1F Chuo Kyodo building, 8-17 Moto, Ono, Fukui
Opening hours: 10 am to 7 pm, closed on Tuesday and the third Sunday of the month.
Enjoy a cup of tea or coffee at Momonga
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- Silk du cafe シルク du カフェ
Address: 9-22, Motomachi, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81 (0)779-66-1883
Opening hours: 9 am to 5 pm, closed on Tuesdays.
Come and enjoy a tea or coffee in a former Kimono store.
coffee silk
City of Ono
Shopping
Two shops offer workshops for making toys, flutes, or washi paper under the advice of local artisans:
- The Mokko Factory 手作り工房もっこ
Address: 4-10 Moto, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81 (0)779-66-4341
Opening hours: 9 am to 4 pm from April 1 to December 25 and according to events in February, closed on Mondays, from July to August closed on Thursdays.
- Nikaigura Heisei Onoya 平成大野屋二階蔵
Address: 1-2 Moto, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81 (0)779-69-920
Opening hours: 9 am to 5 pm, closed every Tuesday, winter closure from December 1 to March 20
- Kuzuryū Station 道の駅九頭竜
Address: 26-30-1, Asahi-cho, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81(0) 779-78-2300
Hours: 8:30 am to 6 pm.
Expressway area located between Gifu Prefecture and Ono city center along National Road 158.
- HEISEI ONOYA YUIRAKUZA 平成大野屋 結楽座
Address: 1-2, Motomachi, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81(0)779-69-9200
Hours: 9 am to 4 pm.
Souvenir shop in Yui Square, near the castle.
Shop specializing in fermented products:
- YAMAMOTOMISO SHOYU SHOZO 山元味噌醤油醸造元
Address: 2-8, Motomachi, Ono, Fukui
Phone: +81 (0)779-66-2106
Hours: 8:30 am to 6:30 pm.
- NOMURA SHOYU 野村醤油,
Address: 10-1, Hiyoshi-cho, Ono.
Phone:+81 (0)779-66-2072
Hours: 8 am to 7 pm, closed on New Year's
Prices: to make 150 ml of soy sauce, 1,000 yen ($8/7.50€) per person, duration 1 hour, from 6 years old, group of 2 to 15 people. Reservation two days in advance.
For sake breweries:
- UNO Brewery 宇野酒造場
Address: 3-4 Hon-machi
Phone: +81(0)779-66-2236
Opening hours: 8:30 am to 6:30 pm, closed on Sundays.
- NANBU Brewery 南部酒造場
Address: 6-10 Moto-machi
Tel: +81(0)779-65-8900
Hours: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, generally open on Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays
- GENPEI Brewery 源平酒造
Address: Kaname-cho 1-33,
Tel: +81 (0)779-66-5712,
Hours: 9 am to 5 pm, irregular closing
- MANAZURU Brewery 真名鶴酒造
Address：Meirin-cho 11-3,
Tel：+81 (0)779-66-2909,
Hours: 9 am to 6 pm.
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