Places to visit Ono

Published on : 18/10/2018
by : M.H.

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.

Website in Japanese

Le gérant de l'auberge — 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 ...).

Website in Japanese

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

Website in Japanese

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

Website in Japanese

To read: Being vegan in Japan

restaurant Tsubame — Tsubame Restaurant
City of Ono

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.

Facebook page

menu à Uomasa — menu in Uomasa
City of Ono

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

Website in Japanese

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€).

Website in Japanese

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

Bain de quartier à Ono — 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.

Finissez vos soirées au bar Yumeya — End your evenings at the Yumeya bar
City of Ono

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.

Website in Japanese

Prenez une tasse de thé ou café à Momonga — Enjoy a cup of tea or coffee at Momonga
City of Ono

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.

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

Website in Japanese

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.

Website in English

For sake breweries: