"Akashiyaki" is the special food of Akashi! Soft and Fluffy eat it with special soup . Discover the secret and the taste of popular restaurant "Honke Kimuraya"!

Akashiyaki is the soul food in Akashi area in Hyogo prefecture and there are many Akashiyaki restaurants there. Akashiyaki looks like Takoyaki in Osaka but actually it is completely different food.

Akashiyaki is also called Tamagoyaki (Tamago means egg) in Akashi area, as it name suggest, it uses plenty of eggs for its dough and put the octopus in it then cooked fluffy and soft when you eat it put it into the Dashi soup. Akashiyaki is the specialty food in Akashi area.

Around the Akashi station there are many Akashiyaki restaurants. Among them "Honke Kimuraya" is the very popular. There is always a waiting line because their Akashiyaki is always excellent.

We would like to show the secrets of "Honke Kimuraya"'s Akashiyaki and what is different from other restaurants.

What is the ingredients for their dough to make soft and fluffy?
What kind of octopus they use?

If you see their efforts to make Akashiyaki you may find the reason why they are so popular!

Either you have already eaten Akashiyaki several times or never eaten Akashiyaki, please try excellent Akashiyaki at "Honke Kimuraya".

Table of contents for this article

１，Basic and Useful information
２，The taste of Akashiyaki and hidden popular menu "Oden"
３，Akashiyaki Menu
４，Coupon ticket
５，Access information
６，The comment from EnjoyJapan!
７，Tips and things to do around Honke Kimuraya

１，Basic and Useful information

Basic information

Name： Akashiyaki Honke Kimuraya
Name in English： AKASHIYAKI HONKE KIMURAYA
Prefecture： Hyogo
Area： West part of Hyogo (around Akashi)
Postal code：673-0884
Address： 5-23 Kajiyamachi, Akashi-shi, Hyogo
Phone： 078-911-8320
Closed day：

・Every Monday
・There is a irregular holiday on Tuesday one time in a month.
※Please check the official web site

Open：

・Tue - Fri／10:00～17:30
・Sat・Sun・Holiday／9:00〜17:30

※When Akashiyaki is sold out they close earlier.

Official web site：http://honke-kimuraya.com/
Tabelog web site：http://tabelog.com/hyogo/A2804/A280401/28000374/

Useful information

Average price： ¥850～／person
Less than 10 min walk from a station： ◯
Free Wi-Fi： Unknown
Credit Card： ☓
Seat type： 40 seats, only table seat
When should we go： for Lunch／for Snack
Accompanied with： friend／date／family／alone
Staff who can speak foreign language： ☓
Smoking： Not acceptable
Parking： ☓ ※There is a meter parking nearby
To go： 〇
Other useful information：

Akashiyaki is good for the Lunch or Snack rather than for the Dinner.
But there is a waiting line frequently around Lunch times, but before evening there is no congestion normally.

Online shop： They have online shop ※Please see the official web site

２，The taste of "Akashiyaki" and hidden popular menu "Oden"

We show the features of "Honke Kimuraya"'s popular menu "Akashiyaki" and their hidden popular menu "Oden".

The taste of popular restaurant's "Akasiyaki"

Honke Kimuraya's Akashiyaki uses plenty of eggs and broth made from special select "Sea tangle from Hokkaido" and "Salt of Ako" in the dough. They doesn't use any preservative. And they put the fresh octopus from Akashi fish market in the rich flavored dough then it is cooked soft and fluffy.

Akashiyaki is severed on the wooden plate and 20 pieces is per person .

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Photo： Akashiyaki dough and secret Dashi soup

Put the fluffy cooked Akashiyaki into the Honke Kimuraya's secret dashi soup. It is no exaggeration to say that the dashi soup is the important element of its taste same as fluffy dough and technique of cooking. This dashi soup was made only for the Akashiyaki, please try and taste it.

Akashiyaki is served very hot so everyone say "It's hot, it's hot!" for the fist bite. But this is the important point to enjoy delicious Akashisyaki, eat it while it is hot.

Also, there is another way to enjoy Honke Kimuraya's Akashiyaki besides eating with dashi soup. Please try to eat Akashiyaki with "Special sauce" or "Salt" too.

The Special sauce tastes like the sauce of Takoyaki in Osaka, the rich flavor and sweetness of the sauce fills your mouth when you take a bite.
Eating with the salt, you can taste the flavor of the dough as it is. Because they have confidence of their dough of Akashiyaki, they propose to eat it only with salt.

Hidden popular menu "Oden"

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Photo： Honke Kimuraya's Oden

Of course, the specialty of Honke Kimuraya is "Akashiyaki". But actually "Oden" is also their specialty and popular menu for the repeat customers. Especially, Octopus Oden tastes very good. It is served whole size of its one leg and it has a rich flavor of dashi soup.

Please order the Oden with Akashiyaki.

３，Honke Kimuraya's Akashiyaki menu

Honke Kimuraya which has always a waiting line has just one Akashiyaki menu. But the great feature of Honke Kimuraya is not only Akashiyaki, but also hidden popular menu "Oden". Especially "Octopus Oden" is the best menu of Oden. Also they have a lot of other menus.

Their Specialty, Akashiyaki (Tamagoyaki) menu

●For one person： ¥850 ※20 pieces

It is possible to share it with 2 persons, if 20 pieces is too many.

Hidden popular Oden menu

●Specialty Octopus：¥500
●Beef tendon：¥250
●Daikon(radish)：¥150
●Chikuwa：¥150
●Tamago(boiled egg)：¥150
●Jagaimo(potato)：¥150
●Konnyaku：¥150
●Burdock Tempura：¥150
●Atsuage(thick fried Tofu)：¥150
●Tofu：¥150

４，Coupon Ticket

You can get the coupon ticket of Honke Kimraya from the official web site.

●Coupon：

・Akashiyaki ¥100 off ticket

●The condition of use

・To use the coupon ticket, please print out or show the page of the ticket on the cellphone to the staff .
・One ticket is valid for only one Akashiyaki.
・You can't use the ticket for other menu.

●Get the Honke Kimuraya's coupon here

▶Download the ticket

５，Access information

Postal code：673-0884
Address： 5-23 Kajiyamachi, Akashi-shi, Hyogo
Tel：078-911-8320
Transportation(by Train)：

8 min walk from JR line "Akashi" station
8 min walk from Sanyo train "Sanyo Akashi"

Let's see the "Honke Kimuraya" and around by Google street view!

It is useful that check the Honke Kimuraya's restaurant and the streets around it in advance.

６，The comments from EnjoyJapan!

First time in Akashi, it is difficult to decide the restaurant where you eat Akashi yaki. It is not bad that you buy some Akashi yaki different and compere their taste. Each restaurant has different taste and most of them are good.

But we recommend to eat the first Akashi yaki at "Honke Kimuraya" where there is always a waiting line.

We show you the best way to enjoy this Akashiyaki. First, eat it with secret Dashi soup (Japanese broth made from fish and kelp), then put the salt on Akashiyaki and taste the dough as it is. At last please put the original sauce.
This is the best way EnjoyJapan! recommend to enjoy Honke Kimuraya's Akashiyaki. Please taste the great harmony of cold beer and hot Akashiyaki at Honke Kimuraya!

７，Tips and things to do around Honke Kimuraya

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