Tohoku Restaurants

Tohoku's a great place for fresh food, whether from the fields, mountains, forests, or seas. Restaurants range from local sake shacks to upscale sushi bars and steak houses, and dress may be street-casual to office attire, but rarely will it be formal. Menus may not always be in English, but nearly every shop will have its window displays full of plastic representations of the menu. Remember this before you take off your shoes and wiggle your knees across the tatami mats to wedge them under that low table-top. In the cities credit cards work well enough, but out in the countryside few if any places will accept them.