Obon-de-gohan - Happiness Connection

Restaurant Review by A. I.

Today I will introduce Obon-de-gohan (おぼん de ごはん). This restaurant serves handmade food for a balanced diet in a cafe style. The menu items are mainly vegetables, meat, and fish, and these ingredients are used in their cooking. And there are various types of rice, such as polished rice, gokoku hijiki rice, and black rice. These are healthy varieties of rice. Even the desserts are healthy. For example, other restaurant's desserts are made of flour, but this cafe uses soba flour. Regular flour is higher in calories (368 kcal, per 100g), than soba flour (359 kcal, per 100 g), so soba flour will help you stay slim.

There are about 58 menu items. All of the items offer a balanced diet, such as the set meal with beef, the set meal with fish, and the set meal with vegetables and tofu. If you order the set meal, you can choose freely a main dish and the type of rice, and you get a small bowl of miso soup. You can have as much rice and miso soup as you like. You also get a big bowl of salad and pickles.


The salad set comes with a stone oven roll, pumpkin soup, and dressing. The dressing is original, and there are grated carrots and onions. Udon comes in a small bowl with pickles. You can order udon warm or cold.

Ochazuke comes with polished rice, soup, a small bowl of seasonings, bean curd, pickles and spice. You can order as much rice and soup as you like. The menu has a drink and dessert set. Desserts include crepes, cake, parfait, and ice cream.

The price of all menu items is about one thousand yen. The seven dish set is a good deal at that price.

I went to the Tsurumi store's Obon-de-gohan. I ordered the ochazuke (yakishake-to-ikura-no-oyakodashichazuke.) The price was 983 yen. I ate this meal for the second time. The soup stock had a peculiar flavor. Generally, ochazuke is soup stock, tea and hot water, but this soup stock combined kelp and chicken soup.The rice and soup stock taste is very delicious.

I recommend putting the salmon roe, salmon, konbu, and a leaf on the rice, and pouring the soup over it. It is the most delicious way to eat it!! I had one helping of rice, so I was full.

The cafe's atmosphere is good. When I went at dinner time, this cafe was crowded and there were mostly women in the cafe. I think this restaurant provides a healthy meal. Obon-de-gohan is a relaxing cafe, so when people finish eating, they stay a long time.

Obon-de-gohan is on the sixth floor of Cial Tsurumi at the east exit of JR Tsurumi Station. Dusk is the best time for a  good view. If you go to Cial Tsurumi, you should go to Obon-de-gohan!!

Obon-de-gohan (おぼん de ごはん Tsurumi location) 
Address: Cial Tsurumi 1-1-2, 6F
               Tsurumi-ku, Tsurumi-chuo,  Yokohama
Phone: 045-508-5896
Open: 11:00-22:30 (Last order 22:00)
URL: http://www.obon-de-gohan.com/about/