Had been eyeing this place everytime we walked past but it’s constantly filled, though there weren’t much of a queue. Tried on the last day and it was a pretty good ending to the trip - definitely better than what we can get back home.

G’s Tsuchiya tendon (1,050¥) was served in a cute wooden rice bucket, with shrimp, squid and assorted vegetables while I got the half sized Shichifukujin set (1,400¥, comes with 2 shrimps, conger eel, vegetables) because I wanted somen noodles instead of rice. The soup took me by surprise with pleasantly zesty yuzu flavours in it! Batter were light, crunchy; flavourful but not overly so, so you can still taste the true flavours of the fresh ingredients within.

Happily went around telling people how easily we found places serving good food without planning (this was merely in the Eki Marche, ie “Station market”) - and well as it turns out it was opened by a 2-Michelin starred establishment, Shunsaiten Tsuchiya. So yep it’s worth a try and as we went before lunch, we didn’t have to wait😁

📍天丼つちや / Tendon Tsuchiya
Eki Marche Osaka (Osaka Stn)