Arashiyama Gyatei
SaveA restaurant serving Kyoto home-style obanzai for about thirty years, with eighty seats.
A window at street level sells rice balls and skewers of nama-fu to eat on the chairs outside.
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The name comes from a line of the Heart Sutra and means go as you please. A priest of Tenryuji temple gave it, about thirty years ago. Kyoto vegetables arrive each morning from partner farms and the market, and stock drawn from kelp and bonito underpins everything, pickles and sweets included. Most of the eighty seats are box seats for six. The signature dish is rice under a thick yuba sauce.
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| Indoor / outdoor | Indoor & outdoor | The restaurant is indoors on the first floor. The ground-floor cafe is ordered from a separate entrance and eaten either inside or on chairs out front | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | arashiyama-gyatei.com |
| Stroller access notesExtra info — guide only | Yes | The restaurant is upstairs. If the stairs to the first floor are difficult, tell a member of staff and you will be seated on the ground floor. There are 80 seats in all, and most of them are box seats for six | Web-checked | checked Aug ’26 | arashiyama-gyatei.com |
Worth a look before you go
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Arashiyama: a Kyoto obanzai set meal at Gyatei
Fifteen groups waiting at 11:30. Take a QR ticket at the door, watch it on your phone; back at 12:00, seated in five.
gion-by-wemla.com2022
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Checking Arashiyama Gyatei's menu: can you book? (Kyoto obanzai lunch)
Seating is upstairs, stairs only, so no wheelchairs or strollers. Arrived 10:50 in blossom season, seated 11:05.
kyotopoi.net2024
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Kyoto, Arashiyama: Gyatei's chewy nama-fu dengaku, made for eating on the move
Ground-floor takeaway window, ticket machine. Nama-fu dengaku in three flavours, sesame, mugwort, millet, 750 yen.
gourmetyossy-blog.com2022
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Gyatei: Princess Cinderella
The set changes by season; this was summer. A refit a year earlier turned a buffet into small bowls. Park at Tenryuji.
pricin.exblog.jp2024
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- Fee：Obanzai set meals ¥1,980, ¥2,980, and the Gyatei set ¥3,480 (tax included). Rice bowls from ¥1,780. Downstairs: rice balls ¥400 each, nama-fu dengaku ¥300 a skewer■
- Hours：Restaurant 11:00-14:30 (last order). The ground-floor Kyo-Komusubi Cafe runs 10:00-16:00 and closes on Wednesdays (with irregular closures)■
- Time needed：60 min
- Booking：Bookings up to the day before are taken online only, not by phone, and they fix a date rather than a time. On the day, if the tables are full you take a numbered ticket at the door; same-day tickets open at 10:00■Official booking site ↗