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[Butafuku in Kushiro] Genuine Pork Rice Bowl Can Be Eaten in Kushiro

April 25th, 2016

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Butafuku
Pork Rice Bowl

Butafuku

Butafuku (ぶた福) is a popular pork rice bowl restaurant in Otanoshike, Kushiro city, and is near Kushiro National College of Technology (釧路工業高等専門学校) and Otanoshike Station. Speaking of the pork rice bowl, Obihiro and Tokachi are famous, but tasty pork rice bowl can be savored even in the Kushiro. A large serving of grilled pork has a good reputation, so local people and tourists come to the Butafuku to eat it. The restaurant is not so large, but counter seats and table seats are provided, so I guess that even family customers may enjoy meals.

List of Means of Transportation

Highway buses run between the Kushiro and the Sapporo, the Asahikawa, the Kitami, the Obihiro and the Lake Akan. Refer to following the means of the transportation in the Kushiro. As for car rental comparison websites, you can compare vehicle rental prices on Tabi-Plaza Rental Car Reservation (旅ぷらざレンタカー予約), Jalan Rental Car (じゃらんレンタカー) and Rakutem Travel Rental Car (楽天トラベルレンタカー).

Chuo Bus(中央バス)	From Sapporo to Kushiro	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Chuo Bus(中央バス)	From Kushiro to Sapporo	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Akan Bus(阿寒バス)	From Asahikawa to Kushiro	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Akan Bus(阿寒バス)	From Kushiro to Asahikawa	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Akan Bus(阿寒バス)	From Kushiro to Kitami	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Akan Bus(阿寒バス)	From Kitami to Kushiro	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Takushoku Bus(拓殖バス)	From Obihiro to Tancho Kushiro Airport	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Takushoku Bus(拓殖バス)	From Tancho Kushiro Airport to Obihiro	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Akan Bus(阿寒バス)	From Tancho Kushiro Airport to Lake Akan	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Akan Bus(阿寒バス)	From Lake Akan to Tancho Kushiro Airport	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Nippon Rent-a-car(ニッポンレンタカー)	Their offices are near Kushiro Station and Kushiro Airport.	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Times Car Rental(タイムズカーレンタル)	Their offices are near the Kushiro Station and the Kushiro Airport.	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Toyota Rental Lease(トヨタレンタリース)	Their offices are near the Kushiro Station, Tottori and the Kushiro Airport.	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Nissan Rent-a-car(日産レンタカー)	Their offices are near the Kushiro Station and the Kushiro Airport.	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Orix Rent-a-car(オリックスレンタカー)	Their offices are near the Kushiro Station and the Kushiro Airport.	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Station Rent-a-car(駅レンタカー)	Their office is near the Kushiro Station.	HP	Jalan	Rakuten
Nico Nico Rent-a-car(ニコニコレンタカー)	Their offices are at Shintomi-cho, Aikoku, Irie-cho, Naniwa-cho and Akanko Onsen.	HP	Jalan	Rakuten

KUSHIRO

Kushiro (釧路) that about 170,000 people live is the 5th largest fisheries city in Hokkaido, and is one of regional hub cities of the Eastern Hokkaido area. The Kushiro became incorporated with Akan town (阿寒) and Onbetsu (音別) in 2005, and has became the 3rd largest city by area in the Hokkaido. In Japan, it is the 7th latgest city by the area. The Kushiro is also well-known as a tourist city with rich nature, and has 2 very famous national parks, Kushiro-Shitsugen wetland (釧路湿原), the largest wetland in the Japan, and Lake Akan (阿寒湖) consisted by primeval forests and lava. In addition, the beautiful sunset can be seen, too, and the Kushiro is one of the three major places to see the beautiful setting sun in the world together with Manila in Philippines and Bali in Indonesia. Article is here

Pork Rice Bowl of Hokkaido

Pork Rice Bowl (豚丼) is a rice bowl dish dished up grilled pork with sauce on rice. It is said that Mr. Hideshi Abe (阿部秀司), the founder of Pancho (ぱんちょう) in Obihiro, made the Pork Rice Bowl for the first time. So it has been famous in the eastern part of Hokkaido, but the dish is well-known in the whole of Japan now. The feature is that grilled pork overflows from a lid of a bowl. About 200 restaurants sell the Pork Rice Bowl even around the Obihiro, Tokachi. Each restaurants are particular about sauce and types of pork. Standard sauce of pork rice bowl in the Obihiro is salty-sweet sauce, but some restaurants such as "Tsuruhashi (鶴橋)" serve a pork rice bowl with bitter sauce, so each restaurants compete on the original taste. As for types of the pork, a lots of restaurants use various pork such as pork loins, pork ribs, superfine pork loins and superfine pork ribs. Article is here

Pork Rice Bowl

I visited here around 18:00 on a weekday. Inside of restaurant was L-shaped, and 2 groups of customers ate pork rice bowls. I sat at a counter seat, and read a menu, and ordered a pork rice bowl mixed pork loin with pork libs (ミックス豚丼). The price was JPY 880. Printed web pages were pasted on walls of the counter seat, and I was surprised at this situation. Wheat tea is available at self-service counter.

About 10 minutes later, the pork rice bowl was served with a bowl of miso soup and a dish of pickles. Pork grilled by a charcoal fire was indeed a large serving. The appearance looked tasty.

I ate a bite of it immediately. It tasted salty-sweet sauce, and the Butafuku of the pork rice bowl was Obihro-style. It was tasty! In case of normal sized rice, I did not feel that the rice was not a large portion, so I guessed that even female could eat up a pork rice bowl. After getting home, I remembered that this restraunt was famous for the pork rice bowl with curry and rice (カレー豚丼). I will try eating it next time! Thanks for the tasty meal!

Pork Rice Bowl and Atmosphere of Restaurant Can Be Watched on Youtube

Movie of Pork Rice Bowl

Parking lot	Parking is provided (8 Cars)
Business hours	11:00-14:30 and 17:00-20:00
Regular closing day	Tuesday
Telephone number	+81-154-57-4635
Home page	Home page is here
Mapcode	149 332 248*00