Yoru no Ajitoよるのあじと

Yoru no Ajito sits in an unassuming, deep-blue narrow building near Yugawara Station - easy to walk past if you don't know to look for the white noren and the diamond-lattice fence. Inside, a single long communal-style table runs down a small dining room lit by Edison bulbs, with framed art on the walls and an exposed wood ceiling. It's the kind of place that fits maybe a dozen people and feels intentionally hand-curated.

The food is Italian-leaning, vegetable-forward, and clearly built around the wine. The owner runs the place by herself (solo operation), which would normally be a warning sign for a multi-course evening - except the regulars who come to drink and talk at the counter swear by it, and so do other Yugawara restaurant pros, who quietly recommended this place years before it had any real profile. Expect things like sardine spaghetti with breadcrumbs, pork with apple and onion, salads with bright sautéed greens, a serious cheese program (Italian Grana, a Laphroaig single-malt cheddar, French St. Félicien and Petit Munster), and a bottle wall heavy on Italian rosé and small producers.

The thing that makes this restaurant a destination rather than a wine bar: the owner has a pest-control hunting license, and serves salsiccia from wild boars she has caught herself. Reviewers describe the flavor as bursting with wild flavor - roughly, "bursting with wild." It's the kind of detail that doesn't show up in a guidebook for a reason: the place is small enough that any night could sell out, and one person is doing everything.

The restaurant does not take reservations - it's walk-in only. Hours and closing days are dinner-focused; treat the schedule below as the safest assumption rather than a guarantee, and check the data notes for known contradictions between our sources.

Address: 〒259-0314 Miyakami, Yugawara, Ashigarashimo District, Kanagawa 372-41

Phone: 0465-20-9064

Hours: Dinner only, evenings (~18:00-22:00)

The food and wine were truly delicious - I was moved.

The owner has a pest-control hunting license, so we had salsiccia from a boar she had caught herself - a sausage bursting with wild flavor.

Even though she's running it solo and busy, she chatted with me a lot - I went alone and was thoroughly entertained.

The kind of place every experienced food pro in town pushes you toward.

These are points where the platforms we scraped (Tabelog, Google, Hot Pepper) gave us conflicting information. Where a visitor could waste a trip on a wrong assumption, we have defaulted to the most conservative interpretation rather than picking a winner. Each note explains the contradiction and the choice we made.

• Closing days: Google and Hot Pepper list Tuesday and Wednesday as closed. Tabelog also lists Thursday as closed. We have defaulted to listing all three (Tue/Wed/Thu) as closed so visitors do not waste a trip on a contested day. If the operator confirms Thursday is open, we will narrow this back.
• Lunch service: Hot Pepper lists lunch hours of 11:30-14:00. No other source mentions lunch, no reviewer talks about a lunch visit, and we have not heard a lunch service confirmed. We have defaulted to dinner-only until corroborated.
• Opening time: Tabelog lists 17:00 open; Google lists 18:00 open. We have defaulted to the later 18:00 so visitors do not arrive to a closed door.
• Reservations: One Google reviewer (Feb 2026) wrote that reserving would be safer. The operator confirms the restaurant does not take reservations at all - it is walk-in only. We are siding with the operator.

• Google Maps
• Tabelog