Hokkaido’s best ingredients are incorporated each day to prepare this hotel’s morning buffet.

The Hakodate Kokusai Hotel’s buffet has enough options to for both Japanese and Western cuisine fans to walk away from the table stuffed and happy.

This is your best bet for sampling a wide range of Okinawan cuisine in one meal.

The real draw here is the hotel’s kattedon (Have-It-Your-Way Bowl), where fish lovers can create their own rice bowl from a variety of seafood favorites like ikura (salmon roe) and ama ebi (sweet shrimp).

Considered one of Japan’s most stylish cities, Kobe attracts a large number of foreign and domestic tourists every year. Japanese beef might be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the city, but the Hotel Piena’s breakfast, which has claimed the number one spot on the list for four years straight, is just one more reason to visit. In addition to a wide array of Japanese and Western dishes, it even has a full dessert bar.

Everything from this buffet’s carefully selected local ingredients to its atmosphere and warm staff make for an experience that diners say is better than they could have ever imagined.

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