My best-of lists live here now! If you don't want to check it out, here is my list of memorable Japanese shops I visited outside of Tokyo and wrote about in 2018.
金澤濃厚中華そば 神仙 (Shinzen in Kanazawa, Ishigawa Prefecture)
麦の道 すぐれ (Sugure in Aichi Prefecture)
らぁめん りきどう (Rikido in Gifu)
もっこす (Mokkosu in Kobe)
五福星 (Ufushin in Sendai)
麺屋 裕 (Hiro in Kyoto)
かたぐるま (Kataguruma in Kyoto)
うらしま (Urashima in Wakayama)
山為食堂 (Yamatame Shokudo in Wakayama)
味 もり多 (Morita in Tottori Prefecture)
かみあり (Kamiari in Shimane Prefecture)
華漸 (Kazen in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture)
花いちもんめ (Hanaichimonme in Hiroshima)
桃花 (Momohana in Nijima)
安全食堂 (Anzen Shokudo in Fukuoka)
はなもこし (Hanamokoshi in Fukuoka)
祥気 (Shoki in Nagaoka, Niigata)
