Nagasaki Food Tours

Tailoring each tour to your wishes by locals who love their city

Top 10 food tours & experiences in Nagasaki

From exploring cool neighborhoods to eating with the locals to seeing iconic sites, these are some of our favorite experiences

When in Osaka
make sure to try
“kushikatsu”!

See the city like
you would with a friend who lives there

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When in Osaka
make sure to try
“kushikatsu”!

See the city like
you would with a friend who lives there

The best private food tours in Nagasak

Beyond Nagasaki’s devastating past, preserved by its museums and memorials, lies a city full of fantastic culture, friendly locals, and truly delicious food. On Nagasaki food tours, you’ll be in the perfect position to taste the best of the city’s internationalized culinary creations. Our food tours of Nagasaki are the ultimate experience of this multifaceted metropolis, where no matter where you go, the food will be mind-blowingly delicious. Join a local Nagasaki host to explore everything from traditional markets and trendy restaurants, not to mention its famous Chinatown! Get ready for a fusion of eastern and western flavors on Nagasaki food tours you’ll never forget.

Meet some of our food-loving local hosts in Nagasaki

Like the people who travel with us, they have different backgrounds and interests – but they’re all so passionate about the place they call home, they choose to spend their free time sharing it with the like-minded travelers matched to them.

We’ve handpicked them and we’ll match you to your perfect one!

A taste of Nagasaki’s history

To truly experience the richly internationalized history in Nagasaki is to taste it on food tours of Nagasaki with City Unscripted. Portuguese ships set sail for Nagasaki in the 1500s, influencing several Japanese dishes, from crispy tempura to fluffy Castella cake. And when Nagasaki’s port became the only area of Japan open to the outside world between the 1630s and 1850s, it was Japan’s major area of foreign trade, a hub of Chinese and European visitors introducing their own cultural influences. You’ll experience a fusion of all these unique flavors on Nagasaki food tours.

Sample unique local cuisine

Nagasaki doesn’t stick to traditional Japanese cuisine and has largely forged its own unique culinary path. On our Nagasaki food tours, you’ll have ample opportunity to sample some of the city’s most fascinating foods, from Champon Chinese noodles to Turkish rice – a combination of pilaf rice, Neapolitan spaghetti, and a crispy tonkatsu cutlet. Expect to fuel your food tours of Nagasaki with steaming bao buns, traditional sushi, and deep-fried twisted cookies. And a cup of coffee here is bound to blow you away, because believe it or not, the coffee culture here dates back centuries!

Eat in a range of interesting places

There are so many different places to celebrate the vibrant food culture of Nagasaki. On Nagasaki food tours with a knowledgeable local guide, you’ll get an authentic experience of several of them. There’s the Chinatown neighborhood, whose crisscrossing lanes are lined with no-frills food stalls. Then there’s Maruyama, an entertainment district packed with famous restaurants and crowds of locals. There’s even a basement-level food hall reminiscent of the food markets of the 1950s! Discover all these exciting places and more on food tours of Nagasaki with City Unscripted.

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Latest reviews from our guests

Mack was a very kind and patient tour guide. We covered every place we wanted to see and more in Nagasaki. He patiently helped me identify items to eat and drink for my unique diet. He answered all of our questions, and was a very pleasant person to spend the day with.

July 2023

Ellen S
Senyo was a great guide sent through a suggested itinerary before and changed it around based on what we wanted to do, easy going nature and took care to make sure everything was as we liked it. We had a great day and saw so much.

June 2023

Tanya S
We loved sightseeing with Armand. He was very helpful and took us around the city. We enjoyed seeing where the Dutch settled in Japan. Fascinating history. He took us to a great little restaurant. His English was great. We had a lot in common as we had lived in The Netherlands also. He was very flexible as to what we wanted to see.

May 2023

Marta H
We loved sightseeing with Armand. He was very helpful and took us around the city. We enjoyed seeing where the Dutch settled in Japan. Fascinating history. He took us to a great little restaurant. His English was great. We had a lot in common as we had lived in The Netherlands also. He was very flexible as to what we wanted to see.

May 2023

Marta H