Tsu

A ramen restaurant that serves the city's famous Tsu Gyoza.

A restaurant serving the city's famous unagi (eel).

A pizza restaurant with live music performances.

This small bar is open from 20:00 and is run by two medical students from Mie University. The bar is more Western in style than other izakaya-style affairs in the area, with a counter and dimly lit by candles, but it is friendly and as such is popular not only with businessmen but with younger people and students. Drinks include a large list of cocktails, whiskeys, ume-shu, sake and more. The bar is also the venue for a community restaurant at lunchtime cooked by local amateur chefs on a rotating schedule. The menu is posted outside each day and as lunches are limited to the first twenty customers, more popular menus can be sold out quickly.

Of the various business hotels around the JR Tsu train station, this one offers an excellent deal for the traveller on a budget with their 8-hour stay specials. For these the rate is 3,900 for pre-set time periods, the most attractive of which is midnight to 8AM. Although it's an 8-hour period, the hotel has been known to extend checkout by 3 hours to strictly non-smokers.

While a little more expensive than other hotels nearby, the advantage of Green Park is that it is practically on top of Tsu Station in the tallest building in Tsu, UST Tsu. The views from its rooms make this a good choice to those visiting Tsu as on a clear day one can see for miles, including Aichi Prefecture on the other side of the bay, and along to Yokkaichi and Ise on the Mie coastline. Rooms are comfortable and breakfast is a buffet served on the first floor. It is next to the station and bus stops, and above the city and prefectural tourist offices. The breakfast room also serves an all-you-can-eat buffet for ¥1,000 at lunch times and afternoon tea from 15:00.