Eragon — written 永来権 in kanji — is the yakitori house of the Hanshin suburbs, five minutes from Hanshin Ashiya station in a small ground floor room that moved here from a nearby street. Owner Kanta Watanabe opened in 2008 after cooking Miyazaki‑style charcoal chicken, and in 2017 settled the house into the omakase skewer format it runs today. The bird is the point: Oshioka jidori, a breed developed with a contract farm in Miyazaki for this counter, bought whole and aged around four days to concentrate its flavour before it meets the Kishu binchotan. Tabelog has kept Eragon on its Yakitori WEST 100 since 2023 and given it an Award Bronze in both 2025 and 2026; its Tabelog score stands at 4.30.
What you eat
The ¥8,800 omakase is seven skewers — regulars name the wing‑and- breast dakimi, the neck with grated daikon and ponzu, the furisode, a tsukune finished with yolk — with three palate‑cleansers and a chicken soup, tax included. Everything around it is à la carte: you choose two or three starters at the start (a chicken‑and‑avocado tartare, a white‑liver pâté, chawanmushi) and a finishing dish at the end — a chicken paitan ramen or a clay‑pot rice, in autumn with matsutake. Reviewers land at ¥15,000–20,000 a head with sake or wine, and the list of both is chosen for chicken. Only hens go on the skewers.
The booking reality
Two channels, both real. TableCheck sells the omakase online for one to six guests at the counter or two to four in the semi‑private room, with a card to hold the table; the phone (0797‑34‑8077, in Japanese) works too, and the house asks that calls come between 14:00 and 17:00 or after 22:00, when the grill is quiet. There is no release day. What reviewers describe is a book that runs one to two months ahead — the house said as much itself in late 2022, and the 2026 reviews still call it a hard table — with cancelled seats surfacing online at short notice; one diner in July 2026 found a single seat that way. Dinner runs as two seatings, 17:30 and 20:30, each starting together.
The conditions are strict and worth knowing before you book: no changes to a reservation (cancel and rebook, possibly with a fee), a no‑show declared thirty minutes after the hour, no heavy perfume, children below junior‑high age only by phone. Parties of seven or more go through the house directly. When our desk handles it, we call in the window the house prefers, in Japanese, and hold the seating that fits your evening.
