Kuwa Monpe
An authentic stone-oven pizza restaurant in a traditional farmhouse-style building nestled in the mountains of Tanba Sasayama. Features handcrafted huts and a wood-fired kiln by a pond. The pizza is crispy outside, chewy inside. Selected for Tabelog Pizza Top 100 in 2019, 2023, and 2025 — three consecutive times. Fills immediately at opening; weekend waits can reach 90 minutes.
Many reviews say 'worth the drive into the mountains,' 'pizza from the stone oven is genuinely delicious,' 'cheese is wonderfully melted with chewy dough,' 'long wait on weekends but worth it.' Yahoo! Maps 4.3. Selected for Tabelog Pizza Top 100 three times.