Budget
Beach
This friendly stucco-walled beach café trapped in a mall offers the Okinawan speciality taco rice in both "standard" Mexican-ish and "original" Asian chicken versions for ¥800 with tea/coffee or ¥1000 with a draught Orion beer. Open 11:30 AM to 10 PM daily.
Banna
Okinawan izakaya that also offers reasonable set meals, open 9 AM to midnight. Try their goya champuru set for ¥750.
MÄsan-dÅ
Specializes in Yaeyama soba, ¥500 for a basic bowl, ¥800 for the sÅki version with a big hunk o' pork on top. Add your namecard to the vast collection on the walls. Open daily from 11 AM to 9:30 PM.
Paikaji
A nice izakaya. Good space, good food.ãOpen 5 PM to 12 PM Closed Sundays.
MugiwarabÅshi
Even locals come here for Yaeyama soba ¥400+. Generously sized set lunches from ¥700. Open daily except Monday from 10 AM to 9 PM.
Uechi Jersey BokujÅ Soft Cream Hanbaiten
This is the place to sample milk-flavored ice cream, made only from the milk of local Ishigaki cows. ¥300 per cone, open 11 AM to 7 PM daily.
Yarabu Shokudo
11am-11pm. An old traditional house with red-tile roof was transformed into this cozy restaurant. Here you can relax and enjoy Yaeyama soba soba means noodle, Su-chika-don the local pork, marinated in salt, and their original Yarabu-don. "don" means a bowl of rice. Prices are very reasonable.
Kato-soba
Our favorite menu is an Ebi-sobalocal prawn noodle ¥900, Yaeyama soba ¥550. It's a very nice and quite old traditional red brick house, please enjoy Yaeyama relaxedly. Open 11AM to 4PMClose on Wednesday. Web: (http://r.tabelog.com/okin...)
There are plenty of eating options in central Ishigaki, although many of the fancier places are open only for dinner. The stretch of Sanbashi-dori between the piers and the bus terminal has a good selection of reasonably priced Okinawan places, most of which offer affordable set lunches.