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Seusi Mijeugiwa Hogyemaegok-jeom

스시미즈기와 호계매곡점 A family sushi restaurant in northern Ulsan best known for a stone-plate yakisoba you finish as fried rice

Japanese · Buk-gu, Hogye-dong

Data as of · Published ·

Sushi Mizugiwa's Hogye-Maegok branch sits on the ground floor beside the Uri Mart in the Hogye redevelopment district, in the north of Ulsan. It is a sushi restaurant, and the thing people order most is the stone-plate yakisoba — beef brisket and water dropwort fried on a hot stone over a burner, finished by tipping rice into what is left of the sauce. The sushi is made from fish brought in each morning and cold-aged, and it is pressed without wasabi inside; the wasabi sits on the table instead. Sets for two, three and four put the sushi, the yakisoba and a hambak steak on one table, starting at ₩44,900. Eleven in the morning to nine at night, with an afternoon break. The posts we read run from August 2025 to September 2026.

The basics

Address울산광역시 북구 호계매곡5로 9, 지상1층 (호계동)
9 Hogyemaegok 5-ro, Buk-gu, Ulsan
Phone0507-1358-1959
Floor area182 m²
StatusIn business

When it opens

Of 26 posts: 17 wrote 11:00–21:00, 9 wrote Daily 11:00–21:00.

Open11:00–21:00 17 of 26 posts last seen 2026-09
OpenDaily11:00–21:00 9 of 26 posts last seen 2026-08
Break15:00–16:30 17 of 25 posts last seen 2026-09
Break15:30–16:30 4 of 25 posts last seen 2026-08
BreakWeekdays15:00–16:30 4 of 25 posts last seen 2026-08
BreakWeekends15:30–16:30 4 of 25 posts last seen 2026-08
Last order20:20 2 of 20 posts last seen 2026-09
Last order20:30 18 of 20 posts last seen 2026-08

Counted from what bloggers wrote in their posts; we did not confirm it with the restaurant. Where the values differ, it may be a change over time rather than a disagreement, so we show when each one was written.

What sets it apart

  1. There is something for a child to do while they wait. Colouring sheets printed with sushi, coloured pencils, and in some posts stickers and masking tape as well. You can take the finished sheet home or leave it on the wall. More than one writer spells out why this matters: they did not have to hand over a phone. One says her daughter was lost in it before they had even ordered; in another, the grandfather liked the drawing enough to take it home. There are high chairs and children's cutlery too, and one party who ordered a cutlet was brought a divided tray and a small spoon without asking.
  2. This is a place you book. Reservations go through Naver, and a booking means walking straight to a table. Among those who did not book, one hit a queue at lunch and another found people already inside at eleven, when the doors open. If there is a wait you put your number into a tablet at the door; two posts mention an indoor waiting area. Slots run in ten-minute steps, and one post says to phone about times the app will not take. One party simply rang ahead and was given a table.
  3. The kitchen is open and you can watch the sushi being pressed. Nearly everyone who mentions it says the same thing in the same breath: it made them trust the food. On the wall, beside the menu posters, is a short guide to eating it properly — start with the unseasoned white fish on the left and work right, leaving the sauced pieces till last. Four writers say they read it through. The wall also explains the rice: Koshihikari blended and dressed with a five-ingredient vinegar.
  4. A lot comes free. Takoyaki arrives unasked, one round per party, and so do the cabbage salad and miso broth. A receipt review on Naver buys you a choice of cheese-octopus sushi, egg sushi, a small salmon rice bowl or a drink; spend over ₩50,000 and you spin a roulette that has no losing slot (top prize a ₩50,000 voucher, per one post). Three per cent of every bill goes back as credit. Say in the Naver booking that it is someone's birthday and a ₩15,000 raw-beef or salmon 'cake' is free, with a Polaroid taken — within seven days of the date, once per table, ID checked.
  5. Fifty pyeong, nine tables. Two posts give the same breakdown: two sixes, five fours, two twos. Two note that they will push tables together for a bigger party if you ask. Several say the gaps between tables are wide enough that the next conversation does not intrude, and one mentions a screen by the door that hides the coming and going. It fills with families rather than work parties — what people give as the reason is that there is something on the menu for the adults and something for the children on the same table.

What 29 bloggers said

We read all 29 in full. The most common claims are “Roomy” (23) and “Clean” (21).

What they liked

Roomy23 of 29 posts
Clean21 of 29 posts
Would return12 of 29 posts
Friendly staff10 of 29 posts
Large portions5 of 29 posts
Returning customer5 of 29 posts
Not expensive2 of 29 posts
Crispy batter2 of 29 posts
Comfortable seating1 of 29 posts

What they struggled with

Had to wait4 of 29 posts
Food comes slowly1 of 29 posts

Where they disagree

Spicyyes 5 · no 4

Things you can check on site

High chairs21 of 29 posts
Review event15 of 29 posts
Colouring sheets for children14 of 29 posts
Open kitchen12 of 29 posts
Takes reservations11 of 29 posts
Coupon10 of 29 posts
Self-order screen8 of 29 posts
Takeout5 of 29 posts
High ceiling2 of 29 posts
Beer served2 of 29 posts
Waiting area2 of 29 posts
Local currency accepted1 of 29 posts
Relocated1 of 29 posts
Separate restrooms1 of 29 posts
Free refills1 of 29 posts
Phone charging1 of 29 posts
Toilet inside1 of 29 posts

These are raw counts, not percentages. Someone who did not mention something is not someone who disagreed.

The most ordered dish is stone-plate minari yakisoba (돌판 미나리 야끼소바) — 19 of 29 posts.

The prices here are what bloggers wrote down in their posts, and they may have changed since. Check Naver Place for the current menu and prices. This list is not a menu board — it counts what bloggers actually ordered and ate. Check on Naver Place

Parking

21 posts say you can park. None say you cannot.

Posts saying you can park21 of 29 posts

Driving is fine. There is a dedicated space beside the shop, but it holds only three or four cars — one post says three, three say four. When it is full people use the road outside; several mention free space on the empty lot across the crossing or beside the neighbouring supermarket. One writer found it tight enough that she just parked in the side street; another, a new driver, found it easy. Nobody reports paying.

Who came, and with whom

Family visit11 of 29 posts
Came with children10 of 29 posts
With a friend5 of 29 posts
Came by car2 of 29 posts
Date1 of 29 posts

Getting there

Map showing where Seusi Mijeugiwa Hogyemaegok-jeom is

Naver Map has a full English mode — Settings → Language → English. In Korea it gives better walking and transit directions than Google Maps.

Getting inside

Second flooryes 0 · no 1
Toilet inside1 of 29 posts
Separate restrooms1 of 29 posts

Not one post records, from having looked, whether there is a step at the door, a ramp, or room for a wheelchair or a pushchair. People mention the ground floor; nobody mentions the entrance. Two posts do contain the words 'wheelchair accessible', but in both cases the phrase sits inside a copied run of listing facts — birthday offer, groups welcome, booking, high chairs, takeaway, delivery, waiting area — so we have not counted it as something anyone saw. Only two posts describe the toilets at all: one says there is one inside the restaurant, the other that what looked like a shared one turns out to be split by sex.

No one mentioned: In a basement · Lift to the floor · Ramp at the door · Step at the entrance · Step-free access · Accessible toilet. That is not the same as there being none — it means we could not confirm it. Worth calling ahead, and do tell us: we will put it here.

How to read these posts

  • Posts disclosing payment1 of 29 posts
  • Posts saying they paid themselves7 of 29 posts
  • Posts saying nothing either way21 of 29 posts

Posts that followed a TV spot

Of the 30 posts we gathered, 1 went up on a single day right after a TV spot and show no sign of a visit. They retell the broadcast, so we left them out of the counts.

We do not discard them. That a TV spot produced a burst of posts is itself something worth knowing about a place, and a star rating will not show it.

When the posts appeared

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Month by month
MonthPosts
2025-081
2025-092
2026-011
2026-021
2026-031
2026-054
2026-065
2026-073
2026-086
2026-095

What we do not know

  • No post explains how to get here without a car. They place it by the local schools, the Hogye apartment estate and the Uri Mart, but nobody says which bus stop, or how far the walk is. Almost everyone who wrote either drove or already lived nearby — 'near my office', 'near our house', 'popular with people in the neighbourhood'. This part of northern Ulsan has no metro, so it may well be hard to reach without a car or a bus, and we cannot confirm either way.
  • This is one branch of a chain, and everything we counted is this branch's. Other branches turn up in the posts — the original in Ujeong, plus Daldong and Guyeong-ri. One writer came here because the other branch had been good; another says all three of those have enormous queues, which is a fact about them, not about this one. This branch also moved and grew: one post says it relocated from a shopping arcade in another apartment complex, one that it expanded in July 2025, and one that the renewal changed the room enough to surprise a returning customer. Our earliest post is August 2025, so nearly everything we read describes the room as it is now.
  • One post declares a sponsorship, tagging it at the very top. Seven others state they paid for everything. The remaining twenty-one say nothing either way. Separately, one of the thirty posts we collected is not counted as a visit at all: its menu and prices are lifted straight from the shop's Naver listing with the same link repeated four times, the only record of eating is 'two pieces of sushi', and it says the wasabi was nicely judged. This restaurant presses its sushi without wasabi — twelve posts say so — which is not something you could write after eating here.
  • There is a hole in the set prices. The value set at ₩44,900, the generous set at ₩53,900, the two-person stone-plate set at ₩51,900 and the three-person chef's set at ₩73,900 are all confirmed by more than one post — but five parties ordered the largest, four-person set and not one of them wrote down what it cost. And the piece count on the big sushi plate does not agree: three posts from May and June 2026 say twenty, a September post says seventeen. Whether it shrank or these are two items, we could not tell. Nothing got more expensive between August 2025 and September 2026.

Sources (29)

Every number above was counted from the posts below.

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Of 288 candidate posts we opened 60 and kept 29 as evidence. We stop once 30 are confirmed: beyond that the counts grow in proportion without changing the answer.