Tokyo Restaurants(1392)
Azabu Asai
Located in one of Tokyo’s most glamorous districts, this 21-seater Nishi-Azabu establishment transforms ingredients sourced directly from head chef Taichi Asai’s hometown into a masterful mixture of French-tinged Kyoto culinary tradition.
Sushi Tokyo 81
Intimate with an air of sophistication, this backstreet Gotanda sushi restaurant offers traditional Edomae sushi with premium ingredients, as well as other signature offerings like a sea urchin tasting comparison course.
Sakana Bar Ebisu
Sakana Bar’s seafood offerings span almost every coastal culinary culture possible, using freshly-caught domestic Japanese seafood. Their oyster tasting comparison course is particularly popular with oyster aficionados.
Tempura Ten Soso Roppongi Hills
Tempura Ten Soso offers a premium tempura experience featuring fresh seasonal ingredients sourced within and outside Japan. The restaurant is headed by Chef Keita Sato, a famous name in the tempura scene.
Rogama Steak Arcanum
With a pedigree earned from some of the most elite beef specialists in all of Japan, chef and master griller Shinya Suzuki makes kiln-roasted Tamura wagyu beef steak widely available at a fraction of the cost.
Koishikawa Nakasei
One of Tokyo’s few steakhouses to receive a Michelin star, Nakasei’s pride and joy is the purebred Tajima beef — predecessor to the modern wagyu like Omi, Matsusaka and Kobe beef — which is aged up to three months for optimal flavor.
Katsura Steak House
Taking inspiration from the best of Japanese and Western culinary sense, this teppanyaki course is a journey through timely seasonal specialties in Japan.
Sushi Wasabi
Omakase courses built from the chef’s expertise and fine-tuned to suit each guest perfectly makes the sushi at Sushi Wasabi more than just a fine-dining experience. The open, relaxed space invites diners to savor and unwind together.
Nyorosuke Roppongi
At Nyorosuke, you can experience authentic Kansai-style charcoal grilled eel dishes such as grilled eel skewers, unaju and unagi-don. Unlike most Tokyo-style eel restaurants, the eel here is not steamed—meaning it’s bursting full of flavor!
Sushi Iwase
Chef Kenji Iwase got a comparatively late start to his sushi career, switching from an office job at 20 years old. But that hasn’t stopped him from serving some of the most vaunted sushi in all of Tokyo, particularly his signature sea urchin rice.
Jyanoichi Honten
Literature and food aficionados alike flock to this Nihonbashi sushi establishment, which was frequented by legendary Japanese writer Naoya Shiga. Enjoy authentic Edomae sushi just as Shiga himself would have, unchanged over five generations.
MARUICHI FUJI AKASAKA (formerly Nyorosuke Akasaka)
Rather than steam the eel first in Kanto style, this famed Akasaka unagi specialist upholds Kansai tradition by going straight into grilling the eel for a crispier, crunchier texture.
Ginza Shibahama
A love letter to both his wife and the culinary tradition he chose to dedicate his life to, Chef Yoshio Nakashita’s dual mastery of sushi and traditional kappo cuisine are on full display at his Ginza restaurant.
Ginza Ugai
Gratitude drives every service here at this Ginza kaiseki restaurant. Chef Ryogo Fujii’s mastery of umami, sweetness and bitterness augments the choice quality of his ingredients, all sourced from an extensive network of suppliers across the country.
Yakiniku Ushi Jirushi Ginza
The latest dining concept from the Toraji group, one of the most famous names in wagyu, Ushi Jirushi assigns an expert “master griller” to each table. Diners can relax knowing that each cut, from horumon to harami, will be cooked to perfection.
Tonkatsu Fujiki Ningyocho
A Ningyocho fixture, Fujiki offers a varied spread of tonkatsu cutlet offerings, but most go for their signature dish: a huge bone-in tomahawk-style pork cutlet that looks just as good as it tastes. It’s great either plain or with the house sauce.
Higonoya Omotesando
The Uredori chicken is the poultry pride of Ninohe City in Iwate Prefecture, renowned for its umami and texture. It is this chicken that is used in yakitori restaurant Higonoya, grilled to perfection right at the counter.
Niku no Himaraya to Nomuno (Shintomicho/Tsukiji Branch)
Aptly named for the Himalayas mountain range, this Tsukiji yakiniku restaurant’s signature dish is the “meat Himalaya”: up to 1kg of sliced Australian grain-fed Angus beef arranged in a literal mountain of meat.
Sushi Academy Shinjuku Nishiguchi
Eat your fill of over 65 different menu items at this all-you-can-eat Shinjuku sushi restaurant. All sushi is made to order, and children receive significant discounts — those 3 and under dine free.
Shigeno Sushi
A sophisticated Edomae sushi restaurant, Shigeno Sushi in Nihombashi once built its reputation as a fishmonger but now stands on its own under the stewardship of Ichiro Sakuma.
Yakiniku Horumon Tasuki Shinbashi
Only premium cuts of wagyu beef and horumon (offals) are on offer at this Shinbashi yakiniku restaurant, with impeccable service and fares at affordable prices.
Sushi & Wine Omotesandoria
A clever sushi-and-wine-bar that’s setting a trend in Omotesando, with stellar sushi, creative snacks and sommelier-approved natural drops to match.
Shinjuku Kakekomi Gyoza
Located in the heart of Kabukicho, this Edo-period-themed gyoza shop offers handmade gyoza alongside all-you-can-drink options, available 24 hours a day throughout the year.
Yoyogi-Uehara Yu
The supplier comes first at this Yoyogi-Uehara kappo restaurant. Chef Yusuke Imoto’s culinary philosophy focuses on conveying the hard work and passion of his farmers, ranchers and fishermen to the customer with simple, unadorned dishes.
Nikutei Futago iki Hongo Sanchome
While the Nikutei Futago restaurants are all renowned for their dedication to a sophisticated yakiniku dining experience, the Hongo Sanchome branch sets itself apart by specializing in halal Kurohana wagyu beef from Kumamoto Prefecture.
Azabujuban Hanabusa
This Tokyo restaurant sources its eels from unagi farmers in Isshiki Town, who have raised them in an all-natural environment for over 100 years. The unagi are then coated in a secret sauce, before being grilled Kansai-style over a charcoal flame.
Torafugu-tei Ginza
Transporting its fugu live from Nagasaki fisheries in under 15 hours, this tiger pufferfish specialist is said to have fish so fresh that it continues to swim on the plate. Enjoy it in a number of different ways, from fried to boiled to raw.
Teppanyaki Icho (Grand Nikko Tokyo Daiba)
Teppanyaki Icho not only dazzles guests with spectacular displays of culinary skill, but also a beautiful sight of Tokyo Bay and its surroundings, thanks to its position on the 30th floor of the Grand Nikko Tokyo Daiba.
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Tokyo is the city for globe-trotters looking to expand their palettes and culinary knowledge. Home to over 180 Michelin-starred restaurants, the Japanese capital is a culinary wonderland with restaurants offering every cuisine of every caliber, from street food classics in Asakusa to high-grade Edomae sushi in Ginza. Tokyo's range of restaurants is phenomenal, always offering delicious food wherever you might find yourself seated.
No matter what kind of dining experience in Tokyo you desire, traditional Japanese restaurants, some over a century old, coexist with futuristic establishments filled with robots, offering a smorgasbord of foreign and local Japanese cuisine. Enjoy grilling your own wagyu beef yakiniku style, or watch the morning's catch prepared by an expert chef at an omakase sushi restaurant. Maybe better still, slurp up hearty ramen noodles squashed elbow-to-elbow with locals somewhere downtown or at a family-run tempura restaurant with only 10 seats and an astonishing queue.
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