Restaurants in Tokyo

Kitchen Five

If it's true that love is the best spice for cooking, then perhaps that's why Yuko Kobayashi's 23-year-old,...

Hayashi

This restaurant specializes in Japanese set meals cooked over your own hibachi grill. It's small and...

• American
• Shinjuku

Kua' Aina

How far will you go for a great burger? Quite simply, one of the best burgers in town makes this Hawaiian...

Casita

One of the reasons I'm a great fan of Casita's is that I feel truly pampered here. Who wouldn't, with...

Harajuku Gyoza Lou

If you like gyoza (pork dumplings), you owe yourself a meal here. Unlike most greasy spoons that specialize...

Pariya

What a clever concept: Design a chic, airy restaurant sure to draw in the fashionable Aoyama crowd, and...

Sometaro

This very atmospheric neighborhood restaurant specializes in okonomiyaki, a working-class meal that is...

• Asian
• Japanese
• Asakusa

Kakiden

Although it's located on the eighth floor of a rather uninspiring building, Kakiden has a relaxing teahouse...

• Asian
• Japanese
• Shinjuku

Namiki Yabusoba

Asakusa's best-known noodle shop, founded in 1913, offers plain buckwheat noodles in cold or hot broth...

• Asian
• Asakusa

Hakkaku

This lively, crowded establishment has a lot going for it: a corner location in a skyscraper with expansive...

• Asian
• Japanese
• Shinjuku

Kamon

Kamon, which means "Gate of Celebration," has an interior that could be a statement on Tokyo itself --...

Ohmatsuya

Enter this second-floor restaurant of a nondescript building and you're instantly back in time: After...

Ten-ichi

In this restaurant, located on Namiki Dori in the heart of Ginza's nightlife, you can sit at a counter...

Tatsutano

If you'd like to try a traditional Japanese dessert, head to this 100-year-old shop, famous for its sweets....

Shabusen

With an improbable location on the second floor of a fashion department store just a stone's throw from...

Donto

Located in Hibiya on Harumi Dori in the basement of an unlikely looking office building, this is a great...

Sushi Dai

Located right in the Tsukiji Fish Market, this sushi bar boasts some of the freshest fish in town (and...

Komagata Dojo

This is a restaurant very much out of the Edo Period. Following a tradition spanning 200 years and now...

• Seafood
• Asakusa

Tamura

This modern kaiseki restaurant has a friendly staff of smiling and bowing kimono-clad waitresses and...

Sekishin Tei

• American
• Asian
• Chinese
• Japanese
• Very Expensive
• Central Tokyo

Erawan

• Asian
• Thai
• Very Expensive

Nobu

• Asian
• Japanese
• Moderately Priced
• Central Tokyo

Maisen

• Asian
• Japanese
• Pan-Asian & Pacific Rim
• Very Expensive

Good Honest Grub

• American
• Very Expensive

Kujiraya

• Asian
• Japanese
• Very Expensive
• Shibuya