Top 10 Restaurants in Tokyo
November 20, 2007
Here are a list of the best 10 restaurants in Tokyo… Enjoy!
1. Ninja Akasaka
Location : 2-14-3 Nagatacho, Chiyoda-ku
Telephone: 03-5157-3936
Ninja Akasaka is adorned in a ninja-themed restaurant and its hidden entrance makes the place more mysterious and extraordinary. Once you enter the door, you are greeted and get served by a ninja. Watch out traps in the restaurants, you will never know when those ninjas will try to trick you. Ninja Akasaka is a real Japan’s so called entertainment restaurant. Edible Bonsai is a highly recommended dessert.
2. Yabu Soba
Location : 2-10 Awajicho Chiyoda-ku
Telephone : 3251-0287
Outside Yabu Soba stands a traditional bamboo courtyard which is the entrance into the excellent antique Japan restaurant. The chilled noodles (soba) are quite common in Japan but Kamo-namban (soba with duck meat) and anago namban (soba with conger eel) are recommended. The restaurant has now been in the same family for six generations and 50 branches were launched. This strongly guarantees its quality and popularity.
3. Torigin Honten
Location : 3-14-22 Nishiki Naka-ku, Sakae
Telephone : (052) 973-3000
Torigin Honten offers real traditional Japanese cuisine with a casual atmosphere. Due to being located conveniently in the heart of the city, the eatery draws a large number of customers for snack and full meals every day. Torigin Honten’s popular dishes are yakitori and kamameshi (a kettle cooked rice with a range of toppings such as chicken, mushrooms, bamboo shoots and prawns).
4. Kurosawa
Location : 2-7-9 Nagata-cho, Chiyoda
Telephone : 03-3580-9638
From a director to a chef, Akira Kurasawa has made his restaurant, Kurosawa, to perfection. The dishes from Kurosawa are high-quality and the most popular dishes are soba noodles and pork sukiyaki. The interior design of the dining rooms were simply presented but decorated with a selection of storyboard frames painted by Kurosawa in preparation for each movie.
5. Aux Bacchanales
Location : Kioicho 4-1, Shin-Kioicho Bldg. 1F.
Telephone : 03-5276-3422.
Adorned in bright tone and French theme, Aux Bacchanales is a stylish eatery with gourmet French menu. Customers opt to enjoy great steak frite and red wines inside the lively dining room or good coffee at an open terrace facing the Shimizudani Park. These outdoor seats are heated in winter.
6. Jangara Ramen
Location : Ginza 7-11-10, New Ginza Bldg
Telephone : 3289-2307
“Get in line please!” Staff of Jangara Ramen might be fed up with saying that sentence everyday but what do they do! Jangara Ramen is a famous Chinese Kyushu ramen shop and people can’t help queuing to get in. Chinese noodles called kyushu style ramen is made in three types of soup: fish, mild & light, greasy garlic and the price is reasonable.
7. Sushiko
Location : 6-3-8 Ginza
Telephone : 03-3571-1968
Never ask a menu when you get in Sushiko as a written menu is not available. All sushi lovers are attracted to this sushi restaurant with their menu in mind. It’s such a tough task getting a seat since the counter supports only 11 customers. Owned by a fourth-generation restaurateur, the restaurant remains its popularity and the quality of sushi until now.
8. Union Square Tokyo
Location : Akasaka 9-7-5, Tokyo Midtown Garden Terrace B1F.
Telephone : 5413-7780
Union Square features excellent international dishes. The restaurant is well adorned with lightings, making it like heaven on earth. There are various menus but the highlights are the pan-seared foie gras with orange slices and bamboo shoots; Iberico pork; and tuna filet mignon - big tuna chunks marinated in soy and mirin served with tasty wasabi mashed potatoes.
9. Kosaku Kofu
Location : Kofu City, Kitaguchi 1-4-11.
Telephone : 055-252-9818
Kosaku Kofu proudly presents its most popular dish; hoto, it’s flat udon noodles served with pumpkin and other vegetables in a buttery miso-based broth. Hoto cannot be widely found in other restaurants and hoto (which comes in a very hot iron cauldron) of Kosaku Kofu is incomparable. The eatery is decorated with old-fashioned farmhouse decor and a TV set going in the background, making it a perfect place for dining.
10. Sakura Sakura
Location : Kofu City, Marunouchi 2-16-6.
Telephone : 055-223-8110
The restaurant features wide range of dishes; charcoal-grilled chicken which is good with drinks, the tsukune (chicken meatballs), healthy grilled vegetable platter and four variations on hoto. The decorations are a great combination between concrete floors and walls, bamboo and stone elements.