From award-winning restaurants in various contests to small restaurants where locals gather, there are various styles of restaurants in Tokyo. In this article, we will give you tips for Tokyo’s food.

Tips

• The number of restaurants serving vegetarians, vegans is increasing
• Follow the rules and etiquette when drinking out.

Choose a Restaurant by area

There are many specialty restaurants such as ramen, sushi, and tempura in Tokyo. But which one should I go to? We recommended choosing a restaurant by area. For example, If you want to go to sushi restaurants, pick one near Toyosu Market such as Tsukiji, Ginza.

For example, there are many ramen shops in Shinjuku. Otakibashi-Dori, which runs from the west exit of JR Shinjuku Station to JR Okubo Station, is lined with many shops and is the centerpiece of Tokyo’s ramen culture.

Ikebukuro, Takadanobaba, and “Tokyo Ramen Street” that exists underground of Tokyo Station are also very popular.

Kanda, Nihonbashi, and Asakusa, where the good old townscape remains, have restaurants that have been popular for generations.

Especially, if you want to enjoy tempura and soba, this is a place you should definitely visit. It is usually said that making noise while eating is bad manners, but slurping soba noodles is considered the proper way to eat since it enhances the flavor of noodles.

Luxuary Cuisines with Tokyo’s night view

While we recommend the famous restaurants that are popular with the locals, there are more than 200 Michelin Guide-starred restaurants in Tokyo. If you want to enjoy a meal in a high-class dining room overlooking the night view, you should visit the skyscrapers in Otemachi and Marunouchi around Tokyo Station.

Food born in Tokyo

“Monjayaki” is a dish that originated in Tokyo. There are many Monjayaki specialty restaurants in Tsukishima, and you can enjoy both monjayaki and okonomiyaki.

In the sumo town of Ryogoku, there are many restaurants of “Chanko Nabe”. You can enjoy Fukagawa-meshi at “Fukagawa” and loach pot at “Asakusa”.

Tokyo also has a lot of entertainment-rich restaurants like theme parks. In addition to “Alice in Magical Land” in Shinjuku with the theme of “Alice in Wonderland” and “NINJA AKASAKA” with the theme of ninja, there are also restaurants where you can enjoy singing, dancing, and theater such as “Roppongi Kaguwa”

Hit a casual restaurant along the railroad.

Delicious restaurants gather under the elevated roads and in the back alleys. The area around “Yurakucho” and “Ueno” is famous for the bars under the overpass.

In recent years, even in “Nakameguro“, fashionable restaurants are lined up along the railroad tracks and are crowded with people.

Yokocho (food street) is popular for “Shinjuku,” “Shibuya,” and “Ebisu.” “Shinjuku Golden Gai,” “Shinjuku West Exit Memories Yokocho,” “Shibuya Nonbei Yokocho,” and “Ebisu Yokocho” are famous.

There are many casual bars and restaurants, and their atmosphere make it easy to get along with other customers.

Tokyo never sleeps

Luxury cocktail lounges, hotel bars, nightclubs, standing bars and much more to enjoy until morning. Especially, many people gather in “Roppongi”, “Shinjuku” and “Shibuya”.