Shibuya

Kaikaya is a seafood restaurant in Maruyamacho, two minutes from Shinsen Station and under ten minutes from Shibuya Station, which calls its cooking market food from east and west. The owner-chef buys fish directly from people he has known through years of surfing, and it comes in from Sagami and Suruga Bays; dishes run from sashimi and sushi to carpaccio, prawn with prawn sauce and whole fish broiled over a fire. The room is hung with illustrated fish charts, surfboards and fishing rods. It has 70 seats and is non-smoking throughout, with an English menu and English-speaking staff. Booking is essentially required, and online bookings must include a course.

Good to know

• Booking is essentially required, and weekend evenings certainly need one. Online bookings are made through the restaurant's own site and must include a course.
• Tables are held for two hours.
• Opening hours are given differently by the restaurant's own pages: the map page says 17:00–22:30 with last orders at 21:30, while the Japanese booking page says 17:00–21:30 with last orders at 22:30. Check before you go.
• The closing day is also given differently: the Japanese pages say the restaurant closes irregularly, while the English map page says it is closed on Wednesdays. It also closes 14 to 17 August and 31 December to 4 January.
• The price of the Fuku course is given as ¥12,000 on the booking page and ¥12,800 on the course menu page.
• Cancellation charges apply per person: ¥8,000 on the day or for a no-show, ¥5,000 from two days before. For parties of 13 or more the charge starts seven days ahead.
• Children of 10 and under can only be booked in for 17:00, 17:30 or 18:00, and pushchairs are not allowed inside.
• Requests about allergies cannot be accepted within two days of your visit.
• The whole restaurant is non-smoking.
• Any cover charge, any age limit and the restaurant's social media are not stated on the official site.

Gonpachi Shibuya is a soba restaurant on the 14th floor of the E. Space Tower in Maruyamacho, with a view across the Shibuya skyline. It serves hand-cut soba made from domestic buckwheat stone-ground every morning, skewers grilled over binchotan charcoal and freshly fried tempura. The chain became known abroad after the izakaya summit between George W. Bush and Junichiro Koizumi at its Nishi-Azabu branch and after a scene in Kill Bill was modelled on it. The Shibuya branch seats 224, has private rooms and can be hired for up to 250 people. It opens every day from 11:30 until 3:30 the next morning and is non-smoking throughout.

Good to know

• A minimum charge of ¥1,000 (¥1,100 with tax) per person applies from 17:00.
• Private rooms carry their own minimum: from ¥10,000 per room and ¥2,000 per person at lunch, and from ¥30,000 per room and ¥6,000 per person in the evening. The room minimum does not change for a smaller party, and the conditions differ between 15 December and 3 January.
• Because of air-conditioning work, the restaurant opens 11:30–23:00 from 1 to 5 November 2026, with last food orders at 22:00 and last drink orders at 22:30.
• The whole restaurant is non-smoking.
• Open every day, with no closing day.
• Reservations are taken online through Toreta Asia or by phone on 050-5443-0489. Travel agents and parties of 30 or more use a separate form.
• A vegan menu and a halal course are available.
• There is parking in the building, but it is not validated and cannot be used late at night.
• The official page does not state payment methods or any age limit.

Torikizoku is a yakitori chain where every food item costs the same, and this branch is three minutes north-west of the Hachiko Exit of Shibuya Station, on the fourth floor of the Center Building in Shibuya Center-gai. Everything on the food menu is ¥410 including tax, as printed in the 2026 autumn-winter English menu. The grill menu includes momo and mune kizoku-yaki skewers, fried chicken, a griddled yam dish, chicken kamameshi and chicken paitan ramen. There are 3 counter seats and 55 table seats, and the restaurant serves until 4:00 in the morning, or 5:00 on Friday and Saturday.

Good to know

• People under 20 cannot come on their own. They may enter with a guardian or someone aged 20 or over, on condition that no alcohol is served to them, and staff may ask for identification.
• Reservations are for two hours. Branches running an opening sale do not take reservations.
• There are no private rooms; tables are only divided by partitions.
• The official pages do not state whether there is a cover charge, nor whether the restaurant is non-smoking. The branch page shows no indoor smoking booth and no outdoor smoking area.
• Opening hours change on some days. The branch page listed 3 and 23 November as days with different hours.
• Takeout has to be ordered by the day before.
• No baby chairs, no barrier-free access and no parking.

Kushikatsu Tanaka serves Osaka-style kushikatsu, skewers coated in batter and deep-fried, in the Hyakkendana quarter five minutes from Exit A0 of Shibuya Station. Skewers run from ¥88 for a sausage to ¥352 for large prawn (tax included), and assorted sets of five or eight are also on the menu. The restaurant has 58 seats at counters and tables, free Wi-Fi and a PDF menu printed in English, Chinese and Korean. It stays open until 1:00 every night, and the house rule is that the shared sauce must not be dipped twice.

Good to know

• Guests aged 20 or over pay a ¥319 (tax included) cover charge each, even without alcohol, and must order at least one drink.
• Do not dip a skewer in the sauce twice. The sauce is shared within your group and discarded afterwards.
• People under 20 can enter without an adult, but are not served alcohol. Staff may ask for identification.
• Guests aged 19 and under can order a soft drink and play rock-paper-scissors with the staff; winning gets one free drink.
• There is no smoking booth at this branch, and the official page does not say whether the seats are non-smoking.
• Reservations can be made online at any time, and walk-ins are accepted, but booked guests are seated first.
• The tips of the skewers are sharp.
• No kids' chairs, no parking and no lunch menu.

Isomaru Suisan is a seafood izakaya in Udagawacho, five minutes from the Hachiko Exit of JR Shibuya Station, and it is open 24 hours a day all year round. Its signature is isomaru-yaki, shellfish taken live from the tank and crab miso in the shell, grilled in front of you at the table. Sashimi and other small dishes are also on the menu, and lunch is served as well. The restaurant has 104 seats, free Wi-Fi and a smoking booth, with all other seats non-smoking.

Good to know

• Individual dish prices are not published for this branch; the chain notes that menu contents and prices differ by restaurant.
• The official page does not say whether there is a cover charge, an English menu, an age limit or whether seats can be reserved.
• Seating is non-smoking and there is a separate smoking booth.
• There is no parking.

Uotami is a large all-round izakaya in the basement of a building in Jinnan, just north of Shibuya Center-gai, open until midnight every day. It has 115 seats, private rooms, karaoke, free Wi-Fi and a smoking booth. The menu runs from sashimi and sushi, through small dishes such as vinegared offal at ¥548 and pickles at ¥438, to a motsu-nabe offal hotpot at ¥1,208 per person and a beef shoulder steak at ¥1,428, all tax included. A charge of ¥498 per person covers the otoshi, and a 10% late-night charge applies to orders placed after 22:00.

Good to know

• A charge of ¥498 per person (tax included), which covers the otoshi, is added to the bill.
• A late-night charge of 10% of the bill is added when the first order is placed between 22:00 and 5:00. Since the restaurant closes at midnight, this applies to orders placed from 22:00 onwards.
• People under 20 are not served alcohol, and staff may ask for identification.
• The restaurant does not serve alcohol to guests who arrived by vehicle, including bicycles and electric kickboards.
• There is a smoking booth. The official page does not state whether the other seats are non-smoking.
• The official page does not give a walking time from the station, only a route description, and the address and the route description disagree about the floor.
• The tax rate differs between eating in and taking away; say before ordering if you want to take food out.
• There is no parking.

Ichiran is a tonkotsu ramen specialist, and this branch in the basement of a building in Jinnan, three minutes from the Hachiko Exit of Shibuya Station and next to Shibuya Marui JAM, is open 24 hours. The ramen that the company has served since it opened is 1,180 yen, with extra noodles at 210 yen, and you choose how your bowl is made by filling in a paper order sheet. All 21 seats are at the flavour concentration counter, which is divided into individual booths. There is an English version of the shop page and a subtitled video explaining how to order for first-time visitors.

Good to know

• A late-night charge is added between 22:00 and 6:00. The rate is not published.
• You may not be let in even before last orders when the shop is busy.
• The company notes that seat numbers, opening hours or opening at all may change depending on staffing.
• The official page does not state whether prices include tax, what the smoking policy is, or whether seats can be reserved.
• There is no parking.

AFURI is a ramen shop on Dogenzaka known for yuzu shio ramen, a clear chicken and dashi broth finished with yuzu. The Shibuya Dogenzaka branch opens at 11:00 every day and serves until 23:00, or until 5:00 in the morning on Friday and Saturday, closing earlier if the soup runs out. Both ramen and tsukemen, served with a cold dipping broth, are on the menu, and there is a rainbow vegan ramen made entirely from plants, with lotus-root noodles that contain no egg. The branch is fully cashless.

Good to know

• The branch is fully cashless, so bring a card or a payment app rather than cash.
• The shop closes when the soup runs out, before the listed closing time.
• It stays open until 5:00 only on Friday and Saturday nights; from Sunday to Thursday it closes at 23:00.
• The official site does not publish prices, seat numbers, a walking time from the station, the smoking policy or whether reservations are taken.

Oreryu Shio-Ramen is a salt ramen shop that the company describes as born in Shibuya, and this branch in Shibuya Center-gai opens at 11:00 and serves until 7:00 the next morning, every day of the week. The basic bowl, Oreryu Shio-Ramen at ¥830, is built on a broth of chicken bones and spring onion simmered slowly over a low flame. A matured version, Jukusei Shio-Ramen at ¥850, is cooked quickly in a pressure pot so that only the sweetness and umami come through. All seats are non-smoking.

Good to know

• All seats are non-smoking.
• The official page does not give a seat count, a walking time from the station, the payment methods accepted, or whether prices include tax.
• Reservations and any age limit are not mentioned on the official page.

Bukotsu Gaiden is the Menya Musashi group's Dogenzaka shop, three minutes from the Hachiko Exit of JR Shibuya Station, and it has been open since December 2006. You choose between a regular soup of chicken and pork bones combined with crab and dried sardines, and a rich version that adds thick-shaved bonito flakes. You then choose black, with a special soy sauce thickened sauce, red, with a spicy miso sauce, or white, with no sauce. The shop has 19 seats and opens every day.

Good to know

• The shop has only 19 seats, so you may have to wait.
• Prices and accepted payment methods are not listed on the official website.
• The shop is open every day with no regular closing day.
• The official site does not state the smoking policy or whether reservations are taken.