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The second Torikizoku in Asakusa, on the fifth floor of a building a minute from the Tsukuba Express exit. Like every branch, all food and drink is ¥410 including tax.

This one stays open until 4:00 in the morning every day of the week, which makes it the latest-closing place on this site's Asakusa list apart from the kebab shops.

Good to know

• Smoking is not allowed inside, and this branch has no outdoor smoking area either.
• There are no baby chairs.

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.

Torikizoku is a yakitori chain where every food item costs the same, and this branch is two minutes east of the Central East Exit of JR Shinjuku Station, on the eighth floor of the Peace Building. Everything on the food menu is ¥410 including tax, as printed in the October 2026 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 4 counter seats and 62 table seats, and the restaurant serves until 4:00 in the morning.

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 1, 3 and 23 November as days with different hours.
• No takeout, no baby chairs, no barrier-free access and no parking.

Shutei Juraku is an izakaya under the railway arches at the entrance to the Ameyoko market, one minute from JR Ueno Station. Fish is delivered every morning from Toyosu market, and large yakitori skewers are also on the menu. The restaurant has 100 seats in total, including tatami private rooms for groups of up to 40 people, and the website states that children are welcome. Most of its courses come with two hours of all-you-can-drink.

Good to know

• A cover charge (otoshi) is added for each person. The official pages give two different amounts, so confirm it at the table.
• There is no English menu, although the official website can be switched to English, Korean and Chinese.
• Orders are placed through a mobile ordering system.
• All seats are non-smoking. Smoking is allowed at the outside seats.
• You may be turned away when the restaurant is full.
• No Wi-Fi, no parking, no barrier-free access, and pets are not allowed.

A monja restaurant founded in 1954, which says on its own site that it is the oldest monja shop on Nishinaka Street, the shopping street known as Monja Street, and that it marked its seventieth year in April 2024.

It is small: three tables for up to four and two for up to six, with the shop noting that the six-seat tables are a little tight for adults. It opens at 17:00 on weekdays and 16:00 at weekends, takes its last order at 21:30, and asks guests to be inside by 21:00. There are no smoking seats.

Good to know

• Last entry is 21:00 and last orders are at 21:30.
• Closed on Tuesdays, plus one further irregular day each month.
• Bookings are by telephone only.
• Prices are not published on the shop's site.
• Kondo Honten on the same street gives its own founding year as 1950, so the two shops' claims differ.

The shop where Tsukiji Tamasushi began, founded in 1924 and still on the same corner two minutes from Tsukiji Station. There are 13 counter seats and 22 at tables, and the dining room is entirely non-smoking.

Dinner runs from 17:00 to 22:00 with last orders at 21:30. Note that a 5 percent service charge is added to anything ordered from 17:00, which the restaurant states on its own page. Lunch cannot be reserved; evening bookings are taken by phone.

Good to know

• A 5 percent service charge applies to orders placed from 17:00.
• Lunch cannot be reserved. Evening bookings are taken by phone.
• Closed over the New Year period, otherwise open every day.

A basement yakitori and kamameshi shop in Ginza 5-chome, founded here not long after the war. By its own account no shop in Ginza was serving kamameshi as a regular menu item at the time, and this was the first to do so, which is why rice pots and grilled chicken still come together here.

The chicken is grilled over binchotan charcoal from Wakayama, as it has been since the shop opened, and each kamameshi is started only once it is ordered, so it takes about fifteen minutes. The dashi is drawn fresh each day from kombu and dried fish.

Good to know

• The main shop in Ginza does not take reservations at present.
• Kamameshi takes about fifteen minutes because it is cooked from the start after you order.
• Last orders are at 21:00.
• No prices are published on the official site.

A teppanyaki restaurant in the basement of the Seryna building, where Kobe beef, Japanese wagyu and seafood are grilled on the iron plate in front of you. There are counter seats, tables and private rooms, and the restaurant is reached by stairs down from street level.

On weekdays it serves dinner only, 17:00 to 23:00 with last orders at 22:00. At weekends and on public holidays it also opens for lunch and the evening finishes half an hour earlier. The site is published in English.

Good to know

• A 10 percent service charge is added to the prices above.
• The restaurant asks that allergies be mentioned before ordering, and notes that prices and dishes may change without notice.
• The basement floor is reached by stairs.
• There is no car park; the restaurant asks you to use a nearby pay car park.

A Turkish kebab shop with fourteen seats that stays open until 2:00 in the morning. The name means palace, after the Topkapi Palace of the Ottoman Empire.

A chicken kebab sandwich is ¥550 and a beef one ¥600, with a larger portion for ¥100 more. Larger plates such as doner kebab and lahmacun are also served, and everything can be taken away.

Good to know

• Closing days are not published on the shop's own 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.