Izakaya

A yakitori chain where every dish and every drink costs the same: ¥410 including tax. This branch is on the third floor of the building right outside exit 8 of Asakusa Station, with eight counter seats and eighty-one table seats.

On Fridays and Saturdays it stays open until 4:30 in the morning. On other days it closes at 23:00, which still makes it late by Asakusa standards.

Good to know

• Open until 4:30 on Friday and Saturday nights, and until 23:00 on the other days.
• There are no baby chairs.

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.

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 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.

Kushikatsu Tanaka serves Osaka-style kushikatsu, skewers coated in batter and deep-fried, five minutes from Seibu-Shinjuku Station in Kabukicho. 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 56 seats at counters and tables, and a PDF menu printed in English, Chinese and Korean is available. It stays open until 3:00 from Monday to Thursday and until 4:00 from Friday to Sunday, 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.
• The all-you-can-eat plan is only for Monday to Thursday arrivals before 18:00 and must be booked by the day before. Guests aged 20 or over are charged the adult rate that includes all-you-can-drink alcohol even if they do not drink.
• There is no smoking booth at this branch.
• Reservations can be made online at any time, and walk-ins are accepted, but booked guests are seated first.
• No free Wi-Fi, no kids' chairs, no parking and no lunch menu.

Kushikatsu Tanaka serves Osaka-style kushikatsu, skewers coated in batter and deep-fried, three minutes from the North Exit of Okachimachi 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 57 seats across counter, table, tatami and box seating, and a PDF menu printed in English, Chinese and Korean is available. 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.
• The all-you-can-eat-and-drink plan is only for Monday to Thursday arrivals before 18:00 and must be booked by the day before.
• There is no smoking booth at this branch.
• Reservations can be made online at any time, and walk-ins are accepted, but booked guests are seated first.
• No free Wi-Fi, no parking, and no lunch menu.

The deep-fried skewer chain's Higashi-Ginza branch, a minute from Exit A7, with 54 seats across counter, table, tatami and booth seating. It is one of the few places in this part of Ginza still serving at 1:00, from Tuesday to Saturday, and it opens at noon at weekends.

Skewers are dipped in a shared pot of sauce, and the house rule is that you may not dip a second time. Guests aged 20 or over pay a ¥319 cover charge, which brings a refillable plate of cabbage and sauce, and must order at least one drink.

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.
• Dipping a skewer in the sauce a second time is not allowed.
• Under-20s may come in on their own, but no alcohol is served to them and ID may be checked.
• This branch has no indoor smoking booth.

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.

Isomaru Suisan is a seafood izakaya one minute from JR Shinjuku 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 93 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 or an age limit.
• Seating is non-smoking and there is a separate smoking booth.
• There is no parking.