Izakaya

Chiba-chan is a taishu-sakaba, a large everyday drinking restaurant, on the third floor of a building in the Ameyoko market area about three minutes from JR Ueno Station. Small dishes start at ¥110 and chicken or pork skewers are ¥132 each (tax included), and the restaurant is known for its baka-mori portions, which it describes as three times the normal size, and dai-baka-mori at ten times. There are 180 seats with tables and sunken kotatsu seating, an English menu, and courses with 120 minutes of all-you-can-drink. On Fridays and Saturdays it stays open until 5:00 the next morning.

Good to know

• A table charge of ¥473 (tax included) per person is added to the bill, so the total comes to more than the listed prices.
• Each person is asked to order at least one drink.
• Orders placed after 22:00 carry a 10% late-night charge.
• Electronic money cannot be used. PayPay is the only QR code payment accepted.
• All seats are non-smoking, and there is a separate smoking room.
• The restaurant states that it does not use touts, and asks you to contact the shop if someone on the street claims to work for it.
• Food and drink orders stop at 23:00 on the days it closes at 23:30, and at 4:00 on the nights it stays open until 5:00.

A monja restaurant on the fourth block of Monja Street with 65 seats, which the association also lists as a place to drink. Last orders are at 21:00, earlier than most of the street.

It is closed on Mondays, but if the Monday is a public holiday it opens and closes on the Tuesday instead. The shop runs a seasonal monja all year round: the spring one is built on shiso, cheese, raw squid and mentaiko.

Good to know

• Last orders are at 21:00.
• Closed on Mondays; if the Monday is a public holiday it opens and closes on the Tuesday instead.
• Opening hours on public holidays are not published.
• Listed by the Tsukishima Monja Association; the shop has no site of its own.

A two-hundred-seat izakaya over two floors in the Okuyama Omairimachi shopping street, serving sushi alongside the usual izakaya dishes. It stays open until 3:00 in the morning every day, and opens from noon at weekends.

There are private rooms and karaoke, and the whole shop is non-smoking. An all-you-can-drink plan is offered.

Good to know

• There is no kids' room or kids' space.
• The shop takes cards and electronic money, including transport IC cards.

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.

Shirokiya is a large all-round izakaya on the fifth floor of a building in Kabukicho, open from 15:00 until 5:00 every day. It has 479 seats, private rooms, karaoke, free Wi-Fi and a smoking booth. The menu runs from small dishes such as grilled skewers at ¥416 for two and takoyaki at ¥537, through fried chicken at ¥647, to pizza, yakisoba and rice dishes, all tax included. A charge of ¥471 per person covers the otoshi, and a 10% late-night charge applies after 22:00.

Good to know

• A charge of ¥471 per person (tax included), which covers the otoshi, is added to the bill.
• A late-night charge of 10% of the bill applies between 22:00 and 5:00. The two pages of the grand menu word the condition differently, one saying it applies to guests who arrive in that window and the other to guests who place their first order in it, so check at the restaurant.
• 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.
• There is no parking and no lunch service.

Kadokura is a standing bar one minute from the Hirokoji Exit of JR Ueno Station, run by the Ueno Taishoen yakiniku group. Dishes start at ¥180 and drinks at ¥250 for a shochu highball, all prices tax included, and the shop lists five signature items: today's raw offal at ¥600, beef tendon stew at ¥300, mille-feuille ham katsu at ¥330, tonpei-yaki at ¥580 and a two-skewer set of rare wagyu cuts at ¥690. Besides the standing area there are partitioned tables, counter seats and chair seats. All seats have been non-smoking since April 2020.

Good to know

• In the standing area, drinks and dishes are paid for in cash as they are served, so carry coins and small notes.
• Chair seats (VIP seats) carry a ¥200 cover charge (otoshi) per person.
• All seats are non-smoking, including e-cigarettes and heated tobacco.
• Opening hours for Sundays and public holidays are not published on the official website, so check before going.
• Last orders are 30 minutes before closing: 21:30 on weekdays and 22:30 on Fridays, Saturdays and the day before a public holiday.
• The published menu images are in Japanese.

A chain izakaya on the third floor of the building directly outside exit 8 of Asakusa Station, open from 17:00 until 3:00 every day. It has sixty-five seats.

Both all-you-can-eat and all-you-can-drink plans are offered. There is a separate smoking room, so the seating area itself is not smoky.

Good to know

• There is a smoking room inside the shop.
• No private rooms, and no kids' space.

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.

Yamauchi Noujou is an izakaya built around Satsuma Yamauchi jidori, a free-range chicken raised in Akune in Kagoshima Prefecture and certified as jidori under the JAS standard. The house dish is the chicken grilled over charcoal and seasoned with salt, ¥1,758 for a 180 g portion and ¥2,528 for 270 g, tax included. The restaurant is on the fifth floor of a building on Godzilla Road in Kabukicho, with 72 seats, free Wi-Fi and a smoking booth, and it serves until 1:00 from Monday to Saturday.

Good to know

• A charge of ¥526 per person (tax included), which covers the otoshi, is added to the bill.
• 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.
• There are no private rooms and no karaoke, and no parking.
• The tax rate differs between eating in and taking away; say before ordering if you want to take food out.

Torikizoku is a yakitori chain where every food and drink item costs the same, and this branch is one minute south of Keisei Ueno Station on the third floor of a building on Ueno Chuo-dori. Since the price revision of 1 October 2026 everything on the 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 and a griddled yam dish. There are 8 counter seats and 91 table seats, and the restaurant serves until 5:00 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.
• No takeout, no baby chairs, no barrier-free access and no parking.