Japanese Cuisine

A small monja restaurant on the third block of Monja Street that opens at 18:00 and runs to 02:00, which is later than anywhere else listed here for Tsukishima. On Tuesdays it closes earlier, at 00:30.

There are 28 seats across five tables, including tatami seating, and the shop says the tables are wide for a place its size. Smoking is allowed. It does not open for lunch at all.

Good to know

• There is no lunch service; the shop opens at 18:00.
• On Tuesdays it closes at 00:30 rather than 02:00.
• Smoking is allowed at the tables.
• Listed by the Tsukishima Monja Association; the shop has no site of its own.

A yakiniku restaurant in Tsukiji 6-chome that takes orders until 23:00 and closes at 23:30, every day of the week. At weekends it opens an hour earlier, at 16:00.

The R in the name stands for rare, which the chain explains two ways: unusual cuts, and cooked rare. The drinks list runs to about seventy items. Booking is possible by phone or online, and there is takeaway.

Good to know

• Prices are not published on the restaurant's own pages.
• No closing day, but the opening hour differs on weekdays and weekends.
• It sits in Tsukiji 6-chome, a short walk from the outer market.

The annexe of Asakusa Ichimon, serving kaiseki, a set meal of small seasonal courses. Every seat is either a semi-private or a private room: the ground floor is partitioned, the first floor has sunken tatami rooms, and the second is a hall built to suggest a castle keep.

The monthly kaiseki starts at ¥4,500. Fish arrives from Tsukiji each morning, and the kitchen also serves the house negima-nabe, pufferfish, abalone and soft-shell turtle hotpot.

Good to know

• Closed on Sundays and public holidays — unlike the main restaurant, which opens every day.
• Groups of fifteen or more ordering the Shitamachi course or above can book on a Sunday, a holiday or a weekday lunchtime.

A monja restaurant that serves until 00:30, from noon on weekdays and from 11:30 at weekends. It is non-smoking, takes cards and QR payments, and the association tags it as welcoming to overseas visitors and to families with small children.

Several of the monja here are its own: pork with yuzu kosho, a tantan monja with noodles and minced meat, and a black curry monja made with beef tendon and squid ink. Courses run from ¥3,300 to ¥7,150.

Good to know

• Closing days are irregular rather than fixed.
• The whole restaurant is non-smoking.
• Listed by the Tsukishima Monja Association; the shop has no site of its own.

A soba restaurant inside the outer market, which the listing describes as forty-two years old. It makes its own soba, fries tempura with seasonal fish and vegetables, and keeps a list of hard-to-find sake. Edomae fish — sea eel, megochi and whiting — are on the list too.

Dinner is served from 17:30 to 21:00 on weekdays only. On Saturdays it closes at 14:00, and on Sundays and public holidays it does not open to a fixed schedule. There is a ¥5,000 course with all-you-can-drink sake and wild bluefin tuna.

Good to know

• There is no dinner on Saturdays, Sundays or public holidays.
• Single-dish prices are not published.
• Listed by the Tsukiji outer market shopping association; the shop has no site of its own.

A yoshoku restaurant in the back streets of Rokku, open since December 1951. Yoshoku is western food as it was rebuilt in Japan: beef stew, croquettes, omelettes and steak, cooked to go with rice and sake rather than against them. It started with ten seats at an open counter, and the building has not been rebuilt since 1960.

Beef stew is ¥3,400 and a hamburg steak ¥1,700. The sign outside carries the line the restaurant adopted around 1960, which translates roughly as "so good we apologise".

Good to know

• Closed on Thursdays.
• Last orders are at 21:00.
• Almost everything can be ordered to take away; the restaurant asks you to phone ahead.

A sukiyaki and shabu-shabu restaurant that opened in 1895 and is now in its fourth generation on Kokusai-dori, next to the Tsukuba Express exit. It uses Japanese black beef, female cattle only, selected from across the country, and also serves Kobe beef.

It is open every day of the year, from 11:30 to 21:30 with last orders at 20:30. The ground floor has chairs and a raised tatami area, and there are three private rooms seating up to eight.

Good to know

• Reservations cannot start later than 19:00, even though the restaurant serves until 20:30.
• A 10% service charge is added once one person's order reaches ¥5,500.
• A seat dish of beef simmered in soy sauce, ¥440 per person, comes with the standard menu.
• The third floor keeps shorter hours, 11:30 to 19:30.

A monja and okonomiyaki restaurant on the ground floor of a tower on the second block of Monja Street, open until midnight every day of the year. It has 54 seats, and two of them are private rooms, which is rare among the monja restaurants here.

The kitchen cooks okonomiyaki as well as monja, and the courses are built around either meat or seafood. It is non-smoking and takes cards and QR payments.

Good to know

• Open until midnight, every day of the year.
• The whole restaurant is non-smoking.
• Listed by the Tsukishima Monja Association; the shop has no site of its own.

A fish restaurant in Tsukiji 6-chome that says its aim is to serve wild fish at a reasonable price, using the advantage of its location. Set meals are built around tuna, and there are sashimi, grilled and simmered dishes from the day's catch.

Dinner runs from 17:00 to 21:00 on weekdays. On Saturdays it serves straight through from 11:00 to 20:00, and it is closed on Sundays and public holidays, as well as over Golden Week, in summer and at New Year.

Good to know

• Closed on Sundays and public holidays, and over Golden Week, the summer holiday and New Year.
• Prices are not published.
• Listed by the Tsukiji outer market shopping association; the shop has no site of its own.

A buffet on the twenty-sixth floor of the Asakusa View Hotel, looking out at Tokyo Skytree and the roofs of Sensoji. Grilled dishes are cooked in the restaurant's own kiln over lava stone from Mount Fuji, tempura is fried in front of you, and the spread runs to about a hundred dishes.

Dinner runs 17:00 to 21:00 on weekdays, and 17:00 to 21:30 at weekends and on holidays in two sittings, at 17:00 and 19:30. Each booking lasts two hours from the time it starts.

Good to know

• The view costs extra. Window seats are ¥1,000 for a pair or ¥1,500 for a table of up to eight, and they are the only seats you can ask for by name.
• The restaurant states plainly that some seats in the hall have no view at all.
• Buffet prices change every month or two; the figures here are the ones published for October 2026.