Japanese Cuisine

A 114-seat monja restaurant on the second block of Monja Street that serves straight through from 11:00 to 23:00, every day of the year, with no afternoon break. There are tatami rooms, and the seats themselves are non-smoking with a separate smoking room.

The house speciality is the risotto monja, made with rice in either a cream or a tomato version, which the association lists as the most popular of its unconventional monja.

Good to know

• The seats are non-smoking, but there is a smoking room.
• Prices for individual monja are not published; only the courses are.
• Listed by the Tsukishima Monja Association; the shop has no site of its own.

A tempura restaurant on the ninth floor a minute from Exit C8 of Ginza Station, serving lunch from 11:00 and dinner from 17:00 every day except 1 January. The main shop closed at the end of 2025 to move, and reopened at this address in May 2026.

Dinner is built around set courses: ¥3,960 for the standard eight-piece course with salad and chawanmushi, up to ¥7,700 for the eleven-piece course with a hassun, sashimi and dessert. Two courses are bookable only at the counter, at ¥6,600 for seven pieces and ¥8,800 for ten, each with an appetiser and a drink.

Good to know

• Last orders are at 21:00 in the evening and 14:30 at lunch.
• The two counter-only omakase courses must be booked for the counter.
• There is no car park.

A Japanese restaurant on the corner of the Nishi-Azabu crossing, ten minutes' walk from Roppongi Station, serving soba made each morning from stone-ground buckwheat, skewers grilled over binchotan charcoal, and tempura. There are 260 seats across two floors, with counter seats, tables and private rooms.

It is open every day from 11:30 until 3:30 in the morning, with last orders at 2:45 for food and 3:00 for drinks, and the whole restaurant is non-smoking. A vegan menu and a halal course are both published. The building was the model for a scene in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, and is where the Bush-Koizumi izakaya summit was held.

Good to know

• The minimum spend after 17:00 is ¥1,650 per person including tax, so a single drink will not cover it.
• The whole restaurant is non-smoking.
• Reservations are taken by phone between 11:30 and 22:00.
• Parking is six spaces shared with the sushi restaurant upstairs, with a height limit of 2.3m.
• The Japanese text on its own site says it closes at 3:30 while the English text says 3:00; the hours table gives 3:30.

Kakiden serves kyo kaiseki and cha-kaiseki over four floors of the Yasuyo Building, a minute from the Central East Exit of Shinjuku Station. The rooms on the 6th, 8th and 9th floors were designed by Yoshiro Taniguchi, the architect of the Crown Prince's Palace and the Japanese rooms of the State Guest House. The 9th floor holds three tea rooms, Zangetsu, the ten-mat room and Ichiyoan, which can be booked as private rooms; the 8th floor has chair seating. Courses run from a boxed kaiseki lunch to multi-course dinners, and a service charge of 10 percent is added. On Sunday evenings only the private rooms open, by advance reservation.

Good to know

• A service charge of 10 percent is added to the bill.
• The private tea rooms on the 9th floor carry a room charge and must be booked at least four days in advance.
• On Sunday evenings only the private rooms open, by advance reservation. If the following Monday is a public holiday, Sunday is normal and the holiday evening is private rooms only.
• The Tsuki course can only be ordered with an advance reservation.
• Prices, the Saturday and Sunday lunch last order, and the list of accepted cards are given differently on the Japanese and English pages, so confirm them with the restaurant.
• Cancellation charges apply: for the 8th floor, 30 percent from 15:00 the day before and 100 percent on the day; for the 6th, 7th and 9th floors, 30 percent from 15:00 three days before, 50 percent the day before and 100 percent on the day.
• Open all year except the New Year period and the summer Bon holidays.
• Book online through the reservation page or by phone on 03-3352-5121.
• The number of seats, the smoking policy and any age limit are not stated on the official site.

The newest of the Bambi restaurants, two minutes from the station on the second block of Monja Street. Of its 60 seats, eleven tables are for two, and the association tags it as welcoming solo diners — which is not a given on a street built around sharing a hotplate.

On weekdays it opens at 18:00 and does no lunch; at weekends it opens at 11:00. The shop says it was the first in Tsukishima to serve a salt-based monja.

Good to know

• There is no lunch service on weekdays; the shop opens at 18:00.
• The whole restaurant is non-smoking.
• Listed by the Tsukishima Monja Association; the shop has no site of its own.

The cheap end of the Hageten group, two minutes from Ginza Station, serving ramen and tendon side by side from 11:00 to 22:00 every day except New Year's Day. The sesame-tonkotsu ramen comes with five pieces of tempura on top, including char siu and pickled ginger fried in batter.

Bowls run from ¥1,290 to ¥2,600 with tax included, which makes it one of the few places in Ginza where a full meal costs under ¥1,500. Cards are not accepted, so bring cash.

Good to know

• Cash only — no credit cards.
• Closed on 1 January only.
• There is no car park.

Tsunahachi has been frying Edo-style tempura in Shinjuku since 1924. The main restaurant closed on 31 May 2026 for rebuilding, and since 23 June 2026 the same manager and staff have been running this annexe in the TRES SHINJUKU building, a few minutes from Shinjuku-sanchome Station. The sixth floor has 17 counter seats and 18 table seats, and the basement another 34 table seats, with some dishes served only in the basement. The whole restaurant is non-smoking and it opens every day from 11:00 to 22:00.

Good to know

• The whole restaurant is non-smoking at all times.
• This is the annexe. The original Tsunahachi main restaurant closed on 31 May 2026 for rebuilding and is due to reopen in autumn 2028.
• The lunch menu is served until 15:00, with last orders at 15:00.
• Some set meals, including the tempura and sashimi sets, are served only in the basement dining room.
• Reservations are taken by phone on 03-5315-0320. The restaurant asks you to say that you saw the website. The chain's online booking form does not list this branch.
• There is no car park.
• Whether prices include tax, which card brands are accepted, any cover charge and any age limit are not stated on the official page.

An 82-seat monja restaurant on the third block of Monja Street, open straight through from 11:00 to 22:30 every day of the year. Smoking is allowed.

Its own site has English and Korean pages, which is rare here. On them the shop says its ingredients are hand-picked each day at Tsukiji or Toyosu, and that the stock is its own long-simmered recipe. Most monja on the list are ¥1,500.

Good to know

• Smoking is allowed.
• The shop's own site does not publish opening hours; the hours here come from the Tsukishima Monja Association listing.
• Open every day of the year.

A basement tonkatsu restaurant three minutes from Ginza Station that describes itself as the first tonkatsu specialist to open in Ginza. Set meals come with rice, miso soup and pickles, and the rice is refillable; single items can be combined into a set and portions adjusted on request.

Set meals run from ¥1,950 to ¥4,600 and a katsudon is ¥1,400, as listed by the restaurant in April 2024. The founder had trained as a pharmacist and used that knowledge to develop the house tonkatsu sauce, which is also sold to take home.

Good to know

• Reservations are not taken, and a group is seated only once everyone has arrived.
• Last orders are at 20:00, so this is an early dinner rather than a late one.
• Open every day except 1 January.
• Prices are those listed by the restaurant as of April 2024.

A shabu-shabu and sukiyaki restaurant in Roppongi, open since 1961 and a registered Kobe beef restaurant with the association that certifies the breed. Crab shabu-shabu and seasonal Japanese dishes are served alongside the beef.

The ground floor has 11 tables and 46 seats; the first floor has 10 tables, 42 seats and four private rooms for two to six people, named after cherry, wisteria, camellia and maple. Dinner runs from 17:00, until 23:00 on weekdays and 22:30 at weekends, and the whole site is published in English.

Good to know

• A 10 percent service charge is added to the prices above.
• A private room costs extra: from ¥16,500 per person at dinner and ¥11,000 at lunch, tax included.
• There is no car park for Seryna or for the teppanyaki restaurant in the same building; the restaurant asks you to use a nearby pay car park.
• Reservations by phone are taken from 11:00.