Best Eats At Asakusa Tokyo.
There are many popular and well-established restaurants in Asakusa, but we will introduce only recommended restaurants in Asakusa.
- Classic Japanese restaurant in Asakusa
- Namiki Yabu Soba:One of the three major yabusoba in Tokyo
- Asakusa Mugitoro: Healthy ‘Tororo rice’ lunch is popular
- Edomae-Tendon “Masuru”: Great tasty Tendon is Asakusa’s must-try dish
- Maekawa: Eel restaurant with 200 years of history
- Owariya: long-established soba restaurant is popular with large shrimp tempura soba
- Kamameshi Mutsumi: Delicious Kamameshi in an old Japanese house
- Sushi-Isshin: Michelin Sushi Restaurant in Asakusa
- Komagata Dozeu: old-fashioned restaurant that you can get the famous Dojo-Nabe
- Yonekyu: Enjoy “Sukiyaki” at old restaurant from 1886
- Towada Soba: Soba made with Aomori’s buckwheat flour, crispy tempura is excellent
- Nakasei: Tempura at an old restaurant of japanese old fashioned houses
- Shochan: Let’s taste Asakusa’s emotion with special dishes
- Sentaro: Long-established okonomiyaki restaurant loved by Japanese writer
- Hontosaya: It will be delicious and full of stomach! Yakiniku restaurant popular in Asakusa.
Classic Japanese restaurant in Asakusa
Asakusa’s gourmet, there are many Japanese-like things such as teendon, unagi, nikomi, soba, sushi and so on.We introduce the staple of Japanese food from famous restaurant to popular restaurant where local people go.
Namiki Yabu Soba:One of the three major yabusoba in Tokyo
“Namiki Yabu soba” which stands at a place near Kaminarimon. Founded in 1913, it is one of the historical soba restaurants that lasts more than 100 years. There are many customers coming from afar, and holiday lunches need to line up.
In the restaurant there is a Japanese atmosphere, a Japanese-style seat and a table seat. Popular menu is “Zaru-soba” which simply tastes soba, “Ten-Zaru-Soba” with tempura of shrimp, “Kamo-Nanban” of warm soba with duck meat.
Soba soup(soy-based dip for buckwheat noodles), the scent of soy sauce is strong, lightly sweetened.
The reason why this is popular is that soba is narrow and chewy. Delicious soba noodle soup. It’s crispy tempura.
Let’s try “Sobayu” after eating buckwheat noodles.You can add sobayu into soba noodle soup, please try it.You can enjoy the gentle taste of soba and the smell of soy sauce mixed.
Asakusa Mugitoro: Healthy ‘Tororo rice’ lunch is popular
“Asakusa Mugittoro” is a tororo kaiseki restaurant founded in 1929. It is crowded every day by tourists visiting Asakusa.
Tororo-meshi is Japanese cuisine with grated yam potato adding japanese seasoning on rice.
The most popular menu is Tororo-Meshi Buffet lunch on weekdays (1000 yen). You can eat Mugitoro, Japanese rolled omelette, miso soup, Japanese pickles, stewed dishes etc.You can choose more side dishes on the top floor (2000 yen).
Edomae-Tendon “Masuru”: Great tasty Tendon is Asakusa’s must-try dish
“Masuru” near Asakusa Kaminarimon. Founded in 1947, this long-established Tendon restaurant has a history of over 70 years.
Tendon is a dish with tempura on rice.There are lots of Tendon restaurants in Asakusa, and here is the most popular restaurant with a long waiting line. For popularity reasons, use fresh seafood purchased from Tsukiji Fish Market. It may be closed on the day without a good Foodstuff.And the amazing size of tempura.The most popular menu is “Edomae-Tendon (3,700 yen)” containing Prawn, Anago (salt-water eel), Kisu (sand borer), Megochi (big-eyed flathead). It will surely be amazed by its taste and size.
Maekawa: Eel restaurant with 200 years of history
“Maekawa” founded in 1804, stands at the location where the Sumida River and the Tokyo Sky Tree can be seen.craftsmen handed down skill and taste.
For more than 200 years, craftsmen have inherited skill and taste and continues to attract people.
Maegawa’s eel is “Domestic raised eel” Bando Taro who is said to be close to natural.This eel is characterized by succulent, abundant taste.
The preparation of the ingredients, steamed, baked, finished, everything is wonderful.
The sauce made with soy sauce & mirin is a taste that you can enjoy the original taste of eel. This source is protected from the time Maekawa founded.
Owariya: long-established soba restaurant is popular with large shrimp tempura soba
This restaurant started 160 years ago. “Owariya” that has long been loved by local Asakusa people and tourists. Popular reasons are carefully selected ingredients, dried bonito soba soup, shrimp tempura fried sesame oil, The finest domestic buckwheat flour.These make up a good soba.
The most popular is “Tenpura-Soba” with big shrimp Tenpura. We recommend “Jou-Tendon (Excellent Tendon)” that rice with Kuruma-prawn tempura.
Kamameshi Mutsumi: Delicious Kamameshi in an old Japanese house
Kamameshi – Mutsumi is a little away from Asakusa’s sightseeing spot, but it is a restaurant many people visit.Kamameshi is a dish cooked rice, meat, seafood, vegetables etc with iron pot.
As Japanese seems to be, you can take off your shoes and enjoy the meal relaxedly.There are kinds in Kamameshi. Gomoku (various ingredients), chicken, mushrooms, octopus, sea urchin, seafood and so on. Popularity is Gomoku. Hot Kamameshi with various ingredients is exquisite.
Sushi-Isshin: Michelin Sushi Restaurant in Asakusa
Sushi Isshin is a Michelin star restaurant located a bit far from sightseeing spots.
The restaurant is very small, clean and welcoming.
Isshin sushi is great for reasons that fresh seasonal best ingredients, Aka-shari (Red-shari) tradition of the Edo used, the dish to serve the most delicious.
If you choose the course you can eat sushi in the season and classic sushi.
There are 3 kinds of courses.6,000 yen (only Sushi),10,000 yen (only Sushi),15,000 yen (Tsumami + Sushi).Let ‘s enjoy sushi with beer and tasty sake.
Komagata Dozeu: old-fashioned restaurant that you can get the famous Dojo-Nabe
One Edo period building in modern building is Komagata Dojo.Since 1801, it is an old-fashioned restaurant that you can taste traditional Edo cuisine and the Edo culture that remains until now.
Dojo Nabe is a traditional dish that simmers dojo with sake and soy sauce, bonito soup stock.
Dojo seasoned in Japanese style is soft and very delicious.Yanagawa Nabe simmers egg and cut dojo is also a standard.Enjoy the old Japanese style meal way to eat on the floor by pulling out shoes.
Yonekyu: Enjoy “Sukiyaki” at old restaurant from 1886
Yonekyu is a traditional Sukiyaki restaurant that continues from 1886.Sukiyaki is a Japanese hot pot dish of meat and vegetables with soy sauce and sugar.
When entering the restaurant, it is surprising that you will be greeted by the sound of a drum.
Menu is Sukiyaki, drink, rice, miso soup, pickles. Sukiyaki is a set of beef, vegetables, tofu, shrimp and eggs. You can choose Jyou (normal, 3160 yen), Toku (more delicious beef, 3790 yen) for meat types.
Towada Soba: Soba made with Aomori’s buckwheat flour, crispy tempura is excellent
Towada is a popular restaurant of Asakusa handmade buckwheat noodles founded in 1924.The landlady of Fourth generation is a famous person of Asakusa. I often see it on TV and magazines.There are 2 restaurants in Asakusa, on Metro Street and Asakusa Sushi Street.Buckwheat flour is sent directly from mills around Towada Lake every day.Hand-made Soba is sweet and delicious both hot (Kake-soba) and cold (seiro).
“Tsuyu (Soba soup)” which does not use chemical seasoning at all, the balance with soba is exquisite.
Tempura is deep fried with carefully selected sesame oil and it is very delicious. “Tempura Soba” on which big shrimp tempura was on is one of Asakusa’s representative tastes.
In Towada soba, there are many menus other than soba.There are more than 20 kinds of Sake, and there are rich foods such as sashimi, boiled fish and pickle picks suitable for drinking. Especially “Dashi-maki-tamago (rolled omelet)” is fluffy and delicious.Eat tempura with sake and finally eat soba, you can spend time like Japan.
Nakasei: Tempura at an old restaurant of japanese old fashioned houses
Beginning from the Food stands in the Edo period, in 1870 the tempura restaurant “Nakasei” opened in Asakusa.
Now the restaurant owner of Sixth generation inherits the taste and cooking method which continues from the Edo period.
One of the wonderful points of this restaurant is the building. Sukiya-dukuri style building (Japanese old tea room style architecture) and tasteful garden make us forget that this is the center of Tokyo.Tempura set meals include Prawn, Kisu (sillaginoid), Anago (conger-eel), and fried (mixed up fried tempura), all of which are fresh Food ingredients, excellent cooking. Everyone will surely be satisfied.
Drinks make tempura more delicious. You can drink beer, shochu, sake ＆ wine selected from the whole country.
Shochan: Let’s taste Asakusa’s emotion with special dishes
Hoppy Street is a drinking street in Asakusa. Both tourists and locals drink beer from noon and feel the atmosphere of old-fashioned downtown. And the famous bar at the end of Hoppy Street is Shochan.
A parasol stands in front of the bar, a table seat outside, only a counter inside the bar. It is a very small bar but it is always full of tourists and locals.Specialties are boiled Japanese-style beef boiled in a large pot. It is a stewed dish containing soft stewed beef streak meat and tofu firmly tasted.
It is a perfect taste to drink beer or hoppy.
Sentaro: Long-established okonomiyaki restaurant loved by Japanese writer
Okonomiyaki restaurant, which has been loved by writers and celebrities since opening in 1937 and is now crowded with many customers. Buildings older than 50 years seems to be old movies.The most popular is “Osenyaki”. Place ingredients such as the flour dough, minced meat, shrimp, cabbage on the iron plate, and put on yakisoba and egg. After burning, it is finished with sauce and mayonnaise.
Freshly baked okonomiyaki is very delicious. There are various kinds of Okonomiyaki, but the popularity is “Shumai-Ten”. Make a circle with rice cake, baked the flour dough and ingredients. It’s chewy and tasty. Staff will teach you carefully, so if you are the first time, do not worry. There are many Okonomiyaki restaurants in Asakusa, but this restaurant is probably the best to taste the downtown feeling.
Hontosaya: It will be delicious and full of stomach! Yakiniku restaurant popular in Asakusa.
Hontosaya near Asakusa View Hotel is the top level yakiniku restaurant in Asakusa. It is popular especially in Asakusa where there are many yakiniku restaurants such as being frequently appeared on television and being selected as the best restaurant in the Yakiniku ranking.On the wall there is a celebrity autograph. Tokujo Calvi (Boneless Short Rib) and Wagyu Harami (Outside Skirt) are very popular in Hontosaya. Baking thick meat, it smells delicious.
Many offal menus such as Tongue, Liver, hearts, Beef rumen, etc. are all fresh and tasty.Kimchi, Sakura Yukke (horse steak tartare), dishes suitable for drinks, bibimbap (Korean rice dish), cold noodles and other meal menu are enriched, too. When you want to eat delicious grilled meat, it is really recommended yakiniku restaurant.
