Another course, including Japanese black beef ribs, is available for 4,980 yen . With the courses from 2,890 yen to 4,980 yen, you can also enjoy shabu-shabu for an extra 500 yen. The all-you-can-eat menu also has a long lineup of chicken cuts, including thigh and cartilage, within its roster of over 40 kinds of meats and cuts.
Savor their one and only Tonkotsu ramen that comes with rich, milky pork-based broth. The soup is combined with smooth-thin noodles, sliced pork, spicy red sauce, and green onions. In these hours, you’ll hop from one bar to another, trying different drinks and snacks that Japanese people love.
Shinjuku's restaurant scene is one of the best in Tokyo, and there's truly something here for every budget. Known for its samgyeopsal , this restaurant offers , an all-you-can-eat course that gives you as much as 2 hours to enjoy 9 items for 2,980 JPY. Aside from that, they also offer a wide yakiniku selection of exquisite Wagyu cuts. Located in an easily accessible location that is a minute away from Shinjuku Station, "Kaen" offers a relaxing Japanese atmosphere and grilled cuts of high-quality A5-grade Kuroge Wagyu.
The restaurant's founder, who was a chef at the Imperial Household Agency, created the outstanding Milanese style that's cooked like tempura. The carefully selected pork loin is trimmed of fat and sinew so that it cooks evenly at a low temperature. The fat that has been removed is used as lard in which the cutlet is cooked. The is a great dish to enjoy the aroma of lard and the flavor of the lean meat. While queuing we were asked to go in to make our orders via the vending machine.
This is a restaurant/dinner theatre which features a 90 minute show with music, dancing and robots. Chill, gaijin-friendly upstairs bar able to seat about 6-8 people. The regulars are friendly and willing to engage in conversation with any curious foreigner. The bartender Ayaka Araki is also a hoot, and she serves a delicious grilled fish.
The small kitchenettes, washer/dryers, and free LAN access in all rooms makes these a good value. Internet cafe that has small, private rooms to crash out in. Rooms have a comfortable reclining chair (or a "flat seat" option), internet, TV, and headphones. Free soft drinks and coffee are provided and there's also a shower room/toilet and toiletries on sale.
Staffed mostly by Filipinas who speak excellent English. Keep your wits about you as one of the staff tried more than once to take money in advance and then requested payment again when the drink was brought. This tonkatsu restaurant is famous for its green tea tonkatsu, which is salty and filling. It also serves other types of tonkatsu and katsudon. (From Shinjuku Station, walk N to Yasukuni Dori and head east for 300m. The restaurant is just down a small alley on the N side of the road.
Don’t forget to register for a Guest Card before you begin shopping. Sophisticated architectural design makes it one of the symbols of Shinjuku. Isetan Shinjuku Department Store has an unusually large presence in Tokyo's famous Shinjuku district.
Aside from unagi, Nisshin Tasuke offers other seafood skewers like squid and clam. We had grilled hotate and they were excellent as well. They were soft and smokey and brushed with the same sauce as the unagi. With so many restaurants to keep track of, NINJA WiFi, one of our top recommendations for pocket WiFi service in Japan, will help you streamline your itinerary. If you’re looking for suitable packages, NINJA WiFi has several options to choose from. Run your navigation and food apps all day by availing of their 3 GB per day package.
Ren got the special roasted pork ramen while I went with the shio butter corn ramen. This was the first time I’ve ever tried ramen with butter and corn before. Like fukagawa meshi, monjayaki seems to be most easily available in a specific area. The list they gave me had a few monjayaki restaurants on it, all of which were in Tsukushima.
Donki is a quintessential Tokyo experience that you must add to your nighttime exploration. If your 1am craving is for a cup of Joe rather than a midnight feast, then head to Edinburgh. Perched on the outskirts of Kabukicho, it offers as many as 20 varieties of coffee, including high-end brews such as ‘Hawaii Kona’ and ‘Royal Blend’ (a snip at ¥3,000). Servings are generous and you can squeeze two cups out of a pot, while they also have free wi-fi. Tiramisu, matcha and mango milk are only a few of the basic flavours on the kakigori menu, along with more unusual combinations like avocado mascarpone and hojicha kinako .
A stylish yakiniku restaurant that serves only the best and juiciest Japanese wagyu beef, Yakiniku X Gyu (焼肉 X 牛). To get the most out of your experience at the restaurant, try their that lets you taste various beef cuts without having to order them separately. The chefs themselves vouch for the quality of this dish. Another highly recommended dish is , costing 1,280 JPY.
"takanmari," a Korean-style stewed chicken which is also the signature dish here. Unagiku is a renowned unagi specialty in Tokyo with a growing reputation since its founding 38 years ago. The secret of its undoubtedly delicious unagi lies in the unique technique of removing the eel bones one by one by skilled craftsmen.
In terms of value for money, the quality here can’t be beat. Head chef Yusuke Maruyama has a winning way with traditional Edo-style techniques such as kobujime and shoyuzuke . Savoy is a small restaurant with 新宿 しゃぶしゃぶ just one table and about nine or ten counter seats. These next two Tokyo restaurants were recommended to us by the same local who led us to the monjayaki restaurant so you know they’re going to be good.