Restaurants in Tokyo

Discover 13 unusual restaurants in Tokyo.

Mesopotamia

The only Kurdish restaurant in Japan invites you to learn and feast.

Koytili hamsei, or sheep tongue salad.

Silk Road Tarim Uyghur Restaurant

Sample specialties from Xinjiang at this Shinjuku neighborhood gem.

Harukor

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

Tokyo Metropolitan Building Staff Cafeteria

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

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Noumin Café

This “peasant café” in the middle of Tokyo re-creates the atmosphere of the Japanese countryside.

Kojo

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

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The front of Brasserie Kyushoku Toban

Brasserie Kyushoku Toban

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

A ninja waitress

Ninja Akasaka

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

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Catholic iconography at Christon Café.

Christon Café

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

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The "sweets-go-round" looking into the Milk Stand.

Kawaii Monster Cafe

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

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Alcatraz ER

Alcatraz ER

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

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Kabukicho Robot Restaurant

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

Vampire Café

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

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