Unique Restaurants & Bars in Tokyo

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

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

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

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

A cool dive bar, off the beaten track.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

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

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.

Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can “die” and have their own mock funeral.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

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

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

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