Food & izakaya
Ramen counters, yokocho alleys, depachika and markets.
Ueno
1 placesRoppongi
1 placesHarajuku
2 placesCat Street
キャットストリートCat Street is a winding pedestrian lane built over a culverted river, running from the middle of Omotesando south to Miy…
Takeshita Street
竹下通りTakeshita Street is a 400-meter pedestrian lane running downhill from Harajuku Station's north exit, and it has been the…
Kichijoji
2 placesHarmonica Yokocho
ハモニカ横丁Harmonica Yokocho is a block of alleys a meter wide on the north side of Kichijoji Station, named by a writer who though…
Satou Menchi-katsu
吉祥寺さとうSatou is a butcher's shop on the edge of Harmonica Yokocho whose minced-beef cutlet, a menchi-katsu made with Matsuzaka…
Asakusa
3 placesHoppy Street
ホッピー通りA hundred-metre lane west of Senso-ji where open-fronted izakaya spill plastic chairs onto the pavement from lunchtime o…
Kappabashi Kitchen Town
かっぱ橋道具街Eight hundred metres of shops selling everything a restaurant needs, from lacquered bowls and bamboo steamers to neon si…
Nakamise Street
仲見世通りThe 250-metre approach between Kaminarimon and Senso-ji is one of Japan's oldest shopping streets, with stallholders gra…
Marunouchi
2 placesKITTE Marunouchi
KITTE丸の内The former Tokyo Central Post Office of 1931 was hollowed out in 2013 and reborn as a mall, its white modernist shell wr…
Tokyo Station Marunouchi Building
東京駅丸の内駅舎The red-brick station of 1914, designed by Kingo Tatsuno, lost its domes to wartime bombing and got them back in 2012, w…
Nakameguro & Daikanyama
3 placesMeguro River
目黒川The Meguro River runs through Nakameguro in a stone-walled channel, crossed by small bridges and lined for four kilomete…
Nakameguro Koukashita
中目黒高架下Koukashita, "under the elevated tracks", is a 700-meter strip of restaurants, bars and shops built in 2016 in the space…
Starbucks Reserve Roastery Tokyo
スターバックス リザーブ ロースタリー 東京The Tokyo Roastery, opened in 2019 beside the Meguro River, is the fifth of Starbucks' showcase roasteries and the one d…
Shibuya
2 placesMiyashita Park
宮下パークMiyashita Park is a 330-meter strip of lawn, skate park and climbing wall on top of a four-storey shopping mall, built i…
Nonbei Yokocho
のんべい横丁Nonbei Yokocho, "Drunkard's Alley", is a 1950s row of around forty two-storey bars pressed against the Yamanote tracks a…
Nakano
1 placesShinjuku
1 placesShimokitazawa
1 placesTsukiji & Toyosu
3 placesToyosu Market
豊洲市場The world's largest fish market moved from Tsukiji to this purpose-built complex on reclaimed land in 2018, where 500 to…
Tsukiji Hongwanji Temple
築地本願寺A Buddhist temple that looks like nothing else in Japan: a 1934 stone hall by the architect Chuta Ito, who borrowed the…
Tsukiji Outer Market
築地場外市場The wholesale fish market moved to Toyosu in 2018, but the lanes outside it stayed, and the Outer Market is now a 400-sh…
Yanaka
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