Where to eat
Every restaurant below is somewhere we would actually send a traveller — with the dish to order, the neighbourhood it sits in and one honest note before you go.
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6 restaurants · Japan
Ichiran
A thoughtfully engineered solo-ramen experience where you focus entirely on a very good bowl.
Tsukiji Outer Market
The famous market's outer lanes remain a dense cluster of seafood snacks and breakfast stalls.
Mizuno
Decades of griddle craft in the middle of the city's loudest street — watch it built in front of you.
Omen
Hand-pulled udon in a machiya townhouse at the start of the Philosopher's Path.
Honke Owariya
Soba from the same family since 1465 — a wooden townhouse and noodles cut by routine.
Harukoma Sushi
Standing sushi at conveyor speed near Tenjin market — fish rotating so fast the price stays honest.
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