The Best Japanese Restaurants in Asakusa

1. Daikokuya

Restaurant website: Daikokuya

Arguably the most popular tempura Japanese restaurant in Asakusa, the Daikokuya restaurant serves mouthwatering shrimp tempura. Every day during lunch you can see long lines in Asakusa as people wait to get a taste of the Daikokuya Japanese restaurant’s delicious tempura.

2. Pizzeria San Gusto

Restaurant website: Pizzeria San Gusto

Just because this restaurant serves Italian food does not mean it isn’t a delicious Japanese restaurant in Asakusa. The Pizzeria San Gusto puts a uniquely Japanese spin on traditional Italian dishes, such as pizza and pasta. You will be able to taste the difference.

3. Sushi Matsunami

Restaurant website: Sushi Matsunami

This fifty year old Japanese restaurant in Asakusa is famous throughout the district for their delicious sushi, friendly wait staff, and counter made out of a 200 year old Okayama Hinoki Tree.

4. Anything along the Nakamise Dori Road.

The Nakamise-dori is a street filled with street food, stalls, souvenir shops, and assorted other Japanese paraphernalia. While there are no sit-down Japanese restaurants in Nakamise dori, they still have delicious snack.

5. Magurobito

Restaurant website: Magurobito

This Japanese restaurant in Asakusa was voted the best sushi restaurant that serves via a rotation belt in all of Tokyo by a recent TV survey. The name of the Japanese restaurant in Asakusa directly translates to Tuna-Man restaurant.