The Top 100 Places to Eat Near ess.
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Rank 1. ess.
Italian
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Rank 2. Higashiyama Muku
Japanese
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Rank 3. CRAFTALE
French
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Rank 4. TEN-MASA
Japanese, Tempura
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Rank 5. Tempura Motoyoshi
Tempura
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Rank 6. Ensui
Japanese
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Rank 7. abysse
French, Contemporary
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Rank 8. Saucer
French
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Rank 9. Monolith
French
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Rank 10. LATURE
French
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Rank 11. Katsuo Shokudo
Japanese
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Rank 12. Tempura Miyashiro
Tempura
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Rank 13. Keichitsu
French, French Contemporary
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Rank 14. l'élan
French
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Rank 15. Udatsu Sushi
Sushi
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation Where To Eat When You’re Visiting Tokyo
- Eater The 38 Best Restaurants in Tokyo
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Rank 16. Yakumo
Ramen
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Rank 17. Tamawarai
Soba
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Rank 18. Lien
French
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Rank 19. Arrocería Sal y Amor
Spanish
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Rank 20. BISTRO GLOUTON
French
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Rank 21. NéMo
French
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Rank 22. falò
Italian
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Rank 23. AUDACE
Italian
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Rank 24. Cristiano's
Portuguese
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Rank 25. Miyasaka
Japanese
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Rank 26. Kuhara
Japanese
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Rank 27. Madame Toki
French
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Rank 28. Den
Japanese
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- 50 Best 2025 · #53 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- 50 Best 2026 · #51 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 29. Prisma
Italian
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Rank 30. Night Market
South East Asian
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Rank 31. L’Effervescence
French, Contemporary
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Rank 32. Joël Robuchon
French, Contemporary
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Rank 33. Teuchi Asama
Ramen
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Rank 34. Shigeyuki
Japanese
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Rank 36. Le Cabaret
French
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Rank 37. Yd’or
French
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Rank 38. Daikanyama Issai Kassai
Izakaya
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Rank 39. Äta
French
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Rank 40. Kyoryori Aun
Japanese
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Rank 41. NÉN TOKYO
Vietnamese, Vietnamese Contemporary
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Rank 42. REI
Chinese
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Rank 43. Narisawa
Innovative
Narisawa is the kind of fine-dining room that makes a World's 50 Best ranking feel like an understatement. The chef's concept, satoyama cuisine, pulls from ancient Japanese farming and foraging traditions, then filters it through French and Chinese technique into something that feels wholly new. Guests are mostly couples and quiet power-players who know better than to check their phones. Omakase only, dress sharp, and clear your evening.
- 50 Best 2025 · #21 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- 50 Best 2026 · #37 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 44. Jingumae Higuchi
Japanese
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Rank 45. Sushi Ikki
Sushi
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Rank 46. Hibino Chūka Shokudō
Chinese
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Rank 47. Myojaku
Japanese
A nine-seat counter tucked into a basement in Nishiazabu, where a 14-course French-Japanese omakase quietly earned a spot on Asia's 50 Best. The kitchen's obsession here is water, specifically a submarine spring variety that does the heavy lifting instead of the usual broths. The result feels genuinely restrained in the best way, and the room is so calm you'll actually taste things.
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Rank 48. Sazenka
Chinese
Sazenka is a 12-seat tasting menu restaurant inside a former diplomat's residence in Minami-Azabu, which tells you everything about the vibe before you've even sat down. The chef weaves Japanese sensibility through classical Chinese cuisine, and the tea pairing is genuinely the move here, not just an afterthought. The crowd is quiet, unhurried, and dressed like they made a reservation months ago, because they did.
- Michelin Guide 3 Stars
- 50 Best 2025 · #71 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- 50 Best 2026 · #21 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 49. jeeten
Chinese
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Rank 50. Manoir
French
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Rank 51. Simplicité
French
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Rank 52. Chibachan Shibuya Store
Japanese
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Rank 53. Hakuun
Japanese
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Rank 54. mærge
French
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Rank 55. Shizuru
Japanese
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Rank 56. Recte
French
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Rank 57. Le Coq
French
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Rank 58. Chatei Hatou
Coffee
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Rank 59. Sincère
French
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Rank 60. LA TABLE de Joël Robuchon
French, Contemporary
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Rank 61. Les deux
French
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Rank 62. Florilège
French
Chef Hiroyasu Kawate's tasting menu counter sits inside the ultra-modern Azabudai Hills complex and holds a spot on both Asia's and the World's 50 Best lists, which gives you a sense of the stakes. The open kitchen wraps around three sides of the room, so you're basically front-row for the whole show. The cooking is French at heart but genuinely Japanese in character, and leaning increasingly plant-forward in ways that actually surprise you.
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- 50 Best 2025 · #36 · The World’s 50 Best Restaurants
- 50 Best 2026 · #31 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
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Rank 63. Chugokusai HINA
Chinese
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Rank 64. Piao-Xiang
Chinese
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Rank 65. Hirō Ishizaka
Sushi
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Rank 66. Jushu
Japanese
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Rank 67. Raisan
Japanese
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Rank 68. Noda
Contemporary
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Rank 69. Kushiwakamaru
Yakitori Japanese
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Rank 70. Sushi Yuki
Sushi
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Rank 71. CREATERNA
Contemporary
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Rank 72. Kappo Muroi
Japanese
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Rank 73. BOTTEGA
Italian
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Rank 74. Azabu Kadowaki
Japanese
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Rank 75. Bistro YEBISU
French
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Rank 76. La façon Koga
French
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Rank 77. Shiomachi
Izakaya
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Rank 78. Benoit
French
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Rank 79. au deco
French
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Rank 80. HYÈNE
Contemporary
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Rank 81. Sassa
Japanese
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Rank 82. DEN KUSHI FLORI
Contemporary
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Rank 83. hakunei
Contemporary
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Rank 84. MAZ
Innovative
Virgilio Martinez, the chef behind Lima's legendary Central, runs this fine dining project in Tokyo where Peruvian and Japanese cuisines genuinely make sense together. The tasting menu takes you through Peru's ecosystems by altitude, which sounds pretentious but lands beautifully. It earned a spot on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants, so the room is full of people who planned this dinner months ago and are absolutely fine with that.
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- 50 Best 2026 · #28 · Asia's 50 Best Restaurants
- The Infatuation Where To Eat When You’re Visiting Tokyo
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Rank 85. Towa
Japanese
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Rank 86. EWIG
Austrian
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Rank 87. Crony
French, Contemporary
A cozy, two-story omakase spot in Higashiazabu where the cooking is quietly serious without being the least bit stuffy. The chef spent years in Paris, Copenhagen, and San Francisco, and you can taste all of it, applied to Japanese ingredients with real restraint. Everything on the plate earns its place, waste is genuinely minimized, and the kitchen is fully open, so you watch the whole thing unfold. It's on Asia's 50 Best list, and it deserves to be.
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Rank 88. Nishiazabu Taku
Sushi
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Rank 89. Sushi Masashi
Sushi
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Rank 90. Héritage by Kei Kobayashi
French, French Contemporary
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Rank 91. Waketokuyama
Japanese
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Rank 92. DAN
French
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Rank 93. Quintessence
French, Contemporary
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Rank 94. Kanda
Japanese
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Rank 95. bonélan
French
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Rank 96. Akasaka Kikunoi
Japanese
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Rank 98. çayca
Creative
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Rank 99. itsuka
Chinese
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Calling this a hotel feels like calling Disneyland a park. The New Otani is a full Tokyo neighborhood unto itself, with hundreds of rooms, a gorgeous Japanese garden you can actually wander through, and more than 35 restaurants on site. Between the spa, the tea ceremony, the kimono portraits, and yes, the onsite dentist, you could genuinely never leave. Old-school Tokyo luxury, still delivering.