YAKINIKU Japanese Restaurant

Yakiniku restaurant that is located just 2 minutes walking from Shibuya station. At Yakiniku Like – a restaurant catering to solo diners as well as groups – you can eat your heart out with budget-friendly set meals that include different types of marinated pork and beef. The cheapest set, which only costs ¥790, comes with rice, seaweed soup, kimchi and condiments for your yakiniku, which you can cook on a small grill designed for one person.
When I thought tuna roll was basic, this was the best tuna roll I’ve had with the perfect tuna-to-rice ratio and the best tasting tuna that tasted like o-toro in a roll. It will already be better than most of the sushi you’ll have outside Japan, and it’s even cheaper here. With over 40 locations, Sushi Zanmai is considered to be one of the most popular and best restaurants in Tokyo.

The concept of this restaurant is for you to have a unique and special experience with high-quality food. Not only for special occasions but for more casual times as well. Therefore you will find relatively lower prices in comparison to the other restaurants on this list. This lunchtime buffet includes free-flow servings of pork, chicken, lamb, seafood and vegetables. Do check with restaurant when the lunch buffet will end its run.
If you’re hungry, the halal gyoza is also an appetizing side dish. Soft with its signature crispy bottom, they go perfectly with the ramen. Halal Ramen Honolu Ebisu (ラーメン帆のる 恵比寿店) is located on the right hand side of the moving walkway heading towards Yebisu Garden Place at  JR Ebisu Station.
You’ll be able to enjoy the tasteful, tender cuts while hot that’ll leave your mouth watering for more. Along with some soy sauce, mirin or sake on the side, yakiniku is a must-have treat in Japan. And what better place to enjoy this Genghis Gan Ebis well-known cuisine than the capital of Japan itself, Tokyo. With a sprawling urban area mixed with a traditional Japanese flair, Tokyo is also home to many popular yakiniku restaurants that have captured the world’s attention.

An essential stop on the Tokyo yakiniku trail, this sleek Aoyama giant is best enjoyed by ordering one of the prix fixe courses. More than just a long list of different cuts and flavours, these feel like carefully thought-out love letters to meat, all composed with expertise and dedication. Many Muslim visitors to Japan have difficulties finding appropriate food and prayer space as Japan is still developing in terms of its understanding of, and knowledge about Islam.
For a six-person serving, the dish is served in a cow-shaped oven dish. Wagyu sushi is another recommend where the sliced beef is only grilled on one side before placed on top of a morsel of brown rice. The delicate balance of the rich meat and drier grain is superb. YAKINIKU A FIVE TOKU sources all its main cuts from top-quality A5-ranked meat. To experience the purest form of this delicacy, we particularly recommend the menu’s “shakushi” cuts, which come from the front leg portion, and the “akami” red meat cuts from the hind legs. Other cuts like tongue, skirt steak, and offal are not ranked, so they are prepared and served separately.

Owned by head chef Mr. Sato, it’s a play on his name and chateaubriand, the cut of meat that’s the focus at his establishment. With only 600 grams of chateaubriand from one beef, the price can often be prohibitive, but the taste makes it worthwhile, and Mr. Sato aims to make it accessible. This is also a popular spot for those who typically find yakiniku too heavy. The leaner cuts offered here will satisfy with a smaller caloric footprint. Don’t miss their signature dish, buri-meshi, a soy butter chateaubriand, and rice topped with uni and caviar.
There's no better place to begin your quest than this Ichigaya eatery, the successor of famed  Minowa joint Shichirin.

Even though it’s located in expensive Ginza, this Kobe beef speciality restaurant is reasonably priced. The interior features wood that’s been recycled from an old house that once belonged to a village headman, and has a sunken hearth to create an authentic local setting. Order the delicious marbled sirloin steak for its juicy flavour, with slithers of fat that melt away as you take a bite. The beef is tasty enough on its own, but you can add a dash of Japanese aioli sauce or soy sauce paste for a twist – they won’t overwhelm the meat’s flavour. You can order the particular meat and vegetable cuts you like, and cook them just to your preference - plus it’s fun! Just one of many tasty communal dining experiences that give a true window into  Japanese culture.
The price is high comparing to normal Japanese beef but you need to try to know the reason of the price. In Japan, it is not easy to find halal-certified meat for all the parts of wagyu, or Japanese beef, needed for yakiniku. At this restaurant, they only use beef from Japanese black cattle they have bought themselves, and entrust the slaughtering to Muslim suppliers to guarantee its halal status. All cuts  of beef are available and served as their special Satsuma beef with quality and taste in mind, attracting many wagyu fans, both Muslim and non-Muslim.
Misty Fujii is a Canadian who moved to Osaka, Japan in 2019 and married her Japanese sweetheart. In 2022 they had a baby and moved to Fukui for the clean country air. She is a DJ who teaches English part time and writes in order to share Japan with the world. She gets excited about collecting vintage vinyl records, food of all countries, travelling and renovating her traditional Japanese house. Check out details about the restaurant and make reservations from the following link. Needless to say, this is one of the most popular places to go for lunch around this area.

A perfect example of this would be enjoying a barbeque with friends under the bright blue sky surrounded by nature while drinking an ice-cold beer on a summer day. At the end of the restaurant are tatami seating where you have to remove your shoes to sit on tatami flooring. One of the most popular takoyaki shops is Gindaco which opened its first store in Ginza, Tokyo. Aside from their own creations, they still offer traditional cocktails like the Old Fashioned and Gin & Tonic.
Note, this place is not to be confused with another popular Sushi Dai restaurant that moved to Toyosu Fish Market. So if you’re looking for good value or late night sushi in Japan, this place is it. As a big chain that started in Tsukiji Market, don’t expect this to be the best fish you’ll ever have, but this qualifies as best value sushi. Channeling the energy from the locals, we headed to Sushizanmai, a popular 24-hour sushi joint in Tokyo. We love our whisky and definitely didn’t want to leave Tokyo without checking out a Japanese whisky bar, or at least a bar serving whisky. The atmosphere was so bright from the city lights that I didn’t feel it was night time.