Tokyo · History

Best Historic restaurants in Tokyo

6 places, each checked by our team.

• Beer Hall Lion Ginza 7-chome ビヤホールライオン 銀座七丁目店Ginza — Japan's oldest surviving beer hall, opened in 1934 with a glass-mosaic mural, still pouring Sapporo beer.
• Kanda Yabu Soba かんだやぶそばKanda — The head of Tokyo's 'Yabu' soba lineage, serving green-tinged seiro soba in Kanda since 1880.
• Komagata Dozeu 駒形どぜう 本店Asakusa — Loach-hotpot restaurant founded in 1801 by the Sumida River in Asakusa.
• Sasanoyuki (tofu cuisine) 笹乃雪Negishi — Tofu restaurant in Negishi said to have made Edo's first silken tofu in 1691.
• Taimeiken たいめいけんNihonbashi — Nihonbashi yoshoku restaurant founded in 1931, famous for an omelette created for the film 'Tampopo'.
• Ueno Seiyoken 上野精養軒Ueno — Pioneer of Western cuisine in Japan, founded in 1872; its Ueno Park restaurant opened in 1876.