Restaurant · Asakusa

Okonomiyaki Sometaro 風流お好み焼き 染太郎

A weathered wooden house in Asakusa where you sit on tatami around an iron griddle and cook your own okonomiyaki, a Showa-era time capsule that's been feeding locals since 1937.

About

Sometaro is one of Tokyo's oldest okonomiyaki restaurants, and stepping off the street into its creaky wooden house feels like entering an old film set. You take your shoes off, sit on cushions at low tables with built-in teppan griddles, and are brought bowls of batter and fillings to mix and fry yourself; staff will demonstrate if it's your first time. Beyond pork or squid okonomiyaki, try the old-fashioned house specialties and yakisoba fried on the same griddle. Writers, artists and rakugo performers have been regulars for generations, and the walls show it. It's cheap, cosy and hot in summer.

Highlights

• Cook-your-own okonomiyaki on a tabletop iron griddle
• Tatami seating in a creaky wooden house from the early Showa era
• Old Asakusa favourites like yakisoba and house-special pancakes
• Friendly staff who show first-timers how to flip
• Walls lined with decades of photos and autographs

Tips

• Wear socks you don't mind showing, shoes come off at the entrance
• Summer is very hot inside; spring and autumn evenings are ideal
• Order one okonomiyaki and one yakisoba per two people to share
• Weekday visits are easiest; weekend dinner fills up fast

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