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土台 Journal tracks the restaurants and shops that have just opened in Tokyo. Found on foot, not copied from a press release.

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Newsletter / 01

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Every week we walk the city so you do not have to. Here are the openings our team stopped for: the rooms, the counters and the shelves shaping Tokyo right now.

New restaurants

AkasakaMotsuyaki

Motsuyaki-dokoro Ishii

The motsuyaki institution founded in 1950 lands in Akasaka, run by the group behind Tsukiji Gindaco. Seventy-six years of grilled offal, now backed by one of Japan's biggest hospitality operators.

EbisuWood-fire kitchen

Deca

Dynac, the listed restaurant group, opens a wood-fire kitchen and craft pizza bar in Ebisu. The big operators keep pushing upmarket on pizza.

The opening of issue 03, as it is sent. The venue photographs are not reproduced here: they belong to the businesses and to the press.

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