Issue 10
What caught our eye
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.
Two old trades come to the table this week: a meat wholesaler founded in 1938 now fries its own pork in Omori, and a Ginza sushi house opens a counter for first-timers in Ebisu.
New restaurants
4 openings
EbisuSushi
Sushi Ginza Onodera Musuko Ebisu
Ginza Onodera's counter for first-timers, one minute from Ebisu station: 22 seats, nigiri by the piece, including house-made vegetable nigiri and tuna from the Toyosu wholesaler Yamako. Around ¥6,000 at lunch, ¥8,000 to ¥9,000 at dinner.
HiraiRobata
Robata Naru Hirai
Pick your fish from the wooden boxes at the counter, choose how it is cooked over charcoal, and finish with donabe rice from Fukui. The sister of a Tabelog Hot Restaurant 2026 winner in Kinshicho, 38 seats, open daily from 4pm.
OmoriTonkatsu
Tonkatsu Ogawa
A meat wholesaler founded in 1938 serves three breeds of pork it picks itself, from Takumi Buta at ¥1,600 at lunch to Diamond Pork at ¥2,800, with rice refills. 20 seats between Omori and Omori-Kaigan.
OtsukaKorean
Hanme
Named after the founders' grandmother: thick-cut samgyeopsal of Japanese black pork at ¥1,900 and Busan-style nakkopse at ¥2,400. 29 seats, three minutes from Otsuka station.
New shops
2 openings
KuramaeCoffee
MOKABLE COFFEE CRAFT
Coffee you eat: single-origin beans ground fine and set into bars, from ¥1,580. The first shop doubles as the workshop, so you watch them being made. Closed on Mondays.
Kita-AoyamaShoes
MANA
The Japanese women's shoe brand opens its first street store over three floors, with clothing, care products and shop-only models such as a fur clog at ¥38,500.
Coming up
1 openings
Shibuya · 15 to 28 OctoberPop-up
DISTRICT SEOUL SHIBUYA EDITION
Around ten Korean brands sell in Japan for the first time across SHIBUYA109, Shibuya Scramble Square and Hikarie ShinQs, a week at a time, with a K-Food market on the 12th floor of Scramble Square.
Campaigns worth a look
1 openings
Ginza · until 28 OctoberCollab
On x Zendaya
Zendaya's second collection with the Swiss running brand On, designed with her stylist Law Roach and drawn from classic action films, in python and camouflage prints. On sale at the On flagship in Ginza until October 28, 11am to 8pm.