Asakusa Food Guide 2026: 10 Spots, Tempura from ¥2,000

The best food in Asakusa is tempura rice bowls, sukiyaki, loach hotpot, unagi, soba and monjayaki, and this guide lists 10 places to eat them from a ¥145 sushi plate to a ¥9,680 sukiyaki set, with kaiseki courses higher still. The Asakusa restaurants below were checked against their official sites and Tabelog listings in 2026.

We chose places with a clear specialty, published prices and an honest queue report. For each one you get hours, closed days, what to order, and whether you need cash. If you only want snacks along Nakamise, our Asakusa street food guide covers that.

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Daikokuya serves dark, sweet-sauced tempura over rice, one block west of Nakamise. Tabelog gives its opening year as 1887, and the dining room seats 200 and is non-smoking. Tendon, the tempura-on-rice bowl, is the whole point here, and the official English menu describes each item.

Recent queues look short. Tabelog reviewers in September 2026 reported about 8 people waiting 15 minutes before opening who all got in at 11:00, and another diner waited about 5 minutes.

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What to order

• Ebi tendon (4 prawns), ¥2,700
• Tendon with prawn, kisu and kakiage, ¥2,300
• Tendon teishoku with soup and a side, ¥2,900

Practical info

• Location: 1-38-10 Asakusa, Taito-ku
• Nearest station: Asakusa Station, 8-minute walk (official English page)
• Hours: 11:00-20:00
• Closed: Not stated on the official site or Tabelog; check before a special trip
• Price: ¥2,300-¥2,900 per bowl, tax included
• English menu: Yes
• Reservation: Not accepted; walk in
• Payment: Cash only
• Source: Official menu

Insider tip

Course menus (¥4,000, ¥5,000 and ¥6,000) are served only at the annex, which is a separate Tabelog listing. Go to the annex for groups or a longer meal.

Sansada sits right beside Kaminarimon at 1-2-2 Asakusa. Tabelog lists it as founded in 1837, and the official site describes Edomae tempura fried with plenty of sesame oil. The room seats 320, and a Tabelog reviewer on a July 2026 holiday evening reported no wait.

The menu is wide: tendon from ¥2,000, tempura plates, weekday set meals and kaiseki. Unlike Daikokuya, it takes cards.

What to order

• Tendon nami ¥2,000 or jo ¥2,700
• Ebi tokujo-don ¥4,720
• Kakiage, medium ¥3,610 (the ¥8,000 large size may be refused when busy)

Practical info

• Location: 1-2-2 Asakusa, Taito-ku
• Nearest station: Asakusa Station (Ginza Line Exit 1) 1 minute; Toei Exit A4 3 minutes
• Hours: Mon-Thu 11:00-20:30 (last order 20:00); Fri-Sat 11:00-21:30 (21:00); Sun and holidays 11:00-21:00 (20:30)
• Closed: Irregular, mostly Thursdays; the official site posts a monthly list
• Price: Tendon ¥2,000-¥4,720; weekday-only sets ¥3,980-¥4,950; kaiseki ¥10,500-¥15,400 by reservation
• English menu: Yes, in-store menus in English and Thai with photos
• Reservation: Phone 03-3841-3400; the AutoReserve voice-booking site is not accepted
• Payment: VISA, Mastercard, JCB, AMEX and QR; no e-money
• Source: Official menu

Insider tip

The official homepage still carries old COVID notices alongside current information. Rely on the menu and shop pages.

Imahan's official site dates its sukiyaki business to 1895 (Meiji 28). The affordable way in is the limited lunch bowls, while the full sukiyaki menu with Kuroge wagyu or Kobe beef is the splurge. Lunch dishes are capped at 20 per day each, so arrive early.

This is Asakusa Imahan Kokusai-dori, a different company from the Imahan Honten and Bekkan restaurants, also in Asakusa. Check the name before you book.

What to order

• Hyakunen gyudon, ¥2,200 (lunch, 20 per day)
• Sukiyaki or shabu-shabu lunch set, ¥5,390
• Shimofuri sukiyaki gozen, ¥9,680

Practical info

• Location: 3-1-12 Nishi-Asakusa, Taito-ku
• Nearest station: Tsukuba Express Asakusa Exit A2, next door; Ginza Line Tawaramachi Exit 3, 7 minutes
• Hours: 11:30-21:30 (last order 20:30); lunch menu 11:30-14:30; seating paused 14:30-16:00
• Closed: Open every day
• Price: Lunch bowls ¥2,200-¥3,300; 10% service charge on ¥5,500 or more per person
• English menu: Yes, official English menu pages
• Reservation: Phone 03-3841-1114 or email; the lunch menu cannot be reserved
• Payment: Cash, major cards and QR
• Source: Official site

Insider tip

Diners ordering from the grand menu also get a ¥440 beef tsukudani starter, so budget slightly above the listed price.

Dozeu serves dojo (loach) hotpot, and the official history dates the shop to 1801. It sits at 1-7-12 Komagata, a short walk south of Kaminarimon along Edo-dori. The ground floor has irekomi seating, tatami floor with long wooden boards, and the basement and 2F use chairs, while the 3F is tatami. If you want one meal that feels like old Tokyo, this is it.

A Tabelog reviewer on a September 2026 holiday evening waited about 30 minutes.

What to order

• Dozeu-nabe, ¥3,480
• Dozeu-nabe set meal with dengaku, soup, pickles and rice, ¥4,980
• Yanagawa-nabe, ¥3,500

Practical info

• Location: 1-7-12 Komagata, Taito-ku
• Nearest station: Asakusa Station (Toei Exit A1), 1 to 2 minutes
• Hours: 11:00-20:30 (last order 20:00)
• Closed: Irregular; October 2026 closures are the 8th, 15th, 19th and 26th
• Price: ¥3,480-¥4,980, tax included
• English menu: Not confirmed
• Reservation: Sources conflict (the official site shows web booking, Tabelog says no); check the official site
• Payment: VISA, Mastercard, JCB, AMEX and Diners; no e-money or QR
• Source: Official menu

Insider tip

The menu also lists whale dishes such as kujira-nabe (¥3,400), so check what you are ordering.

Yakko is an unagi (grilled eel) house at 1-10-2 Asakusa, a good choice if eel is on your list. This entry rests on Tabelog and diner reviews only, because the official page has no readable text. Prices below come from dated 2026 Tabelog diner reviews, so confirm them at the door.

Reviewers report a small queue before opening in August 2026.

What to order

• Unaju "Sakura," about ¥5,000 (April and June 2026 reviews)
• "Komagata-zen" with three-quarters of an eel, ¥6,500 (2026 Tabelog reviews)
• Umaki (eel omelette), ¥2,100 (2026 Tabelog reviews)

Practical info

• Location: 1-10-2 Asakusa, Taito-ku
• Nearest station: Tawaramachi (Ginza Line) 3 minutes; Asakusa Station (Toei, Tobu) 7 minutes
• Hours: 11:30-20:00
• Closed: Wednesday
• Price: About ¥5,000-¥6,500 for unagi sets; private rooms only with kaiseki from ¥9,300 plus 10% service
• English menu: Not confirmed
• Reservation: Private rooms only
• Payment: VISA, Mastercard, JCB, AMEX and Diners
• Source: Tabelog

Namiki Yabu is a soba shop that Tabelog lists as opened in 1913 and as a 2017 Tabelog Soba Hyakumeiten selection. It is one minute from Asakusa Station, serves zaru soba with a strong dipping sauce, and reviewers report fast turnover. The shop has 36 seats including tatami, and there is no official website.

On a weekend at 11:30 reviewers saw about 10 people and waited roughly 15 minutes. A weekday visit at 12:40 had no wait.

What to order

• Zaru soba, about ¥950 (September 2026 review; the Tabelog menu still shows ¥850)
• Tempura soba, ¥2,000, or ten-zaru, ¥2,000
• Kamo-nanban (duck soba, November to March), ¥2,100

Practical info

• Location: 2-11-9 Kaminarimon, Taito-ku
• Nearest station: Asakusa Station Exits A4 and A5, 1 minute
• Hours: 11:00-19:30 (last order 19:00)
• Closed: Wednesday and Thursday
• Price: ¥950-¥2,100
• English menu: Not confirmed
• Reservation: Not accepted
• Payment: VISA, Mastercard, JCB, AMEX, Suica, nanaco and WAON; no QR
• Source: Tabelog

Insider tip

A reviewer notes there are no large portions on the menu, so hungry diners should add tempura.

Hyotan serves monjayaki and okonomiyaki on a griddle at your table, near Hoppy-dori, and the kitchen is open until 5 a.m. There is a photo menu, and staff cooked the monja for a reviewer in October 2026, so first-timers do not need to know the technique. The 93 seats include tables and horigotatsu, and kids and strollers are fine.

What to order

• Mentaiko mochi cheese monja, about ¥1,800-¥2,000 (reviews show ¥1,760 and ¥1,969)

Practical info

• Location: 1-37-4 Asakusa, Taito-ku
• Nearest station: Asakusa Station, 5 minutes
• Hours: Mon-Fri 11:00-05:00; Sat, Sun and holidays 10:00-05:00
• Closed: None listed
• Price: Tabelog budget ¥2,000-¥2,999
• English menu: Photo menu; English not confirmed
• Reservation: Accepted online via Tabelog
• Payment: Cards including UnionPay; no e-money or QR
• Source: Tabelog

Insider tip

If you want somewhere that takes QR payments, Kaminari Monja (4F of the Tokyo Rakutenchi building, 2-6-7 Asakusa, 11:30-22:30) accepts PayPay, Alipay and WeChat Pay, per its Tabelog page.

Yoroiya serves light, yuzu-scented shoyu ramen on Denpoin-dori, one minute from Senso-ji. Morning ramen starts at 8:30, which makes it one of the few sit-down options open before Senso-ji's shops, and it has a vegan ramen on the official menu. The shop has 32 seats, with a counter on 1F and tables on 2F.

Expect a line. Tabelog reviewers in August and September 2026 describe a queue every day, and one Saturday after noon was about 6 people and 15 minutes.

What to order

• Shoyu ramen, ¥950
• Vegan ramen, ¥1,400
• Wafu gyoza

Practical info

• Location: 1-36-7 Asakusa, Taito-ku
• Nearest station: Tobu Asakusa North Exit about 3 minutes; Ginza Line about 5 minutes
• Hours: Morning ramen 8:30-10:00 (last order 9:45); 11:00-21:00 (last order 20:30)
• Closed: Open every day
• Price: ¥950-¥1,400; children's ramen ¥600 (Tabelog)
• English menu: The official site has an English version; the in-shop menu is not confirmed
• Reservation: Not accepted
• Halal status: Not halal; the broth uses chicken and pork bones
• Vegan status: A vegan ramen is on the official menu
• Payment: Cards (since 1 September 2025) and PayPay
• Source: Official site

Insider tip

Families are seated upstairs, so ask for 2F if you have children.

Kagetsudo is the sweets stop: giant melon pan baked all day at the start of Nishi-sando, west of the main hall. The official site says about 3,000 jumbo melon pan are sold a day, from dough fermented about 3 hours. It is also covered in our Asakusa street food guide, so we keep this entry short.

• Location: 2-7-13 Asakusa, Taito-ku; Tsukuba Express Asakusa 5 minutes
• Hours: Weekdays from 11:00, weekends and holidays from 10:00, until the jumbo melon pan sells out (Tabelog shows 9:00-17:00 with a sell-out around 16:00)
• Closed: None
• Price: About ¥280 (Tabelog menu, undated)
• Payment: Cash only
• Source: Official site

Kura Sushi's flagship is on the 4th floor of Asakusa ROX and is the budget option, open late, with a multilingual ordering panel and the Bikkura-Pon capsule-toy game. We cover how the system works in our Kura Sushi guide and compare the chains in our conveyor belt sushi guide.

• Location: Asakusa ROX 4F, 1-25-15 Asakusa, Taito-ku; Tsukuba Express Asakusa, about 133 m
• Hours: Mon-Fri 11:00-23:00; Sat and Sun 10:20-23:00; last entry 30 minutes before close; after 21:00 use Kura's own elevator beside ROX
• Price: Plates from ¥145
• Reservation: Kura app, web or LINE; phone 03-5830-6106
• Payment: Cards and many QR and e-money options including PayPay, Alipay and WeChat Pay
• Source: Official store page

By budget. Under ¥1,000: zaru soba at Namiki Yabu or ramen at Yoroiya. ¥2,000-¥3,500: tendon at Sansada or Daikokuya, a lunch bowl at Imahan, or loach hotpot at Dozeu. ¥5,000 and up: unagi at Yakko or a sukiyaki set at Imahan.

By time of day. For breakfast, Yoroiya's morning ramen (from 8:30) and Royal Coffee (from 8:00) are the only sit-down options we found open before Senso-ji's shops. Late, Hyotan is open until 5 a.m. and Kura ROX until 23:00.

By diet. For vegan ramen, go to Yoroiya. For halal or gluten-free tempura, Tempura Asakusa SAKURA (a 10-seat counter by Exit A4) says it holds Japan Halal Foundation certification on its own blog and that all its food is gluten-free, per its official FAQ. See our halal food in Asakusa guide for more.

By style. Old Tokyo: Dozeu and Namiki Yabu. Sweet snack: Kagetsudo. With kids: Hyotan (kids and strollers are fine) and Yoroiya (families are seated upstairs).

The areas

• Nakamise is the approach from Kaminarimon to Hozomon, about 250 m long with 87 shops (Senso-ji and the Nakamise association). It is good manners to eat beside the stall, not while walking; no official page states a rule.
• Kaminarimon side: the station-side area south of the gate, home to Sansada, Namiki Yabu and Tempura Asakusa SAKURA.
• Denpoin-dori crosses Nakamise east to west (Yoroiya), and Nishi-sando is the arcade on the temple's west side (Kagetsudo).
• Kokusai-dori is the avenue on the west edge (Imahan, Tsukuba Express station), and Komagata is south along Edo-dori (Dozeu).
• Hoppy-dori in Asakusa 2-chome, near Rokku and Tsukuba Express, is a street of open-front izakaya serving Hoppy and simmered beef nikomi. Hyotan is nearby.

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Which station

Four railway companies serve "Asakusa." Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, Toei Asakusa Line and Tobu Skytree Line share the Kaminarimon and Edo-dori side. Tsukuba Express Asakusa is a separate station to the west under Kokusai-dori. Tawaramachi on the Ginza Line is one stop west. Most listings above give walking times from the main stations.

Cash or card

Cash only: Daikokuya (official site) and Kagetsudo (Tabelog). Cards accepted: Sansada, Imahan, Dozeu, Yakko, Namiki Yabu (plus Suica), Hyotan, Kura and Yoroiya.

Senso-ji's main hall is open 6:00-17:00 (opening at 6:30 from October to March), and the grounds are always open.

Pair a Senso-ji visit with one sit-down meal and one snack. For cheaper bites see our Asakusa street food guide, for Muslim-friendly options see halal food in Asakusa, and for sushi on a budget see the Kura Sushi guide and conveyor belt sushi in Tokyo.