New York
Best Japanese Restaurants in NYC
The East Village cluster and across the city
New York's Japanese restaurants run deep, and the East Village holds one of the city's densest clusters, a stretch around Stuyvesant Street and East 9th Street long associated with Japanese cooking. The range reaches well past it, across Manhattan and into Brooklyn. This guide is a starting point: sushi and omakase, ramen, udon, and soba, yakitori and izakaya, shabu-shabu, Japanese curry, and a tea house.
Kanoyama
In the East Village cluster.
Sushi On Jones
Sushi on the Lower East Side.
Sushi of Gari
Sushi on the Upper East Side.
Ivan Ramen
Ramen on the Lower East Side.
Totto Ramen
Ramen in Hell's Kitchen.
Raku East Village
In the East Village cluster.
Soba Totto
Soba and yakitori in Midtown East.
Yakitori Torishin
Yakitori in Midtown West.
Kenka
In the East Village cluster.
Sakagura
Sake bar in Midtown East.
Shabu-Tatsu
Shabu-shabu in the East Village.
Hi-Collar
In the East Village cluster.
Setsugekka
In the East Village cluster.
Okonomi
Japanese restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Hibino
Japanese restaurant in Brooklyn.