Shinjuku Restaurant Guide

Shinjuku Restaurant Guide includes some outstanding traditional Japanese restaurants in Shinjuku plus some ethnic restaurants. Shinjuku Restaurants The Lumine and MyLord department stores atop the south side of the JR station both have inexpensive restaurant arcades on their upper floors. Japanese Kappō Nakajima (割烹 中島), Shinjuku 3-32-5 basement (Southeast exit, in the narrow street east of Ohtsuka Furniture), closed Sundays. Specializes in sardine dishes. Yanagawa teishoku is deep-fried sardines with scrambled eggs on rice. (Tastes better than it sounds.) Shunka Shuto (春花秋灯), 53rd floor of Tokyo Opera City (see above), 03-5353-7111. Enjoy the view while dining on seafood and other specialties of Hokkaido. Ethnic Rose de Sahara (03-3379-6427, South exit, on Koshu-Kaido-Dori) offers fried alligator and other African foods. Bosphorus Hasan (03-3354-7947, Shinjuku 3-chome) has authentic Turkish food. Tainan Taami (Taiwanese) and Keuwjai (Thai) in the second basement of the Lumine 1 department store are two good places for Asian street-stall style food. Located right next to each other, both places are packed and hectic for lunch, with attendants hollering to attract customers. Café Haïti, Nishi-Shinjuku 1-19-2 B1F, 03-3346-2389. Strong coffee and spicy curry. Neon signs on Yasukuni-dori in Shinjuku Neon signs on Yasukuni-dori in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Photograph by Michael Reeve (Article based on Wikitravel article by Based on work by  Paul N. Richter, Brian Kurkoski and Ted O’Neill and Wikitravel user(s) Sekicho, Jpatokal and Nzpcmad.  Article used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 1.0.) (Article also uses content from Wikipedia article and used under the GNU Free Documentation License) |