The 105 Best Restaurants for Solo Dining in Tokyo

Tokyo's most famous solo-dining ramen. Each guest gets a private partitioned booth and customizes a Hakata-style tonkotsu bowl on a paper form (English available) — you can eat a great meal without speaking a word. Note: tonkotsu broth is pork-based.

Tokyo's most famous vegan ramen. Rich sesame tantanmen (gold, black or white) and soy-meat bowls — and because it's inside the ticket gates, it's a perfect first or last meal of a trip.

A lively standing-sushi chain where you order fresh nigiri piece by piece at the counter — cheap, fast and completely normal to do alone. A great low-stakes intro to counter sushi for solo travelers.

Not a vegan restaurant, but its bright yuzu-shio vegan ramen is a reliable, widely-available option when you're not near a dedicated spot. Confirm the vegan bowl at your branch.

A counter omakase spot in the Shibuya Stream complex, loved for an excellent-value weekday lunch. Sit at the counter, watch the chef work, and enjoy a multi-course sushi meal solo without the fine-dining price tag.

A plant-based canteen rooted in Buddhist shojin cuisine, tucked in Akihabara's CHABARA arcade. Wholesome vegan ramen and set meals at gentle prices.

An established all-vegan group beloved for fluffy “heavenly” pancakes, hearty mains and a calm, design-forward room. Lovely for brunch or a sit-down dinner.

Bright, casual and modern — colorful vegan omurice, nuggets and “junk food done healthy.” Easy, affordable, and great for a quick shopping-break meal.

A celebrated ramen shop with a dedicated veggie bowl, right on Tokyo Station's Ramen Street. Convenient and beginner-friendly for first-time visitors.

A bright, veggie-forward cafe near Omotesando with clearly-marked vegan options, big salads and all-day brunch. Easy and comfortable for mixed groups.

The Shinjuku branch of the Ain Soph family — bright and cafe-like, famous for towering vegan pancakes and parfaits, plus full plant-based lunch and dinner plates.

An affordable halal ramen specialist near Ueno — its name means “chicken shop,” and the rich chicken-based broth is the star. A reliable, no-fuss halal bowl.

Japan's famous curry-house chain operates a halal branch in Akihabara, so Muslim travelers can enjoy customizable Japanese curry (choose spice level, toppings and portion). Confirm the halal branch before visiting.

A fully dedicated gluten-free cafe run by celiac owners, so there's no wheat in the kitchen at all. Western dishes like pasta plus re-engineered gluten-free takes on Japanese classics; English menu.

KO-SO CAFE BIORISE is a vegan venue in Ebisu, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Rainbow Bird Rendezvous is a vegan venue in Nakameguro, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Udatsu Sushi is a vegetarian venue in Nakameguro, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

KOMEDA is □ is a vegan venue in Ginza, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Tempura Kondo is a vegetarian venue in Ginza, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Tsukemen Zuppa is a vegetarian venue in Tokyo Station, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

ovgo Baker Edo St. is a vegan venue in Nihonbashi, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

HealthyTOKYO CBD Shop&Cafe Harajuku is a vegan venue in Harajuku, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

T's Restaurant is a vegan venue in Jiyugaoka, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

FALAFEL BROTHERS ROPPONGI is a vegan venue in Roppongi, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

te cor gentil is a vegan venue in Azabu, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Universal Bakes and Cafe is a vegan venue in Daita, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Afuri Shibuya Dōgenzaka is a vegetarian venue in Shibuya, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

BROOKS GREENLIT CAFE is a vegan venue in Aoyama, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Jikasei MENSHO is a vegetarian venue in Shibuya, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Masaka (Vegan Izakaya) is a vegan venue in Shibuya, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

THE NUTS EXCHANGE – Vegan Cafe Tokyo is a vegan venue in Tomigaya, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Vegan Bistro Jangara is a vegan venue in Shibuya, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Vegan Sushi Tokyo is a vegan venue in Shibuya, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

ovgo Baker BBB is a vegan venue in Tokyo, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

CORI. Vegan Food & Craft Beer is a vegan venue in Kamiuma, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Chabuzen is a vegan venue in Shimokitazawa, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Vegan Soba Tokyo Ayler is a vegan venue in Kitazawa, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

HealthyTOKYO CBD Shop & Cafe Shinjuku Marui Honkan is a vegan venue in Shinjuku, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

marbre vegan is a vegan venue in Shinjuku, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Vegan Ramen UZU Tokyo is a vegan venue in Toyosu, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

VEGAN GYOZA is a vegan venue in Negishi, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Where Is a Dog? is a 100% gf venue in Kichijoji, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

TokyoSushiBowl is a sushi venue in Asakusa, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Esoragoto Udon is a japanese venue in Harajuku, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

HALAL WAGYU RAMEN SHINJUKU-TEI Tokyo Shinjuku is a ramen venue in Shinjuku, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

NOOK. Açaí Bowl Cafe is a cafe venue in Asakusa, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Green Beans Coffee is a cafe venue in Shibuya, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

RICEHACK GlutenfreeBakery is a bakery venue in Shibuya, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

NachuRa Gluten Free Cafe is a cafe venue in Shibuya, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Tokyo Vegan Ramen Center Harajuku Sohonzan is a vegan venue in Shibuya, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Vegan Cafe PQ's is a cafe venue in Asakusa, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

GEN-TEN Gluten-free Bakery Shibuya｜玄点 渋谷グルテンフリー専門店 is a bakery venue in Shibuya, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Shochikuen Cafe is a cafe venue in Asakusa, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Cafe Komaya is a 100% gf venue in Roppongi, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Riz Labo Kitchen is a 100% gf venue in Omotesando, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Okomedoki Rice Burger is a restaurant venue in Shibuya, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Cafe Komaya - gluten free cafe is a cafe venue in Roppongi, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Setagaya Alley Bite Cheese Fried Bread & Fried Food Bar (Gluten-free) is a bakery venue in Setagaya, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Biossa bakery & gluten free is a bakery venue in Tokyo, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

KO－SO CAFE is a cafe venue in Shibuya, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

PIZZAKAYA is a pizza venue in Roppongi, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

WOODBERRY BAKERY is a bakery venue in Shibuya, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Gluten Free Cafe Tamakuchen is a cafe venue in Setagaya, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Hokkaido Sapporo Ramen is a ramen venue in Shibuya, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Shinbu Sakiya Ramen is a ramen venue in Shibuya, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Bio Cafe is a cafe venue in Shibuya, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Pelican Cafe is a bakery venue in Asakusa, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Namiki Yabusoba is a soba venue in Asakusa, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Harajuku Gyoza Lou is a gyoza venue in Harajuku, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Fuglen Tokyo is a coffee venue in Shibuya, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Uobei Shibuya is a conveyor belt sushi venue in Shibuya, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Fuunji is a tsukemen (dipping ramen) venue in Shinjuku, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Numazuko is a standing sushi venue in Shinjuku, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Ginza Kagari is a ramen venue in Ginza, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Kanda Yabu Soba is a soba venue in Akihabara, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

CoCo Ichibanya Akihabara is a japanese curry venue in Akihabara, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Kanda Matsuya is a soba venue in Akihabara, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

HAGISO is a cafe venue in Yanaka, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Tsuta (Yoyogi-Uehara) is a ramen venue in Yoyogi-Uehara, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Sushi Dai Toyosu is a sushi venue in Toyosu, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Nakiryu is a ramen venue in Otsuka, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Konjiki Hototogisu is a ramen venue in Shinjuku, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

AFURI Ebisu is a ramen venue in Ebisu, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Gonokami Seisakusho is a ramen venue in Shinjuku, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Menya Musashi Shinjuku is a ramen venue in Shinjuku, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Nagi Golden Gai is a ramen venue in Shinjuku, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Midori Sushi Umegaoka is a sushi venue in Shimokitazawa, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Ippudo Roppongi is a ramen venue in Roppongi, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Kyushu Jangara Harajuku is a ramen venue in Harajuku, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Sushi Zanmai Tsukiji Honten is a sushi venue in Tsukiji, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Harajuku Gyozaro is a traditional specialties venue in Harajuku, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Maguro Bito Asakusa is a sushi venue in Asakusa, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Heiroku Sushi Omotesando is a sushi venue in Harajuku, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

The Pizza Bar on 38th is a pizza venue in Tokyo, published in Best Tokyo dining guide with location, opening-hour and dietary notes for planning your visit.

Crony is a French restaurant in Higashiazabu, Minato City, within easy reach of the Azabu-Juban neighbourhood. This central pocket of Tokyo is known for an international residential community and a dense, varied restaurant scene.

Ginza Fukuju (福樹) is a Japanese restaurant in Ginza, Chuo City, on the 8-chome side of the district. Ginza is Tokyo's premier dining area, and its upper-floor Japanese restaurants are typically intimate and craft-focused.

Ginza Kojyu (銀座 小十) is a Japanese restaurant in Ginza, Chuo City, located on the 4th floor of the Ginza Carioca Building. It sits in the heart of Tokyo's most prestigious dining district, where refined Japanese course restaurants are a defining feature.

Ginza Shinohara (銀座 しのはら) is a Japanese restaurant in Ginza, Chuo City. It sits in Tokyo's flagship fine-dining district, where seasonal Japanese course restaurants are a long-standing tradition.

Higashiyama Muku (東山無垢) is a Japanese restaurant in the Higashiyama area of Meguro City, a calm residential pocket near Naka-Meguro and Yutenji. The neighbourhood is known for a quieter, design-conscious dining scene.

Jushu (寿修) is a Japanese restaurant in Nishi-Azabu, Minato City, a central, upmarket neighbourhood between Roppongi and Hiroo known for its concentration of serious, often intimate restaurants.

Edomae Sushi Hanabusa (江戸前鮨 英) is a sushi restaurant in Akasaka, Minato City. "Edomae" refers to the traditional Tokyo style of sushi, historically tied to the seafood of Tokyo Bay, so the name signals a classic, Tokyo-rooted approach to the craft.

Guchokuni (愚直に) is a Japanese restaurant in Kagurazaka, in Shinjuku City, set on the 3rd floor of the NEO Kagurazaka building. Kagurazaka is a characterful neighbourhood of sloping lanes and a refined dining culture, often described as one of Tokyo's more atmospheric districts.

KHAO is a refined, reservation-only Thai counter restaurant in Kanda-Jinbocho, Chiyoda City. With only eight seats and a chef-led course format, it is closer to destination dining than a casual Thai lunch spot.

EWIG is an Austrian restaurant in the Minami-Aoyama area of Minato City, near Aoyama. Austrian cuisine is uncommon in Tokyo, which gives EWIG a distinctive niche among the city's many European restaurants.

hortensia (オルタンシア) is a French restaurant in Shintomi, Chuo City, close to the Tsukiji and Shintomicho area on the eastern side of central Tokyo. The neighbourhood is a quieter, increasingly food-focused pocket near Ginza.