
Seafood & Seaweed


This variation on the sashimi course is prepared salad-style and served with a Japanese-style dressing. The sweet shrimp is tossed with land caviar…

Akasaka/Akasaka Hikawa
Masaru Tanaka
Since the serving dish for the fried course is large, we finished it light and fluffy, but the original idea was actually xiaolongbao (soup…

Our restaurant has its roots as a sukiyaki establishment founded more than fifty years ago, and while it is normally used mainly for entertaining…

Tokyo Airport Restaurant

Japanese restaurant "Shinbashi Kanetanaka"
Noboru Matsumoto
The shirozake-su (sweet sake-based vinegar dressing) for the appetizer is made by pressing tofu and passing it through a fine sieve, sweetening it…

Japanese restaurant "Shinbashi Kanetanaka"
Noboru Matsumoto
The starter soup follows the same idea as the warming stone in kaiseki cuisine — a warm dish to ease hunger and make the sake easier to drink. For…


Our Shinagawa Club is used mainly as a venue for entertaining company executives; we offer both à la carte and set courses at lunch, and only set…

Our guests are mostly somewhat older women visiting on pilgrimage during the day, and business parties such as client entertaining in the evening…

For the appetizer, the deep-fried course, and the vinegared dish, we used peanuts, a specialty of Chiba Prefecture: raw peanuts in the appetizer's…

For the kinko ikomi in the clear soup, we soak the kinko (a prized species of sea cucumber) in water mixed with straw ash and leave it for about…

Kioicho auspicious
We titled this course 'Toshi Hatsuru Tsuki' (the month the year comes to an end) — I understand that 'toshi hatsuru' gradually slurred into the word…

Uenoikenohata Kaien-tei
For the botan shrimp's shrimp-miso soy sauce, adding a little raw sea urchin gives it a wonderful character. For color, we added finely grated…

Akasaka/Akasaka Hikawa
Masaru Tanaka

For the simmered course's herring kanroni, soft-dried herring is easier to work with, but hard-dried is tastier. I'm particular about the…

This is a takiawase, a simmered assortment, and guests staying at the inn tend to have strong likes and dislikes. So I've kept it a simple simmered…

Hatagaya, Shonaisho
For the simmered course, the kenchin tofu wrapped in yuba is something like a cross between fried fish cake and tofu. Fiddlehead fern prepared…

Hatagaya, Shonaisho
For the shellfish and fish substituting for the raw course, use items that would not otherwise work as sashimi — lightly seared, raw, or…

Mabuchi Shoji Co., Ltd.
For the simmered course's baby octopus simmered sakura-style: I don't simmer the baby octopus until firm — instead I quickly blanch it and let it…


The turnip kinuta-maki uses both the turnip's flesh and its stems. The surrounding trimmings can also be used for things like pickles. For the turban…

I made it as a clear soup relying on the ingredients' own flavor rather than dashi, but since I thought it might taste a bit fishy together with the…

For the sea cucumber and spinach, I think the sea cucumber is more delicious with a nice crunch if you cut it a bit on the thick side.
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